ICT-STREAMS, a part of the European Union Horizon 2020 program, is a new three-year project launched on 1 February (followed by a kick-off meeting at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece on 24-25 February) with the goal of ...
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A team at IBM Research's Zurich Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon, Switzerland, with support from the firm's T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, has developed what it says is a relatively simple, robust and ...
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The computing and telecoms industries are developing systems to store information in the cloud and analyze enormous amounts of data. IBM Research says that it has demonstrated what could be a key step toward commercializing this next ...
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Scientists from IBM Research and Mars established the “Consortium for Sequencing the Food Supply Chain,” a collaborative food safety platform that will leverage advances in genomics to better understand and improve food safety. ...
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Airlight Energy of Biasca, Switzerland, which supplies proprietary technology for large-scale production of electricity using solar power and for energy storage, has partnered with IBM Research, aiming to bring affordable solar technology ...
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IBM is investing $3bn over the next 5 years in two broad research and early-stage development programs to push the limits of chip technology needed to meet the emerging demands of cloud computing and ‘big data’ systems. The ...
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FinScale Inc of Livermore, CA, USA, which develops and licenses device and process innovations for the semiconductor industry, has announced availability of its qFinFET technology, a next-generation 3D MOSFET architecture and manufacturable ...
Researchers in Switzerland and Norway have used strain to alter the light-emitting properties of gallium arsenide (GaAs) nanowires [G. Signorello et al, Nature Communications, vol5, p3655, published online 10 Apr 2014]. The researchers from ...
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IBM Research's Thomas J. Watson Research Center and Northwestern University have developed a technique to grow hexagonal- and cubic-phase gallium nitride (h-/c-GaN) on standard (100) silicon (Si) [Can Bayram et al, Adv. Funct. Mater., ...
According to a new IBM study, 82 percent of CFOs see the value of integrating enterprise-wide data, but only 24 percent think their team is up to the task. This marks a 205 percent increase in the gap between the importance of data and ...
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IBM has set a new speed record for data transmission over multimode optical fiber (which is typically used to connect nearby computers within a single building or on a campus). The researchers reckon that the achievement demonstrated that ...
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IBM has built on their previous graphene research and developed what is being reported as the best graphene-based integrated circuit (IC) built to date, with 10 000 times better performance than previously reported efforts. This ...
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OhioHealth and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a collaboration to aid in the prevention of infections using a first-of-a-kind network of wireless sensors and real-time Big Data analytics that measure hand-washing practices. OhioHealth will ...
The computing cloud may feel intangible to users, but it has a definite physical form and a corresponding carbon footprint. Facebook's data centers, for example, were responsible for the emission of 298 000 metric tons of carbon dioxide in ...
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You might not know what "lattice-matched heterojunctions" are, but if you stopped at a new stoplight, played a DVD or used a laser pointer, you've made use of technology pioneered by Jerry Woodall, distinguished professor of electrical and ...