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Taking Control of Service Performance and Availability
You rely on servers to do business, but what happens when they aren't performing how you'd like? Read this white paper to learn how monitoring tools can help you ensure the performance and...
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Can private sector, sensors, innovation save our waterways?
Environmentalism has become detached from innovation and that’s killing our waterways unless we use technology to bolster real-time monitoring.
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Yuchun Lee's journey from card counter to IBM's social media guru
The man in charge of IBM's effort to help chief marketing officers do their jobs learned how to take a chance while "Bringing Down the House" in Las Vegas.
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Israeli Institute for National Security Studies compromised, serving Poison Ivy DIY malware
The web site of the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) has been compromised, and is currently serving client-side exploits and malware to its visitors.
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Inventing the future of digital media at MIT (photos)
The famed MIT Media Lab is a hotbed of ideas on how life is becoming more and more digital and how people will interact with their digitized surroundings in new ways.
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MIT's DIY wooden cell phone (photos)
MIT's Media Lab set out to use open-source design and readily available materials to make a cell phone that easy to customize. The result is somehow appealing to all aesthetics.
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Teradata and SAS partner on analytics appliance
Two lions of BI have allied, bringing analytics into the parallel processing, in-memory, appliance-based fast track.
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Programmable 'smart sand' can assume any shape
MIT researchers are developing small magnetic cubes that can communicate with each other to auto-duplicate objects in a "sand box" using a subtractive production algorithm.
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Solar goes 3D in MIT research project
By designing solar photovoltaic panels into various tower configurations, researchers believe they can create a more predictable source of power over the entire year -- even on cloudy days.
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MIT camera grabs 3D images 'round corners (images)
Researchers in MIT's Media Lab have built a laser-powered camera that sees around corners at 1 trillion frames per second. Out of sight no longer means out of mind.
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Thomas Jefferson: The Smithsonian's 3D printing pioneer
A new effort at the Smithsonian will create digital 3D models and physical 3D printed of many of the objects in its archives, a step that could help researchers and educators alike.
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MIT launches first free online course
MITx is now allowing students around the world to enroll in its first prototype online course.
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Enterprise architects: 'turn your company upside down'
'It's no longer enough for EAs to put a shared infrastructure in place and stand back and declare the business to be enabled.'
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Student sends MIT letter to space
A 17 year old MIT hopeful did something creative with her acceptance letter - launched it in to space.
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Sex Tech Weekly: Megaupload, Match Singles Data, Obscenity Copyright, China Porn Spam Kings
Match.com's data on US singles, Megaupload reviled by Perfect 10, China's sex toy spam industry and more.
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Enterprise architecture still a leap of faith for many companies
Before enterprise architecture, companies 'relied on individuals to do what seemed best.' That won't work in a hyper-competitive global economy, MIT researcher argues.
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MIT's Ross on how enterprise architecture and IT more than ever lead to business transformation
If you have all the money in the world, you're not forced to make tough decisions. Architecture is all about making tough decisions, understanding your tradeoffs, and recognizing that you're going...
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MIT to open up some courses to global audience -- free, online
MIT to join Stanford in offering courses for global participation. MIT says it will offer certificates for successful completion.
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MIT latest to expand online learning facilities
MIT is the latest institution to offer a wider range of free online learning resources. Will their open source software promote this idea to other institutions?
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What's next Uptime Institute, an adobe data center?
Santa Fe, New Mexico is the ultimate location for green data centers, high tech and The Uptime Institute. OK, one out of three ain't bad.
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MIT creates analogue 'brain' chip
Researchers have designed a new computer chip that mimics synaptic plasticity--how a brain's neurons adapt in response to new information.
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