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Symbio Technologies Bringing 'Green' Stateless Computing to Two Conferences: Invited to Washington by U. S. Dept. of Defense, Participating in Int'l Event in Westchester NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. -- Symbio Technologies (www.symbio-technologies.com), an innovator in "green" stateless computing, will present its award-winning security-centric solution at two events next week. On October 27, Symbio has been invited to the...; Tags: computing, conference, HARDWARE, network, NETWORKING, security, U.S. Department of Defense; Research articles 2008-10-20
Gresham Computing plc at Association of Finance Professionals Conference, Los Angeles October 19-22, 2008: NEW YORK -- Gresham Computing plc ("Gresham") is pleased to announce that Eric Sepkes, Chairman of Gresham, is attending the upcoming Association of Financial Professionals AFP conference in Los Angeles. Eric Sepkes spent 38 years at Citi in various roles and is well known for his thought leadership in...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, bank, computing, FINANCE, financing, Investment, liquidity, SOFTWARE; Research articles 2008-10-17
Multi-Core Chip Research to Lead to Performance Gains, Power Reduction for High- and Low-End Computing with $6M Support From SRC, NSF: Joint Research by Semiconductor Research Corporation and National Science Foundation Aims at Ground-breaking Solutions for Problems Challenging the Electronics Industry RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Leaders of the National Science Foundation NSF and Semiconductor Research Corporation SRC, the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, today announced...; Tags: computing, National Science Foundation, performance, semiconductor; Research articles 2008-09-02
Eyes turn to dawn of 'visual computing': SAN JOSE, California AFP — Lifelike graphics are breaking free of elite computer games and spreading throughout society in what industry insiders proclaim is the dawning of a "visual computing era." Astronauts, film makers and celebrities joined software savants, engineers and gamers in the heart of Silicon Valley this...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, computer, computing, graphics; Research articles 2008-08-28
nuBridges Founder Gifts $2.5 Million to Clemson University for Computing Research: nuBridges, Inc., the secure eBusiness authority, announced today that the C. Tycho Howle family has made a gift of $2.5 million to Clemson University for the establishment of two endowed chairs that will benefit computing research. C. Tycho Howle is founder, chairman and CEO of nuBridges, a leading provider of...; Tags: Atlanta, B2B, Benefits, Clemson University, computing, E-business/E-commerce, INTERNET, PRODUCTIVITY, SOFTWARE; Research articles 2008-08-27

Mileage rate increased: Due to rising gas prices, the mileage rate will increase by eight cents to 58.5 cents a mile for all business miles driven from July 1 through Dec. 31, 2008. The new rate for computing deductible medical or moving expenses also will increase by eight cents to 27 cents a...; Tags: computing, Internal Revenue Service, statute; Research articles 2008-08-01
Khronos Launches Heterogeneous Computing Initiative: Call for Industry Participation to Create Open, Royalty-Free Standard for Programming Parallel Computing Across GPUs and CPUs SAN FRANCISCO -- The Khronos[TM] Group announced today the formation of a new Compute Working Group to create royalty-free, open standards for programming heterogeneous data and task parallel computing across GPUs and...; Tags: computing, GPU, Khronos Group; Research articles 2008-06-16
Trendlines: New, Hot, Unexpected: Microsoft Looks Beyond Low-Cost Laptops Microsoft is looking beyond ultra-low-cost laptops to cheaper alternatives such as smartphones and shared computing in the drive to give people in developing nations a way to communicate and access the Internet. The world's largest software maker has a few projects...; Tags: ABI Research, Business Software Alliance, computing, handset, MARKETING, Microsoft Corp., mobile, phone, software, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS; Research articles 2008-06-11
Endicott Interconnect program leads to additional DoD funds: ENDICOTT - Endicott Interconnect Technologies, Inc. recently received another contract modification from the U.S. Department of Defense for one of its longstanding projects. The new modification, announced May 6, is worth more than $148 million. The deal, which runs through December, continues a program the Endicott-based firm has been working...; Tags: computing, U.S. Department of Defense; Research articles 2008-05-23
New Report Calls for Fast Corporate Action to Curb Escalating Power Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Resulting from Computing: McKinsey & Company, with Support from Uptime Institute, Recommends Doubling Data Center Energy Efficiency by 2012 ORLANDO, Fla. -- Please replace the release dated April 30, 2008 with the following corrected version due to revisions to second graph and also to subhead. The corrected release reads: NEW...; Tags: computing, HARDWARE, Institute, McKinsey & Co., Storage; Research articles 2008-05-02
