Computer in Biological Technology

Inexpensive plastic used in CDs could improve aircraft, computer electronics

HOUSTON, May 15, 2009 If one University of Houston professor has his way, the inexpensive plastic now used to manufacture CDs and DVDs will one day soon be put to use in improving the integrity of electronics in aircraft, computers and iPhones. Thanks to a pair of grants from the U.S. Air Fo...

Researchers find better way to manufacture fast computer chips

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Engineers at Ohio State University are developing a technique for mass producing computer chips made from the same material found in pencils. Experts believe that graphene -- the sheet-like form of carbon found in graphite pencils -- holds the key to smaller, faster electronic...

Slimmer, stickier nanorods give boost to 3-D computer chips

Troy, N.Y. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new technique for growing slimmer copper nanorods, a key step for advancing integrated 3-D chip technology. These thinner copper nanorods fuse together, or anneal, at about 300 degrees Celsius. This relatively low anne...

Convey Computer™ Corporation Launches World's First Hybrid-Core Computer at SC08 Conference

New Company Combines Talent and Expertise of Former Convex Computer Team with Breakthrough Programmability and Performance Technology. Convey HC-1 Brings Revolutionary Solution to High Performance Computing (HPC) Industry. Austin, TX (PRWEB) November 17, 2008 -- A revo...

Denser, more powerful computer chips possible with plasmonic lenses that 'fly'

Berkeley -- Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, are reporting a new way of creating computer chips that could revitalize optical lithography, a patterning technique that dominates modern integrated circuits manufacturing. By combining metal lenses that focus light through the e...

In-Room Computers and Wall-Mounted Proximity Systems Computer WorkStations Deliver Increased Efficiency; Improved Patient Care

Centerpoint Medical Center and Houston-based Proximity Systems WorkStations: one year later HOUSTON, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- One year after installing 400 Proximity Systems Computer WorkStations, Centerpoint Medical Center offers favorable reviews and cites reasons wh...

Engineers aim to solve 'burning' computer problem

If you've balanced a laptop computer on your lap lately, you probably noticed a burning sensation. That's because ever-increasing processing speeds are creating more and more heat, which has to go somewhere in this case, into your lap. Two researchers at the University of Virginia's School of ...

New kind of MRI enables study of magnets for computer memory

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- What is there to see inside a magnet that's smaller than the head of a pin? Quite a lot, say physicists who've invented a new kind of MRI technique to do just that. The technique may eventually enable the development of extremely small computers, and even give doctors a ne...

Microsoft scientist highlights urgent need for new computer models to address climate change

Two papers published in the journal Science today* by Microsoft Research ecologist Drew Purves together with research colleagues at Princeton University and universities in Madrid, Spain, highlight how an improved understanding of forest dynamics is needed to better predict environmental change. T...

Carbon nanoribbons could make smaller, speedier computer chips

Stanford chemists have developed a new way to make transistors out of carbon nanoribbons. The devices could someday be integrated into high-performance computer chips to increase their speed and generate less heat, which can damage today's silicon-based chips when transistors are packed together t...

Hybrid computer materials may lead to faster, cheaper technology

COLUMBIA, Mo. A modern computer contains two different types of components: magnetic components, which perform memory functions, and semiconductor components, which perform logic operations. A University of Missouri researcher, as part of a multi-university research team, is working to combine th...

Growing tiny carbon nanotube wires to connect computer chips of the future

Computers and electronic devices of the future will utilise technologies not currently available. An example of such a technology is the use of carbon nanotubes as interconnects for computer chips. This is now a step closer to reality with some new work from nanotechnology researchers within the M...

Penn engineers design computer memory in nanoscale form that retrieves data 1,000 times faster

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have developed nanowires capable of storing computer data for 100,000 years and retrieving that data a thousand times faster than existing portable memory devices such as Flash memory and micro-drives, all using less power and space than current memor...

Penn engineers design computer memory in nanoscale form that retrieves data 1,000 times faster

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have developed nanowires capable of storing computer data for 100,000 years and retrieving that data a thousand times faster than existing portable memory devices such as Flash memory and micro-drives, all using less power and space than current memor...

UW-Madison Battles Prolific Computer Virus

MADISON-The University of Wisconsin-Madison is experiencing problems with the SoBIG.F e-mail virus and requires campus e-mail users to help contain its spread. This virus and others, which have ravaged computers nationwide, has infected about 2,200 computers on campus and has affected the e-mail ...

WARF sues Samsung over computer chip technology license agreement

MADISON The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation is suing Samsung Electronics Co. , the world's largest maker of computer memory chips, for allegedly using a patented technology developed by University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty without a license for use in their semiconductors. According ...

Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

In a departure from her series of entrepreneurial profiles, this week Teresa reviews Hackers & Painters , by Paul Graham, which was published by O'Reilly Press in 2004. Nerds have always been unpopular. Paul Graham thinks this is a good thing. The first essay in Hackers & Painters depi...

UW computer scientists tout achievements and explain industry shortcomings

MADISON, Wis. - Major advancements in computing performance were developed at the computer science and electrical engineering departments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Innovations that have increased microprocessor performance, distributed database architectures, grid and cluster...

Google delves deep within your computer with new desktop tool

The good news? Your computer can now have a photographic memory. The bad news? Your computer can now have a photographic memory. This secretly sourced and powerfully protected photographic memory actually, its Outlookgraphic, AIMgraphic, IEgraphic, Wordgraphic, Excelgraphic, PowerPointgraphic...

DMV to close Monday for computer upgrade

The Department of Motor Vehicles in Wisconsin plans to close all its offices on December 13 for the end of a system-wide computer upgrade. The new system, which has been in development for the past week, will combine registration and driver records to make searches faster and add newer programming ...

