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Python-Based Compiler Achieves Performance Speedups
The Codon compiler, from a team led by researchers from MIT CSAIL, allows developers to create new domain-specific languages … From ACM TechNewsAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Europe Wants a Supercomputer Made From Smartphones
A European public-private consortium aims to make exaflop supercomputers based on the central-processing units used in smartphones and tablet computers.
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Computer-Aided Design Boosts Biochip Efficiency
Researchers are developing computer-aided design software to improve the physical layout of the discrete-droplet lab-on-a-chip.
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Nasa Jsc Unveils 'valkyrie' Drc Robot
When teams participating in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) were announced last year, almost all of them provided reasonably detailed renderings that gave us...
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The Status of Moore's Law: It's Complicated
As computer chips grow denser, it becomes increasingly difficult to measure the progression of Moore's Law. Exacerbating this situation is the mutability of the...
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MIT Robots Can Assemble Your Ikea Furniture For You
Oh, IKEA. Your modern and affordable Scandinavian-inspired furniture is full of such promise.
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Nanoscale Chip Design Enables Future 'internet of Things'
With each passing day we are becoming more intertwined into the Internet of Things, where each and every object in the world—your clothes closet and every article...
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The Cosmological Supercomputer
When it comes to reconstructing the past, you might think that astrophysicists have it easy. After all, the sky is awash with evidence,
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Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion Neurons
For all their progress, computers are still pretty unimpressive.
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3-D Chips Grow Up
Researchers are starting to build chips in the third dimension, and many industry experts believe that this year the chip will start to become a cube. Building...
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Big Win For the Losers at D-Wave
Does D-Wave's first big sale disprove the quantum computing naysayers?
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Better Benchmarking For Supercomputers
Many computer scientists say the High-Performance Linpack test is not the best performance measurement for the world's top supercomputers. The new Graph500 benchmark...
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The Top 11 Technologies of the Decade
The January 2011 issue of IEEE Spectrum reviews the most important innovations that came of age in the past 10 years, based on their influence, usefulness, and...
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