For the last three years, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has made a series of competitive grants to over 100 U.S. universities to aggressively upgrade their campus network capacity for greatly enhanced science data ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 5, 2015
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Lack of quality demographic data is a major obstacle to infrastructure planning in the developing world. In a recent study, a team of researchers from the Santa Fe Institute in the U.S., the University of Manchester in the ...
Energy & Green Tech
May 7, 2015
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For Paul Torrens, wintry weather is less about sledding and more about testing out models of human behavior.
Computer Sciences
Feb 6, 2015
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Future technology will be more intelligent and more living than most people can imagine today. We need clear guidelines on how to implement and use technology, or else citizens will lose their rights to their identity and ...
Other
Dec 10, 2014
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Perhaps no other consumer-driven technology has made such incredible advances in such a relatively short space of time as the mobile phone. Today's smartphones are used to stream videos, access social media and perform all ...
Telecom
Sep 12, 2014
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Computers serve as powerful tools for categorizing, displaying and searching data. They're tools we continually upgrade to improve processing power, both locally and via the cloud. But computers are simply the medium for ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 3, 2013
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Computer networking researchers at Rice University have a new idea for how to handle the mountains of data piling up in the labs of their fellow scientists around campus: Create a customized, energy-efficient optical network ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 20, 2013
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Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is on the rise sharply, sparking alarm over the future of the world's biggest rainforest.
Environment
Aug 21, 2013
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Providing a "second screen" experience for audiences at movie theaters, stadiums and other public venues need not require a special wireless infrastructure. Instead, a system developed by Disney Research, Zürich, uses the ...
Business
Jul 19, 2013
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Australian internet traffic will increase by more than five times to hit one exabyte (one billion gigabytes) of data a month by 2016, a University of Adelaide mathematician and internet researcher has predicted.
Telecom
Jun 21, 2013
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