Tag: computer science
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Survey: VCs Pulling Back from Biopharma, Devices Companies
A survey of venture capital (VC) companies investing in health care enterprises says they have shifted funding away from businesses that develop drugs and medical devices toward less regulated services and information technology firms. The survey, conducted by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) from July to September 2011, covers 156 of its members with…
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Stanford Using Sensor-Packed Mouthpiece to Study Concussions
Football and other athletes at Stanford University in California are wearing mouthpieces equipped with sensors to measure the force of head impacts during games and practices. The devices (pictured right) are manufactured by Seattle-based X2 Impact, which has donated the devices for the research. The mouthpieces will collect data for a study led by Dan…
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Univ., IBM Team Creates Enhanced Cloud Security Technique
Computer scientists from North Carolina State University in Raleigh and IBM have developed a technique to better protect sensitive information in cloud computing, without compromising overall system performance. The research team, led by NC State professor Peng Ning (pictured left), will present its findings later in October at the 18th ACM Conference on Computer and…
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Illumina, University of North Texas to Partner on Forensics
Illumina Inc. in San Diego and University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth will collaborate on several forensics projects using Illumina’s genetic sequencing technologies. The partnership will involve the university’s Center for Human Identification and its Department of Forensic and Investigative Genetics. The collaboration is expected to cover research, development, and implementation…
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Continuous Imaging Petri Dish Based on Smartphone Technology
A team of engineers and biologists at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have designed a petri dish that can continuously capture images of growing cell cultures. Called ePetri, the developers describe the device online this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Petri dishes, used to grow cell cultures such…
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Low-Cost Tablet Gets Hands-On Tests in Indian Schools
Researchers have tested in India an electronic tablet device designed in the U.S. and Singapore for widespread use in Indian schools. The I-slate is being developed at the Institute for Sustainable and Applied Infodynamics (ISAID), a joint program of Rice University in Houston, Texas and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. The device, still a…
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Brain Circuit Model Helps Understand Parkinson’s Disease
Researchers from Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis have developed a mathematical model of the brain’s neural circuitry to better understand information disruptions in the brains of Parkinson’s disease patients. Their findings appear in the journal Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (paid subscription required). Mathematical sciences professor Leonid Rubchinsky (pictured left) examined the exchange…
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Semiconductor Companies to Invest $4.4B in New York R&D
Five semiconductor developers said today they will make a joint investment of $4.4 billion over the next five years to develop new computer chip technologies in New York State. The companies include Intel Corporation, IBM, GlobalFoundries, Samsung, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). The investments will be made in current and upgraded facilities in Albany,…
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NSF Grant to Fund Research on Power Distribution
A team of engineers and computer scientists at Kansas State University in Manhattan have received a $1.1 grant to research better ways of distributing solar power to homes and businesses. The grant, funded by National Science Foundation’s Cyber-Physical Systems program, aims to give utilities generating solar energy better tools for managing and distributing this power.…
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NYU to Study Response of Rice to Environmental Change
The National Science Foundation’s Plant Genome Research Program has awarded a $3.6 million grant to New York University to study the response of rice to environmental change. NYU’s Michael Purugganan and Richard Bonneau, who are part of the university’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, will head the study, and collaborate with Endang Septiningsih of…