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- Illinois researchers create fastest LED ever; aid computing efficiency
- Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created the fastest LED ever, setting a a new record with a signal-processing modulation speed of 4.3 gigahertz, breaking the previous record of 1.7 GHz. Why is this important? Engineering professor Nick Holonyak Jr....
- Tags: Researcher, Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- Google Summer of Code opens for applications today
- Last week, I had the opportunity to speak with Leslie Hawthorn, the Program Manager for Google's Summer of Code. For those of you not familiar with the project, Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source...
- Tags: Project, Google Inc., Student, Mentor, Open Source, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- iPhone update kills 12 security bugs
- Apple has released iPhone OS 2.2 with patches for 12 documented security flaws, some very serious. The vulnerabilities covered by the patch which also affect iPod Touch could allow remote code execution, information theft, software crashes and weakened encryption settings. The skinny on this...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Issue, SMS, Arbitrary Code Execution, Security Bug, Application Termination, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Computers can now guess our age
- U.S. researchers have developed a software that can almost precisely guess your age. This software just needs a picture of your face to estimate your age. As said the project leader at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC, 'age-estimation software is useful in applications where you don't need to...
- Tags: Software, Age, Computer, Age Estimation Performance, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- My Awesome IT Job: IT Service Manager, University of Illinois
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...
- Tags: University Of Illinois, Information Technology, Service Manager, E-mail, Strategy, Storage, Online Communications, Management, Hardware, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- HP, Intel, Yahoo join NSF, schools for global cloud research
- Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo will join universities and the National Science Foundation to launch a "global collaboration" into researching and experimenting with cloud computing, the companies announced Tuesday. The group will build a computing network comprised of six data centers on three continents in order to create a large-scale...
- Tags: National Science Foundation, Hewlett-Packard Co., Yahoo! Inc., Intel Corp., Cloud Computing, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- HP, Intel and Yahoo team on cloud computing research
- Updated: HP, Intel and Yahoo have combined to launch an open source test bed that will encompass multiple data centers for cloud computing research. According to the companies statement, the trio of companies will create a global testing environment to examine software, hardware and management issues created...
- Tags: Team, Hewlett-Packard Co., Partnership, Open Source, Yahoo! Inc., Intel Corp., Cloud Computing, Business Structures, Data Centers, Finance, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Intel Multi-Core Performance Helps Solve Large-Scale Science and Business Problems
- Created in 1986 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications NCSA is one of the five original centers of the National Science Foundation NSF Supercomputer Centers Program. NCSA wanted to develop a large High-Performance Computing HPC cluster that can offer the processing performance and...
- Tags: Performance, Intel Corp., Performance Management, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Processors, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Microsoft, Intel to team on new parallel, multicore research efforts
- In what has become a not-so-secret secret, Microsoft and Intel are set to unveil on March 18 their joint funding of more parallel-processing research work, according to various industry reports. EETimes says the Wintel couple will announce it is helping fund the new Parallel Computing Lab at...
- Tags: Team, Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Intel Corp., EETimes, Microsoft Research Folk, Dryad, Team Management, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Free software tools for archivists
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC archivists have developed a free software kit named Archon to help other librarians to manage their collections. This software has been designed for archivists with limited access to technological resources. It's free and you can download it to manage your own music or book...
- Tags: Software, Archivist, University Of Illinois, Collection, Tool, UIUC, Archon Project, Tools & Techniques, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-24
- Robotic help for stroke patients
- According to several estimations, there are more than 5 million people living in the U.S. who have been affected by a cerebral vascular accident. And more than 700,000 persons are suffering from a stroke every year. Some of them recover well. But others need months of physical therapy to regain...
- Tags: Rice University, Patient, Robot, RiceWrist, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- A supercomputer to design better plants?
- Is it possible to create more productive crops than nature does without growing hybrids or genetically modified plants? According to researchers at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC, the answer is yes . They've simulated photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert light to energy, with the help of supercomputers...
- Tags: Researcher, Protein, Supercomputer, Gene, Plant, Computer, UIUC, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- A new way to make water -- and fuel cells
- You probably know that it is easy to combine hydrogen and oxygen to make water. After all, this chemical reaction is known for more than two centuries. But now, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC have discovered a new way to make water. As states the UIUC...
- Tags: Fuel Cell, Oxygen, Hydrogen, UIUC, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-11-03
- Self-powered nanowires
- Many research teams around the world are building nanodevices of some kind. But these very small devices need very small sources of power to be fully functional. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC have shown that a single nanowire can produce power by harvesting mechanical energy...
- Tags: Researcher, Voltage, Yu, Voltage Generation, Team Management, Nanotechnology, Management, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-09-29
- Nanotechnology boosts solar cells performance
- Physicists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC have improved the performance of solar cells by 60 percent. And they obtained this spectacular result by using a very simple trick. They've coated the solar cells with a film of 1-nanometer thick silicon fluorescing nanoparticles. The researchers also said that...
- Tags: Silicon, Performance, Nanoparticle, Particle, Nanotechnology, Cell, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- To controversy, NSF taps IBM, U of Illinois for supercomputer
- The National Science Foundation has chosen to IBM to help it build the world's fastest supercomputer at a cost of up to $400 million, The New York Times reports.The news of the contract award only escaped because relevant documents were mistakenly placed on a federal Website for a short time...
- Tags: National Science Foundation, Supercomputer, IBM Corp., ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- Are you ready for amoebic computing?
- Chip manufacturers have started to sell multi-core processors for a while now, and the trend is accelerating. But how do we benefit from all this processing power? The answer is clearly 'not much.' So is the concept of 'amoebic computing' the future of parallel processing? A University of Illinois computer...
- Tags: Computers &, Internet
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Human-hair sized aluminum foil lamps
- Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC have built 'aluminum foil lamps that outshine incandescent lights.' Their panels of microcavity plasma lamps can contain today 250,000 lamps. These thin panels -- 1 millimeter thick -- are more efficient than incandescent lights and soon will surpass the efficiency of...
- Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- Step-by-Step Guide to Installing, Configuring, and Tuning a High-Performance Compute Cluster
- This paper is a step-by-step guide based on the highly successful cluster deployment at National Center for Supercomputing Applications NCSA at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. The cluster was built as a joint effort between NCSA and Microsoft, using commonly available hardware and Microsoft software. The cluster was composed...
- Tags: High-performance, Microsoft Corp., Leadership, Management
- White papers 2007-06-01
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