A new scheme for photonic quantum computing The concepts of quantum technology promise to achieve more powerful information processing than is possible with even the best possible classical computers. To actually build efficient quantum computers remains a significant challenge in practice. A new scheme termed "coherent photon conversion", could potentially overcome all of the currently unresolved problems for optical implementations of quantum computing. The international team of scientists led by researchers from the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology at the University of Vienna introduces this new scheme this week in Nature. October 13, 2011
Alabama Supercomputer Authority provides supercomputing time and related resources to Alabama's academic researchers and industry, facilitating research in advanced scientific and engineering disciplines. Provides Information
Application Challenges to Computational Geometry Computational Geometry Impact Task Force Report, about the relation between computational geometry and various application fields. Provides Information
Australian National University Supercomputer Facility provides advanced computing support to computational scientists and engineers as well as to researchers in the humanities and social sciences that have a need for advanced visualization and large data set management. Provides Information
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Caltech Center for Advanced Computing Research Provides facilities for computational science and engineering research at Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Provides Information
Computational Geometry Pages comprehensive directory of computational geometry resources, including bibliographies, journals, software, and related hubs. Provides Information
CSCS The Swiss Center for Scientific Computing provides the Swiss research community with computing resources. Annual reports a Provides Information
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DARPA summons researchers to reinvent computing The US's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a new initiative this week aimed at finding solutions to the major problems challenging computer scalability. The program -- dubbed the Power Efficiency Revolution for Embedded Computing Technologies, or PERFECT, will kick off with a workshop in Arlington, Virginia on February 15. January 30, 2012
DIMACS Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Rutgers, New Jersey. Provides Information
EPCC The Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre provides computing resources to Edinburgh University and industry. Provides Information
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Foundations of Computational Mathematics A group which sponsors regular meetings on the relationships between mathematical analysis, topology, geometry and algebra and the computational process. Provides Information
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Geometry Junkyard usenet clippings, web pointers, lecture notes, research excerpts, papers, abstracts, programs, problems, and other stuff related to discrete and computational geometry. Provides Information
Georgia Tech Systems Research Group Focuses include distributed operating systems, mobile computing, discrete event simulation, and cluster computing for media applications. Provides Information
Godfried Toussaint's Research Interests Mainly in computational geometry, e.g., mobility of objects in space, degeneracies, quadrangulations, tomography, triangulation, proximity, facility location, and polygonal approximation. Provides Information
Grid Computing Info Centre An initiative to establish a global grid of computing power. Provides Information
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High Performance Computing in Materials Science: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe to fund young researchers From January 1, 2012, ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG will be funding a group of young researchers from Ruhr University Bochum. The computer scientists and mathematicians will carry out research jointly with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation (ICAMS) over a period of six years. The goal is to implement the materials models and simulations developed by ICAMS as efficiently as possible on high-performance computing systems. ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe is providing funds of 1.2 million euros for this work. October 25, 2011
HOISe News on high performance computing from Europe. Provides Information
Hypercomputation Research Network The study of computation beyond that defined by the Turing machine, also known as super-Turing, non-standard or non-recursive computation. Provides Information
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ICS Theory Group Research centers on the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures as well as computational complexity. Provides Information
IEEE Computational Science and Engineering this magazine devoted to computer science and engineering, the site also has an editorial calender and a digital library. Provides Information
Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory Constantly changing information, publications, advances in genetic algorithms/genetic and evolutionary computation. Provides Information
Japanese supercomputer is fastest in the world That's according to the Top500 Supercomputing List, which is expected to be released today at the conference in Hamburg, Germany. The new leader, Japan's K Computer, makes its home in Kobe's RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science. K Computer sped to the front of the class by achieving more than 8 quadrillion calculations per second (petaflop/s), which pushed it ahead of last November's winner, the Tianhe-1A at the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, China, which in the latest round achieved 2.6 petaflop/s. June 20, 2011
