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While many organizations have only begun down the cloud computing and virtualization roads in the past few years, some in the industry can't wait to take these technologies to the next level.
The University of Florida, Cornell University and a handful of other schools have been awarded $12.2 million to build a social/collaborative network for scientists and researchers. The idea is to make it easier to find research and like-minded researchers in an effort to speed new discoveries.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh have built an experimental energy-efficient computing cluster that combines flash memory and the sort of processors used in netbooks. Their name for it? Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes (FAWN).
Charles Kao, whose work in the 1960s laid the foundation for today¿s long-distance fiber-optic networks, has won a share of this year¿s Nobel Prize in Physics.
Researchers this week published a paper describing how they broke Vanish, a secure communications system prototype out of the University of Washington that generated lots of buzz when introduced over the summer for its ability to make data self-destruct.
Network World interviews Wim Sweldens, VP of Alcatel-Lucent Ventures, about finding common ground between carriers and the newfangled application and content providers who are bringing P2P and other services onto the market.
On-demand video game service OnLive puts Gigabit Ethernet, IP multicasting to use in powering its cloud computing offering. Demos service at EmTech@MIT event.
Winners of the Netflix Prize for boosting Netflix's movie recommendation engine barely had a chance to start spending their $1 million prize before controversy erupted over a second contest.
In light of Google¿s buyout this week of Carnegie Mellon University spinoff ReCAPTCHA, it seems like a good time to take a spin back through Google¿s more notable buyouts over the years. Wikipedia lists 55 of them, and given Google¿s sometimes mysterious ways, there are no doubt a few that didn¿t make the public list.
Bill Gates will share words of wisdom on Sept. 22 at the opening ceremony for a computer science center bearing his name at Carnegie Mellon University, the home of the nation¿s first such department in 1965.
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