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2001: The year of shrinking technology
News Barely a week went by without IBM, NEC or a host of university research labs announcing something new in carbon, yet more Alice in Wonderland stories from the far shores of quantum computing, or both.
[December 27, 2001, 6:31]
IBM leads charge on holistic computing
News Michael Franklin, an associate professor at the University of California at Berkeley, is performing research on adaptive data flow in databases. People "have memory failures all the time, but we continue to operate fairly well," joked John Hennessy...
[April 12, 2002, 11:24]
IBM probe detects an atom's charge
News Researchers at the Zurich lab, along with colleagues at the University of Regensburg and Utrecht University, used an atomic force microscope (AFM) with a tuning-fork detector arrangement on the tip of its probe.
[June 15, 2009, 17:07]
Report: Keep hands out of nanotech
News Written by Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee and editor of the InstaPundit.com Web log, the report represents a kind of pre-emptive strike against legal attempts to limit, prohibit or otherwise ban nanotechnology.
[November 25, 2002, 8:18]
BAE to develop secure mobile network for US military
News BAE Systems will lead a research team consisting of the California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Massachusetts, Stanford University, the University of Texas and Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs.
[May 2, 2008, 10:35]
Net Politics Focus: House of Reps. passes copyright legislation
News If passed in anything similar to its present form, [the Digital Millennium Copyright Act] has the potential to imperil computer systems and networks throughout the U.S.criminalise many current university courses and research in information...
[August 6, 1998, 16:50]
Mandelson: UK needs entrepreneurs
News The disparity between research and commercialisation in the UK has been noted by many researchers, and was one of the subjects of a 2005 study by Cranfield University and The University of Sussex. The study found university researchers engaged more...
[October 14, 2009, 16:38]
Could you be the next Q?
Blog For more information about business and enterprise at Glasgow University, log on to the Innovation Network Research & Enterprise at http://www.gla.ac.uk/businessandindustry BUDDING 'Qs' who think they could supply the armed forces of the future...
[November 13, 2008, 10:17]
Mac cluster rises in supercomputing ranks
News Dell has emerged as one of the leaders in selling clusters to research institutions such as Cornell University. The figures were posted in a report by Jack Dongarra, a University of Tennessee computer scientist who maintains the top 500 list.
[October 31, 2003, 13:10]
Scientists teach computer to speak
News Hutchens is a very clever guy," says Professor Yorick Wilks, head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield, who's own research has been entered into the Loebner prize in the past.
[April 12, 2001, 15:38]
US Report: Jini stuck in its bottle?
News Both JavaSpaces and TSpaces are based on the Linda project developed at Yale University in the mid-1980s. IBM also has joint studies going with the University of California at Berkeley, New York University and Yale University.
[August 4, 1998, 12:11]
Skype may assist botnet attacks
News The Communications Research Network is a group of industry experts, academics and policy makers funded by the Cambridge-MIT Institute, a joint venture between Cambridge University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[January 26, 2006, 9:30]
US study: no link between mobile phones and cancer
News Earlier this month, a team at a Spanish University announced that mobile phones have a greater effect on human brain cells than was previously thought. The scientists, based at Madrid's University Complutense, discovered that a cell's non-spherical...
[December 20, 2000, 14:38]
UK teen escapes jail for nuclear hacking
News A University of Exeter student who hacked into US Department of Energy computers responsible for US energy supplies and for the integrity and safety of US nuclear weapons has been sentenced to 200 hours community service at Southwark Crown Court.
[February 3, 2004, 9:40]
Retinal chipset gives sight to the blind
News The whole device is the result of research at John Hopkins and North Carolina State universities, the University of Southern California and Oak Ridge National Laboratories. One of the project instigators, Mark Humayun from the University of...
[September 18, 2002, 10:29]
Intel researches nanotubes for chip designs
News Intel worked with California Institute of Technology, Columbia University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Portland State University on the project. Mike Mayberry, director of components research at Intel's labs in Oregon, will...
[November 13, 2006, 10:59]
IBM stays top of the supercomputer league
News The Top 500 list is compiled by researchers from the University of Tennessee, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Mannheim. In a research project, IBM will build a system called Blue Gene/L with 65,000 processors at Lawrence...
[November 9, 2001, 12:07]
SHA-1: Your questions answered
News This year, two of the researchers responsible for finding that attack -- Xiaoyun Wang and Hongbo Yu of China's Shandong University -- teamed up with Yiqun Lisa Yin, an independent security consultant in the United States.
[March 3, 2005, 8:50]
Graphics technology shows shape of the universe
News Astronomical data, computer graphics and the emerging field of "conformal geometric algebra" are giving researchers a clearer picture of the shape of the universe, according to Anthony Lasenby, a professor at Cambridge University and the keynote...
[July 29, 2003, 10:28]
Start-up breeds better chips
News In academia, the University of Bristol created the Centre for Organised Matter Chemistry under Professor Steven Mann, who pioneered research in this area in the early 1990s. Scientific advisors include other academics, such as Stanford University's...
[August 5, 2004, 11:10]
