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News After all, they have regular access to superstar teachers like George Smoot, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics; Dan Kammen, co-director of the Berkeley... [21 Aug 2009]
Cern ready to restart LHC at half power this year
News After a year of setbacks, Cern plans to restart its Large Hadron Collider in November at a tempo that won't overtax the machinery behind the giant particle physics experiment. The collider, located deep underground on... [10 Aug 2009]
Android development kit goes native
News Some examples are signal processing, intensive physics simulations, and some kinds of data processing. A native application development kit has been released for Android developers, offering a way to create certain kinds... [26 Jun 2009]
Intel: From silicon company - to software company?
News Starting years ago from basic ingredients such as programming utilities, Intel has expanded its software work - for example by pushing the moblin mobile Linux project and bulking up its Software and Services Group via a spending spree... [05 Jun 2009]
The tech that lifts Pixar's Up
News Instead, the studio's computer whizzes figured out a way to turn the problem over to a programmed physical simulator, which, employing Newtonian physics, was able to address the animation problem. These are relatively... [28 May 2009]
Budget: £750m cash injection for UK tech
News On e-skills the budget mentioned a £3m scheme to provide training for science teachers, a pilot programme to encourage science take-up in 20 local authorities and an additional £2m to be invested in providing support to encourage... [22 Apr 2009]
Robot scientist makes gene discovery - without humans
News While it may not win the Nobel Prize for physics just yet, Adam appears to be doing impressively well for a young scientist, carrying out scientific research automatically, without the need for further human intervention. [03 Apr 2009]
Kurzweil and friends launch Silicon Valley university
News Among the faculty are George Smoot, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics; Vint Cerf, Google's chief internet evangelist; and Stephanie Langhoff, Nasa Ames'... [03 Feb 2009]
Mobile broadband: You get more data for less lucre
News While it can be tweaked and optimised, with more spectrum and Mimo [X] and improved coding and other tricks, the laws of physics start to intervene… Mobile operators are being warned not to overreach themselves on mobile... [04 Dec 2008]
BlackBerry apps get their own online store
News The key to successful BlackBerry development isn't just good programming, Lazaridis told the room, it's physics. These are the four principles of BlackBerry's "physics", he said. RIM has announced two... [22 Oct 2008]
Business tech born in Cern's Big Bang lab
News Cutting edge particle physics is being used to hone new technology that will eventually make its way into enterprises. The Cern nuclear physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland is helping the tech... [17 Oct 2008]
IT teacher applications continue to decline
News Only physics has a bigger decline in applications, with a drop off of 27.5 per cent. And while the situation in this region has improved slightly - applications are now down 15.8 per cent - IT applications in England are... [01 Jul 2008]
Bank admits rising leccy bills on 'green' data centre
News At the end of the day, I am bound by the laws of physics. Banking group Citi is on the verge of completing a major sustainable data centre project but has admitted the power requirements of its IT equipment are... [14 Apr 2008]
Berners-Lee bigs up the 'semantic web'
News Berners-Lee proposed the world wide web in 1989 while working as a software engineer at the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Speaking at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts,... [13 Mar 2008]
Fall in students applying to be IT teachers
News Only physics, business studies, biology and chemistry show bigger drop-offs in teacher training applications so far this year. The skills shortage could be set to take a turn for the worse if an early year drop in the... [07 Feb 2008]
