
Harnessing Waste Heat from Laptop Computers, Cell Phones May Double Battery Time
New research points the way
to a technology that might
make it possible to harvest
much of the wasted heat
produced by everything from
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Cat Brain-Based Computer: Scientists Perform Cat-Scale Cortical Simulations and Map the Human Brain
IBM has announced
significant progress toward
creating a computer system
that simulates and emulates
the brain's abilities for
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Glimpsing a Greener Future: Computer Model Foresees Effects of Alternative Transportation Fuels
It's the year 2060, and 75
percent of drivers in the
Greater Los Angeles area
have hydrogen fuel cell
vehicles that emit only
... > full story

Scientists Put Interactive Flu Tracking at Public's Fingertips
New methods of studying
avian influenza strains and
visually mapping their
movement around the world
will help scientists more
... > full story
- Harnessing Waste Heat from Laptop Computers, Cell Phones May Double Battery Time
- Cat Brain-Based Computer: Scientists Perform Cat-Scale Cortical Simulations and Map the Human Brain
- Glimpsing a Greener Future: Computer Model Foresees Effects of Alternative Transportation Fuels
- Scientists Put Interactive Flu Tracking at Public's Fingertips
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Building the Smart Home Wirelessly
November 19, 2009 Like the paperless office, the smart home has been a long time coming, but a new article suggests that radio tags coupled with mobile communications devices could soon provide seamless multimedia ... > full story -
'Fingerprinting' RFID Tags: Researchers Develop Anti-Counterfeiting Technology
November 19, 2009 Engineering researchers have developed a unique and robust method to prevent cloning of passive radio frequency identification tags. The technology, based on one or more unique physical attributes of ... > full story -
P2P Comes to the Aid of Audiovisual Search
November 19, 2009 Current methods of searching audiovisual content can be a hit-and-miss affair. Manually tagging online media content is time consuming, and costly. But new ‘query by example’ methods, ... > full story -
Search Engines Are Source of Learning
November 19, 2009 Search engine use is not just part of our daily routines; it is also becoming part of our learning process, according to ... > full story -
Software Knowledge Unnecessarily Lost
November 18, 2009 All too often the knowledge acquired by software architects is unnecessarily lost. Moreover, it is difficult to simply and quickly assess the quality of software. According to researchers these ... > full story -
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Oak Ridge 'Jaguar' Supercomputer Is World's Fastest
November 17, 2009 An upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the Department of Energy has made the "Jaguar" supercomputer the world's fastest. Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ... > full story -
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Disease-Matching Software Could Save Children
November 17, 2009 Software tools are being developed that can search and compare patient data at hospitals across Europe to find children with closely matched conditions. The doctors can then study how the matched ... > full story -
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Tennessee's Kraken Named World's Third Fastest Computer, ORNL's Jaguar Is No. 1
November 17, 2009 East Tennessee is now home to two of the world's three fastest computers, according to new rankings. The Top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers places University of Tennessee ... > full story -
'Universal' Programmable Two-Qubit Quantum Processor Created
November 16, 2009 Physicists have demonstrated the first "universal" programmable quantum information processor able to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics -- the rules governing the submicroscopic world -- ... > full story -
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Facial Biometrics System Capable of Creating a Facial 'DNA'
November 16, 2009 Research into techniques of facial biometrics, carried out by scientists in Spain, has resulted in a system that is able to recognize the facial "DNA" of every individual by determining his/her most ... > full story
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