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Progress and promise in DIAL LIDAR

For climatologists and environmental policy makers who need to determine the flux of greenhouse gases (GHG), there are three paramount questions: Where is it, how much is there, and how is it moving? A new ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

PML's Pernstich develops open-source software to automate test equipment

A free, easily customizable software program for automating test equipment via GPIB or RS232 bus may sound too good to be true, especially for smaller companies, graduate students, and hobbyists or for day-to-day ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Final version of NIST cloud computing definition published

After years in the works and 15 drafts, the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) working definition of cloud computing, the 16th and final definition has been published as The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing ...

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Two new publications provide a cloud computing standards roadmap, reference architecture

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published two new documents on cloud computing: the first edition of a cloud computing standards roadmap and a cloud computing reference architecture ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sorting diamonds from toothbrushes: New guide to protecting personal information

Thefts of personally identifiable information (PII), such as social security and credit card account numbers, are increasing dramatically. Adding to the difficulty of fighting this problem, organizations often disagree on ...

Technology / Other

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New tool gives researchers a glimpse of biomolecules in motion

The ability of biomolecules to flex and bend is important for the performance of many functions within living cells. However, researchers interested in how biomolecules such as amino acids and proteins function have long ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0