Co-funded by the Government's 'Employers Ownership of Skills' programme and the glass industry, The Glass Academy is a multi-million pound initiative aimed at reinvigorating the glass manufacturing sector by providing the highest quality ...
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) installed 48 Incito™ LED downlights embedded with nLIGHT® lighting controls from Acuity Brands Inc. (NYSE: AYI) as part of the University's renovation of the Great Dome in the Barker ...
Inspired by nature, conserved by our Conservation team: uncover the story behind this fragile Chinese artefact. Acquired in 1969, this delicate Chinese headdress is magnificently decorated with feathers from kingfisher birds. Centuries ...
The way Peace Frogs history goes, a group of college students sat around a dorm room in 1985 at the University of Virginia discussing a start-up idea by Catesby Jones – make and sell shorts fashioned out of the flags of different ...
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LED lighting has accomplished some great things since its introduction to the lighting market over the past few years. Sure LEDs were around before then, but the incandescent squeeze is what really prompted alternative forms of lighting to ...
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Some 1960s "plate glass" universities are challenging the big names Jul 6th 2013 |From the print edition Tweet..EVERY year newspapers and college guides rank British universities according to the exam results of the students they admit, ...
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Monday morning, Microsoft announced that a plethora of new channel partners will?soon carry the company's Surface tablets. Mere hours later, one of the new resellers – CDW – was caught offering a previously unannounced variant ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that in second-quarter 2013 it delivered a Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) reactor (ordered in fourth-quarter 2012) to the ...
PMMI: The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies will take a select group of packaging students and professors on a six-day tour of packaging industry end users and manufacturers in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas in the "How ...
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Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that state’s three new Advanced Manufacturing Centers at community colleges across Connecticut will receive $7,325,000 in funding for facility and equipment upgrades that will ...
Every Los Angeles school student will be given an iPad with the forging of a record $US30 million contract. The Los Angeles Board of Education said it had approved the purchase of $30 million worth of iPads as the first part of a ...
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Microsoft let slip its plans for the future life of its ARM-powered Surface RT device recently, during a keynote speech at TechEd Europe 2013 e-learning and and education technology summit. When Computing asked Microsoft strategic ...
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Microsoft today confirmed that it has heavily discounted the Surface RT tablet to universities and K-12 schools, cutting the price of the entry-level model by 60%. It was the third time within a month that Microsoft has launched a Surface ...
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New RPI research proves the concept of integrating LED emitters on the same chip with other electronic components such as transistors, while other new research focuses on maximizing the light extraction efficiency of LEDs and lowering cost ...
Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are the most efficient and environmentally friendly light bulbs on the market. But they come at a higher up-front price than other bulbs, especially the ones with warmer and more appealing hues. Researchers ...
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