Lagos Analysis Corp. (LANCOR) files lawsuit against Nicholas Negroponte and OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Association for patent infringement. Negroponte's OLPC is accused of unauthorized use of LANCOR's Multilingual Keyboard Technology invention in XO Laptop computers.
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is taking its nuclear energy research into new territory – virtual territory that is.
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Chancellor of computer at the faculty of Science and Technology University Mohsen Sharifi who got his Ph.D on a parallel high performance machine has invented a new system which increases the speed of personal computers (PC) to those of super computers, it was announced on Saturday.
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With more than one-third of U.S. adults (35 percent) now owning more than one home computer, households have an increasing need to simplify the way they secure and care for all their PCs. Microsoft Corp. today released the next version of the Windows Live OneCare service.
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IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) Blue Gene®/L supercomputer sprinted to a new world record as it continued its four-year domination of the official TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list. The world’s fastest computer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is now nearly three times faster than the rest of the pack.
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Want to help unravel the mysteries of the universe" A new distributed computing project designed by a University of Illinois researcher allows people around the world to participate in cutting-edge cosmology research by donating their unused computing cycles.
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With the aid of more than 70,000 home computer users throughout the world, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have, for the first time, accurately predicted the three-dimensional structure of a small, naturally occurring globular protein using only its amino acid sequence.
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A collaboration of University of Pennsylvania chemists and engineers has performed multi-scale modeling of ferroelectric domain walls and provided a new theory of behavior for domain-wall motion, the "sliding wall" that separates ferroelectric domains and makes high-density ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM) possible.
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Scientists at Florida State University’s National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and the university’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry have introduced a new material that could be to computers of the future what silicon is to the computers of today.
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Tufts University researchers are developing techniques that could allow computers to respond to users’ thoughts of frustration — too much work — or boredom—too little work. Applying non-invasive and easily portable imaging technology in new ways, they hope to gain real-time insight into the brain’s more subtle emotional cues and help provide a more efficient way to get work done.
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Computer giant Dell Inc. announced a deal Monday with China's largest electronics retailer to sell PCs in stores throughout the country as the world's second-largest computer maker tries to expand in the booming Chinese market.
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