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Powerful Supercomputers Boost .s. Weather Forecasts
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has completed implementation of the final phase of a nine year, $180 million contract by installing the...
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How Belief Makes European E-Infrastructure Real
Europe has turned its early belief and investment in the potential of e-Infrastructures and virtual research into a position of strength, especially in e-Science...
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Bio-Nano Device Could Lead to Better Electronics
If manmade devices could be combined with biological machines, laptops and other electronic devices could get a boost in operating efficiency. Lawrence Livermore...
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IBM Japan Giving niversities Taste of Cloud Computing
IBM Japan Ltd. is accelerating the proliferation of cloud computing at universities as part of a global strategy by parent company IBM Corp. aimed at attracting...
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Quantum Computer Slips Onto Chips
A silicon chip about the size of a penny that uses photons to run Shor's algorithm has been developed by a team of researchers at the University of Bristol in the...
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Still Trying to Crack Nazi Enigma Messages
Enigma@home is attempting to break one of three original messages generated by the Enigma machine, which was intercepted by the Allies in 1942. The Enigma M4 machine...
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Welcome to 3-D Learning
The Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) is using three-dimensional (3D) technology to enable students to interact with the content covered in...
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Dhs Report: It Sector Is Resilient Against Serious Cyberattacks
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently released a report that outlines several scenarios in which attacks against vital elements of the U.S.'s IT infrastructure...
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Getting Your Robot On: Wearable Machines' Intimate Interface
Engineers around the world are exploring all kinds of possibilities for wearable robot interfaces, from brain implants to touch interfaces. Professor Jacob Rosen...
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Faster Searches Key to a Greener Web
University of Glasgow researchers created a system using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to search a document index 20 times faster than a system based on...
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Paris Event to Showcase Informatics Advances, Honor European Pioneers
The fifth edition of the European Computer Science Summit (ECSS) will take place in Paris on October 8-9, 2009, with a special workshop for new (and not so new)...
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Researchers Design Graphene-Based Nano-Material with Magnetic Properties
An international team of researchers has designed a new graphite-based, magnetic nano-material that acts as a semiconductor and could help material scientists create...
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After the Transistor, a Leap Into the Microcosm
Gaze into the electron microscope display in Frances Ross’s laboratory here and it is possible to persuade yourself that Dr. Ross, a 21st-century materials scientist...
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Opencl: Parallel Programmers' New Best Friend
Apple's new Snow Leopard operating system features the Open Computing Language (OpenCL), new parallel programming technology that Apple hopes will become a standard...
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$30 Million Grant to Enhance Teragrid Computing Network
A $30 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation will enable the University of Chicago to expand and extend until 2011 the operation of TeraGrid, a...
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Taiwan niversity Students Build Tour Guide Robot
Engineering students at National Taiwan University recently demonstrated a robot that is capable of creating two- and three-dimensional maps of an area and then...
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IBM 'x-Rays' a Molecule
IBM researchers have imaged the inner structure of a molecule, an achievement they say could lead to smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient processors and memory...
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Sc09 Masterworks Program to Present Compelling Lineup of Experts
The Masterworks program at ACM's SC09 conference, which takes place Nov. 14-20 in Portland, Ore., will address how high performance computing (HPC) is being used...
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Ole Miss to Tweet its Watts
SmartSynch Inc., a smart grid infrastructure company using Internet protocol via public wireless networks, is partnering with the University of Mississippi to reduce...
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