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SEATTLE, Aug. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Opscode, the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced that Jesse Robbins, Opscode co-founder and chief community officer, has been recognized by Technology Review magazine as a TR35 Honoree for 2011. The TR35 recognizes the world's top innovators under the age of 35, spanning energy, medicine, computing, communications, nanotechnology and other emerging fields. Robbins has been honored for his leadership in the Web Operations and...
PHOENIX, Aug. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ripoff Report recently detected and successfully defeated an ongoing hack of its consumer advocacy website, RipoffReport.com. Earlier this year, a hacker, promising his customers "reputation management" services, had embedded code into the website to prevent search engines from recognizing certain postings. In some cases, website visitors were misdirected to a false message stating that the posting had been redacted. A RipoffReport.com investigation...
-Keynote Speaker - David Linthicum, Founder and CTO of Blue Mountain Labs -Distinguished Speakers - Susan Schreitmueller, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Corporation; Dr. Michael Salsburg, Distinguished Engineer for Unisys; Stephen R. Balzac, President, 7 Steps Ahead, LLC; Jeff Jonas, Chief Scientist & Distinguished Engineer, IBM Corporation. TURNERSVILLE, N.J., Aug. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Computer Measurement Group (CMG), a not-for-profit, worldwide organization of IT...
Not only does dyslexia make it difficult for people to read, but a new study also suggests that the condition might also keep people from recognizing familiar voices.In the study, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research discovered those suffering from the condition, which is a dysfunction in the brain's ability to convert viewed written images into meaningful language, also have difficulty picking up how different people...
MIT scientists are working on egg-sized robots to help monitor underground pipes for radioactive leaks. Harry Asada, the Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and director of MIT's d'Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technology, and colleagues are creating the tiny robots to dive into nuclear reactors and swim through underground pipes, checking for signs of corrosion. The robots are equipped with cameras and are able to withstand a reactor's...
Editing the genome and rewriting the basic code of life might sound like something out of a science fiction novel, but research published recently in the journal Science describes how a team of experts from the US and Korea were able to do just that.In the paper, Harvard Medical School professor George Church, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Joe Jacobson, and their colleagues describe how they successfully altered the genome of a bacterium--a discovery which, according...
MIT researchers have developed a new algorithm that could prevent the midair collisions of up to 10 to 12 small aircraft every year. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mandated that by 2020, all commercial aircraft must be equipped with a new tracking system that broadcasts GPS data, providing more accurate location information than ground-based radar. The FAA has asked MIT researchers to lead the investigation of the system's limits and capacities in anticipation of the deadline. The...
Scientists have cracked the secret to what makes Tibetan "singing bowls" so mysterious. The water-filled bowls are rubbed with a leather-wrapped mallet to exhibit a haunting sound, creating strange waves. A Tibetan bowl is generally made from a bronze alloy containing copper, tin, zinc, iron, silver, gold and nickel.The Faraday waves arise when a fluid like water vibrates, constrained by a closed boundary like the edge of the bowl. As the frequency of the rubbing reaches at which...
WASHINGTON, June 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are offering high school students the opportunity to design experiments that will be tested in space.(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The 2011 Zero Robotics challenge is a continuation and expansion of a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education program using bowling ball-sized spherical satellites aboard the International Space...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., June 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) awarded $1.1 million in research grants to advance the science of sports medicine - specifically related to concussion. NOCSAE approved several grants recommended by the organization's Scientific Advisory Committee, which was created to direct research efforts specifically related to concussion. NOCSAE is an independent and nonprofit standard-setting body with the...
