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Boston University Engineers Trying to Improve UAVs

Boston University engineers are implementing a theoretical approach to optimize automated mission control, which describes mid-level control approaches that go...

Speedier Bug Catching
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Speedier Bug Catching

Engineers have developed new transistors that can locate hardware bugs in a fraction of the time it takes to perform normal debugging. 

Babbage Nanomachine Promises Low-Energy Computing
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Babbage Nanomachine Promises Low-Energy Computing

Boston University researchers have created a nanoscale mechanical logic gate that could form the basis of tiny mechanical computers, descendants of Babbage's mechanical...

Hp Demos Rollup Flexible Displays
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Hp Demos Rollup Flexible Displays

Hewlett-Packard (HP) researchers have developed display screens that are printed on flexible plastic sheets of mylar material that could be easily rolled during...

Paintable Electronics? Nist Studies Spray-On Manufacturing of Transistors
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Paintable Electronics? Nist Studies Spray-On Manufacturing of Transistors

A multidisciplinary research team at NIST has found that an organic semiconductor may be a viable candidate for creating large-area electronics, such as solar cells...

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Copying Plant Anatomy Promises New Photovoltaics

University of Massachusetts Amherst chemists have identified a new polymer-based method inspired by plant anatomy and photosynthesis for creating photovoltaic devices...

Nist Racetrack Ion Trap Is a Contender in Quantum Computing Quest
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Nist Racetrack Ion Trap Is a Contender in Quantum Computing Quest

Physicists at NIST have built and tested a device for trapping ions that potentially could process dozens at once with the most versatile control of any trap demonstrated...

Energy Dashboard Helps ­csd Campus Curb Appetite For Power
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Energy Dashboard Helps ­csd Campus Curb Appetite For Power

After an extensive period of testing, researchers this week have launched an Internet portal to showcase the real-time measurement and visualization of energy use...

A Tiny Defect That May Create Smaller, Faster Electronics
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A Tiny Defect That May Create Smaller, Faster Electronics

Researchers at the University of South Florida have developed a technique to turn defects in graphene into tiny metallic wires.

Scientists Achieve New World Record in Energy-Efficient Data Processing
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Scientists Achieve New World Record in Energy-Efficient Data Processing

Computer scientists from Frankfurt's Goethe University and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have set a new world record in energy-efficient data processing...

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Multicore Requires Os Rework, Windows Architect Advises

The basic architecture of modern operating systems may need to be rethought in order to accommodate multicore processors, according to a recent presentation at...

Spies Among Us?
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Spies Among Us?

Governments' practice of electronic surveillance—and the growing use of warrantless wiretapping—has observers deeply concerned.

Data Streaming 2.0
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Data Streaming 2.0

In today's real-time Web, data streaming applications no longer have the luxury of making multiple passes over a recorded data set.

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Maryland and Arkansas Teams Win ORNL Global Venture Challenge

Graduate students from the University of Arkansas and the University of Maryland received first place at the 2010 Global Venture Challenge that was hosted at Oak...

Improved Nanogenerators Enable Self-Powered Nanosensors
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Improved Nanogenerators Enable Self-Powered Nanosensors

By combining a new generation of piezoelectric nanogenerators with two types of nanowire sensors, researchers have created what they believe are the first self-powered...

­pc Students Try to Send a Spherical Robot to the Moon
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­pc Students Try to Send a Spherical Robot to the Moon

Students at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya's Castelldefels School of Technology are working with Team FREDNET to place a small robot named PicoRover on...

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Dell Says India May Become New Technology Manufacturing Hub

Dell Inc. Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell said in a conversation with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that the south Asian nation is poised to become...

Swarms of Helicopter Robots Could Create Huge 3-D Displays
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Swarms of Helicopter Robots Could Create Huge 3-D Displays

The Flyfire project at MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory is creating tiny LED-equipped helicopters that will move in concert to create dramatic, free-form displays...

Fast, Strong Deltabot Moves Forward in the Robotics Market
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Fast, Strong Deltabot Moves Forward in the Robotics Market

A research team at the University of Waterloo has built DeltaBot, a robot that uses cables for arms instead of rigid components and has a cylinder in the middle...

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Researchers Give ­pdate on Road to Parallelism

University of Illinois researchers have taken several small steps toward developing new parallel programming models to tap the many-core processors of the future...
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