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and statistics but who are trained also sufficiently in software and computing.""Here, we have universities that supply us with millions of such candidates,
and computing power that many computers share across a single network. So, instead of each computer being stuck with ageing components,
says John Partridge, a computing teacher in Nottinghamshire, U k. specially for the younger children.""The U s. has managed to cultivate a tech mecca in Silicon valley in spite of its public-school system.
But the popularity of computing at U s. high schools has been on the slide in recent years.
which, following a review of computing in its schools around the turn of the century, developed one of the world most rigorous computer-science curricula for high schoolers.
whether the changes to the curriculum will enhance the attractiveness of a career in computing to children,
and Brocade to add computing capabilities in its Software Defined Networking Innovation Lab. The lab works on projects that enable data center operators to control operations more efficiently between the physical and virtual networks.
additional support came from the University of Chicago Research Computing Center. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funded the study.
A group in Georgia Tech s College of Computing created the Glassware when one of its own said he was having trouble hearing
and facial gesturessays Jim Foley computing professor in the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing. f hard-of-hearing people understand the speech the conversation can continue immediately without waiting for the caption.
I need and get back into the conversation. oley s colleague Professor Thad Starner leads the Contextual Computing Group working on the project.
The ability to compress quantum information just as we do with digital data could open up huge potential for more powerful computing.
The team will present its research at the Association for Computing Machinery s International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous computing this month in Seattle.
The Intel Science and Technology Center for Pervasive Computing at the University of Washington and the Sloan Foundation supported the work.
what Wi-fi typically requires. he researchers will publish their results at the Association for Computing Machinery s Special interest Group on Data communication s annual conference this month in Chicago.
With a more powerful backend computing facility production time can be shortened to mere minutes according to the researchers.
#Vibrating glove could teach you Braille A new wireless computing glove can help people learn to read
Researchers are developing computers that could perform calculations good enough for certain tasks that don t require perfect accuracy. he need for approximate computing is driven by two factors:
a fundamental shift in the nature of computing workloads and the need for new sources of efficiencysays Anand Raghunathan a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University. omputers were designed first to be precise calculators that solved
However the demand for computing today is driven by very different applications. obile and embedded devices need to process richer media
Approximate computing could endow computers with a capability similar to the human brain s ability to scale the degree of accuracy needed for a given task.
They often compute to the same level of accuracy all the time. urdue researchers have developed a range of hardware techniques to demonstrate approximate computing showing a potential for improvements in energy efficiency.
Recently the researchers have shown how to apply approximate computing to programmable processors which are ubiquitous in computers servers
and computer engineering at Purdue. nd now we have shown how to design a programmable processor to perform approximate computing. he researchers achieved this milestone by altering the nstruction setwhich is the interface between software
and perform energy-efficient computing and what we have seen is that we can easily double energy efficiency. n other recent work led by former doctoral student Vinay K. Chippa the Purdue team fabricated an approximate cceleratorfor recognition
#New transistors offer high output at low voltage A new type of transistor could pave the way for fast computing devices that would use very low energy including smart sensor networks and implanted medical devices.
While graphene NEMS will not be used to replace conventional radio transmitters they have many applications in wireless signal processing. ue to the continuous shrinking of electrical circuits known as Moore s Law today s cell phones have more computing
and the projectâ#lead researcher. aking this information available to anyone with a smartphone or computer especially when a tsunami or other type of disaster occurs could help save lives. elodia will present his paper at the Association for Computing Machineryâ
and director of SONIC a consortium of next-generation chip design research. he Wong/Mitra paper demonstrates the promise of CNTS in designing complex computing systemsshanbhag says adding that this will motivate researchers elsewhere toward greater efforts in chip design
Data analysis at Brown took place using the computing resources of the Center for Computation and Visualization.
