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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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DOE Makes First Awards from $1.4B for Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage Projects

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Projects selected include large-scale industrial carbon capture and storage projects that capture carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources—such as cement plants, chemical plants, refineries, paper mills, and manufacturing facilities—and store the carbon dioxide in deep saline formations and other geologic systems. University of Utah.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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The ARPANET Is Born Kahn wasn’t the only one thinking about connecting disparate computers in the 1960s. In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. There were 30 or 40 nodes on the ARPANET at the time.

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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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production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. is one of the most energy dense forms of stored energy in. engineer sugarcane and sorghum to produce and store oil, a. will conduct a one-year “proof-of-concept seedling” program. system to pump, heat, store, and discharge the molten glass.

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

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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. What an ideal concept that would be for Xerox. Frame buffer. Local area network.

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