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- IBM researchers speed up medical diagnostic testing via chip
- IBM researchers have cooked up a quick medical diagnostic testing system based on a silicon chip that can get by on small sample and test for multiple diseases. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Researcher, IBM Corp., Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- Researchers replicate butterfly wings on a nano-scale
- A cross-national team of researchers have developed a technique to replicate biological structures, such as butterfly wings, on a nano-scale. by Chris Jablonski
- Tags: Butterfly, Researcher, Productivity, Team Management, Management, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-10-10
- Twitter suspends security researcher's account as a threat
- Twitter erroneously suspended, and subsequently restored, a prominent researcher's account two months after he tweeted a security warning intended to inform his audience about an imminent threat. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Researcher, Twitter Inc., Security, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- Researchers devise way to deny denial-of-service attacks
- Researchers say they have devised a way to filter out denial of service attacks on computer networks, including cloud computing systems, improving security on government, commercial, and educational systems. by Andrew Nusca
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Researcher, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Government, Security, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Microsoft and European researchers deliver a snapshot of multikernel 'Barrelfish' OS
- Microsoft and European researchers have released a "snapshot" of Barrelfish, which is a "multikernel" distributed operating system project in which Microsoft's Cambridge UK Research Lab has a big part. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Researcher, Operating System, Snapshot, Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- Researchers bring the sounds of ancient instruments back to life
- A team of researchers is reconstructing the sound or timbre of ancient instruments. The ASTRA (Ancient instruments Sound/Timbre Reconstruction Application) project accomplishes this feat using physical modeling computer synthesis and grid technology. by Chris Jablonski
- Tags: Researcher, Instrument, Productivity, Research & Development, Cloud Computing, Team Management, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Business Operations, Management, It service Management, Networking, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- News to know: Microsoft; Motorola; BIOS 'rootkit'
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Researchers find insecure BIOS 'rootkit' pre-loaded in laptops Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting 2009: Mary...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Researcher, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Motorola Inc., Rootkits, Microsoft Windows 7, BIOS, Microsoft Windows, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- HP's newest supercomputer geared for energy and environment
- The newest supercomputer in town isn't for simulating nuclear explosions or the human brain, but rather take on arguably more pressing problems in areas such as climate science, hydrogen storage and molecular chemistry. Built by HP, the $21.4 million Chinook is a custom-made machine specifically designed for...
- Tags: Researcher, Hewlett-Packard Co., Supercomputer, Environment, Chemistry, Chinook, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Researcher: Pee power in our energy future
- Don't waste that bodily waste, convert it. That's the system suggested by Ohio University researchers. They are converting urine into hydrogen for fuel cell fuel. Are we really flushing away a great source of energy? The team of engineers are using a nickel-based converter that...
- Tags: Researcher, Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- 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
- University Speeds Research and Enhances Researcher Agility With HPC System
- The Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at the University of California at Los Angeles is dedicated to the development of scientific approaches for the comprehensive mapping of brain structure and function. Until recently, researchers who wanted to use the LONI HPC cluster needed both expertise in working in a Linux environment...
- Tags: Researcher, Environment, Linux, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies 2009-07-07
- Cornell Uses High-Performance Computing to Speed Research, Extend Software Access
- As one of the world's leading research institutions, Cornell University has been engaged in high-performance computing since that term referred to mainframe computing. More than 10 years ago, Cornell helped to pioneer the use of PC clusters. To give researchers - both at Cornell and at other institutions around the...
- Tags: Software, Researcher, Microsoft Access, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Cornell University, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Mainframes, Management, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-06-25
- WriteIt! 3.4.1 (Mac)
- WriteIt! 3 is a rich text editor aimed at pupils, students and researchers, simply anyone who wants to create a great text document. Now, you may ask, what makes WriteIt! so special? WriteIt! has to offer the following highlights: WriteIt! 3 offers 12 formats for you to save in and...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Researcher, WriteIt, User Interface, brThere, Mice, Media Players, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Digital Music, Digital Media, Hardware, Peripherals, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Internet
- Software downloads 2009-06-10
- Research Institute Speeds Cancer Research With High-Performance Computing System
- Nationwide Children's Hospital, based in Columbus, Ohio, is one of the largest children's hospitals in the United States. The Research Informatics Core at Nationwide Children's Hospital wanted to increase the speed at which it could digitize pathology slides and support researchers through faster computation of data. The organization worked with...
- Tags: Hospital, Researcher, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Healthcare
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Scientists Boost Productivity With User-Friendly High-Performance Solution
- Nile University is a non-profit privately owned research university in Egypt. The life-science researchers at CIS need to analyse huge amounts of biological data to compare genomic sequences. Using conventional computers this would not be possible, so high-performance computing HPC is vital to their success. Scientists at the Centre of...
- Tags: Researcher, Scientist, High-performance, Microsoft Corp., Nile University, Leadership, Healthcare, Open Source, Management
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Pirated Windows 7 leads to malware, botnet
- Several news outlets including eWEEK and Washington Post are reporting on a new piece of malware embedded into pirated copies of Microsoft's Windows 7 for the express purpose of building a botnet. According to researchers at Damballa, the bootleg copies of the new operating system have been...
- Tags: Researcher, Microsoft Windows 7, Malware, WaPo, Microsoft Windows, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- You are full of water, so's your food
- Because humans, corn, grapes, beer, ice cream, coffee and French fries all contain large amouns of water, most of us can agree it is a necessity. There are hints that life cannot exist without fresh, relatively non-toxic water. With that in mind researchers are looking for ways to...
- Tags: Food, Researcher, Monitoring, Water, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- Learning in the cloud with Amazon
- Amazon announced its AWS in Education program yesterday, opening up cloud-based services to students, faculty, and researchers at accredited universities via grants and/or free access to its services. AWS, or Amazon Web Services, is used by everyone from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to Twitter to host applications and is...
- Tags: Researcher, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com Inc., AWS, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-04-30
- Art of pizza tossing inspires micro motor design
- Researchers at Monash University in Australia have unlocked the physics of the perfect pizza toss and will use it to design the next generation of standing wave ultrasonic motors SWUMs, devices thinner than a human hair. [caption id="attachment_1510" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Credit: Aubrie & Joseph via Flickr"][/caption] ...
- Tags: Researcher, Motor, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Researcher 1.03 (Mac)
- The Researcher browser isn't just some browser, it's a browser that's been planned carefully. Based on the ground breaking WriteIt! 3 researcher, this browser is great for surfing the net, featuring a very easy to use User Interface, a browsing History, Flash Support, Quick Time Support, Bookmarks and more. It's...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Researcher, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Internet
- Software downloads 2009-04-26
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