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.
Informatics = essential MD competency
In an article published in the Sept. 15 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, (JAMA), author Edward H. Shortliffe, MD, PhD, points out…
Mapping New Paths for a Stressed-Out Internet
In a paper published this week in Nature Communications, CAIDA researcher Dmitri Krioukov, along with Marián Boguñá (Universitat de Barcelona) and Fragkiskos…
Computer Scientists from Saarbrücken Search Through Large Datasets using "Good Trojans"
In order to search through this data companies like Facebook, Ebay, Yahoo, and Twitter use the freely available Hadoop software – a variant of MapReduce…
Cloud Computing Method Greatly Increases Gene Analysis
RNA sequencing is used to compare differences in gene expression to identify those genes that switched on or off when, for instance, a particular disease is…
Student-Built Satellite Scheduled for Launch
The Radio Aurora Explorer (RAX) is slated for launch Nov. 19 from Kodiak, Alaska. Its primary mission is to study how plasma instabilities in the highest…
Mimicking fish and tailoring radar to warn of bridge peril
The speed and turbulence of an overflowing stream scours away the river bottom that provides the support for a bridge foundation, causing more than 60 percent…