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Internet gurus aim for the stars
News ET may not be able to phone home anytime soon, but the lovable alien may be able to send email--if a draft proposal released this week for an interplanetary Internet takes flight.
Sun's Fortran replacement goes open source
News Good-bye Fortran, hello Fortress? Server maker seeks open-source help building alternative to decades-old programming language.
Tags: Programming languages, Open source
Start-up warms up personal robots
News Silicon Valley company started by a Google veteran plans to make its robotics software open source.
Tags: Open source
IBM: Computing rivaling human brain may be ready by 2019
News Leading scientist, working with colleagues from several top universities, has pioneered computational analysis that rivals that of a cat's cortex. Human brain could be just a decade away.
Tags: Supercomputing, Multiprocessor servers, Brain, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Computing, Computer, DARPA, financial system, financial
IBM gets DARPA cognitive computing contract
News Initiative is first of several phases intended to eventually reproduce the computing power of the brain, as well as its efficiency.
Tags: Supercomputing, Brain, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Computing, Tool, DARPA, Computer, News.com, blog
Intel makes quantum leap in fiber optic detectors
News The company has developed silicon-based photoelectric detectors that can cut the cost of fiber-optic communications to a fraction of their current value.
Tags: Processors, Video, Intel Corp., Fiber-optics, Fiber, Device, Photonics, Fiber-optic Communication, DARPA, Mario Paniccia
Google hires Net pioneer Vint Cerf
News Cerf, who co-designed TCP/IP, will help Google develop architectures, systems and standards for next-generation applications.
Tags: Web sites, Web services, Executive recruiting
Grateful for robot contest, entrants give tanks
News More than 100 teams have applied to enter a robotic-car contest sponsored by the research wing of the Defense Department, prompting the agency to extend some deadlines.
Sun knocked out of DARPA supercomputer project
News IBM and Cray each get multimillion-dollar awards to keep working on completing supercomputers, but Sun is left out of the running.
Tags: Supercomputing, Government
Open-source team fights buffer overflows
News The OpenBSD project hopes new changes to its latest release will eliminate a software issue that has been plaguing security experts for more than three decades.
Sun shows off its proximity communication silicon
News Getting rid of the tiny wires inside computers would greatly improve performance. Sun Microsystems wants to do that with proximity communication, but it will take time.
Tags: Processors
Cars and stars as Google's Page takes the stage
News Not to be outdone by other companies' star power, Larry Page shares keynote spotlight with Robin Williams--and a robotic car.
Tags: Search
IBM wants to power down computers
News Big Blue enlists the Defense Department's research unit--plus US$2 million in cash--to help curb computers' growing appetite for power. Does the effort fly in the face of history?
Giant robots in the backyard
News In the back of Carlos Owens' southern Alaska yard, an 18-foot-tall steel robot is taking shape in the dim light of the winter afternoons.
Intel hammering out robot standards
News Intel is developing standards for building inexpensive robots that eventually could automatically inspect industrial equipment or take aerial photographs.
