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  • Silicon chips self assemble in the lab

    Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released research detailing how molecules in chips can self-assemble, potentially reducing manufacturing costs.The researchers have developed a technique in which polymers automatically fall…
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Researchers • Materials • Manufacturing • Manufacturers • Institute • Designs

  • Microsoft rejects Hadoop for databases

    The three leaders of the relational database market are responding to the sudden mania for the data processing technology Hadoop in three very different ways.While startups and established data warehousing vendors such as Sybase and Teradata are…
    17 December 2009
    Tags: Databases • Parallel • Processing • Leaders • Apache • Argued

  • Intel creates cyborg mind control chip

    Miguel Nicolelis, a professor of neurobiology at Duke University and lead researcher on the project, said that researchers were hoping its work would help paralyzed people walk again.And a month before that, a scientist at the University of…
    19 November 2009
    Tags: Words • Activity • Human • University • Patterns • Bear

  • Terminator-style shape shifting robots come a step closer

    In essence, they're working to take millions of millimetre sized robots and enable them, through software and electromagnetic forces, to take on various shapes and sizes.Nearly two years ago, Seth Goldstein, an associate professor at Carnegie…
    13 November 2009
    Tags: Distributed • Reality • Cell • University • Shape • Researchers

  • Security researchers develop DoS attack filter

    Researchers have come up with host-based security software that blocks distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) without swamping the memory and CPU of the host machines.The filtering, called identity-based privacy-protected access control…
    06 October 2009
    Tags: Security Software • Packets • Blocks • Filtering • Access Control • Packet

  • MIT looks to launch electronic Post-Its

    A team based at MIT has developed software that could spell the end of the ubiquitous yellow sticky note.Computer science professor David Karger's research team has developed software dubbed list.it that's designed to computerize many of the…
    18 December 2008
    Tags: Addresses • Ubiquitous • Network World • Note • Science • Lab

Latest Features

  • Welcome to the world's largest supercomputing grid

    Then a chemical engineering professor from Rice University, Michael Deem, developed an application that ran on several TeraGrid supercomputers to come up with millions of different chemical structures that could be used for future catalytic…
    27 June 2007
    Tags: Institutions • Ebay • Science • Usa • Laboratory • Industrial

  • MIT baby-talk project births massive IP SAN

    The project began three months ago when MIT associate professor Deb Roy began recording his baby boy's everyday life through the use of 14 microphones and 11 fish-eye lens cameras set up throughout his house, giving researchers a bird's-eye view…
    18 May 2006
    Tags: Audio • Human • Researchers • Array • Talk • Lab

  • Supercomputer architectures battle for hearts and minds of users

    With each of these processors running four software threads at once, 256 threads could be simultaneously executed on a single chip.Jack Dongarra, a computer science professor at the University of Tennessee and the keeper of the list of the world's…
    29 March 2006
    Tags: Flow • Productivity • Affect • Parallel • Cluster • Clusters

  • Energy Crisis 3: exploding the battery safety myths

    The trade-off: the batteries are more expensive, and power density is about 20 percent lower than cobalt-based lithium ion.Improper use can also trigger battery explosions, says Donald Sadoway, a battery expert and professor of materials…
    26 January 2005
    Tags: Safety • Battery Life • Charging • Mix • Pressure • Batteries

  • Energy Crisis 1: Why batteries aren't good enough

    The direction of investment away from batteries has contributed to today's power gap, contends Donald Sadoway, a professor of materials engineering at MIT. Saltzman would like to see higher energy densities to reduce weight.Incremental…
    24 January 2005
    Tags: Density • Centrino • Materials • Gains • Batteries • Limit
 

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  • Case Study: Putting your datacentre on an energy diet

    In February, Jonathan Koomey, a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a consulting professor at Stanford University, published a study showing that in 2005, organisations worldwide spent $7.2 billion to provide their servers…
    31 August 2007
    Tags: Supplies • Electricity • Datacentres • Ups • Institute • American

  • Case Study: Networking the volcano

    How does a Harvard professor install a wireless LAN amid all that lava? What scientists want even more than taking in the sights and sounds, however, is gathering precise records of seismic activity and studying the data, which is where Matt Welsh…
    10 July 2006
    Tags: Node • Event • Students • Mesh • Dropped • Nodes

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