News tagged with computing project

SDSC's Trestles supercomputer speeds clean energy research

A team of Harvard University researchers has been allocated time on the Trestles supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego to perform computational calculations ...

Technology / Other

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Apple plans nation's biggest private fuel cell energy project in NC

North Carolina will be home to the nation's largest private fuel cell energy project, a nonpolluting, silent power plant that will generate electricity from hydrogen.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 08, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (21) | comments 55

New Stanford software takes Folding@home's biological research to supercomputers

Vijay Pande's chemistry and structural biology group at Stanford has become known for Folding@home, a distributed computing project that borrows computing time from home computers to simulate how proteins take ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New system will detect insider threats from massive data sets

When a soldier in good mental health becomes homicidal or a government employee abuses access privileges to share classified information, we often wonder why no one saw it coming. When looking through the ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Wearable depth-sensing projection system makes any surface capable of multitouch interaction (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- OmniTouch, a wearable projection system developed by researchers at Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University, enables users to turn pads of paper, walls or even their own hands, arms ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Philly papers offer Android tablets with paid apps

The city's two major newspapers announced Monday that they will give free Android tablet computers to paid digital subscribers as part of a new venture designed to shore up readership and revenue nearly a ...

Technology / Internet

created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Kindle so-so for students, UW study concludes

Researchers at the University of Washington are about to present a report on a pilot project that had computer science students use a Kindle DX for their course reading.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 09, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

New computing capabilities brought to UW-Madison researchers

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have a significant new computing resource.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

IBM and EU partner to enable digitization of historic European texts on massive scale

IBM and the EU have expanded their research collaboration, which now includes more than two-dozen national libraries, research institutes, universities, and companies across Europe to provide new technology that will enable ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 25, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Multi-Layered Display with Water Drops (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- AquaLux 3D, a new projection technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, can target light onto and between individual water droplets, enabling text, video and ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 06, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (12) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Microsoft sidelines 'Courier' tablet project

Microsoft has sidelined a "Courier" project said to be focused on building a twin-screen tablet computer that could be used for entertainment and work.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 30, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

PCs around the world unite to map the Milky Way

(PhysOrg.com) -- At this very moment, tens of thousands of home computers around the world are quietly working together to solve the largest and most basic mysteries of our galaxy.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 10, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (34) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

New funding will stimulate alternative energy research

Initiatives to provide geothermal heating or power at the Pueblo of Jemez and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology campus are receiving Los Alamos National Laboratory assistance, thanks to recent American Reinvestment ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google to launch platform for selling books online

(AP) -- Google Inc. is launching a new online service that will let readers buy electronic versions of books and read them on such gadgets as cell phones, laptops and possibly e-book devices.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

DOE to explore scientific cloud computing at Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories

Cloud computing is gaining traction in the commercial world, but can such an approach also meet the computing and data storage demands of the nation's scientific community? A new program funded by the American Recovery and ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0