L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) announced today that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has begun testing its L-3 ProVision millimeter wave (MMW) body screening portals at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport (PHX). The portals will be offered as a voluntary alternative to a pat-down secondary screening.

Supercomputers keep growing ever faster, racing along at the blazing speed of nearly one petaflops – 10 to the fifteenth, or one thousand trillion calculations per second – equivalent to around 250 thousand of today’s laptops. In contrast, the experience of a computational scientist can be anything but fast -- waiting hours or days in a queue for a job to run and yield precious results needed for further steps.

IBM and Mainsoft Corporation, an independent software and IBM business partner, today announced that the Belgian University Hospital Ghent (UZ Gent) has chosen IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 to develop a self-service virtual information center for its 5,000 staff members, students, healthcare professionals, plus more than 380,000 patients and their families that visit the hospital each year.