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Posted February 23, 1999:

• Engineers "RACE" To Build Faster Computers: New Approach Reaches Near Supercomputer Speed

Posted February 16, 1999:

• Program Developed At UF Enables Computer To "Emote" In Speech
• New Computer Keyboard Design Is Effective In Decreasing Hand Pain In Computer Users

Posted February 12, 1999:

• Carnegie Mellon University Researchers Develop Magnetic Levitation-Based Haptic Interface For Computers

Posted February 11, 1999:

• Looking For Land Mines -- Hopkins Engineers Use Advanced Math To Find Deadly Devices In Aerial Pictures
• New Technique Cuts Computer Circuit Energy Needs, Maintains Speed

Posted February 10, 1999:

• World's Smallest Web Server Fits In A Shirt Pocket

Posted February 2, 1999:

• Computers In Schools Are Putting Elementary Schoolchildren At Risk For Posture Problems, Says Cornell Study

Posted February 1, 1999:

• Robots That Think On Their Feet Now Possible

Posted January 27, 1999:

• Seminar To Explore Potential Of High-Performance Computing

Posted January 22, 1999:

• Y2K: Chip Failures May Thwart Industry Safety Controls

Posted January 19, 1999:

• M.I.N.D. Lab Uses Virtual Reality To Improve Human Intreraction With Computers

Posted January 18, 1999:

• Hubble Technology Benefits New Satellite Phone System

Posted January 14, 1999:

• Experimental Break-Ins Reveal Vulnerability In Internet, UNIX Computer Security

Posted January 12, 1999:

• How A Down-To-The-Wire Computer Fix At Cornell Enabled A Troubled Spacecraft To Take Images Of An Asteroid

Posted January 8, 1999:

• Poll Finds Americans Generally Not Worried About Possible "Year 2000" Computer Glitches

Posted December 30, 1998:

• UF To Spend $3 Million To Ready Every Classroom For The Millennium

Posted December 21, 1998:

• Moving Medical Images On The Internet Using Java

Posted December 18, 1998:

• UF's First Online Distance Learning Program Off To Strong Start

Posted December 16, 1998:

• New Memory For Computers -- University Of Utah Researchers Developing Nonvolatile RAM Technology

Posted December 14, 1998:

• Mathematician Studies Fourth Dimension

Posted December 8, 1998:

• Bell Labs Luminaries Dennis Ritchie And Ken Thompson To Receive National Medal Of Technology

Posted December 7, 1998:

• Improved Class Of Gallium Arsenide Transistors May Lead To Higher Performance Wireless, Computer Applications

Posted December 2, 1998:

• Surf’s Up: Computer Wavelet Tool Filters Information
• Software Program Developed At Georgia Tech Adds New Capabilities To Decipher Genomes Of Higher Organisms

Posted November 30, 1998:

• Searching For ET From Home UC Berkeley Launches Project To Draw Public Into The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Posted November 24, 1998:

• NSF Funds Advanced Internet Research Projects

Posted November 19, 1998:

• Lucent Technologies' Experimental 'No-Fiber Optical Data Link' Sets World Record For Free-Space Info Transmission

Posted November 12, 1998:

• Sandia, Compaq Smash World Record In Large Database Sorting

Posted November 11, 1998:

• Emory Neuroscientists Use Computer Chip To Help Speech-Impaired Patients Communicate

Posted November 10, 1998:

• Researchers Achieve One Teraflop Performance With Supercomputer Simulation Of Magnetism

Posted November 5, 1998:

• Software Helps Firms Map Mountains Of Information

Posted November 3, 1998:

• Technology Combats Engine Failures In Tanks

Posted October 31, 1998:

• Electronic Tongue That Mimics The Real Thing

Posted October 26, 1998:

• Operations Research Prize Spotlights Secrets Of Lucent's Success

Posted October 19, 1998:

• NASA Developing Computerized Breast Cancer Diagnostic Tool
• Penn Researchers Develop "Smart" Intensive Care Unit System Using Advanced Computer Intelligence
• Fastest Multi-Purpose Non-Commercial Supercomputer In World Unveiled At Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Lucent Technologies Announces Breakthrough In Undersea Fiber

Posted October 14, 1998:

• NASA 'Software Scalpel' Helps Doctors Practice Operations

Posted October 13, 1998:

• "World's Smallest Combination Lock" Promises To Foil The Best Computer Hacker, Say Sandia Developers

Posted October 7, 1998:

• Virtual Reality Becomes Reality For Plastic Surgeons

Posted October 6, 1998:

• New Software Protects Ownership Of Web Images
• Johns Hopkins University Launches Research Center To Expand Role Of Computers, Robots In Surgery

Posted October 2, 1998:

• Future Looks Bright For Tunnel Diodes, Promising Faster, More Efficient Circuits

Posted September 29, 1998:

• Automation Energizes Navy

Posted September 22, 1998:

• A Dollar Figure For Inconvenience

Posted September 19, 1998:

• University Of Florida To Be Testing Ground For New High-Speed Modem

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