A University of Pittsburgh-led team has created a single-electron transistor that provides a building block for new, more powerful computer memories, advanced electronic materials, and the basic components of quantum computers.

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH The Technion-Israel Institute is one of only 33 universities in the world to receive a 2008 HP Labs Innovation Research Award, intended to encourage open collaboration with HP Labs resulting in high-impact research.

By Stephen T. Watson The University at Buffalo's research effort into a new technology that would let a user manipulate objects on a computer screen through hand gestures has won a competitive grant from Hewlett- Packard Co.

Hewlett-Packard is shaking up the way it sponsors university research. The computer maker is redoubling efforts to tie grants more closely to work in its labs.

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