NESL: A Parallel Programming Language a functional data-parallel language. It was designed to allow for clean and simple descriptions of parallel algorithms and applications, and to be well suited for teaching parallel algorithms. The current implementation is portable across several parallel machines. Provides Information
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OSC Ohio Supercomputer Center. Innovations in computing, networking, and education. Provides Information
pC++/Sage++ Information Home Page pC++ is a portable parallel C++ for high performance computers. pC++ is a language extention to C++ that permits data-parallel style opertations. Provides Information
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Quantum computing with light Quantum computers are largely theoretical devices that would exploit the weird properties of matter at extremely small scales to perform calculations, in some cases much more rapidly than conventional computers can. To date, the most promising approach to building quantum computers has been to use ions trapped in electric fields. Using photons — particles of light — instead would have many advantages, but it's notoriously difficult to get photons to interact: Two photons that collide in a vacuum simply pass through each other. September 9, 2011
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San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) The central nexus for the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure. Provides Information
Scalable Computing Lab Publications bibliography and description of computational resources. Provides Information
Scientists create brain-like, massively parallel computer from molecules If you thought that Japan was merely the master of miniaturization, tentacles, and creepy robots, think again: A group of Japanese scientists have built a massively-parallel, brain-like computer out of an organic molecule called DDQ. This computer, which is built from 300 DDQ "neurons," has successfully calculated how heat diffuses through a medium, and the mutation of normal cells into cancer cells. October 28, 2011
Scientists create computing building blocks from bacteria and DNA Scientists have successfully demonstrated that they can build some of the basic components for digital devices out of bacteria and DNA, which could pave the way for a new generation of biological computing devices, in research published today in the journal Nature Communications. October 18, 2011
SCV Scientific computing and visualization group at Boston University. Research in computational science and engineering, scientific visualization, and computer graphics. Provides Information
Strategic Directions in Computational Geometry ACM/NSF intended to complement the Application Challenges to Computational Geometry by suggesting overall research directions instead of specific problem areas. Provides Information
Theory of Computation Lecture notes for an undergraduate class taught by Leonid Levin at UC Berkeley. Provides Information
The Distributed ASCI Supercomputer An experimental wide-area distributed computing cluster used for parallel computing research at five Dutch universities. Provides Information
Titanium a parallel dialect of Java for large-scale scientific computing. It is an explicitly parallel language with a SPMD model of execution. Provides Information
Transforming Computers of the future with optical interconnects In order to build the next generation of very large supercomputers, it's essential that scientists and engineers find a way to seamlessly scale computation performance without exceeding extraordinary power consumption. It is widely agreed that the major challenge to scaling future systems will no longer be the CMOS (Complementary Metal--Oxide--Semiconductor) integrated circuit technology but rather the data movement among processors and memory. February 23, 2012
Association for Computing Machinery Offering membership information, publication guides, policy positions and career opportunities. Provides Information
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Constant-Time Geometry on PRAMs several parallel algorithms are given for solving some geometric problems in constant expected time. Provides Information
Methodology.org A comprehensive site providing systems, application development, and object oriented methodology information. Provides Information
Microsoft Research Demos, journals, conference information and tech reports are provided. Provides Information
Mindpixel Digital Mind Modeling Project home of GAC, a computer program that attempts to learn from the world wide community how to be artificially conscious. Provides Information
Netron Incorporated Offers products and services to help accelerate e-business implementation through legacy renewal and reengineering. Provides Information
Newman & Spurr Consultancy Ltd A software engineering company specialising in simulations, mathematical modelling, wargames, operational analysis, graphical interfaces and database design. Provides Information
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Parallab Institute for Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway. Provides Information
Problem Solving Environments Home Page This site contains information about Problem Solving Environments, research, publications, and information on topics related to PSEs. Provides Information
The Types Forum Archives and subscription information for this moderated mailing list which focuses on semantical, categorical, operational, and proof theoretical topics relating to type theory. Provides Information
TheDevShop Offers tools and add-ons to enhance the Cool:Gen development environment. Provides Information
