Information Technology
Here you can find a summary of innovations in the fields of information and data processing and up-to-date developments on IT equipment and hardware.
This area covers topics such as IT services, IT architectures, IT management and telecommunications.
Optical amplifier with world record low noise
The breakthrough enables a reach increase for optical fiber signals from e.g. 1000 km to 4000 km, paving way for increasing the capacity of data…
Supercomputer "K computer" Takes First Place in World
The TOP500-ranked K computer system, currently in the configuration stage, has 672 computer racks equipped with a current total of 68,544 CPUs. This half-build…
Genius of Einstein, Fourier key to new humanlike computer vision
The techniques, called heat mapping and heat distribution, apply mathematical methods to enable machines to perceive three-dimensional objects, said Karthik…
Landsat 5 satellite helps emergency managers fight largest fire in Arizona history
The Landsat 5 satellite captured images of the Wallow North and Horseshoe 2 fires burning in eastern Arizona on June 15, 2011 at 19:54:23 Zulu (3:54 p.m. EDT)….
Streamlined asset management takes flight
A single aeroplane contains roughly four million individual parts, and successfully keeping entire fleets in the air requires easy and efficient access to…
GPS stations can detect clandestine nuclear tests
Even underground nuclear tests leave their mark on the part of the upper atmosphere known as the ionosphere, the researchers discovered, when they examined GPS…