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Securing America's Power Grid
June 26, 2006 Iowa State researchers are developing a network of wireless sensors to monitor the country's electricity transmission system. While the sensors could pick up suspicious activity at power poles, ... > full story -
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Supercomputers To Transform Science
June 6, 2006 New insights into the structure of space and time, climate modeling, and the design of novel drugs, are but a few of the many research areas that will be transformed by the installation of three ... > full story -
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Nature Offers Guidance On Organising Dynamic Networks
May 27, 2006 Today, for many, computer networks are an indispensable infrastructure that interconnects people, places and organisations. But increasingly they are beginning to creak as their complexity grows. ... > full story -
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Computers Everywhere: Embedded Software Made Simpler Yet More Powerful
May 22, 2006 The current decade will probably be known as the dawn of pervasive computing, when PCs were dethroned by technology to embed computers in almost everything. The hardware already exists to add ... > full story -
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For A Bigger Computer Hard-Drive, Just Add Water
May 10, 2006 Imagine having computer memory so dense that a cubic centimeter contains 12.8 million gigabytes (GB) of information. Ferroelectric materials possess spontaneous and reversible electric dipole ... > full story -
12-Qubits Reached In Quantum Information Quest
May 8, 2006 In the drive to understand and harness quantum effects as they relate to information processing, scientists in Waterloo and Massachusetts have benchmarked quantum control methods on a 12-Qubit ... > full story -
Computer Grid Helps Fight Avian Flu
May 4, 2006 During April, computers in the UK have been working overtime in the fight against avian flu. As part of an international collaboration, computers at eleven UK universities and research labs have put ... > full story -
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Donate Your Unused Computing Power To Aid Medical Research
April 17, 2006 Just because you don't know much about biology or medicine won't stop you from helping to someday cure diseases like malaria, HIV, or cancer. In fact, all you need is a computer and an Internet ... > full story -
Sandia-Designed Supercomputer Ranked World's Most Efficient In Two Of Six Categories
March 31, 2006 A new series of measurements -- the next step in evolution of criteria to determine more accurately the efficiency of supercomputers -- has rated Sandia National Laboratories' Red Storm computer the ... > full story -
Networking Computers To Help Combat Disease
January 23, 2006 Subtropical diseases lay waste to millions of people each year. In the quest to find a cure scientists are using Grid computing, the major driving force for new approaches towards collaborative ... > full story
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