Titan supercomputer: 38,400-processor, 20-petaflop successor to Jaguar Cray, AMD, Nvidia, and the Department of Energy have announced that the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL) Jaguar supercomputer will soon be upgraded to yet again become the fastest HPC installation in the world. The new, mighty-morphing computer will feature thousands of Cray XK6 blades, each one accommodating up to four 16-core AMD Opteron 6200 (Interlagos) chips and four Nvidia Tesla 20-series GCGPU coprocessors. The Jaguar name will be suitably inflated, too: the new behemoth will be called Titan. October 11, 2011
Total Turnkey Solutions Web Page delivering leading edge data acquisition/test & measurement, scientific imaging/industrial machine vision and digital signal processing products and systems. Provides Information
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Center for Reliable and High Performance Computing The center focuses on research in the areas of high-performance computing, high-performance architectures, fault tolerance, and testing. Provides Information
A new scheme for photonic quantum computing The concepts of quantum technology promise to achieve more powerful information processing than is possible with even the best possible classical computers. To actually build efficient quantum computers remains a significant challenge in practice. A new scheme termed "coherent photon conversion", could potentially overcome all of the currently unresolved problems for optical implementations of quantum computing. The international team of scientists led by researchers from the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology at the University of Vienna introduces this new scheme this week in Nature. October 13, 2011
ACM SIGACT ACM's special interest group for Theoretical Computer Science. Provides Information
Advice on Research and Writing A collection of articles on how to perform and present research in the Computer Science field. Provides Information
AI Evolution introduction to AI, the different fields of AI study. Provides Information
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Supporting high performance computational research in science and engineering with emphasis on high latitudes and the artic. Provides Information
Australian National University Supercomputer Facility provides advanced computing support to computational scientists and engineers as well as to researchers in the humanities and social sciences that have a need for advanced visualization and large data set management. Provides Information
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CAC-NET/FoCM-NET Archives and membership information of an electronic forum for researchers in Continuous Algorithms and Complexity and in Foundations of Computational Mathematics. Provides Information
Caltech Center for Advanced Computing Research Provides facilities for computational science and engineering research at Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Provides Information
Caltech Multi-Res Modeling Group Conducts research into the mathematical and algorithmic foundations of numerical problems in computer graphics and scientific computing with a specific focus upon multiresolution techniques. Provides Information
Center for Computational Research The mission of CCR is to 1) enable Research and Scholarship, 2) provide Education, Outreach, and Training, and 3) effect Technology Transfer to local industry in areas that require high-end computing, storage, networking, and visualization. Provides Information
Center for Reliable and High Performance Computing The center focuses on research in the areas of high-performance computing, high-performance architectures, fault tolerance, and testing. Provides Information
CLRC Central Laboratory of the Research Councils. Research and annual reports. Provides Information
Computer Graphics Laboratory Research areas include volume rendering, rendering algorithms and systems, 3D scanning, image-based rendering, virtual reality, compression of graphics objects, user interfaces for visualization, high-performance graphics architectures, visualization of complex systems and environments. Provides Information
Computing Research Association A consortium of more than 180 North American computer sciences departments from academic institutions. Provides Information
Creating Superhuman Intelligence the creation of superhumanly intelligent machines seems unavoidable. Some results of a programmable theory of the ultra-intelligent robots appears on the site. Provides Information
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DARPA's SyNAPSE program name one of best innovations of 2011 Computers are constrained by physical limits, as well as the requirement for humans to program how computers interact with their environments. In contrast the human brain autonomously processes information and learns from its environment. February 6, 2012
Generation5.org news and views "at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence" posted in web log format. Includes essays, interviews, and competitions. Provides Information
Genetic Ant Algorithm applet that implements the algorithm, based upon the model given in Koza, Genetic Programming, MIT Press. Provides Information
Gnod experiment in the field of artificial intelligence. Self-adapting system which offers recommendations based on entered preferences. Provides Information
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IBM Research gets close to implementation of a practical quantum -Scientists at IBM Research have achieved major advances in quantum computing device performance that may accelerate the realization of a practical, full-scale quantum computer. For specific applications, quantum computing, which exploits the underlying quantum mechanical behavior of matter, has the potential to deliver computational power that is unrivaled by any supercomputer today. February 28, 2012
