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Joining up memory

The computing industry faces constant demands to provide faster access to data and reduce power consumption. As current memory systems cannot meet these…

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Staying Cool in the Nanoelectric Universe by Getting Hot

As smartphones, tablets and other gadgets become smaller and more sophisticated, the heat they generate while in use increases. This is a growing problem…

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Future Data Storage Innovations at Domain Boundaries

Storing more and more in an ever-smaller space – what sounds impossible is in fact just part of the daily routine in information technology, where for decades,…

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'Superlens' Extends Range of Wireless Power Transfer

But now, Duke University researchers have demonstrated the feasibility of wireless power transfer using low-frequency magnetic fields over distances much…

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SURA Shares Insights on Dataverse Network Pilot Findings

This pilot implementation of the Dataverse Network software was conducted as part of SURA's larger Research Data Management (RDM) initiative, an on-going…

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Mathematics Enhances Medicine Safety: Insights from Experts

With Prof. Vincent Heuveline as their group leader, the group of mathematicians and computer scientists especially focuses on increasing the security of…

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Nanoplasmonics: Towards efficient light harvesting

Transformation optics is an emerging field that has revolutionized our understanding of how to control light by constituting an effectively curved…

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15 Years of VR Innovations in Oil and Gas Visualization

At its annual meeting in December 2013, the VRGeo Consortium again came up with new breakthrough software and hardware solutions for interactive visualization…

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Programming Smart Molecules: Harvard’s Breakthrough Innovation

Computer scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard…

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Kassel University research team’s results make the development of quantum computers more realistic

Is there a flow of electrical current or not? Until now, the register of traditional bit computers can only determine between these two basic states….

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Computers That Identify Your Urban Tribe: Hipster, Surfer, Biker

Are you a hipster, surfer or biker? What is your urban tribe? Your computer may soon be able to tell. Computer scientists at the University of California, San…

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Navigating SEPA Direct Debit: Key Challenges for Payment Providers

The migration to the SEPA payment instruments in February 2014 poses new challenges to payment service providers and users. From that date on, a creditor needs…

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Computers Communicate Secretly Through Audio Signals

Michael Hanspach confirmed media coverage on the topic in a radio interview with Hessischer Rundfunk yesterday. Hanspach and his colleague had successfully…

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Boosting Data Speed: 10X Throughput on Optical Fibers

Optical fibers carry data in the form of pulses of light over distances of thousands of miles at amazing speeds. They are one of the glories of modern…

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Princeton’s New Method Unveils Hidden Data Structures

Now, computer scientists at Princeton University have developed a method that offers a solution to this data overload. Using a mathematical method that…

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Boosting Computational Efficiency with Graph Partitioning

An important method to manage complex computations on steadily growing networks is graph partitioning. The KIT computer scientists Professor Peter Sanders and…

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