UMass Amherst is teaming up with MakerBot to deploy a large-scale 3D printing Innovation Center in New England, the first ever at a university library, according to the 3D printing company. The...

Google has given $1 million to the University of California’s Lick Observatory. The unrestricted funds, spread over two years, will go toward general expenses, augmenting the $1.5 million the UC Office of...

IBM, the University of South Carolina and engineering construction company Fluor have formed a Center for Applied Innovation. The center will provide application services to both public and private sector organizations across North America,...

IBM, in collaboration with Nvidia, and the Jülich Supercomputing Center, in Germany, has unveiled plans for a new competency center working on research applications on GPU-accelerated OpenPOWER compatible systems. The Power Acceleration and Design Center...

Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a tool that allows hardware designers and system builders to test security- a first for the field. There is a big...

Nathan Han, 15, of Boston has developed  a machine learning software tool to study mutations of a gene linked to breast cancer. Han was awarded first place at this year’s Intel International Science...

The UC Irvine School of Medicine is integrating Google Glass into its four-year curriculum – from first- and second-year anatomy courses and clinical skills training to third- and fourth-year hospital rotations.  The...

Scientists from IBM Research have discovered a new class of polymer materials, says IBM. These new materials have demonstrated resistance to cracking, is stronger than bone, can self-heal to their original shape, and are also completely...

Researchers are testing a next-generation Internet architecture,  the eXpressive Internet Architecture (XIA),  that enables the network to directly access content where it is most accessible, not necessarily on a host website, and...

At 4 a.m. on May 1, 1964, in the basement of College Hall, Professor John Kemeny and a student programmer simultaneously typed RUN on neighboring terminals. When they both got back...

A new type of printer developed by Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research Pittsburgh can turn wool and wool blend yarns into fabric objects that people might enjoy touching.  The device looks...

SanDisk has made a $1 million donation to the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. The donation will fund recently completed renovations to Cory Hall, home of the college’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, and the undergraduate student Computing Lab, which has been renamed the SanDisk Computing Lab.

Yahoo and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have inked a five-year, $10 million partnership. The agreement is highlighted by a mobile toolkit that will enable CMU researchers to experiment with Yahoo’s real-time...

Facebook is swamped with complaints about “inappropriate” posts, each of which must be manually reviewed by an employee. Yet rather than take down the offending content, the social network has tapped...

MIT will offer its first online professional course, Tackling the Challenges of Big Data, to a global audience beginning March 4, 2014. The four-week online course, aimed at technical professionals and executives, will tackle state-of-the-art topics in big data ranging from data collection, storage and processing to analytics and visualization, among other things.

Facebook has created a new research laboratory with the long-term goal of bringing about major advances in Artificial Intelligence. Yann LeCun, director of the Center For Data Science at New York University, has joined the...

Children who love Garfield, the feline star of the popular comic strip, can now make their own computer animations of the lasagna-loving, Monday-adverse cat, and learn a bit about computer programming...

Scientists at the ETH Zurich university and IBM Research, in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), have set a new record in supercomputing...

Lockheed Martin and Khalifa University have signed a research partnership to work on the LM Wisdom tool, a customizable Web and social media analytics tool from Lockheed Martin. The agreement will provide...

UC Berkeley is establishing a new institute to support big data research in areas as diverse as astronomy and economics, genetics and demography. The Berkeley Institute for Data Science, to be housed...

The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded a $5.65 million grant to establish a national research center led by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), with researchers from the University of Pennsylvania participating in...

Intel has unveiled the Galileo board, the company's first product in a new family of Arduino-compatible development boards. Intel Galileo will be available by the end of November. Here is the data sheet for...

Cray has been awarded a contract to provide Mississippi State University with the CS300-LC system -- a liquid-cooled version of the Cray CS300 cluster supercomputer. The new Cray system, nicknamed 'Shadow,' will...

A team of Stanford engineers has built a basic functional computer using carbon nanotubes. The research was led by Stanford professors Subhasish Mitra and H.S. Philip Wong. It was roughly 15 years ago...

For the first time, a joint Stanford Computer Science MS/MBA degree program will be available to graduate students in the 2014-2015 academic year. The joint program structure will allow students to complete...

BirdBrain Technologies, a Pittsburgh startup that commercializes projects developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Create Lab, will loan 1,000 robots to school districts and educational groups during Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek),...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is officially the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun. New and unexpected data...

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have succeeded in doing a demonstration of complete quantum teleportation of photonic quantum bits, reports the Akihabara News. Here is the link.

The vehicle looks, from the outside, much like any other 2011 Cadillac SRX. It is not. It is a self-driving car, developed by the Carnegie Mellon University, that negotiated congestion and...

The University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) has deployed Huawei's cloud-based Universal Distributed Storage (UDS) for the Hyades system, the primary on-campus supercomputer of UCSC, which is dedicated to computational astrophysics research. Huawei's UDS...

Stanford University's Pat Hanrahan and Cornell University's Doug L. James, computer scientists whose innovations in computer graphics have enhanced such movies as Avatar, Hugo, The Dark Knight, Finding Nemo and Star...

Researchers at the University of Washington are working on a technology that can make wireless communication out of nothing at all. Called 'ambient backscatter communication', the technology leverages existing TV and cellular...

The National Security Agency and North Carolina State University have partnered to establish the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (LAS) on NC State's Centennial Campus in Raleigh. The NSA funding, reportedly $60.75...

A team of radio navigation researchers from the University of Texas at Austin used a custom-built GPS 'spoofing' device to change the course of a $80 million yacht; without the vessel's...

Microsoft announced the winners of the 11th annual Imagine Cup, a competition for student technologists, developers and aspiring entrepreneurs. Winning projects were announced for the three major Competition categories — Innovation, Games...

NASA will use the International Space Station to test a new communications technology that it says could dramatically improve spacecraft communications, enhance commercial missions, and strengthen transmission of scientific data. The Optical...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute recently completed tests of a modular snake robot in an Austrian nuclear power plant. The multi-jointed robot with a camera on its head, can crawl...

Motorola Mobility's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group is entering into a  collaboration agreement with Carnegie Mellon University and seven other top U.S. research universities. The Multi-University Research Agreement (MURA) is...

President Obama has unveiled a new initiative called ConnectED to connect 99 per cent of America’s students to the Internet through high-speed broadband and high-speed wireless within five years. President Obama: We are living...

Ionut Budisteanu, 19, of Romania was awarded first place for using artificial intelligence to create a viable model for a low-cost, self-driving car at this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering...

A robot can struggle to discover objects in its surroundings when it relies on computer vision alone; but by taking advantage of all of the information available to it - an...

Harvard University researchers are continuing work on autonomic robotic insects, says the university in a statement. Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically...

Researchers at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an iterative zooming technique that lets users input text into smartwatches or ultra-small computers. Users can enter about 10...

Scientists from IBM unveiled the world’s smallest movie, made with atoms. Yes, actual atoms.  A Boy and His Atom depicts a character named Atom who befriends a single atom. And exactly how small...

Online crowds can be an important tool for teaching the ins and outs of innovation, educators at Carnegie Mellon University and Northwestern University say, even when the quality of the feedback...

A three-year, $2.4 million grant from the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation has been awarded to scientists at IBM Research and ETH Zurich, among others, to harness the energy of...

The Stanford University School of Medicine's Division of Clinical Anatomy has joined zSpace's Academic Advisory Council, a network of universities focused on advancing innovation, design and research. Stanford joins Olin College, University...

Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs, founding chairman and CEO Emeritus of Qualcomm, and his wife Joan Klein Jacobs, have made a $133-million gift to Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology...