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- Livescribe digital pen gets student test
- A UC Berkeley student has become such a devotee of the Livescribe digital pen that he's now one of three dozen "campus scribes" paid by Livescribe to evangelize the product at their school. He shares how the pen has improved his study habits.
- Videos 2008-11-17
- GPS cell phones plot, predict traffic
- With the popularity of GPS-enabled cell phones, it makes sense to use that mapping technology to plot traffic speeds. A new UC Berkeley and Nokia pilot program tests out the tech in the San Francisco Bay Area, where CNET's Kara Tsuboi gives it a spin.
- Videos 2008-11-11
- Gecko-inspired robots
- From their hands and feet all the way down to their tails, geckos are inspiring all sorts of robotics technology. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi speaks with UC Berkeley research scientists about how they're mimicking nature's gifts in high-tech ways.
- Videos 2008-03-26
- Using cell phones to track traffic
- News.com's Erica Ogg reports on what happens when 100 volunteers with GPS phones start driving up and down a 10-mile stretch of freeway.
- Videos 2008-02-08
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- Intel encourages green tech at the university level
- Joint competition by Intel and UC Berkeley uncovers green-tech university research and development. by Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-11-24
- Computers have speed limit as unbreakable as speed of light, say physicists
- Yeah, they have been saying this same thing for years....and everytime, they find a way to make computers even faster. I don't think that they will EVER reach a limit for computer power. Not ever.FacinatingI always knew there would be a wall somewhere, but what will be needed with that...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-16
- Watch Out for That Meteor, Stallman.
- Richard M. Stallman RMS the founder of the Free Software Foundation, has labeled prominent Open Source software developer Miguel De Icaza a "Traitor" for joining the Board of Directors of Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation as well as for his creation of the Microsoft .NET-compatible Mono software development...
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- 'NanoPen' to write a new chapter in nanotech manufacturing
- Among the top challenges facing the commercialization of nanotechnology, is to produce a high volume of nano-scale components cheaply and efficiently. To help meet the challenge, UC Berkeley researchers are reporting the development of a "NanoPen" that could provide a quick, convenient way of laying down patterns of nanoparticles...
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Librarians apply scrutiny to Google Books at Berkeley con
- A conference at UC Berkeley tomorrow takes a hard look at the Google Books deal. Speakers will address privacy, information quality and public access issues. If Google is going to become the online library of the world, they will have to do better in all these areas. by Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- Groups demand privacy for Google Books
- A coalition of privacy and civil liberties groups are saying that Google Books could become "one-stop shopping" for law enforcement to track people's reading habits. The ACLU of Northern California, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Samuelson law clinic at UC Berkeley sent a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt...
- Blog posts 2009-07-24
- How does a solar cell work?
- How does solar conversion work now and how do we want it to work in the future? Paul Altivisatos, interim director for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at UC Berkeley, explains how a solar cell works and how the solar energy of the future, via a solar fuel generator that converts...
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- How does a solar cell work?
- How does solar conversion work now and how do we want it to work in the future? Paul Altivisatos, interim director for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at UC Berkeley, explains how a solar cell works and how the solar energy of the future, via a solar fuel generator that converts...
- Videos 2009-07-16
- News to know: $99 iPhone; AMD; Bing; Firefox 3.5; Data Domain
- 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. Jason Perlow: $99 iPhones Will Not Improve the Wireless Customer Experience Jason D. O'Grady: AT&T's $200 early upgrade fee...
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Smart People: Alex Bayen, Professor, Systems Engineering, UC Berkeley
- Imagine a commute without traffic congestion. Alex Bayen is currently working on the Mobile Millennium project, a traffic information system that uses GPS inside phones to gather traffic information, process it, and then broadcast it back in real-time, so people can have instantaneous traffic updates. This video is originally from...
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Billion-year ultra-dense memory chip developed
- There's always been an inverse relationship between density and durability when it comes to data storage. Today's silicon memory chips contain a lot of density, but with a lifespan of just a few decades, they lack durability. Yet primitive forms of storage such as information carved in stone are highly...
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- UC Berkeley scientists define cloud computing
- UC Berkeley scientists define cloud computingMy own definitions of Cloud Computing...Cloud Computing - 1. An unnecessary return to the dinosaur client-server model which was abandoned 20+ years ago when the personal computer became popular. 2. A buzz-word the media uses to describe anything which uses a local client to do...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-01
- Wood, Arrows, and motivation
- Wood, Arrows, and motivationPut a fork in itForking doesn't come from some altruistic view that change/competition is good, it comes from purposely trying to break your competitor and make something proprietary. OpenBSD was started because NetBSD threw out Theo de Raadt (hmm, don't call it an OPEN community). Has Linus...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-16
- News to know: EMC, Intel Atom, ICANN Chief, Mac event, Green
- 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. Larry Dignan: EMC discloses DOJ probe Heather Clancy: EMC joins SmartWay fold Sam Diaz: Intel and...
- Blog posts 2009-03-03
- UC Berkeley scientists define cloud computing
- Next time you’re at loggerheads with your peers over the definition and merits of cloud computing, gain some leverage by dropping terms like “parallelizable†and “multiplexing†into your argument courtesy of UC Berkeley Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory RAD Lab. The lab has a lofty vision: "Enable one person to...
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- Can database lock-in be broken
- Can database lock-in be brokenCredit Larry for being very good, cheap enough, and just enough lock-in.But, there are a lot of transactions done by open source databases and it is growing. It would be interesting to know the percentage of transactions done by each database worldwide.Ingres and Postgres"Ingres is based...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-19
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