News tagged with lab computers

Obama stepped up cyberattacks on Iran: report

US President Barack Obama accelerated cyberattacks on Iran's nuclear program and expanded the assault even after the Stuxnet virus accidentally escaped in 2010, the New York Times reported Friday.

Technology / Internet

created 6 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Computer scientists develop an interactive field guide app for birders

A team of researchers led by computer scientist Serge Belongie at the University of California, San Diego, has good news for birders: they have developed an iPad app that will identify most North American birds, with a little ...

Technology / Software

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers seek ways to beef up military armor

It was a simple act, really, one that Ledjan Qato performed dozens of times in the corner of a spacious engineering lab at Villanova University.

Technology / Engineering

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

Dennis Ritchie, computer-programming pioneer, dies

(AP) -- Dennis Ritchie, a pioneer in computer programming, has died at age 70, according to his longtime employer.

Technology / Software

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Workshop offers geeks industrial-strength toys

(AP) -- In the tech-obsessed South of Market neighborhood that digital sensations like Twitter and Zynga call home, a newfangled workshop for would-be inventors blends a startup sensibility with the area's ...

Technology / Other

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Manure could fuel data centers, HP scientists say

Giving new meaning to the term "server farm," a team of Hewlett-Packard researchers has come up with a plan for combining cow chips and computer chips to build an environmentally friendly data center -- powered ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 19, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Researchers say Twitter algorithm can predict movie profits

Want to know how "Clash of the Titans" will fare at the box office this weekend? Check Twitter.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Weather in a Tank

In recent years, U.S. undergraduates have shown an increasing interest in introductory meteorology, oceanography and climate classes. But many students find it difficult to grasp the non-intuitive nature of ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 17, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Seeing a fabulous vision of the future

It was a harmonic convergence of scheduling that found me spending six solid hours with some of Silicon Valley's brightest minds. Without giving it much thought, I committed recently to a morning of meetings at Hewlett-Packard's ...

Technology / Business

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Project Whirlwind comes home

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Project Whirlwind Computer collection -- a compilation of pioneering digital computing research conducted at MIT in the 1940s and 1950s -- has been transferred back to the Institute from ...

Technology / Other

created May 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Google refines searches for pictures and news

Google on Monday unveiled software tools that let people search the Internet using pictures or chronologically organize results of queries for news.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0