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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. Other partners on CloudLab include Raytheon BBN Technologies, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and US Ignite, Inc.

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Video Friday: TRI Expo

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RoMeLa ] The New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation (NERVE) Center at the University of Massachusetts Lowell celebrates 10 years of breaking robots! Inspired by the assistive learning commonly shown in biped animals, we introduce the assistive force to aid the learning process without the requirement of reference trajectories.

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24M emerges from stealth mode with new semi-solid Li-ion cell; <$100/kWh by 2020

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Semi-solid” refers to a material that is a mixture of liquid and solid phases—e.g., Condensed liquid” refers to a liquid that is not merely a solvent, as in the case of an aqueous flow cell semi-solid cathode or anode, but rather is itself redox active. particle suspension, colloidal suspension, emulsion, gel, or micelle.

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How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet

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s networking advanced development group in Massachusetts. In a decades-old conceptual model of networking, the LAN itself (the wires and low-level hardware) is referred to as Layer 2, or the data link layer. Routers and the operations they perform are referred to as Layer 3, or the network layer.

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Machine Learning Shaking Up Hard Sciences, Too

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I felt very threatened by machine learning,” says Jesse Thaler , a theoretical particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Even with an efficient trigger, the LHC must store 600 petabytes over the next few years of data collection. So researchers are investigating strategies to compress the data.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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He was a theoretical guy, on leave from the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a stint at the nearby research-and-development company Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line.

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DOE Joint Genome Institute approves 41 projects for 2012 Community Sequencing Program; climate, environment and bioenergy feedstocks

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A team led by Joseph Spatafora at Oregon State University and Jason Stajich at University of California at Riverside is planning to fill in gaps in the Fungal Tree of Life by sequencing 1,000 fungal genomes over the next five years, providing at least two reference genomes for each of the 577 recognized families classified under Fungi.