Identity theft, cancer detection among interactive demos at UH event
...on the research demonstrations to win software and hardware prizes totaling $5,000. Area high school students will be eligible for a group programming contest that carries a first-place prize of $2,400, with six $1,000 tuition scholarships for first and second place team members who plan to enroll in the UH ...From climate dynamics to educational research...
...ed to handle ever increasing quantities of data on hardware that is becoming more and more complex. So far, algorithmics has often developed highly simplified models. The goal of the Priority Programme "Algorithm Engineering" is to bridge the gap between theory and practice. The key to achieving this is a bro...Supercomputers to transform science
...." ClusterVision will supply, deliver, install the hardware and support the three clusters which will all run the ClusterVisionOSTM cluster suite of management and monitoring tools. Access to the computers will be available across the University's dedicated campus research network. "The solution put forward b...Sandia tool speeds up environmental cleanup, reopening of contaminated facilities
...nd safe to reoccupy. Sophisticated yet easy-to-use hardware "Collecting samples from a contaminated facility is currently a painstaking, time-consuming process for HazMat responders," says Jane Ann Lamph, a Sandia engineer and business development associate leading the BROOM commercialization effort. BROOM ma...From basic science to the bedside: APS conference takes stock of lung disease
...nt advances in bioinformatics (the use of computer hardware and software to analyze large amounts of biological information). It is now possible to find the proverbial needle in a haystack by analyzing "tons of data," said J. Usha Raj, the chief of neonatology at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, professor of pedia...Seafloor observatory opens portal to the Pacific
...ind the scenes, there is an extensive software and hardware infrastructure designed to collect data from the various instruments and store them for 20 or more years." VENUS instruments collect several gigabytes of information every 24 hours. In its four-and-a-half months of operation, VENUS has already archi......r the food and farming industries. "The initial hardware cost of an MSDD system is higher than methyl bromide, but the cost of chemicals is much cheaper, so that eventually it would pay for itself", Essert told Chemistry & Industry. Around $20 - $40 worth of methyl bromide is needed to fumigate one pallet ...Microscopic passengers to hitch ride on space shuttle
...s will be contained in Group Activation Pack (GAP) hardware that provides three levels of containment, they will pose no threat of exposure to the astronauts. A total of 12 GAPs will fly on the upcoming mission. "Spaceflight has been shown to induce key changes in both human and microbial cells that are di...NIH director announces 2006 Pioneer Award recipients
... of bioengineering, who will develop a specialized hardware platform for the detailed simulation of the inner workings of the brain's cortex. Arup K. Chakraborty, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Biological Engineering, who wil...'Nanorust' cleans arsenic from drinking water
...are ways to remove arsenic, they require extensive hardware and high-pressure pumps that run on electricity," said center director and lead author Vicki Colvin. "Our approach is simple and requires no electricity. While the nanoparticles used in the publication are expensive, we are working on new approaches ...Technique quickly identifies bacteria for food safety, health care and homeland security
...This method could be applied very soon because the hardware is already available," Cooks said. The DESI instrument and mass spectrometer used in the research are housed at the Bindley Bioscience Center at Purdue's Discovery Park. Cooks also is leading work to build miniature versions of the normally bulky...Scientists rehearse for Foton mission
...actice the preparation of their samples and flight hardware - an important part of the time-critical countdown to launch. Punctual departure The simulation - known as the 'Science Verification Test' - will exactly follow the timeline planned for the real flight in September. Counting back from the launch, ...Largest physics meeting of the year, in Denver
...COMPUTER HARDWARE Physicists are pursuing several hardware options for making truly powerful quantum computers that would fulfill their potential of performing ultra-fast database searches, rapidly cracking secret encrypted codes, and greatly improving molecular-level simulations for designing drugs and othe...Press conferences at the year's largest physics meeting
...r's David Wineland will discuss progress in making hardware for quantum computers and information processors. His group works on ion traps, presently the most technically advanced quantum-computer approach and he will present a promising new multiple-electrode, single-plane ion-trap design that potentially ...Darwin's famous finches and Venter's marine microbes
...n Carlsbad, California. The company specializes in hardware that accelerates genomic searches. "We only have one of their accelerators, but Time Logic stepped up and lent us eight more," says Manning. The final computation took two weeks, but would have taken well over a century on a traditional computer. ......aksis. Their Genome Flow instrument, which employs hardware from FIALab Instruments of Bellevue, Washington, has one moving part, the syringe pump. It allows samples to be automatically quantitated, a necessary step in the Genomic Assay because samples must be brought to a standard concentration, so they can ...