Infrastructure
hideInfrastructure can be defined as the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function. The term typically refers to the technical structures that support a society, such as roads, water supply, sewers, power grids, telecommunications, and so forth. Viewed functionally, infrastructure facilitates the production of goods and services; for example, roads enable the transport of raw materials to a factory, and also for the distribution of finished products to markets. In some contexts, the term may also include basic social services such as schools and hospitals . In military parlance, the term refers to the buildings and permanent installations necessary for the support, redeployment, and operation of military forces .
In this article, infrastructure will be used in the sense of technical structures or physical networks that support society, unless specified otherwise.
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News tagged with infrastructure
Researchers engineer bacteria to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel
Dec 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The genetically modified cyanobacterium consumes carbon dioxide and produces the liquid fuel isobutanol by using energy from sunlight.
Expert advises automakers to take it slow on road to recovery
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Supply chain expert Panos Kouvelis says it's time for the auto industry to go through a period of capacity rationalization.
NICTA demonstrates new interference-cancellation modem for 3G femtocell networks
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, has successfully demonstrated technology that reduces the amount of radio interference in 3G networks with ...
Nokia Siemens Networks to lay off up to 5,700
Nov 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Nokia Siemens Networks said Tuesday it will lay off up to 5,700 workers globally as part of a move to cut annual costs by euro500 million ($740 million).
Funding A Greener Grid: How Obama plans to spend billions on modernizing the U.S. electrical network
Oct 29, 2009 |
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President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday that his administration plans to spend $3.4 billion on producing a safer, more efficient electrical grid. Obama underscored the need to find clean forms of energ ...
EPA's new green parking lot allows scientists to study permeable surfaces that may help the environment
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Paved parking lots and driveways make our lives easier, but they often create an easy pathway for pollutants to reach underground water sources and alter the natural flow of water back into the ground. The U.S. Environmental ...
Taj Cyber-Network Now Expands Across the Northern Hemisphere and Connects Half the Globe
Oct 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Taj network has expanded to the Global Ring Network for Advanced Application Development (GLORIAD), wrapping another ring of light around the northern ...
Bug splatter on your car's windshield is a treasure trove of genomic biodiversity
Oct 08, 2009 |
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If you have ever taken a long road trip, the windshield of your car will inevitably be splattered with bugs by the time you arrive at your destination. Could the DNA left behind be used to estimate the diversity of insects ...
New publication offers security tips for WiMAX networks
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Government agencies and other organizations planning to use WiMAX -- Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access—networks can get technical advice on improving the security of their systems from a draft computer security ...
Cybersecurity starts at home and in the office
Oct 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When swine flu broke out, the government revved up a massive information campaign centered on three words: Wash your hands. The Obama administration now wants to convey similarly clear and concise ...
New project to create 'FutureGrid' computer network
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Sep 29, 2009 |
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego is part of a team chosen by the National Science Foundation to build and run an experimental high-performance grid test-bed, allowing researchers to collaboratively develop ...
US needs nearly $200 million more on climate-related health research
Sep 25, 2009 |
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A recent commentary suggests that the U.S. should spend roughly $197 million more than it currently does to research the impact of climate change on public health.
On the road to secure car-to-car communications
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Sep 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A European research project works out how to keep car-to-car data transmissions private and secure from malicious hackers.
Chief of Intel's biggest division heads to EMC
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Intel Corp., the world's biggest computer chip maker, said Monday that Pat Gelsinger, who ran Intel's main division, and Bruce Sewell, Intel's top lawyer, are leaving the company.
Belief, how European e-Infrastructure makes a difference (w/ Video)
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Sep 07, 2009 |
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Europe has turned its early belief and investment in the potential of e-Infrastructures and virtual research into a position of great strength, especially in e-Science and grid technology, such as the GÉANT network ...