The dynamo was developed through simulations using the high-performance computing facilities located at the University of Leeds.#The fact that it took 50 years
#Pi-powered Kinograph makes preserving film heritage affordable As the Raspberry Pi Foundation (RPF) has worked to make computing more accessible,
connected devices and our social media profiles##combined with powerful computing and analytics can create detailed histories of our lives, our habits and our actions.##
IBM believes that these breakthroughs in computing will amplify our human abilities. The company came up with the predictions by querying its 220,000 technical people in a bottoms-up fashion
Anticipatory computing and the end of interfaces Objects on our bodies (health monitors, smart glasses) and in our homes and businesses (smart thermostats, lights, appliances and security systems) can all be programmed to interact in complicated and unexpected ways
These pro-active actions are all part of what some call##anticipatory computing.####Invisible buttons and other contextual information about you will allow the internet to do more than facilitate your needs.
So what s required for more companies to tap into anticipatory computing? There are companies that specialize in reality mining,
#a senior researcher in mobile computing at Microsoft Research,#told the#MIT Technology Review. Via Singularity Hub Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati swfobject. embedswf (http://www. youtube. com/v/snzwgazqo2c&
#Why the Internet of things just became very interesting The Internet of things (Iot) computing phase is the next industrial revolution, according to experts.
#Advances in emotional computing will give businesses an unfair advantage Pepper will understand human emotions.
Mary Czerwinski is a cognitive psychologist at Microsoft Research doing pioneering work in Affect Computing.
and resources to build some of the bleeding edge mobile computing hardware available today on the cheap.
By pre-computing the shape of the field where the inputs are to be used, and by understanding the relative productivity of different areas of the field,
The team says it should be possible to scale up the computing power in the cockroach to that of an 8-bit computer, equivalent to a Commodore 64 or Atari 800 from the 1980s.
The Zumwalt also boasts what Raytheon calls a Total Ship Computing Environment, which allows it to be controlled from any of a couple dozen consoles around the ship.
The chip is composed of computing cores that each contain 256 input lines or"axons"(the cablelike part of a nerve cell that transmits electrical signals) and 256 output lines, or"neurons."
Beyond the initial accident, the new polymers were developed through a combination of chemistry and high-performance computing,
#World's fastest supercomputers could take science to the next level With computing technology continually getting smaller,
and for computing it might be interesting to do highly parallelized computing. It might be slow
and Affectiva cofounder Rosalind Picard an MIT professor who pioneered the field of affective computing where machines can recognize interpret process
Last month Witricity signed a licensing agreement with Intel to integrate Witricity technology into computing devices powered by Intel.
They also hope to speed up the computing process, which currently takes a few minutes to analyze one second of imaging data.
which are only one atom thick onto arbitrary substrates paving the way for flexible computing or photonic devices.
's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) he conducted large molecular dynamics simulations of the gold-water interface
because its two-dimensional structure and unique chemical properties made it a promising candidate for new applications such as energy storage material composites as well as computing
As the main enabling technology of the semiconductor industry CMOS fabrication of silicon chips approaches fundamental limits, the TUM researchers and collaborators at the University of Notre dame are exploring"magnetic computing"as an alternative.
"The 3d majority gate demonstrates that magnetic computing can be exploited in all three dimensions, in order to realize monolithic, sequentially stacked magnetic circuits promising better scalability and improved packing density.""
which can consume a great deal of energy particularly in computing applications. Researchers are therefore searching for ways to harness other properties of electrons such as the'spin'of an electron as data carriers in the hope that this will lead to devices that consume less power.
Other potential military applications include electronics for remote sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles and high-capacity computing in remote operations.
and electricity better than any other known materialas potential industrial uses that include flexible electronic displays, high-speed computing, stronger wind turbine blades,
This result could be the basis for next-generation flexible and transparent computing, better light-emitting diodes,
"An entirely new method of computing will be necessary.""Wolkow and his team in the U of A's physics department and the National Institute for Nanotechnology are working to engineer atomically precise technologies that have practical, real-world applications.
Patrick Meier director of social innovation at the Qatar Computing Research Institute applies artificial intelligence to this crowdsourced data organizing digital photos and messages into dynamic maps that can guide real-world
what's especially useful here is knowing that this kind of computing can be miniaturized to something as small and light as Google glass.
