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10/3/2008
Research teams from six universities have been selected by NASA to become members of its Astrobiology Institute with the aim of exploring the "origins, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe." Teams were each awarded five-year grants, averaging $7 million each, according to NASA.
10/2/2008
Here's a bit of trivia for your next high-tech happy hour: A "nog" (in addition to being a Christmas favorite) is a wooden block built into a masonry wall so that joinery structure can be nailed to it. For the founders of Piscataway, N.J.-based startup Bluenog this obscure bit of carpentry nomenclature was the perfect metaphor for an integrated software suite that includes a content management system (CMS), rich portal features and business intelligence (BI) capabilities.
10/2/2008
The founders of Scottish dev tool maker Runtime Revolution (RR) might be accused of engaging in a bit of high-tech hyperbole with the claim that their latest product offering is "the world's easiest programming tool." But the Edinburgh-based company is pulling out all the stops to throw a spotlight on the usability of its just-released Revolution 3.0.
10/2/2008
In a tip of its hand toward open source software development, Microsoft announced Sunday that it will incorporate the jQuery JavaScript library into Microsoft Visual Studio and ASP.NET.
10/2/2008
Developers can get prepared for the next version of Microsoft's rich Internet application platform by grabbing Silverlight 2 Release Candidate 0 developer runtime edition, which became publicly available in late September.
10/1/2008
Researchers at the University of Arkansas have received a five-year, $7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to support an initiative aimed at improving preparation for K-12 teachers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The initiative, dubbed the "College Ready in Math and Physics Partnership," will pair faculty in the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith College of Education with teachers from 33 school districts in Arkansas and Oklahoma.
9/29/2008
Microsoft is revealing more about its plans for the next generation of Visual Studio Team System (code-named Rosario), part of the now officially named Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 rollout. All of these products are still in the very early stages.
9/29/2008
Five universities--four in the United States and one in China--have teamed up with IBM's Silicon Valley Lab to deliver courses in information technology focused on mainframes. The aim of the collaboration is to help boost the number of qualified IT professionals entering the workforce, with particular emphasis on skills like database administration, SOA, and virtualization.
9/25/2008
A team of student engineers at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN will be using technology from SiCortex, a Massachusetts company that makes lower-power supercomputers, for its cluster computing entry in an upcoming competition. The Boilermaker Cluster Challenge team will be entering its design at SC08, a supercomputer conference put on in November by IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery.
9/24/2008
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and IBM have announced a joint project to build and conduct research on one of the most complex, high-performance computing (HPC) systems in the world. The new system, named Shaheen, will serve the university's scientific researchers across multiple disciplines, advance new innovations in computational sciences, and contribute to the further development of a knowledge-based society in Saudi Arabia.
9/22/2008
Microsoft Corp. announced this morning that the High Performance Clustering (HPC) Server 2008 has been released--both to manufacturing and the general public.
9/22/2008
Two universities have recently gone public with their use of CoWare Processor Designer for teaching application-specific processor architecture. Both École Polytechnique de Montréal in Canada and RWTH Aachen University in Germany have adopted the tool, which enables developers to program chips for specific uses.
9/18/2008
Cray Inc., in conjunction with Intel and Microsoft, this week unveiled a relatively low-cost supercomputer that works in office environments. The Cray CX1 high-performance computing (HPC) machine features the use of Intel processors for the first time and comes with Windows HPC Server 2008 preinstalled. It also works with Red Hat Linux Version 5.
9/17/2008
A new competition is challenging teams from Michigan colleges and universities to develop the best business plans for bringing new clean energy technologies to market. Organized by DTE Energy and the University of Michigan, the Clean Energy Prize challenge will award $100,000 in prize money during spring 2009 in an effort to help draw emerging technologies out of university labs in Michigan and into the commercial space.
9/16/2008
A team of researchers from four universities has just received three grants totaling $1.1 million from the National Science Foundation to study how engineers are educated. Faculty from Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts, California Polytechnic State University, and the University of San Diego in California will be collaborating on issues related to recruiting, retaining, and educating engineers.
9/16/2008
The National Science Foundation this week awarded nine grants aimed at expanding the number of undergraduates pursuing teaching careers in science and math. This week's grants, administered through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, range from $500,000 to $750,000. Thirty such grants have been awarded this year so far. Sixteen were awarded in 2007.
9/16/2008
After announcing a four-fold increase in its VMware Academic Program over the last 12 months, virtualization giant Vmware unveiled a new Web site dedicated to virtualization researchers and academics. GoVirtual.org is an online resource intended to help support the growing interest in virtualization among the global academic community.
9/16/2008
Niigata University in Niigata, Japan and Oki Printing Solutions announced an agreement to jointly develop and manufacture environmentally conscious toner that uses biodegradable complex fine particles, originated from biomass resources. A toner prototype will be ready by 2009 and Oki Printing Solutions plans to market the product by 2010 globally.
9/15/2008
Microsoft, as part of its overall initiative to support modeling capabilities, especially in its .NET Framework, last week joined the Object Management Group (OMG), a nonprofit organization that fosters integration standards for the enterprise.
9/11/2008
The University of South Carolina has upgraded its server and storage technologies to support research in bioinformatics and processing of medical images. The university adopted server and storage solutions for SGI, including the company's SGI Altix 4700 system and InfiniteStorage 4000.
9/11/2008
The University of North Carolina, Charlotte has signed a licensing agreement with Southeast TechInventures Inc. (STI) to streamline negotiations and accelerate the acquisition of intellectual property--a key step in the technology commercialization process. STI works in partnership with university-based inventors to commercialize new technologies.
9/10/2008
The University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science Rotating Machinery and Controls (ROMAC) Industrial Program will be using EDAS GageMap software to conduct vibration analysis and simulate vibratory effects on industry-focused research projects.
9/4/2008
Software frameworks are enjoying enormous popularity these days among a range of developers. It's popularity well earned; frameworks provide powerful tools for building more flexible and less error-prone applications. They generally enhance developer productivity with out-of-the-box functionality. And they can free developers to focus on features instead of common coding tasks.
9/4/2008
City University of New York (CUNY) is partnering up with Intel and Red Hat to launch a new software institute dedicated to open source software. The center, New York City Open Source Solutions Lab, based out of the CUNY Graduate Center, will serve as a test bed for government IT professionals in New York who are working with open source solutions.
9/3/2008
Adobe has made its ColdFusion 8 Web development platform free for educators and students. The offer is available for all public and private accredited K-12 schools and colleges and universities.
Campus Technology 2009
July 27 - 30, 2009
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Boston, MA
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