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- Technology: where on the scale from cure to curse?
- I'm old enough to remember the many apocalyptic scenarios conjured up by nuclear weapons and the Cold War. From Alas, Babylon to "The Day After", from Godzilla himself, the second half of the Twentieth Century was repeatedly haunted by vivid imaginings of the post-nuclear world, or its ending....
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- New approach gives Purdue serious computing power
- New approach gives Purdue serious computing powerGlad to be a BoilerI am very proud to be a Boilermaker.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Searching in 3-D
- Eighteen months ago, I was writing that shape searching could become a reality. Now, the researchers at Purdue University who developed this initial system are providing benchmarking tools to evaluate how well their search system is working. Even if these tools are designed for computer-aided design CAD engineers, you're welcome...
- Blog posts 2005-09-29
- At Purdue, cooling chips with mini lightning storms
- At Purdue, cooling chips with mini lightning stormsIts a serious problemEvery professional software developer or hardware engineer knows that heat on the CPU causes problems in performance.This is a growing problem, but the fact is we have seen people coming up with these "devices" before. I think that this is...
- Discussion threads 2004-03-25
- Purdue Pharma L.P.: Surviving Media Disaster With RMAN
- Purdue Pharma L.P. is known for its pioneering research on a principal cause of human suffering: chronic pain. The database infrastructure consists of 125 Oracle databases ranging from version 8.1.7 to 9.2.0.4, running on 45 HP-UX servers. The Oracle software and database files on all these servers are attached to...
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- Cut the crap. Stop the off-gassing of the cows. Sure, but how?
- A French cow in The Camargue. Doing what cows everywhere are known to do. Methane is being emitted daily by cows and horses across this land, pigs too. Manure's another problem. But it could also be a solution. Right now the...
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Towards low-cost LED lighting
- You all know that incandescent bulbs are pretty inefficient, converting only 10% of electricity into light -- and 90% into heat. Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, could soon replace incandescent and compact fluorescent bulbs in our homes. They are more efficient and environmentally friendly. But LED lights are currently too expensive...
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja
- Update: It would seem that Richard Stiennon agrees with me on the concept of a group of experts to advise, also on keeping away from spending ridiculous amounts of money. Cyber-terrorism... ah, what a fancy buzz word that is. Defined on Wikipedia as: "The premeditated use...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- A refrigerator inside your laptop?
- Even if the semiconductor industry is working on it, computer chips are big energy spenders. And new cooling systems will be needed in the future. Purdue University engineers think they have a solution. They've developed a miniature refrigeration system small enough to fit inside laptops. Unlike conventional cooling systems, which...
- Blog posts 2008-06-21
- The value in name patients
- In all the coverage of Sen. Edward Kennedy's brain tumor, one fact has gone little remarked. The surgery is taking place at Duke. Not in Massachusetts. In North Carolina. The surgeon is Dr. Allan H. Friedman (right, from Duke University Medical Center). He was...
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- News to know: Sun; Microhoo; Vista; Linux security; Spigit
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Sun plans layoffs following weak quarter; Blames U.S. economy Nate McFeters: Multiple Linux flaws show that Linux also has kernel issues More bad news for McAfee, HackerSafe certification Steve Ballmer's defining hour Mary...
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- New approach gives Purdue serious computing power
- Purdue University will be replacing its current research computing clusters on May 5th with one of the world's largest supercomputers. While this isn't especially surprising at a school known for its computer science expertise, the funding model and installation are far more novel. Interestingly, the supercomputer,...
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Earth Day – have a gas
- Sample Vulcan map from Purdue & NASA. The folks at Purdue University have come up with a way for us to watch the CO2 emissions across the U.S. Just in time for Earth Day, 2008. It's called Vulcan, and it's going to...
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Google-Yahoo search test an alleged hit; Squeezes Microsoft
- Google-Yahoo search test an alleged hit; Squeezes MicrosoftYou guys need to be more creative with PhotoShop. How about a picture ofSteve Balmer screaming and throwing a chair at Jerry Yang????RE: Google-Yahoo search test an alleged hit; Squeezes MicrosoftAnd I'm moving further away from Yahoo if this deal goes through.Developers developers...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-17
- 3-D images of a virus at half-nanometer resolution
- U.S. researchers have used a new technique named cryo-EM (short for 'Electron cryomicroscopy) to capture images of a virus at a resolution of 4.5 angstroms -- less than half of a nanometer. As said the lead researcher, 'This is the highest resolution ever achieved for a living organism of this...
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Give your computer the sense of touch
- Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University CMU have developed a new haptic interface using magnetic levitation to give computer users the sense of touch. Unlike current haptic systems, this new device doesn't use gloves or robotic arms. It uses 'magnetic levitation and a single moving part to give users a highly...
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-02-24
- The artificial sugar study
- Yesterday's release from Purdue University, showing that rats fed yogurt with saccharine gained more weight than rats whose yogurt had regular sugar, did not surprise me. Diet Coke has always made me hungry. Of course, I also claim to be able to feel my high blood pressure....
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- Identifying a face from a single picture
- Law enforcement officers around the world can be happy today. A computer scientist and PhD candidate from the Umeå University in Sweden has developed algorithms that give a computer the possibility of recognizing a face, even if only one picture exists in the database used to identify criminals or suspects....
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- Cellphones to detect dirty bombs?
- Purdue University engineers are developing a system which would use a U.S. network of cellphones to detect dirty bombs and nuclear weapons. They say that 'such a system could blanket the nation with millions of cellphones equipped with radiation sensors able to detect even light residues of radioactive material.' They...
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
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