#the big data revolution and energy-efficient computing;##satellites and commercial applications of space;##robotics and autonomous systems;#
Bacher#s approach also takes worldwide emerging technology trends in hands-free computing robotics and other areas and finds ways to translate them into helping disabled individuals.
and now a VP of Product and Businessâ Development at irobot and adviser for Play-i. â##They are leveraging a legacy ofâ ideas from research on computing robotics
of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech Kiki Prottsman Educator and Executive director of Thinkersmith Vibha Sazawal Scientist at the University of Maryland and Prashant Kanhere who led led development of the ipod at Apple.
This process of measuring, computing, and actuating happens 160 times per second, and the underlying controller is key to achieving robust and dynamic movement.
on the photonics side, is the difference in design paradigms between computing and optics. In computers, Kimerling explains,
the progress in micro fabrication technology has revolutionized the world in such fields as computing, signal processing,
"The ATLAS computers are part of CERN's computing center, which stores more than 30 petabytes of data from the LHC experiments every year, the equivalent of 1. 2 million Blu-ray discs.
The researchers plan to report on their system at the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention in October.
The relentless advance of computing power over the past half-century has relied on constant miniaturization of field-effect transistors (FETS),
UCSB Banerjee suggests that potential applications for these new TFETS may include ultra-low-power electronics and computing,
#Gaming Startup Code Kingdoms Exits Beta On A Quest To Get Kids Coding Changes to the computing curriculum in England,
having being built for an earlier, desktop computing world, rather than the modern mobile-focused space.
and allowing them to submit them to a social computing server. A sample app can be found here.
comparing the feeds in real time takes lots of computing power, and calibrating multiple cameras gets complicated. However, recent advances in mobile chipsets are beginning to remedy these issues.
is 3d Systemsgrasp of the evolving reality computing ecosystem, which encompasses 3d scanning, 3d printing, VR,
says Donatelli of Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Division. eriving the relation between structure and FXS data involves a substantial amount of harmonic analysis
CAMERA is a joint effort between DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research and Office of Basic energy Sciences.
The work was supported by DOE Office of Science (Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research and Office of Basic energy Sciences) and by the National institute of health e
the 21st annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. Light plays many roles in our lives
Golland and her colleagues will describe their new system at the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention in October.
The researchers are presenting the paper at the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention this week.
#Researchers develop deep-learning method to predict daily activities Researchers from the School of Interactive Computing
co-author and graduate research assistant in the School of Interactive Computing.""Activity tracking devices like the Fitbit can tell how many steps you take per day,
These techs include things like 3d printing, artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, infinite computing, networks, sensors, nanotechnology, and virtual realitynd is essentially a list of the most disruptive technologies ever invented.
The Variables for Women Success in Engineering and Computing. Even more troubling, qualified women are leaving the STEM workforce in large numbers,
female students attend the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, the largest gathering of women in technical professions,
#IBM's Watson does some culinary computing for its first cookbook These days, it seems like every celebrity comes out with a cookbook at some point,
This is the kind of ultra-fast data storage that modern computing needs. The team will now work to develop the technology,
Progress slowing The inexorable advance in computing power over the past 50 years is largely thanks to the ability to make increasingly smaller silicon transistors,
and the resulting architecture can produce lightning-fast computing speeds up to 1, 000 times faster than would
which harness the science of the very small the strange behaviour of subatomic particles to solve computing challenges that are beyond the reach of even today fastest supercomputers.
In turn, this speed could eventually quicken the pace of electronics and computing. Solving the Semiconductor Dilemma To get to faster and smaller computers one day,
that this technology will allow to create much more economical and stable computing machines and supercomputers,
This property can primarily be used for in computing where IPS (instructions per second) is the main attribute to be maximized.
#Silicon photonics takes the next step toward a high-bandwidth future The computing and telecommunications industries have ambitious plans for the future:
what may be an important step toward commercializing this next generation of computing technology. They established a method to integrate silicon photonic chips with the processor in the same package,
computing and information processing applications, said CUDOS director and co-author Ben Eggleton. I am delighted our CUDOS team at the University of Sydney
Now, Zhun-Yong Ong and Gang Zhang of the A*STAR Institute Of high Performance Computing in Singapore have calculated the effects of such short-range order on the behavior of phonons("Enhancement and reduction of one-dimensional
Subramanian Sankaranarayanan and Sanket Deshmukh at CNM used the high-performance computing resources at DOES National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), both
In turn, this speed could eventually quicken the pace of electronics and computing. Solving the Semiconductor Dilemma To get to faster and smaller computers one day,
or the development of silicon computing chips that process data communicated by photons of light instead of electricity.
