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IBM dominates supercomputing list
News Missing during this go-around is Apple Computer's System X at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, which soared to the No.position in November then vanished for an upgrade to newer hardware.
[June 22, 2004, 11:35]
UK's network of cables to get mapped
News The project, called Vista, is being led by the University of Leeds in collaboration with the University of Nottingham and 19 companies and organisations from the utilities, transport and engineering sectors.
[March 22, 2006, 14:40]
Groxis plugs Google hole
News It has sold the software to the University of Nevada, Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among others. Google keeps growing and growing and this is a way to manage that for aggressive searchers," said Gary Stein, an...
[December 18, 2003, 15:00]
Sight to the blind via silicon?
News Later in the week, University of Tokyo scientists will show their progress in making "a flexible, large area pressure sensor suitable for artificial skin applications. On Tuesday, researchers from the University of Southern California and the...
[February 13, 2004, 14:40]
US urged to take supercomputing beyond clusters
News In the past, supercomputer customers were limited by money rather than technology, but the pipeline of new ideas needs to be refilled, said Susan Graham, co-chair of the study and a computer professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
[November 15, 2004, 7:45]
SAP software aims to combat employee fraud
News CRM giant SAP is working with the Queensland University of Technology in Australia on software to hunt down fraudulent employee behaviour. The university said that the main source of current fraud detection is retrospective financial auditing...
[November 7, 2007, 8:44]
Experts: Copyright law hurts technology
News Speaking Friday at a University of California at Berkeley conference on the law and policy of digital rights management, experts from all circles seem to agree that more is going wrong than right with the current approach to protecting digital...
[March 3, 2003, 8:20]
Techs team on cure for software woes
News Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco Systems, NASA and others have teamed up with Carnegie Mellon University to make software more reliable, secure and less buggy. The university, located in Pittsburgh, houses the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT...
[May 17, 2002, 8:11]
Japanese researchers harness parallel chips
News Hironori Kasahara, professor at Waseda University's department of computer science and lead designer for the project, told ZDNet Asia in an email interview that the project has been approved, by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development...
[September 30, 2009, 15:22]
IBM: Research is the key
News Companies that have a day-to-day involvement have a higher probability of landing students," said Jim Plummer, dean of the School of Engineering at Stanford University, adding that recruitment is one of the big benefits for IBM in these programmes.
[June 17, 2004, 16:20]
MoD on hunt for 'budding Qs'
News The Support for Operations event — to be held on 19 November at the University of Glasgow's Kelvin Gallery — already has 100 organisations signed up. The event will be jointly hosted by the university and the Ministry of Defence's Centre for...
[November 17, 2008, 7:24]
OpenBSD releases version 3.3
News DARPA suddenly and unexpectedly cancelled funding for OpenBSD R&D through the University of Pennsylvania's POSSE programme and the hotel for the upcoming hackathon," it said. As a result of the DARPA review of the project, and due to world events...
[May 1, 2003, 11:25]
Nanotube breakthrough paves path for carbon chips
News Researchers at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley have come up with a way to grow carbon nanotubes on silicon wafers and a method of testing them -- two significant steps that could help pave the way for carbon chips.
[January 8, 2004, 7:50]
Internet2 gets boost from Qwest
News You're not looking at some grainy image on a computer screen," said Professor Brian Shepard, the coordinator of the music technology program at the University of Oklahoma School of Music. As of last summer, those numbers ballooned to 73 corporate...
[October 5, 2001, 10:20]
Enabling machines to reason like humans
News Principal figures at the Dartmouth conference included such notables as Marvin Minsky, then of Harvard University; Claude Shannon of Bell Laboratories; Nathaniel Rochester of IBM; and Dartmouth's own John McCarthy.
[July 5, 2006, 16:00]
Spammers target IM accounts
News IM spam seems to be in its beginnings," said Jason Catlett, president of Junkbusters, an anti-spam organisation, and a visiting fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Petersburg State University graduate and two friends...
[March 12, 2002, 12:37]
Universities leading search research
News The University of California at Berkeley is creating an interdisciplinary centre for advanced search technologies and is in talks with search giants including Google to join the project, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned.
[August 16, 2005, 11:40]
'Opto-chip' could revolutionise telecommunications
News Researchers at the University of Southern California and the University of Washington claim to have created new technology which has the potential to revolutionise the way data is transferred around the world.
[April 7, 2000, 11:37]
Hull to host first .Net masters degree
News In September 2003 a group of 40 students at the University of Hull will become the first in the UK to study .Net at masters degree level. Dr David Grey, a lecturer at Hull University, said the one-year course is aimed at two groups.
[December 11, 2002, 17:27]
Lab on a chip promises to speed experiments
News Microchip technology can now enable chemists to perform over 1,000 experiments at once, according to researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles. A team of scientists from the university and other organisations have developed a...
[August 6, 2009, 16:07]
