01/06/09
Yissum, the technology transfer arm of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is launching a million-dollar program to support the development of clean-tech inventions by scientists at the university. Initially, five technologies have been chosen for funding, three of which aim to reduce the polluting effects of toxic substances and create alternative, clean energy sources.
01/05/09
Irkutsk State Technical University in Eastern Siberia will be running well log and petrophysical analysis software through a donation from Paradigm, which publishes global oil and natural gas exploration and production applications.
01/05/09
Moscow Municipal University of Psychology and Education in Russia and the University of Trento in Italy have both ordered magneto encephalography (MEG) technology from Elekta Neuromag, which provides equipment for non-invasive measurement of brain activity.
01/05/09
Paper-bound humans may find relief from their accumulations of sticky notes, business cards, and to-do lists if an MIT computer science professor succeeds in a new initiative. David Karger, a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), has created List.it, a simple program to capture all kinds of information scraps and to-do lists.
12/12/08
The Georgia Tech College of Computing, working in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has developed a Web-based tool for tracking blood safety. The program is expected to help developing countries improve the adequacy and safety of their national blood supplies through better monitoring and evaluation.
12/11/08
An MIT graduate student has developed a methodology for automatically constructing computer models that can accurately describe the behavior of complex systems with very little background information. The work has numerous potential applications, from enabling oil companies to get a clearer picture of where oil might be located underground to allowing port operators to spot suspicious behaviors.
12/11/08
The Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University and HP are showing off a prototype of flexible electronic displays that the two organizations claim are unbreakable. Made almost entirely of plastic, the displays are portable, consume less power than current computer displays, and use up to 90 percent less materials by volume. Popular applications for the technology could include electronic paper and signage.
12/10/08
California Institute of Technology's (Caltech) Atwater Research Group has chosen eTouch SamePage enterprise wiki for the group's internal communications. Atwater is engaged in interdisciplinary materials and device research, spanning photonics and electronics and with applications in Si-based photonics, plasmonics, renewable energy, and mechanically active thin film devices.
12/10/08
Innovation First, which produces educational and competitive robotics products, has announced the pilot season for the VEX Robotics Competition College Challenge. The competition will pit students from up to 36 colleges and universities against each other, all vying to become the inaugural world champion.
12/09/08
The Khronos Group has ratified and released OpenCL 1.0, an open specification aimed at enabling parallel programming across multi-core CPUs and GPUs. GPU heavyweights AMD and Nvidia came out immediately with support for the spec Tuesday, along with plans for products to support developers. AMD said it's backing OpenCL 1.0 and will "integrate a compliant compiler and runtime into the free ATI Stream Software Development Kit." Nvidia, meanwhile, said its CUDA parallel computing technology will "seamlessly run OpenCL."