With magnetic memory elements approaching nano dimensions, this technique promises new approaches in magnetic recording and computing g
and in DNA-based computing-where computers are built from DNA rather than silicon. It could also be used for detecting the presence of copper cations,
"A potential application of this finding could be to create logic gates for DNA based computing.
"This research expands how DNA could be used as a switching mechanism for a logic gate in DNA-based computing or in nano-technology
low-power embedded systems-the computing devices found in everything from thermostats to automobiles.""Using our techniques,
the realized circuits currently still have limited computing power. ut with this research we have delivered proof of principle:
which harness the science of the very small-the strange behaviour of subatomic particles-to solve computing challenges that are beyond the reach of even today's fastest supercomputers.
They used the high-performance computing resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC),
and favoured by the trillion-dollar computing and microelectronics industry. Teams led by UNSW researchers have demonstrated already a unique fabrication strategy for realising atomic-scale devices
and updated them for a world of seamless computing across an endless number of devices
#Clumps of gold nanoparticles can evolve to carry out computing Move over, microchip. A random assembly of gold nanoparticles can perform calculations normally reserved for neatly arranged patterns of silicon.
#Clump of gold nanoparticles can evolve to carry out computing MOVE OVER, microchip. A random assembly of gold nanoparticles can perform calculations normally reserved for neatly arranged patterns of silicon.
and portend a new paradigm in all-photonic memory and nonconventional computing. e
#New metamaterial enables refractive index of zero Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS) say they have made it easier to manipulate light at the nanoscale.
together with the WDM technology, may finally pave the way to terascale computing. Photonic integrated circuits (PICS) based on the technology could dramatically change the architecture of fiber-optic transceivers used in data center optical interconnects, by pushing down the cost of chip-level data transfer between logic and memory devices.
%Their findings are reported in an invited presentation at the 22nd Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Computer and Communications security, Denver."
pressure and temperature. iskin's makers saw this as an ideal platform for on-body interaction for mobile computing."(
"The team is now trying to figure out how to redesign the rest of the computing architecture
"Our colleagues from the HZDR theory group are computing how precisely the molecule must rotate
even if a hostile adversary controls the entire computing infrastructure, voters and election officials can still detect electoral fraud.
Machine learning capitalizes on advances in computing to design algorithms that repeatedly and rapidly analyze large,
A large portion of the energy used in computing is spent on transferring data from one type of memory to another.
Joel Yang and Zhaogang Dong at the A*STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, together with colleagues at the A*STAR Institute Of high Performance Computing and other institutes in Singapore, investigated controlling the traveling
which harness the science of the very small--the strange behaviour of subatomic particles--to solve computing challenges that are beyond the reach of even today's fastest supercomputers.
The team used the Molecular Operation Environment (MOE) program produced by the Chemical Computing Group in Montreal,
Simulations on the Stampede supercomputer of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) bridged the gap between the drawing board
Using the supercomputers at Berkeley Lab National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), the researchers can screen hundreds of molecules per day.
one can fit more circuits on the same chip to produce a device with greater computing power.
A large portion of the energy used in computing is spent on transferring data from one type of memory to another.
Researchers used PNNL Institutional Computing resources to develop and validate the tool, making it possible to process a year worth of historical grid data within a few days.
High-performance computing also made it possible to evaluate the tool performance across multiple forecasting periods,
Subramanian Sankaranarayanan and Sanket Deshmukh at CNM used the high-performance computing resources at DOE National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF
during remarks Oct 14 at the SDSC event. hrough this launch and the extraordinary computing capabilities of SDSC,
and Society Comet is configured to help transform advanced computing by expanding access and capacity not only among research domains that typically rely on HPCUCH as chemistry
#A New Type of Memristors for Less Rigid Computing Two IT giants, Intel and HP, have entered a race to produce a commercial version of memristors (the fourth basic component of electronic circuits alongside resistors,
Rupp calls this ess rigid computing Another possible application could be neuromorphic computing, which, as the name suggests,
"Street predicts that Black Friday 2015 will still see lots of deals around electronics and computing,
and transistors found in all the computing devices of our modern world. CEI, through Gan, hopes to change because not only is the material more efficient in light emission,
And, by 2020, with the power of cloud and advanced computing, it may be a matter of pennies.
