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		<title><![CDATA[Brown University economists measure GDP growth from outer space]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Space warming....We are now causing space warming due to the cow tooting..]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:04:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Brown University economists measure GDP growth from outer space]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=1748]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[For many developing countries, the data for measuring economic growth is unreliable or incomplete. In response, a team of economists at Brown have suggested a new framework for estimating a country or regionâ€™s gross domestic product GDP by using satellite images of the areaâ€™s nighttime lights. by Chris Jablonski]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:19:07 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A robot that follows a human commander and responds to gestures]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=1338]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This week marks another incremental step forward in the field of robotics, specifically around gestural control.Â  Brown University reports that their researchers have demonstratedÂ  how a robot can follow nonverbal commands from a person in a variety of environments â€" indoors as well as outside â€" all without adjusting for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:55:49 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Men are red, women are green]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=1116]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[My monthly award for the best news release title goes to Brown University. It says that two of its researchers have discovered a difference in skin tone associated with gender. 'They determined that men tend to have more reddish skin and greenish skin is more common for women.' And don't...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:07:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Brown University Fulfills Business Vision With HP Indigo Press 5000]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1124853]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[As Director of Brown University Graphic Services, Deborah Berlo looked into how printing was being done across the institution and knew things could be improved. Brown University Graphic Services wanted to bring outsourced work in-house, increase print-facility capabilities and centralize university printing. As a solution the university deployed HP Indigo...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[H-Store: Complete destruction of the old DBMS order?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8055]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest Post: Curt Monash reports from the front lines of a database revolution.    Mike Stonebraker created much of the database management industry.  Now he wants to blow it up.  Via a project called H-Store [pdf file], he proposes to manage high-end OLTP databases entirely in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:28:09 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Comparison of Stream-Oriented High-Availability Algorithms]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=375011]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, significant efforts have focused on developing novel data-processing systems to support a new class of applications that commonly require sophisticated and timely processing of high-volume data streams. Early work in stream processing has primarily focused on stream-oriented languages and resource-constrained, one-pass query-processing. High availability, an increasingly important goal for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Energy-Aware Microprocessor Synchronization: Transactional Memory Vs. Locks]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=396069]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[One important way in which multiprocessors differ from uniprocessors is in the need to provide programmers the ability to synchronize concurrent access to memory. Transactional memory was proposed as a way of improving throughput especially when the rate of synchronization conflict is low. This paper explores power implications of transactional...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Optic flow guides us in the right direction]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=746]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The way we perceive the visual motion of objects as we move is a phenomenon called 'optic flow.' Now, Brown University researchers have discovered that optic flow helps us to walk. They've used Brown's Virtual Environment Navigation Lab, or VENLab, one of the largest virtual reality labs in the U.S....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:28:42 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Drawing on air]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=698]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent article, PhysOrg.com reports that a team of computer scientists at Brown University has developed Drawing on Air, a haptic-aided interface to help artists to create 3D illustrations while wearing a virtual reality mask. 'The technique introduces two new strategies, using one hand or two hands, to give...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:56:17 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Watching a skeleton move in 3-D]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=615]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In this short article, Popular Science reports that a Brown University team has developed a new imaging system. The CTX process combines 'computed-tomography CT scanners, X-ray video and computer software to give doctors and researchers a 3-D look at bones in motion.' In a previous note, the team said that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:44:56 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=896207]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper is the fruit of a vision for teaching programming languages by integrating the "Two cultures" that have evolved in its pedagogy. One culture is based on interpreters, while the other emphasizes a survey of languages. Each approach has significant advantages but also huge drawbacks. The interpreter method writes...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Cooperative, Self-Configuring High-Availability Solution for Stream Processing]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=375014]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper presents a collaborative, self-configuring High Availability HA approach for stream processing that enables low-latency failure recovery while incurring small run-time overhead. The approach relies on a novel fine-grained check-pointing model that allows query fragments at each server to be backed up at multiple other servers and recovered collectively...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Plastic batteries coming soon?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=355]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Engineers at Brown University have built a prototype of an hybrid plastic battery that uses a conductive polymer. The system, which marries the power of a capacitor with the storage capacity of a battery, can store and deliver power efficiently. For example, during performance testing, "it delivered more than 100...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:37:12 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Maine faulted for charging for govt. info]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://government.zdnet.com/?p=2537]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In Brown University's ranking of states' websites, released earlier this month, Maine plummeted from #2 to #18, the Bangor Daily News notes.  The main reason is the state's move to charge for access to certain services.   "Most places have resisted going to user fees because it is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:57:21 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Brown University tn3270 X 3.2.4 (Mac)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=508163]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Tn3270 is a terminal emulation program for connecting to computers which use IBM 3270 terminals. Major features of the emulation include color, extended highlighting, support for different screen and font sizes, and SSL support. Some more obscure features include support for the APL character set, and support for file transfer...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Medical school requiring PDAs]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://education.zdnet.com/?p=131]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Along with books, pencils and a stethoscope, medical schools are now requiring students to invest in PDAs personal digital assistant, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The advantages to having a PDA are numerous, and a growing number of medical and nursing schools such as Brown, University of Michigan, University of...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Atlantis: Location Based Services With Bluetooth]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=149478]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to offer context aware, location based services using the Bluetooth platform specification, a centralized framework has been developed that allows location approximation via sensor data from a ubiquitous Bluetooth sensor network consisting of numerous base stations. Distance from a certain base station of known position is extrapolated;...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Statically Finding Errors in Spreadsheets]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=258567]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper describes a methodology for detecting user errors in spreadsheets, using the notion of units as the basic elements of checking. The authors define the concept of a header and discuss two types of relationships between headers, namely is-a and has-a relationships. With these, they develop a set of...]]></description>
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