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NSF awards $20 million to two new testbeds to support cloud computing applications and experiments

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Cloud computing refers to the practice of using a network of remote servers to store, manage and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. —Robert Ricci, a research assistant professor of computer science at the University of Utah and principal investigator of CloudLab.

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DARPA awards up to $20M to NVIDIA to research high-performance, highly energy-efficient embedded processors for autonomous vehicles

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University of Utah and the University of Virginia. The first phase initiates concept development and looks to provide sufficient proof of impact on processing power efficiency to justify continuing development. Today’s cars aren’t personal computers—they’re far more complicated.” —NVIDIA.

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Driving Dystopia: Companies Are Getting Serious About Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Connectivity

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Before connected vehicles had become ubiquitous, numerous companies suggested that they would be networked into roadway infrastructure to improve safety and decrease traffic congestion. The concept even became a keystone issue for lobbyists trying to convince lawmakers to create regulations favorable to autonomous cars.

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World

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They typically connected to it with a teletypewriter, though the most avant-garde users may have employed simple text-only video terminals. The type of computing they envisioned was thoroughly interactive and personal, comprehensively networked, and completely graphical—with high-resolution screens and high-quality print output.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. Some of these real-world offspring, like the Apple Lisa computer and the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer, took many of their root concepts from PARC; others, like the Ada computer language and the Intel 1103 dynamic RAM chip, are less closely related. Laser printers.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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will conduct a one-year “proof-of-concept seedling” program. University of Utah. Battery Based On Advanced Metal Hydrides A project team from the University of Utah will develop an advanced metal hydride-based compact hot and cold battery. University of Utah). to demonstrate proof of concept for hydride-based thermal.

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