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Enhancing Maritime Connectivity: Fast, Secure Communication at Sea

Ensuring fast and secure communication links to any sort of ship at sea, has always been a challenging task. Up until now, accessing broadband satellite…

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Grid Computing: A New Ally in the Fight Against Bird Flu

Called Enabling Grids for E-sciencE, the computing grid connects ordinary PCs to form a super-sized supercomputer that is being used during this challenge to…

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Nanotube Forests on Silicon Chips: Future of Computing

The carpetlike growth of nanotubes has been shown to outperform conventional “thermal interface materials.” Like those materials, the nanotube layer does not…

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Carnegie Mellon Uses Phishing Tactics to Combat Phishing Attacks

Early findings by Carnegie Mellon University researchers suggest that people who are suckered by a spoof email into visiting a counterfeit Web site are also…

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Software 'Chipper' Speeds Debugging

Computer programs consist of thousands, tens or even hundreds of thousands of lines of code. To isolate a bug in the code, programmers often break it into…

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New E-Learning Portal Enhances Higher Education Assessments

The FREMA (e-Framework Reference Model for Assessment) project, part of the Joint Information Systems Committee’s (JISC) e-Learning Framework, is a big…

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University of Surrey to use Cambridge Cell Networks' ToxWiz software to assist their research on Safety Assessment

Under the agreement, toxicologists at Surrey will be using CCnet's unique ToxWiz software to assist their cutting edge research on drug and chemical safety….

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Fast Technology Detects Warped Fingerprints with Precision

Previous techniques have tried to identify a few key features on a finger print and laboriously match them against a database of templates. The University of…

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Yale Scientists Advance Quantum Computing with Major Breakthroughs

The accomplishments are reported in sequential issues of Nature on September 20 and September 27, on which it is highlighted as the cover along with…

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VoIP Technology Connects Students with Families Effortlessly

The University has installed new facilities which will provide students with cheap telephone calls to families and friends – and in some cases for free – using…

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BEinGRID Unveils Project Results and Launches New Funding Call

Today, the first project results and innovative Grid solutions were promoted at the European Services, Software and Grid Technology Days (ESSGTD) event…

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3D Printing Advances: Sharing Designs at Lightning Speed

Such technology already exists and is maturing rapidly so that high-tech designers and others can share solid designs almost as quickly as sending a fax. The…

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Imperial College Boosts UK National Grid With Computing Power

Dr David Colling, e-Science Team Leader of the High Energy Physics Group at Imperial College London said “Imperial has been active in the UK Grid community…

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GPS Technology Optimizes Player Injury Response Methods

And those challenges have been the focus over the past eight years for Glenn Rechtine, M.D., professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Rochester Medical…

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Enhancing Wireless Telemedicine: New Research Insights

A team of researchers led by Fei Hu, assistant professor of computer engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology, is working to advance the integration of…

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Penn Engineers Create Nanoscale Memory for Faster Data Retrieval

Ritesh Agarwal, an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and colleagues developed a self-assembling nanowire of germanium…

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