MATCs new computer security program gears up for second semester

Madison, Wis. — Madison Area Technical College recently finished the first semester of its new degree program in computer security. The curriculum, which will soon be taught at technical colleges all over Wisconsin, will train students fill the IT communitys need for security specialist...

UW-Madison picks scalable SGI computer to simulate weather

Rendered data from an experimental CIMSS satellite. Courtesy of UW-Madison. Madison, Wis. To model something as big as the weather, the University of Wisconsin's Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies needed a bigger computer. The institute has begun testing its wea...

Renaissance to buy computer companion maker AlphaSmart for $57m

Educational software maker Renaissance Learning, Inc. , has agreed to acquire California-based AlphaSmart, Inc. , a provider of portable learning devices for K-12 students, for $57 million. Renaissance, based in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, plans to maintain the AlphaSmart name and operate the...

After a successful attack on your computer systems, then what?

Madison, Wis. There may no yellow tape or chalk outlines of a body, but companies need to preserve evidence of computer crimes if they want remedies, said a lawyer who spoke at the Fusion 2005 CEO-CIO Symposium on Wednesday. Daniel Vaccaro, a partner with Michael Best & Friedrich , said th...

Why can't your computer get frustrated, too?

Brookfield, Wis. -- Anyone working with a computer has those moments when things go wrong and then just go wrong again. It could be an everyday operating system feature, a difficult level in a video game or a diagnostic tool in an industrial setting. The user gets annoyed, angry and frustrated a...

Apple Computer may use Apple logo on iTunes

London, England - A British court has ruled in favor of an American computer giant in its long-running legal battle with Apple Corps, Ltd. , a company the Beatles established in the 1960s to protect their commercial interests. Judge Edward Mann ruled that Apple Computer, Inc. is entitled to...

Got bugs? New project lets real computer users gang up on software bugs

Ben Liblit offers a bold prediction regarding all of the complicated software programs churning away in your computer: They have bugs. All of them. Guaranteed. "Software bugs are part of the mathematical fabric of the universe," says Liblit, a University of Wisconsin-Madison computer scientis...

UW produces fast and flexible computer chip

Madison, Wis. - New thin-film semiconductor techniques invented by University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers promise to add sensing, computing, and imaging capability to an amazing array of materials. Historically, the semiconductor industry has relied on flat, two-dimensional chips upon wh...

A Ruby amid computer programming diamonds

Madison, Wis. - Ruby on Rails is swiftly becoming the tool of choice for many promising web application developers, not to mention certain college professors. Programmers are becoming fluent in the platform because, by some accounts, it allows experienced web application specialists to write...

Tushaus Computer buys Apple computer vendor

Milwaukee, Wis. - Tushaus Computer Services , which operates in the personal computer space, has purchased Third Millennium Design, Inc., a provider of Apple products and services. The combined organization will not only merge PCs and Macs, but also intellectual property and technology to ser...

New book touts educational power of computer games

Madison, Wis. - In a global economy where good jobs demand innovative thinking, American education must move beyond its "skill and drill" curriculum and embrace creative learning technologies, such as computer and video games, to prepare young people for the world of global competition. So arg...

Tushaus Computer acquires managed service business

Milwaukee, Wis. - In its second acquisition of the past two months, Tushaus Computer Services has acquired the Green Bay operations of Bedrock Managed Services & Consulting. The transaction will enable Tushaus Computer, a Milwaukee-based provider of information technology services, to establ...

UW computer scientists fighting computer virus "Cold War"

Editor's note : This article first appeared on the UW Business News Wire . Madison, Wis. - First came the virus. Then came the antivirus software. Ever since, virus programmers have been escalating their technology, trying to stay one step ahead of the computer security engi...

UW researchers win award from Apple Computer

Apple provides cluster computers to biology professors to meet their computational needs MADISON A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison statisticians has nabbed one of Apple's Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics awards . Professor Michael Newton and his colleagues, Douglas Bates, S...

UW Condor project is a piece of CERN's massive grid computer

The University of Wisconsin's Condor software project will provide a component of a cutting-edge grid computing system at European research heavyweight CERN , the IDG news service reports. CERN has a computing network with more than 100 sites in 31 countries, the center said. Among them it is...

If my mom designed a computer

If my mom designed a computer, it would say please and thank you. It would know when I was really focused on something and wouldnt bug me with e-mail, IM and other notifications. It would know just when to call me back from that Internet playground, so I could be sure and finish my homework and c...

New clues about a hydrogen fuel catalyst

...ther. To put the puzzle together, the team used computer models to construct a theoretical molecular config...ey National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif. The computer model produced a structure that best incorporated ...is structure worked properly, the team performed a computer simulation of an operando XAFS analysis of that ca...

UCLA welcomes startup to new incubator space at California NanoSystems Institute

...wireless sensor systems developed by Majid Sarrafzadeh, a UCLA professor of computer science and engineering, and his team. The technology is for real-time wire...or MediSens as it continues to develop products based on the convergence of computer science and engineering technology with medical and health applications," s...

Knighted Adds Industry Pioneer and Entrepreneur to Senior Management Team

...STER COUNTY, N.Y., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Knighted computer Systems, Inc. (Knighted), a leading provider of Su... the NASDAQ Stock Exchange. About Knighted computer Systems, Inc.: Knighted computer Systems, Inc. has been providing advanced logistic...

Breaking barriers with nanoscale lasers

...eng Ning, a professor in the School of Electrical, computer and Energy Engineering in ASU's Ira A. Fulton Scho...ld do things such as speed up the workings of your computer and Internet access. The size of lasers in any ...unications on a central processing unit (CPU) of a computer chip," Ning says. As computers get faster, the...