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IBM has developed an optical technology that could speed up data transmissions among servers, between chips within a system, or on the chips themselves. The company's SNIPER (silicon nanoscale integrated photonic and electronic transceiver) project uses CMOS integrated nanophotonic technology. This approach employs pulses of light, rather than copper connec tions, to move data at higher speeds. IBM's...
Even light-speed fiber-optic networks experience delays that can prove costly for time sensitive transactions. To determine how to mitigate latency, MIT researchers investigated how network delays affect performance. Their findings revealed that using an intermediate node can help shave time off the communications between two nodes. Financial firms in particular want to minimize latency, even if by...
Academic researchers have developed an approach that promises to make object-recognition systems efficient users of system memory and thus also of computational resources.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed software that lets PCs work in sleep mode, cutting their energy consumption by about 70 percent. This could be significant because computerrelated equipment accounts for an estimated 80 percent of modern offices' night and weekend electricity consumption.
Topics include a prototype system that turns a user's arm or hand into a keyboard or display screen, a device that could enable high-speed wireless communications in place of many of the wired transmissions currently used in homes and offices, a cyberextortion scheme that targets people who download pornography, and a visualization toolkit for discovering geographic trends that could help fight diseases.
Topics include the challenges libraries face trying to archive digital content, a prototype tool that keeps software bugs from causing system deadlocks, a technique that converts body movements into energy, and a GPS-based system that tracks Alzheimer's patients who wander off.
Topics include a new Bluetooth version that uses less energy, an innovative steganography approach, a proposed specification that promises to enable rich typography on the Web, and a social network for scientists.
Topics include a new technology for fast personal-area networks; an innovative antiphishing approach; a wireless system for powering and charging devices; and a wall that users could touch to control lights, appliances, and other items in a room.
Topics include a protocol improvement that promises to help optical, transport, and other backbone networks; a virus that targets an entire development environment; a camera made of fabric; and a toy aircraft that users can control with an iPhone or iPod.
Topics include research into ways to provide security for RFID technology, plans to combine TV and social networking, lightweight batteries made of paper, and cybercrime flourishing despite the global economic downturn.
Topics include efforts to accelerate computer bootups, a new data glove that records users' hand and finger motions to let them interact with various types of systems, a lithography technique for creating fast chips, and the world's smallest medical camera.
Topics include efforts to accelerate computer bootups, a new data glove that records users' hand and finger motions to let them interact with various types of systems, a lithography technique for creating fast chips, and the world's smallest medical camera.
Topics include a decrease in applications for the US's controversial H-1B visa; a new IBM technology for the real-time analysis of large, unstructured data streams; software that could help Internet researchers; and a professor using technology for the historical analysis of paintings.
Topics include a technique for debugging distributed systems, a new speech-search approach, mobile software to help humanitarian organizations deal with crises, and a football helmet with technology that provides heatstroke warnings.
Topics include a new programming language for visualization applications, an attachment that turns a mobile phone into a microscope, a technique that lets users receive high-bandwidth content over Wi-Fi connections, and the US's first green-IT college degree.
Topics include a new version of Adobe Flash that streams Internet content directly to TVs; a project that is researching ways to build computers that don't require bootups; an open source, write-once-run-anywhere approach for mobile applications; and injuries caused by the Nintendo Wii game console.
Topics include a university's plan to use heat generated by a supercomputer to warm some of its buildings, a chip that promises to yield high-speed networks, a breakthrough in flexible displays, and a high-tech litter box.
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