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Intel finds hot oil helps servers keep their cool
11 Sep 2012
Intel recently completed a year-long test using a liquid cooling technique in which servers were placed in a custom-server rack filled with mineral oil
Researchers uncover the full scale and weaknesses of the monitoring of illegal file sharers
07 Sep 2012
Researchers uncover the full scale and weaknesses of the monitoring of illegal file sharers
07 Sep 2012
Making Web applications more efficient
By By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 01 Sep 2012
A new system that automatically streamlines database access patterns can make large Web applications up to three times as fast
Computing in the net of possibilities
23 Aug 2012
The complex network computer processes information in a fundamentally new way – and could one day rival today's computers
Intel hires hackers to secure cars from computer viruses
21 Aug 2012
Intel Corp has tasked a group of top hackers at a West Coast garage to look for electronic bugs that could make automobiles vulnerable to lethal computer viruses
New software helps deliver more silent drives
18 Aug 2012
Smart wireless power outlets
14 Aug 2012
Writing graphics software gets much easier
04 Aug 2012
Networcsim hoping to broaden wireless revolution
01 Aug 2012
Single-photon transmitter could enable new quantum devices
26 Jul 2012
Long-sought goal for quantum devices — the ability to transmit single photons while blocking multiple photons — has finally been achieved, writes David L. Chandler from MIT News Office
Molecule changes magnetism and conductance
23 Jul 2012
Molecule changes magnetism and conductance
23 Jul 2012
NaCl to give way to RockSalt: tool to improve software fault isolation
21 Jul 2012
A team led by Harvard computer scientists, including two undergraduate students, has developed a new tool that could lead to increased security and enhanced performance for commonly used web and mobile applications
Chips with self-assembling rectangles
By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 19 Jul 2012
Researchershave developed a new approach to creating the complex array of wires and connections on microchips, using a system of self-assembling polymers that could lead to a way of making more densely packed components on memory chips and other devices
Chips with self-assembling rectangles
By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 19 Jul 2012
Researchershave developed a new approach to creating the complex array of wires and connections on microchips, using a system of self-assembling polymers that could lead to a way of making more densely packed components on memory chips and other devices
New techniques for spintronics and quantum computing
10 Jul 2012
Researchers are working on techniques to sidestep the limits to miniaturisation, to encourage the creation of the next generation of faster and smaller electronic devices
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