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Mobile Social Computing To Bridge An Ethnic Divide -- Mobile Social Computing --…: Jul 18, 8:14pm 1 review computers, internet, world, development, os
http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/hosted_apps/showArticle.jhtml?ar...; From the page: "On Thursday, TransMedia launched the Glide OS World Development Program (GWDP) to make mobile computing more accessible in developing countries. Working in conjunction with various non-profit culturally-oriented foundations, the company has released Glide Kosovo and Glide Albania, local language versions of the Glide Web-based mobile application suite. "

Computers Used To Hone Cancer-fighting Strategies: Jul 18, 8:12pm 1 review cancer, computers, doctors, medicine
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080702141425.htm; Cool!

Refrigerator technology to cool computers | NetworkWorld.com Community: Jun 21, 2:59am 1 review business, computers, heat, purdue, cooling
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/29080; From the page: "Researchers today said they are working on a way to use tiny refrigerator components to cool computers, a move they say would increase system performance and shrink the size of the devices. Researchers at Purdue University said they have developed miniature refrigerator technology such as compressors and evaporators to cool computer innards. Researchers said they have developed a model for designing tiny compressors that pump refrigerants using penny-size diaphragms made of ultra-thin sheets of a plastic called polyimide and coated with an electrically conducting metallic layer to help remove heat. Miniature refrigeration would dramatically increase how much heat could be removed, said Suresh Garimella, the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue. Conventional cooling systems typically use a fan to circulate air through finned devices called heat sinks attached to computer chips typically reducing heat to room temperature. The ability to cool below ambient temperature could result in smaller, more powerful computers and also could improve reliability by reducing long-term damage to chips caused by heating, researchers said. One complication is that the technology would require many diaphragms operating in parallel to pump a large enough volume of refrigerant for the cooling system, researcher noted. Another challenge is to build very small compressors that run efficiently and reliably for a long period of time. Researchers said they performed laboratory experiments with the diaphragms, developed a computational model for designing the compressor and validated the model with data from the lab. Findings showed that it is feasible to design a prototype system small enough to fit in a laptop, Garimella said. The model enables the engineers to optimize the design, determining how many diaphragms to use and how to stack them, either parallel to each other or in series. Manufacturing the devices at low cost is another major challenge, with industry requiring a cost of about $30 each, researchers said." Cool!

Nvidia blows out Moore's Law with fresh Tesla | The Register: Jun 16, 9:14pm 3 reviews computers, information, hardware, processing
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/16/nvidia_tesla_10/; Nvidia pitches its Tesla hardware as a magical solution for the world's toughest computing problems. Just move your code that runs well across many processors over to the Tesla boards, and Shazam!. You enjoy sometimes 400 per cent improvements in overall performance. Despite such mind-blowing increases in horsepower, Tesla continues to occupy a space that one could characterize as ultra-niche. Only the brave few have navigated Nvidia's CUDA programming apparatus to tweak their code for the general purpose graphics processors inside of the Tesla systems. That ultra-niche, however, may grow into a niche over the coming year thanks to the introduction of more powerful Tesla systems. Key to the release today of the Tesla-10 Series processor is the presence of 64-bit, double-precision floating point support. This upgrade lets Nvidia take better care of high performance computing customers - those who make heavy use of mathematical operations - who will likely drive Tesla's early success. Interesting stuff!

Think Artificial: Jun 15, 7:46pm 4 reviews ai, computers, cool, creativity, tech
http://www.thinkartificial.org/; Really cool stuff found here - impressive!

Free Geek Vancouver | Ethical Computer Recycling for Vancouver: Jun 4, 10:03pm 2 reviews business, computers, canada, world, ewaste
http://freegeekvancouver.org/; Canada is a major illegal exporter of hazardous wastes, with smugglers and brokers outpacing enforcement officials. In 2006, during Canada's only enforcement effort to date, federal agencies seized 50 containers with 500,000 kg of ewaste at the Port of Vancouver; 27 Canadian companies settled out of court for about $2000 apiece; Ottawa still refuses to release their names. [read story] A good initiative!

University of Antwerp makes 4000EUR NVIDIA supercomputer: May 31, 8:58pm 3 reviews computers, supercomputing, energy, world, eu
http://www.dvhardware.net/article27538.html; Cool stuff here!

Carbon nanoribbons hold out possibility of smaller, speedier computer chips: May 28, 10:05pm 1 review computers, science, usa, stanford, chips
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/may28/ribbon-052808.html; Stanford chemists have developed a new way to make transistors out of carbon nanoribbons. The devices could someday be integrated into high-performance computer chips to increase their speed and generate less heat, which can damage today's silicon-based chips when transistors are packed together tightly. Good news from Stanford

Games to make computers smarter: May 18, 6:52pm 1 review ai, computers, science, games, cmu
http://www.primidi.com/2008/05/18.html; From the page: "The Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist who gave us Peekaboom and worked on the "distorted letter" tests called CAPTCHAs, is back with several new games. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, he just launched a new site where you can play to so-called GWAPS -- short for "games with a purpose." These multi-player free online games are intended to "help improve Internet image and audio searches, enhance artificial intelligence and teach computers to see," said the researcher."

Microsoft tries to put a ceiling on ultra-low-cost PC power - Boing Boing: May 12, 7:25pm 1 review business, computers, usa, microsoft, world
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/12/microsoft-tries-to-p.html; From the page: "Microsoft is trying to distort the market for cheap, tiny laptops by setting up artificial incentives to manufacturers to limit the power and capability of their lowest-cost units -- even if a vendor can figure out how to put more storage, a bigger screen, or a touchscreen into its machines, Microsoft doesn't want it there, and they'll punish any vendor that tries by refusing to license XP Home Edition on the same preferential terms that lower-spec machines get. The key term here ls "Ultra Low Cost" -- note that this is not the same as "Ultra Low Spec. The primary market for these super-cheap machines are kids and poor people, and they'll be the collateral damage in Microsoft's crusade. If Microsoft wants to set up a licensing program for low cost machines, then cost should be the limiting factor, not power." I hope Microsoft understands the issues involved here better