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Posted January 28, 1999:

• Seminar To Explore Potential Of High-Performance Computing
• Researchers Building Lightweight "Bridge For The 21st Century"

Posted January 25, 1999:

• Smart Cards For Pregnant Women

Posted January 22, 1999:

• Finding The Learning Curve When Using A Surgical Force Feedback Simulator
• Y2K: Chip Failures May Thwart Industry Safety Controls

Posted January 20, 1999:

• Helping Students Break Barriers In Science, Engineering -- Computational Biology Program Will Encourage Research Training Across Disciplines

Posted January 19, 1999:

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

Posted January 18, 1999:

• Northwestern University Receives Patent For World's Smallest Laser
• Hubble Technology Benefits New Satellite Phone System
• Growing Up On Their Own: Smart Plastics Organize Themselves Into Useful Optical Devices

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 11, 1999:

• PNL Winter Technotes -- Delivering A Dose Of Hope ... Technology Provides "Smart" Tracking ... Unfolding The Mysteries Of Blood Proteins ... Bringing Back The Wolf

Posted January 8, 1999:

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

Posted January 7, 1999:

• Digital Michelangelo Project: Creating Virtual Sculpture

Posted January 6, 1999:

• University Of Iowa's Louis Frank Uses Mathematical Data Analysis To Show Small Comets Are Real

Posted January 4, 1999:

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

Posted December 22, 1998:

• Silicon Research Promises Better, Stronger Computer Chips

Posted December 21, 1998:

• Moving Medical Images On The Internet Using Java
• UF's First Online Distance Learning Program Off To Strong Start

Posted December 18, 1998:

• First Demonstration Of Laser Action In A Powder

Posted December 17, 1998:

• Sandia Research May Bring Smaller, Longer-Life Lithium Batteries Into Our Lives

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 11, 1998:

• Seismic Math Finds Early Signs Of Heart Tremors

Posted December 9, 1998:

• NASA To Have Access To Radiation-Hardened Pentium Chip
• New Processing Method Creates Multiple Gate Oxide Thicknesses On System-On-A-Chip, Improves Efficiency And Reliability

Posted December 8, 1998:

• Improved Class Of Gallium Arsenide Transistors May Lead To Higher Performance Wireless, Computer Applications
• New Theory Explains Why Critical Component In Transistors Wears Down, May Lead To More Reliable Electronic Devices
• Bell Labs Scientists Federico Capasso And Rudolf Kazarinov To Receive Rank Prize In Optoelectronics At Ceremony In London
• Bell Labs Luminaries Dennis Ritchie And Ken Thompson To Receive National Medal Of Technology

Posted December 7, 1998:

• TVs, Computer Monitors Contain High Lead Levels, Study Finds

Posted December 4, 1998:

• How "Micro" Can We Go?

Posted December 3, 1998:

• Surf’s Up: Computer Wavelet Tool Filters Information

Posted December 2, 1998:

• MIT Team Develops New Way To Create Microscopic Patterns On Surfaces
• Software Program Developed At Georgia Tech Adds New Capabilities To Decipher Genomes Of Higher Organisms

Posted December 1, 1998:

• Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs Scientists Demonstrate High-Power, Multi-Channel Semiconductor Laser

Posted November 30, 1998:

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

Posted November 25, 1998:

• Novel Imaging Technique Provides First Detailed Look At Superconductor's Critical Current, Bell Labs Scientists Report

Posted November 24, 1998:

• NSF Funds Advanced Internet Research Projects

Posted November 20, 1998:

• SFU Computer Model To Help Cut Greenhouse Gas

Posted November 19, 1998:

• Miniaturized Transmitter To Be Used In Efforts To Save Babies
• Lucent Technologies' Experimental 'No-Fiber Optical Data Link' Sets World Record For Free-Space Info Transmission

Posted November 13, 1998:

• Astrophysicists Use Virtual Reality To Chase Earth's Tail

Posted November 12, 1998:

• Sandia, Compaq Smash World Record In Large Database Sorting
• When The Heat's On, Material Shrinks Instead Of Expanding; Lucent And Johns Hopkins Scientists Explain Mystery In Nov. 12 Nature

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

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