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Nanospheres moving faster than light?

In recent years, I don't think I've spent a month without a report about a new way to exceed the speed of light. Yesterday, University of Pennsylvania researchers announced a theoretical way to increase the speed of pulses of light which could bring optical computing closer to reality. The scientists...

Tags: Team, Bandwidth, Researcher, University Of Pennsylvania, Theory, Nanoparticle, Particle, Penn, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Penn's Racing Hedge Calculator 1 (Windows)

Penn's Racing Hedge Calculator helps you hedge two different bets on Horse Racing. If you like to play mutiple horses on a single race like most people, this program may do you a great favor. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Horse, Rake Software, Penn, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-06-23

Hillary's top strategist accused of illegal eavesdropping

Illegal eavesdropping's not just for the NSA and Hewlett Packard. Hillary Clinton's top strategist has now been accused of improperly tapping into a rival's BlackBerry messages, The Washington Post reports.Mitchell E. Markel, a former vice president at the polling firm of Penn, Schoen & Berland, filed a lawsuit claiming his...

Tags: Privacy, Elections

Blog posts 2007-07-03

PA schools adopt handheld tech for test-taking

No longer will elementary students at several Pennsylvania schools scribble their answers on paper when a teacher gives a pop quiz. This year, teachers at some Penn Hills elementary schools will be using remote devices to answer test questions, and the answer will appear on teachers' computer monitors, reports ...

Tags: teacher, Penn

Blog posts 2006-09-11

Additional Resources

Most Americans support energy infrastructure overhaul

OK, we've established that pretty much every high-tech vendor is IN LOVE with the Smart Grid, because of the billions of potential spending associated with it. So, what does the average energy consumer think? Aka, you and me. A new survey that was conducted jointly by PR...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Survey, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-16

Wishful thinking: Can we make this carbon clock count backwords?

Remember the world debt clock that loomed notoriously over Times Square in New York? Now, city residents will get to see a massive, close-to-70-foot tall carbon carbon counter that is being sponsored by Deutsche Bank's Asset Management division. [caption id="attachment_5597" align="alignnone" width="475" caption="Deutsche Bank counts carbon rather publicly"][/caption] ...

Tags: Counter, Deutsche Bank AG, Carbon, Asset Management, Engineering, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Looking for a few good SOA case studies

Are you part of a successful SOA deployment, and would like to share some details with the rest of the world? The world wants to hear from you. The SOA Consortium, in conjunction with CIO Magazine, is once again holding it's annual SOA case study competition, and...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Nine worst social media fails of 2009... thus far

Social media has taken the marketing world by storm. Major agencies and internal divisions are hosting think tank sessions to try and come up with witty ideas to market their products and drive customer loyalty. Some of the ideas they come up with  are great. But others, let's face it,...

Tags: Pizza Hut, Brand, Stunt, Social Media, Twitter, Motrin, Nannerpuss, Jack, Skittles Home Page, Ashton Kutcher, Branding, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-05-22

Video: Eric Schmidt's commencement address at Penn

Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt was the guest speaker at University of Pennsylvania's 253rd Commencement address at Franklin Field on Monday, May 18, 2009. A video of his speech is available here (start at 1:48:40) -- although you'll need RealPlayer installed on your Mac to watch...

Tags: Eric Schmidt, Video, Corporate Communications, Digital Music, Marketing, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-05-20

The just shoot me vacation: Stay tethered; Forget two weeks; Install a fax in your room

The just shoot me vacation: Stay tethered; Forget two weeks; Install a fax in your roomForget that crap...I don't "tether" on evenings and weekends so I sure as hell am not going to do it on vacation. Lay me off... I will find another job! >:(Who should get laid...

Tags: fax

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

Nanowires, nanoribbons and 'graphane' among materials that'll revolutionize computers

Architects of the next generation of computers are developing a variety of nanostructures to meet the demand for increasingly smaller features for semiconductors, microprocessors, and other components. These tiny building blocks are quite extraordinary-some even self-assemble. And they'll help overcome many of the limitations of today's microelectronics...

Tags: Nanotube, Carbon Nanotube, Computer, Chip, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-24

Our fancy Internet infrastructure operates on a wire and a prayer

The fiber-optic outage---actually sabotage---in the Bay Area on Thursday reveals a dirty little secret: Our infrastructure is ridiculously vulnerable and it only takes a few vandals or terrorists to bring communication to its knees.  While it's unclear what exactly happened, AT&T is offering a $100,000 now $250,000 reward...

Tags: Fiber-optics, Internet-infrastructure, Barrett Lyon, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Network Technology, Transportation, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-10

Photos: Battle of the Rube Goldberg machines

Penn State recently held a contest for Rube Goldberg machines, which do a simple task in a complex manner. The winner? A Super Mario-themed device. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Machine, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-04-02

H2O + CO2 = CH4, thanks to Archaeans

Researchers at Penn State have found a friendly microbe that'll take our excess CO2, add some water, a charge of electricity, and return us methane. The original purpose of the portable electrolysis cell research: producing H2. But if you get lemons, make.... It's long been...

Tags: Electricity, Carbon Dioxide, Archaea, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-31

Artificial blood, cartilage, and...brain?

Researchers report a dose of new additions this week to the list of lab-produced versions of biological matter; And, taken together, the trio of announcements below span the gamut of organic complexity that they're trying to replicate. First, a team of biochemists from the University of Pennsylvania...

Tags: Researcher, Brain, Protein, Neuron, Team Management, Semiconductors, Management, Hardware, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-03-27

The PSP Model in RF CMOS Design

While the Penn State Philips PSP transistor model is rightly hailed as an excellent alternative to traditional BSIM models for RFIC design, RF designers need to be aware of how PSP models relate to actual device behavior. PSP models do require some judgment on the part of model developers. Equally...

Tags: Fujitsu Ltd., Sony PlayStation Portable, Model, Research & Development, Productivity, Semiconductors, Business Operations, Hardware

White papers 2009-03-01

Plasmonics could boost computer capacity by a million

A research team at Penn State has developed a plasmonic switch that may help pave the way for the next generation of super-fast computers. "If plasmonics are realized, the future will have circuits as small as the current electronic ones with a capacity a million times better," said Tony...

Tags: Circuit, Computer, Molecule, Rotaxanes, Productivity, Team Management, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-02-14

Small matters bringing huge change?

H2O + CO2 with nanotubes= CH4 and O2. That's the basic formula of research done at Penn State. Scientists there make the hollow catalytic nanotubes from titania titanium dioxide. Each tube is 135 nanometres wide and a tenth of a millimetre long. The research at...

Tags: Nanotube, Penn State, Solar Energy, Febrication, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-10

Why Is Change So Hard for Some People (Especially Older Ones?)

So it seems it is broadly true, young people really are more open and older ones more set in their ways, according to a fascinating article in the Scientific American. • Studies of personality development often focus on traits such as extroversion, conscientiousness,...

Tags: Trait, Intranet, Launch Material, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-02-06

SUN Area Career & Technology Center Installs Sophisticated D-Link Network Camera Surveillance and Security System Without Breaking the Bank

SUN Area Career & Technology Center provides students with the skills needed to compete in today's job market and receive consideration for advanced college placement. SUN Area Career & Technology Center needed to replace their unreliable, crash-prone analog video surveillance system. The existing security camera system recorded frames at four...

Tags: D-Link Systems, Bank, Security, Sun Microsystems Inc., Camera, Home Networking, Professional Development, Networking, Personal Technology, Career

Case studies 2009-01-28