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Planetarium Increases Rendering Speeds for Faster Creation of Astronomy Shows
White Paper Beijing Planetarium is a leader in public astronomy and one of Beijing's most popular attractions, with a digital space theater, three-dimensional and four-dimensional theaters, and two observatories. [27 Feb 2009]
Big Blue to help decode the Big Bang?
News IBM and European astronomy organisation Astron are collaborating on designing a microprocessor that will help antennas collect weak radio signals from deep space, in an attempt to learn what happened at the time of the... [06 Dec 2006]
Mobile ban highlights radio pollution danger
News Cranage Hall conference centre is now obliged to stay in regular contact with Nuffield Radio Astronomy Labs - which runs Jodrell Bank - to try to minimise the problem. A spokesman for the University of Manchester's... [27 Jul 1998]
Cambridge speedy software brings out the stars
Case Study The Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit (Casu) - part of the university's Institute of Astronomy - is testing the Kognitio WX2 database system with legacy data. Another advantage of the WX2 is it does away with the... [16 Apr 2007]
Petabyte Scale Data Mining: Dream or Reality?
White Paper The astronomy datasets with tens of millions of galaxies already present substantial challenges for data mining. Science is becoming very data intensive. In less than 10 years the catalogs are expected to grow to... [06 Oct 2008]
A Converged Infrastructure Helps Researchers Explore the Origins of the Universe
White Paper That's precisely the challenge facing ASTRON, the Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy. To be prepared for the future, it's essential to have a detailed understanding of the past. The institute wanted to... [25 May 2007]
Information Architecture Essentials, Part 6: Distributed Data Mining
White Paper Such massive information stores are often found in research applications (such as biology, medicine, physics, and astronomy) and government agencies (such as the IRS, Department of Defense, and Department of Labor). [26 Apr 2008]
Grid seeks bird flu cure
News The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (Pparc) said on Thursday that it put up a grid computing project, which was originally designed for particle physicists to perform data searches, for an international... [05 May 2006]
Instructional Design Strategies for Instructional Technologies Utilizing Data Visualization
White Paper Astronomy is a natural fit with digital technologies - CCDs, image processing, super computer applications, simulations, etc. "Digital learning resources" are the latest craze in the instructional technology community. [13 Oct 2008]
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News The computer will also be used for research into astronomy, energy, human genome science and climate change, IBM said in a statement. Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop - 1,000... [11 Jun 2008]
Don Grice
AS Profile Roadrunner ensures the safety and reliability of the US's nuclear weapons stockpile, as well as enables research into astronomy, energy, human genome science and climate change. IBM lifer Don Grice is chief engineer of... [07 Oct 2008]
Record industry picking the wrong fight... again, again
News On Monday, the RIAA withdrew a DMCA notice to Penn State University's astronomy and astrophysics department. The music industry's antipiracy efforts took an embarrassing turn on Tuesday when the Recording Industry... [14 May 2003]
Photos: Searching for extra terrestrial intelligence
Photo The Allen Telescope Array is a joint project between Seti and UC Berkeley's Astronomy department, and it is funded largely by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The Hat Creek Radio Observatory, in Northern California, is... [18 Dec 2008]
Gates: Software innovation poses privacy challenge
News He explained: "Even in a field like astronomy, it's not just looking through an eyepiece but testing theories, and software lets you do that. As software gets more powerful, privacy issues pose "an interesting software... [14 Aug 2008]
Ofcom: Digital dividend up for grabs to highest bidder
News Not all of that 128MHz comes from the digital switchover itself - 8MHz will come from clearing aeronautical radar from "channel 36", and 8MHz "will be cleared as a result of the decision by the authorities responsible for UK's radio... [09 Jun 2008]
