News tagged with archaeological computing


Scientists Bring 2000 year old painted warrior to virtual live

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A 2000-year-old painted statue is being restored to her original glory by scientists from WMG at the University of Warwick, the University of Southampton, and the Herculaneum Conservation Project.





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US government takes leap into the Internet 'cloud'

Technology / Internet

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The US government took a leap into a cloud computing future on Tuesday, opening up an online storefront where agencies can purchase the Internet-based services.


Steve Ballmer, CEO of the US Microsoft Corporation, pictured during a press conference in Taipei

Microsoft, Taiwan to set up cloud computing centre

Technology / Business

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US software giant Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday signed an agreement with Taiwan to jointly establish a research centre here for the development of Internet computing technology.


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IBM makes Big Blue cloud

Technology / Software

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (8) | comments 9

IBM on Monday announced it has created the world's largest business computing "cloud" capable of holding an amount of digital data on a par with 250 billion iTunes songs.


Microsoft is raising cloud computing concerns

Microsoft raises cloud computing concerns

Technology / Software

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 1.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Packaged software powerhouse Microsoft on Thursday released a paper outlining privacy concerns businesses should consider prior to leaping into the computing "cloud."


A man uses a laptop computer at a wireless cafe

'Cloud' computing market 14 bln dollars by 2014: Gartner

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created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Industry tracker Gartner forecast on Monday that revenue from Internet-based "cloud computing" will top 14 billion dollars annually by the end of 2013.


Fracture zones endanger tombs in Valley of Kings

Fracture zones endanger tombs in Valley of Kings

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Ancient choices made by Egyptians digging burial tombs may have led to today's problems with damage and curation of these precious archaeological treasures, but photography and detailed geological mapping ...


California's Ancient Kelp Forest

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The kelp forests off southern California are considered to be some of the most diverse and productive ecosystems on the planet, yet a new study indicates that today's kelp beds are less extensive and lush ...


New NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Reduce Cost Of Supercomputing By A Factor Of 10

New NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Reduce Cost Of Supercomputing By A Factor Of 10

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

NVIDIA Corporation today unveiled the Tesla 20-series of parallel processors for the high performance computing (HPC) market, based on its new generation CUDA processor architecture, codenamed "Fermi".


Greek pot early 5th c. BCE

Ancient archaeology holds clue to new computer systems

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 06, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Researchers are looking back at ancient civilisations in order to develop future computer systems in a £1.75m project.


Cloud computing gathers steam with mobile devices

Technology / Internet

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The outlook for the wireless industry is getting cloudier. Consumers have tapped into cloud computing technology for years: sending messages via Hotmail, uploading photos to Facebook or editing a spreadsheet on Google Docs ...



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