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Phase change memory-based 'moneta'system points to the future of computer storage

The device was developed in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and will be on exhibit June 7-8 at…

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Digital Ants Protect Computer Networks

Errin Fulp, a professor of computer science at Wake Forest University, is training an army of “digital ants” to turn loose into the power grid to seek out…

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FRAVE: Streamlining Prototype Design with VR Innovation

Product designers harness time-consuming procedures in prototype construction. Only then are they able to assess the results of their work in a comprehensive…

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New Bandwidth Management Techniques Enhance Multi-Core Efficiency

To do this, the new techniques allow multi-core chips to deal with two things more efficiently: allocating bandwidth and “prefetching” data.Multi-core chips…

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Exploring IoT: Simple Concept, Complex Challenges Ahead

“In our vision, IoT-A will expand the boundaries of today’s internet to encompass the physical world and enable identification, information gathering and…

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Explore New Software for Interactive Protein Structure Analysis

A key research issue is the study of individual residues, the building blocks of proteins, and their interactions in the 3D protein structure. Scientists at…

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Robots Collaborate to Explore and Map Buildings

This isn't a future-tech scenario. This advanced autonomous capability has been developed by a team from the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of…

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How Computer Games Are Helping Stroke Recovery for Gamers

It is often difficult for stroke victims to recover hand and arm movement, and 80-90% of sufferers still have problems six months later. Scientists in America…

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Safe “Sandbox” for the Internet of the Future

In cooperation with partner organizations SAP, the University of Passau (Germany), the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), and the Chalmers University of…

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Kermit Helps Households Monitor and Manage Their Internet Speed

Maybe, maybe not. Now, as the nation’s largest providers prepare to implement usage-based pricing plans, a tool created by Georgia Tech researchers could…

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Integrating Safety From the Start: The Role of BIOS in Innovation

Commonly known as the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), this fundamental system firmware—computer code built into hardware—initializes the hardware when you…

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Research Helps Exploit Data from New Radar

Scientists in the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville will spend the next three years studying how forecast models can best…

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'Surrogates' aid design of complex parts and controlling video games

The new interactive approach is being used commercially and in research but until now has not been formally defined, and doing so could boost its development…

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Graz University Innovates Product Authentication with RFID Prototypes

The future of quality protection belongs to electronic components and so-called RFID tags. In the future, consumers will be able to test the authenticity of a…

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Growth of adolescents’ fingerprints can be predicted

Working in collaboration with the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), scientists at the University of Göttingen have developed a new procedure enabling the…

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Graphene Optical Modulators: A Leap Toward Ultrafast Communication

The team of researchers, led by UC Berkeley engineering professor Xiang Zhang, built a tiny optical device that uses graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of…

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