Running cool.(computing)(Brief article): [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED AT Purdue University's new hydrogen facility aim to help NASA develop rockets faster and less expensively for future missions to Mars and the moon. A more efficient cooling mechanism could improve performance and reduce the need for...; Tags: computing, hydrogen, Purdue University; Research articles 2008-05-01
Security code cracked.(computing): RESEARCHERS RECENTLY CRACKED several widely used security systems used to encrypt computers. The systems include Microsoft's BitLocker, Apple's FileVault, and Linux's dm-crypt. In the process, they discovered several things that computer owners can do to protect their hard drives against a security breach. They...; Tags: computer, computing, disk, Princeton University, PRODUCTIVITY, security; Research articles 2008-05-01
Strained Silicon Technology Holds a Promising Future for Ultra High-speed Computing Devices: PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Strained silicon technology holds a promising future in the semiconductor industry in serving the needs of the next generation high-speed computing devices. Industrial efforts in the space expect to reap long-term benefits as it opens up an entirely new domain in the demanding and competent semiconductor...; Tags: computing, Frost & Sullivan, HARDWARE, performance, Semiconductors, silicon, transistor; Research articles 2008-04-03
Vital feedback.(computing)(Brief article): WITH THE HELP OF COMPUTERIZED image analysis and a haptic pen, radiologists may one day feel the images they see on screen, according to an Uppsala University professor helping to develop the new technology. Computerized image analysis is just as the name implies. A...; Tags: analysis, computing, image, organ, Uppsala University; Research articles 2008-04-01
Earthquake-proof Istanbul.(computing)(Brief article): [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ISTANBUL IS AT HIGH RISK in the event of an earthquake. Now Turkish officials have teamed with Purdue University engineers to offer a bold proposal: Build a second city. The new city would offer residents of the old one a...; Tags: computing, MARKETING, Purdue University; Research articles 2008-04-01
Climate Savers Computing Initiative Says 'Click on, Then Click Off' During Earth Hour: Reduce CO2 Emissions by Turning on Power Management, Then Turning off Computers During World Wildlife Fund's Earth Hour on Sat., March 29 PORTLAND, Ore. -- The Climate Savers Computing InitiativeSM invites computer users to "click on, then click off" during the World Wildlife Fund's Earth Hour event on Sat.,...; Tags: computer, computing, Harris Interactive, PRODUCTIVITY; Research articles 2008-03-26
Illinois Researchers Bring Parallel Computing Concepts to the Mass Market: To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Jennifer LaMontagne, Department of Computer Science of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, +1-217-333-4049, jsandone@uiuc.edu University of Illinois Teams with Microsoft and Intel on Parallel Computing Research Center URBANA, Ill., March 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign today announced a joint research endeavor...; Tags: computer, computing, Illinois, Intel Corp., PRODUCTIVITY, programming, University of Illinois; Research articles 2008-03-18
On hold for a year: basic measurement infrastructure for quantum computing, nanotechnology & hydrogen fuel cells: The Democratic Congress's last-minute decision in December to reduce 2008 funding for the federal physical science accounts will have a big impact at the National Institute of Standards and Technology this year. In an assessment of its current budget, NIST says that its effort to put the United States in...; Tags: computing, HARDWARE, hydrogen, MARKETING, Nanotechnology, NIST, Semiconductors; Research articles 2008-03-14
Cardiff University Chooses Bull to Provide New Supercomputer for Advanced Research Computing.: M2 PRESSWIRE-3 March 2008-BULL INFORMATION SYSTEMS: Cardiff University Chooses Bull to Provide New Supercomputer for Advanced Research ComputingC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03032008 Hemel Hempstead / Cardiff -- Bull Information Systems has been selected by Cardiff University to provide a...; Tags: Advanced, Bull, Cardiff University, computing, supercomputer; Research articles 2008-03-03
Catastrophic losses and insurer profitability: evidence from 9/11: ABSTRACT We examine the effects of 9/11 on the insurance industry, hypothesizing a short-run claim effect, resulting from insufficient premium ex ante for catastrophic losses, and a long-run growth effect, resulting from ex post insurance supply reductions and risk updating. Following Yoon and Starks (1995) we use short- and...; Tags: analyst, asset, attack, Computing, Insurance, Lewis, M., reinsurance, Risk, tax, World Trade Center; Research articles 2008-03-01