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Beyond Simple Total Cost of Ownership
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Brown University goes Google
Brown may have gone Google, but it was not an easy choice over Live@Edu.
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Brown University economists measure GDP growth from outer space
For many developing countries, the data for measuring economic growth is unreliable or incomplete. In response, a team of economists at Brown have suggested a new framework for estimating a...
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A robot that follows a human commander and responds to gestures
This week marks another incremental step forward in the field of robotics, specifically around gestural control. Brown University reports that their researchers have demonstrated how a robot...
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Men are red, women are green
My monthly award for the best news release title goes to Brown University. It says that two of its researchers have discovered a difference in skin tone associated with gender. 'They determined...
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H-Store: Complete destruction of the old DBMS order?
Via a project called H-Store, Mike Stonebraker proposes to manage high-end OLTP databases entirely in RAM, with no disks, no redo logs, little multi-threading, and only optimistic locking. And by...
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Optic flow guides us in the right direction
The way we perceive the visual motion of objects as we move is a phenomenon called 'optic flow.' Now, Brown University researchers have discovered that optic flow helps us to walk. They've used...
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Drawing on air
In a recent article, PhysOrg.com reports that a team of computer scientists at Brown University has developed 'Drawing on Air,' a haptic-aided interface to help artists to create 3D illustrations...
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Watching a skeleton move in 3-D
Popular Science reports that a Brown University team has developed a new imaging system. The CTX process combines 'computed-tomography (CT) scanners, X-ray video and computer software to give...
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Student, a little too spam-sensitive, tries an attack on Brown
He calls for Wesleyan students to bomb Brown's email servers with huge graphic but the protest comes up a little short.
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Brown students create massive Tetris game on building
Brown University undergraduates unveil La Bastille, a 14-story-tall version of video game Tetris displayed on the side of the Sciences Library.
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Facebook IPO: Overhyped or oversold?
What went wrong with the Facebook IPO? This timeline tries to put things into some sort of order from initial excitement and hype to burst bubble and technology failure.
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Mining the social data stream for deeper customer insight
Wal-Mart and Target use social intelligence from customers to gain strategic business advantage in the local area and ensure on-going loyalty and retention.
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Digital foreplay, virtual houseflies among Carnegie Mellon work (videos)
End-of-term projects from Golan Levin's Interactive Art and Computational Design class give us a peek at what kinds of technological mischief our future geniuses are getting up to in school.
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Microsoft's shifting priorities: It's about time
I’ve asked a few illustrious members of the worldwide Microsoft community to share their insights via guest posts on a variety of topics — from Windows Phone, to Hyper-V.
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Facebook IPO: Risk Factors and law
Facebook has to comply with laws, not only in the United States, but around the world. It also needs to vigorously defend its intellectual property as it states in its IPO filing.
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Facebook IPO: Risk Factors and dependance
I have been looking at Facebook's IPO filing, and I have noticed that its risk factors can be grouped into areas of potential concern for investors. In this post, I focus on Facebook's dependence.
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Facebook IPO: Risk Factors and growth
Facebook's IPO filing with the SEC warns potential investors of the chance that the value of their investment may go down as well as up. This post looks at growth and why you might think twice...
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Twitter reaches 10 million active accounts in the UK
Twitter UK is celebrating its first year of operation over here and has announced that it has 10 million active users in the UK who log on each month
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Draw Something rapidly declines in popularity after Zynga acquisition
Perhaps Zynga was seduced by the meteoric rise of the over simplistic Draw Something and did not stop to analyse whether the newest addition would have any staying power over its other games.
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Sex Tech: Reddit vs. Romney, Sex Addiction, Spankable Robot, Tumblr Sued
Tumblr sued by Perfect 10, Reddit vs. Mitt Romney, Japanese robot butt for spanking, no science for sex addiction.
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