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New microchip uses 30 times less power

Scientists at Rice University have created a microchip that uses 30 times less electricity while running seven times faster than today's best technology. The U.S.-Singapore team developing the technology, named PCMOS, revealed results at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference ISSCC, the world's premier forum for engineers working...

Tags: Rice University, Phone, Microchip, CMOS, Cell Phone, Logic, PCMOS, ASICs, Semiconductors, Memory, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-09

Drink beer to avoid cancer...

The International Genetically Engineered Machine iGEM synthetic biology competition will be held on November 8-9 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 85 teams will be part of this contest, using 'a standard toolkit of DNA building blocks -- think genetic LEGO blocks -- to create living organisms that do odd things.' One of...

Tags: Team, Biology, Beer, Beverage, Cancer, Team Management, Food & Beverage, Management, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille, Rice University, Gene

Blog posts 2008-10-17

Nanoparticles used to trap oil drops

Rice University researchers have found a new way to spontaneously assemble nanoparticles into bag-like sacs. Their 'nanobatons' could be used to clean up oil spills by trapping oil droplets in polluted waters. These nanoparticles could even be more useful for delivering drugs. The researchers found that 'ultraviolet light and magnetic...

Tags: Rice University, Nanotube, Researcher, Nanoparticle, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-31

A Moore's Law for medical breakthroughs

In the world of medical research the chief contribution of this decade has been breaching the wall between organic and inorganic chemistry. Computing has made this possible. It can take a vast amount of computing power to create an enzyme from scratch. Thanks to distributed computing and...

Tags: Rice University, Computing, Moore, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-21

Design and Scalability of NLS, a Scalable Naming and Location Service

This paper sketches the design, and presents a scalability analysis and evaluation of NLS, a scalable naming and location service. NLS resolves textual names to the nearest of a set of replicated objects associated with that name, and is designed to scale to the dimensions of a world-wide service. Applications...

Tags: Rice University, Scalability, NLS

White papers 2008-01-01

pathChirp: Efficient Available Bandwidth Estimation for Network Paths

This paper presents pathChirp, a new active probing tool for estimating the available bandwidth on a communication network path. Based on the concept of "Self-induced congestion," pathChirp features an exponential flight pattern of probes one calls a chirp. Packet chips offer several significant advantages over current probing schemes based on...

Tags: Rice University, Bandwidth, Network, pathChirp, Networking

White papers 2008-01-01

Using Wireless Ethernet for Localization

IEEE 802.11b wireless Ethernet is rapidly becoming the standard for in-building and short-range wireless communication. Many mobile devices such as mobile robots, laptops and PDAs already use this protocol for wireless communication. Many wireless Ethernet cards measure the signal strength of incoming packets. This paper investigates the feasibility of implementing...

Tags: Rice University, Wireless Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b Wireless Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Ethernet, Networking

White papers 2008-01-01

Comp 511 Project: A Staged Interpreter for Featherweight Java

The staged interpreter presented in this paper is very specific: it breaks execution into several stages with respect to the values that must be supplied to the methods that are invoked in a Featherweight Java program. Yet, such an interpreter allows building specific pieces of code that can accept different...

Tags: Rice University

White papers 2008-01-01

A Multi-Stage Interpreter for Featherweight Java in MetaOCaml

Interpreters can incur huge performance penalties for many reasons. First, the interprative overhead associated with parsing abstract syntax trees is costly. Second, the repeated use of high-level abstractions can force an interpreter to duplicate expensive interpretations. However, a multi-stage interpreter can lessen the penalty paid for both of these activities....

Tags: Rice University, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2008-01-01

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

How radio waves really can kill cancer

When I first read this I thought it was crazy, but it's not. Scientists at Rice University and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston are injecting carbon nanotubes into tumors, then hitting the tumors with radio waves. Lead scientist Steven Curley of M.D....

Tags: Rice University, Nanotube, Radio, Scientist, Carbon Nanotube, Cancer, Nanotechnology, Advertising & Promotion, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Nanotech is approaching the human body

Nanotechnology is becoming increasingly practical in the fight against disease, especially cancer. As a proud alumnus of Rice University (class of '77) I get to follow this closely. Since I graduated, Rice has become the leader in this type of chemistry, using a multi-disciplinary approach which brings...

Tags: Rice University, Nanotube, Gold, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-09-25

Nuking cancer cells with alpha particles?

Radiotherapy is widely used to fight cancers. Today, only beta particles are approved by health regulators, such as the U.S. FDA. Beta particles are small and travel fast, but it takes thousands of them to kill a cancer cell. Now, U.S. researchers have found a way to use alpha particles...

Tags: Rice University, Particle, Cell, Radiotherapy, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-08-27

Boron buckyballs are coming

Im sure you know that buckyballs are molecules composed entirely of carbon and got their name for famed architect Buckminster Fuller because of their shapes. Now, Rice University scientists have designed -- on computers -- a buckyball made of 80 boron atoms. The shape of this very stable molecule is...

Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Nanotechnology, Science &, Nature

Blog posts 2007-04-24

Conserving Energy in Conventional Disk Based RAID Systems

Energy-efficiency is becoming increasingly important for storage systems to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership TCO. This paper proposes an energy saving policy named eRAID for conventional disk based RAID-1 systems using redundancy. In particular, a dynamic performance control scheme is developed with the help of a performance predictor based...

Tags: Rice University, Disk, Performance, Mirroring, RAID, Performance Management, Roi/Tco, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2007-03-20

Rice University's GIS/Data Center: How Do We Do GIS?

The distribution of GIS services in academic libraries has taken many forms; where as some libraries opt to provide a full array of GIS services, others offer mainly on-line reference material. This paper will describe the experience in implementing GIS from a central library location. The paper would attempt to...

Tags: Rice University, GIS, Software

White papers 2006-07-18

Rice goes open source

I happen to be a loyal alumnus of Rice University, class of '77.So it was with more than a little pride that I opened up my News.Com folder today and saw the following: Rice Swaps Print for Digital Press. The University is reviving its old academic imprint through an open...

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Blog posts 2006-07-13

DrJava 20060127-2145 (Windows)

DrJava is an integrated Java development environment that supports interactive evaluation of expressions. It is available for free, and it is available under an open source license GPL. DrJava is under active development by the JavaPLT group at Rice University.

Tags: Rice University, JavaPLT, DrJava, Microsoft Windows, Java, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Development Tools

Software downloads 2006-04-27

On Count-to-Infinity Induced Forwarding Loops in Ethernet Networks

Ethernet's high performance, low cost and ubiquity have made it the dominant networking technology for many application domains. Unfortunately, its distributed forwarding topology computation protocol - the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol RSTP - can suffer from a classic "Count-to-infinity" problem that may lead to a forwarding loop under certain network...

Tags: Rice University, Network, Ethernet, Networking

White papers 2006-01-06

A helicoid with a handle

For the first time in more than 200 years, a team of mathematicians from Rice, Stanford and Indiana universities has discovered a new shape of geometrical minimal shape. Their 'genus one helicoid' looks like a parking garage ramp or a curved soap film. But when it's untwisted, it looks like...

Tags: helicoid

Blog posts 2005-11-01