Feng and his team are part of a select group participating in a research programme called Computing in the Cloud (Cic),
Cornell computing researchers have come up with a new principle they call"data smashing"for estimating the similarities between streams of arbitrary data without human intervention,
Hod Lipson, associate professor of mechanical engineering and computing and information science, and Ishanu Chattopadhyay, a former postdoctoral associate with Lipson and now at the University of Chicago, have described their method in Royal Society Interface, Oct 1.
But computing power is not growing as fast as it has in the past. On Monday, the June 2015 listing of the Top 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world revealed the beginnings of a plateau in performance growth.
Computing hardware development projections are based on Moore Law which predicts that the number of transistors on integrated circuits will double about every two years, causing an exponential growth in performance.
may have just been given a boost that moves it from mere promise to likely future backbone of computing.
and make possible the continued trend towards ever more powerful computing. his is a discovery in the true sense,
Everyone talks about the phenomenal computing power available in mobile devices, but Smart Vision tech is one of the few that harnesses mobile computing in a novel way that make the device a new technology platform for healthcare.
It been two years since Albanese and Zhou first concocted the idea that would become Smart Vision Labs. The two former colleagues reconnected at NYU where Zhou was studying business at Albanese alma mater.
But the fundamental process of computing contains an important additional element. This is an external memory
. Since this form of computing differs in an important way from a conventional neural network Graves
and co. That is an important step forward that has the potential to make computing machines much more brainlike than ever before.
perceptual computing business unit. None of those partners showed off what they re working on at the event this week.
says Dharmendra Modha, chief scientist for brain-inspired computing at IBM. Programming the chip involves choosing
Although the company announced a suite of tools geared toward writing code for its forthcoming chip last year (see BM Scientists Show Blueprints for Brainlike Computing,
Ranveer Chandra, a senior researcher in mobile computing at Microsoft Research, says the technology could help accelerate dreams of being able to deploy cheap,
Given that Amazon web services has become the go-to source of computing power for new-breed online businesses the company may well threaten Google Microsoft
However, the same advancements in computing power and data storage that have made wholesale surveillance possible have made also leaking possible.
instead to create a cheap device that works as a universal input for more or less any computing device.
the basis of all computing today. his is our attempt to find the analogous device to the transistor,
says Lee. oday we have clear ideas in classical computing about problems we can solve
starting with mobile computing, says Ciesla. He says the two companies have begun working on the design of products and prototypes for carriers, electronics brands, and retailers.
The devices is developed by the Nagpur-based National Environmental engineering Research Institute (NEERI) of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) of the Department
The group of international researchers include engineers from the Visual Computing Research center, Tel-aviv University, the Memorial University of Newfoundland, the University of Konstaz and Shandong University.
Due to the precision and castabilitytereolabs Launches ZED 3d Camera for Long-range Depth Sensing Every day on 3dpi, we report on developments in 3d printing, scanning, reality computing, and more.
#UCLA Researchers Design Low-cost Smartphone Blood Tester The smartphone is probably the most exciting computing tool human beings have at their disposal.
The Onsight system uses holographic computing to overlay visual information and rover data into the user field of view.
Holographic computing blends a view of the physical world with computer-generated imagery to create a hybrid of real and virtual.
While a graduate student at SFU (she earned a Phd in computing science in 2012 under supervisor
000 volunteers who contributed their own computing power to the research.""Our project won the privilege of using IBM's world community grid, an open platform of users from all around the world,
Instead we had the benefit of some 150,000 computing volunteers from all around the world,
"Crowdsourced computing is playing an increasingly major role in scientific breakthroughs,"Prof. Urbakh continued.""As our research shows, the range of questions that can benefit from public participation is growing all the time."
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