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Maryland Professor Creates Desktop Supercomputer Prototype
College Park MD (SPX) Jun 28, 2007A prototype of what may be the next generation of personal computers has been developed by researchers in the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering. Capable of computing speeds 100 times faster than current desktops, the technology is based on parallel processing on a single chip. Parallel processing is an approach that allows the computer to perform many different tasks ... more Team SpelBots Take On Robotic Titans At RoboCup 2007 
Atlanta GA (SPX) Jun 28, 2007The history-making Spelman College robotics soccer team competes again at the world's most-renowned competition for research robotics. Once again, SpelBots, the history-making Spelman College robotics soccer team, return to the international stage at RoboCup 2007. This year, the team competes in the inaugural Microsoft Robotics Studio Soccer Challenge demonstration and the Four-Legged Robot Tech ... more KVH TracVision Systems Selected By Monaco Coaches 
Middletown, RI (SPX) Jun 28, 2007KVH Industries reports that Monaco Coach, a leading manufacturer of recreational vehicles and the United States' largest builder of Class A motor coaches, will add the KVH TracVision R-series of mobile satellite TV systems to their new 2008 vehicles. Commenting on the addition of TracVision systems to Monaco's 2008 coaches, Mike Snell, Monaco's vice president of sales, said, "Our motorhome owne ... more NASA Selects Reynolds To Design Emergency Egress System For Orion Astronauts 
Jacksonville FL (SPX) Jun 28, 2007Reynolds, Smith and Hills, a leading facilities and infrastructure consulting firms whose client-centered program structure provides value-added solutions to clients around the world, announced it has been selected by NASA to design the Emergency Egress System for Orion, the next generation space exploration vehicle that is expected to launch in 2014. The new escape system will allow astronauts ... more Development Contracts Signed For Future European Launchers 
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 28, 2007This week, ESA signed two key contracts with NGL Prime S.p.A. of Italy, one for the definition of launcher system concepts for the European Next Generation Launcher and the other for the development of a European Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV). Both contracts are part of ESA's Future Launchers Preparatory Programme (FLPP), which aim is to develop and demonstrate the technologies for a N ... more |
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St. Louis MO (SPX) Jun 28, 2007Boeing has successfully demonstrated the simultaneous command and control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) by a single operator, using advanced autonomous control software, three ScanEagle aircraft and an Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) console. This next-generation capability will enhance interoperability with current and future command and control systems through an ... more Rice Eyes US-India Nuclear Deal This Year 
Washington (AFP) June 27, 2007US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that a "historic" nuclear energy pact with India could be clinched this year with enough commitment from both sides. "Had this been easy, it would have been done a long time ago," Rice told the US-India Business Council, while trumpeting the deal's benefits both to fast-growing India's energy needs and to US nuclear companies. "I myself ... more NASA Airborne Expedition Chases Climate And Ozone Questions 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 28, 2007NASA's Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling (TC4) field campaign will begin this summer in San Jose, Costa Rica, with an investigation into how chemical compounds in the air are transported vertically into the stratosphere and how that transport affects cloud formation and climate. The study will begin the week of July 16 with coordinated observations from satellites, high-flying NAS ... more Floods And Heatwaves Offer Warning Of Impact Of Climate Change 
Geneva (AFP) June 27, 2007Recent floods in Asia and Britain, and heatwaves in southern Europe, show the world must be better prepared to cope with the impact of climate change, the United Nation's top disaster prevention official said Wednesday. "Heavy rainfalls in Pakistan, India and northern England and heatwaves in Greece, Italy and Romania are indications of what might happen more frequently and more severely across ... more AMA Cools Video Game Objections 
Chicago (UPI) June 27, 2007The Darth Vader-like image of video games sucking the psychic life out of young teenagers was ratcheted down a number of notches as the American Medical Association's House of Delegates held up stop signs to those who wanted to classify ardent gamers as suffering psychiatric illness. "I don't think we should be medicalizing something that may prove to be normal behavior," said Stuart Gitlow of W ... more |
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Essex CN (SPX) Jun 28, 2007GE Energy Financial Services will help boost wind energy capacity in New York State by more than 70 percent with an investment in three Noble Environmental Power windparks that will generate 282 megawatts in Clinton and Wyoming Counties. The GE unit's first investment in wind energy in New York State will increase the state's wind energy capacity to 671 megawatts. The projects, located in the to ... more Standards Body Appeals For World's Experts To Help Harness Renewable Energy From Waves and Tides 
Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 28, 2007IEC, the global body for electrical energy standards, is now recruiting experts from around the world to develop international standards for wave and tidal energy technology. These experts will help establish this promising source of renewable energy as a competitive form of electrical energy production. With world production of electricity expected to double over the next 25 years, according to ... more Norway Decries EU Protectionism On Carbon Dioxide Quotas 
Oslo (AFP) June 27, 2007Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday accused the European Union of "protectionism" for limiting the amount of offset carbon dioxide emission quotas that can be bought from developing countries. "The EU wants most of the offset quota purchases to be made within the EU," Stoltenberg told the Norwegian daily Aftenposten, adding that the policy qualified as "protectionism". N ... more PSE And G To Install More Energy Efficient Equipment 
Newark NJ (SPX) Jun 28, 2007The Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE And G) announced plans to invest in more efficient electric delivery equipment, a move expected to reduce energy use and cut carbon emissions by some 60,000 tons by the year 2020. Energy efficiency is considered the most cost-effective carbon reduction method available, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the need for new generation. ... more Blue Square Energy Wins Solar America Initiative Grant From Department Of Energy 
North East MD (SPX) Jun 28, 2007Blue Square Energy (BSE) announced that it has been chosen to participate in the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Solar America Initiative, Photovoltaic (PV) Module Incubator Project. BSE will receive approximately $3 million to address the challenges related to reducing the cost, improving the performance, and expanding the manufacturing capacity of innovative solar technologies to move from s ... more
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