Several readers have sent in news of a presentation at the Black Hat security conference from a diabetic security researcher, Jerome Radcliffe, who is looking into the security of automated insulin pumps. While most of the headlines are sensationalist, ...
Feed Item - 5 August 2011
French high performance computing vendor Bull announced its HPC cloud service, eXtreme Factory at SC10, emphasizing its value for simulation-driven customers. This week we checked in on progress with the company's head of HPC, Pascal Barbolosi, to see h ...
Feed Item - 17 May 2011
When it comes to driving, there’s always a lot of talk about teens, elderly people and women. Is there such a big differnce? The Auto Insurance , Interbent and Swerve take on this issue, with some interesting stats and facts that might surpri ...
Feed Item - 26 July 2011
An anonymous reader writes "Scientists have developed a porous chip that can identify liquids instantaneously. Each liquid's distinct surface tension determines how much it seeps into the pores of the chip, which the chip uses to tell liquids apart. The ...
Feed Item - 4 August 2011
Visu2011 will be on the12th of October, and features the french community of information visualization and computer graphics specialists. Attendees will get details on a good collection of topics including: · Techniques visualization adapted to the ne ...
Feed Item - 25 July 2011
Click for FullsizeInsideHPC dug up a nice paper from the ACM PLDI conference that discusses a prototype CPU-GPU Communication optimization tool called ‘CGCM’. From their conclusions:CGCM has two parts, a run-time library and an optimizing compiler. ...
Feed Item - 25 July 2011
Today's promised mystery announcement from NASA has finally been made: dotancohen writes "A NASA orbiter has found possible evidence for water on the surface of Mars that flows seasonally. The water likely would be salty, in keeping with the salty Marti ...
Feed Item - 4 August 2011
isgtw: German team build ‘metadictionary’ to study word variance in all German regions over 500 years - fantastisch! http://t.co/yG5f9U4 #TextGrid ...
Feed Item - 13 July 2011
isgtw: Scientists recreate extreme conditions of early universe to ‘map’ changes in quark-gluon plasma. http://t.co/xHUCzgf @RHIC_STAR ...
Feed Item - 13 July 2011
[ I am pleased to see that UCAN has established a committee to look at the long term financial sustainability of UCAN ( http://www.usucan.org/ ) . The deliberations and output of this committee will not only benefit UCAN but R&E networks around th ...
Feed Item - 26 February 2011