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Computer Based on Insights From The Brain Moves Closer to Reality

Nov 18, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (20) | 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today at SC 09, the supercomputing conference, IBM announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, ...

P2P comes to the aid of audiovisual search (w/ Video)

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Nov 18, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Current methods of searching audiovisual content can be a hit-and-miss affair. Manually tagging online media content is time consuming, and costly. But new 'query by example' methods, built on peer-to-peer ...

World's first album of Twitter music available now

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Nov 19, 2009 | 1 / 5 (3) | 0

For the first time, you can now download an album of digital music written exclusively for Twitter.

DataONE helping scientists deal with data deluge

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Nov 18, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Vast amounts of information that could hold the key to breakthroughs in environmental research will be made readily available through a network created by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and partners.

Petascale computing tools could provide deeper insight into genomic evolution

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Nov 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

Technological advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing have opened up the possibility of determining how living things are related by analyzing the ways in which their genes have been rearranged on chromosomes. ...

There's no business like Grid business (w/ Video)

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Nov 17, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have embraced the Grid, but businesses have held back, concerned about complexity and security. Now a European research team has built a platform opening the Grid's vast resources ...

FutureGrid to provide platform for experimental computation

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Nov 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the next few months, a consortium that includes the University of Chicago will establish FutureGrid, a collaborative next-generation system for experimental scientific supercomputing.