Scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will next month detail what technology they need to build a cluster of 4 wirelessly-interconnected satellites for a 6-month demonstration mission to launch in early to in mid-2015.
NASA today said it would host an open source-based application competition that it hopes will deliver a new generation of software that can address space, weather and economic issues.NASA said it will coordinate with other interested space agencies around the world on an International...
Open source software and algorithms will play a key role in the next stage of development for the military's advanced virtual satellite system that promises to replace monolithic spacecraft with clust
Some math problems are as old as the wind, experts say and many remain truly unsolved. But a new open source-based site from the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) looks to help track work done and solve long-standing and difficult math problems.
A university-developed online service will let blind and visually impaired people surf the Web without having to download complex or buy costly client software.
IBM user group executives from Share were out this week drumming up interest for their upcoming meeting in Orlando, Fla., but also playing up some of the more important aspects of the group's recently released study of its members' mainframe trends and directions.
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A new open source mathematics program is looking to push aside commercial software commonly used in mathematics education, in large government laboratories and in math-intensive research. The program’s backers say the software, called Sage, can do anything from mapping a 12-dimensional object to calculating...
A study released today shows just how open source projects have come to dominate the Federal network world. The Federal study found that 55% of all respondents were involved in an open source project with the Department of Defense having the largest community with 64% of respondents involved in a...
The National Association of State CIOs today took a wide ranging measure of state data center consolidation activities and found many are now including server virtualization and open source as common uniting technologies
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