IT Research Undertakes research in the field of information technology. Products, reports and company information available. Provides Information
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Microsoft research shows a 3D interactive desktop, using a transparent OLED Microsoft research has unveiled a new research project that enables a 3D interactive desktop using a Samsung-made transparent OLED and a Kinect camera. The idea is that the user types on a keyboard that sits behind the monitor, and he can also manipulate 3D objects using his hands. February 28, 2012
Optical fiber innovation could make future optical computers a 'SNAP' Optics and photonics may one day revolutionize computer technology with the promise of light-speed calculations. Storing light as memory, however, requires devices known as microresonators, an emerging technology that cannot yet meet the demands of computing. The solution, may lie in combining light's eerie quantum properties with a previously unknown quality of optical fiber. December 14, 2011
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Progress in quantum computing, qubit by qubit Engineers and physicists at Harvard have managed to capture light in tiny diamond pillars embedded in silver, releasing a stream of single photons at a controllable rate. October 11, 2011
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Quantum information: Glass finds its sparkle Quantum computers promise a whole new level of processing power, solving problems of greater complexity in a shorter timeframe than is possible with conventional machines. A crucial requirement of quantum computing, however, is a material that can combine the quantum systems at the heart of quantum information up to the scale of a workable device. Matthew Henderson and colleagues from the University of Adelaide and University of Melbourne in Australia have now produced just such a material by embedding nanoparticles of diamond in tellurite glass. October 03, 2011
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RADIANT The Research and Development in Advanced Network Technology is a part of the Network Engineering Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Provides Information
Readware Information Processor Information on and Demonstration of text analysis and retrieval program. Provides Information
Researchers Annihilate Decoherence to Favor Quantum Computing Scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in forecasting and eliminating environmental decoherence, an occurrence that is considered as a hindrance in the path of quantum computing. July 22, 2011
Researchers Reduce Complexity of Circuits for Quantum Computing Dr Xiao-Qi Zhou and his team at the University of Bristol's Centre for Quantum Photonics in collaboration with the University of Queensland, Australia, have displayed that controlled operations, when the control bit exhibits state 1, can be simplified significantly on comparing with the standard technique. August 4, 2011
SCV Scientific computing and visualization group at Boston University. Research in computational science and engineering, scientific visualization, and computer graphics. Provides Information
Storage mechanism for entangled photons another step towards quantum computing While commonplace in conventional computers, storage of data in memory has persisted as one of the main obstacles to the construction of a viable light-based quantum computer. The issue is not only to keep photons in one place, but also to maintain a specific quantum state throughout. December 12, 2011
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The Computational Notion of Life This paper makes an interesting link between concepts of computation, cellular automata and the definition of the concept of information. Provides Information
Tiny crystal revolutionizes computing A tiny crystal that enables a computer to perform calculations that currently stump the world's most powerful supercomputers has been developed by an international team including the University of Sydney's Dr Michael Biercuk. April 26, 2012
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Abstract State Machines A simple yet powerful formal method for specifying and validating computing systems of all types. Provides Information
Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA) one of the most powerful optimization algorithms for nonlinear and stochastic systems. Provides Information
Analyst Pro A tool for systems analysts and software engineers to manage software requirements and test cases throughout the system life cycle. Provides Products
Arjuna Solutions Limited Commercial provider of distributed transaction processing technology. Provides Information
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Center for Reliable and High Performance Computing The center focuses on research in the areas of high-performance computing, high-performance architectures, fault tolerance, and testing. Provides Information
Character Recognition by Feature Point Extraction The ability to identify machine printed characters in an automated or a semi-automated manner has obvious applications in numerous fields. Since creating an algorithm with a one hundred percent correct recognition rate is quite probably impossible in our world of noise and different font styles, it is important to design character recognition algorithms with these failures in mind so that when mistakes are inevitably made, they will at least be understandable and predictable to the person working with the program. Provides Information
Hendrickson Components Microsoft DNA software architects, software engineering, and development. Provides Information
Henley Software From producing the original specifications, through development and implementation to training and support, we can manage your entire project. Provides Information
InCom LLC Computer Services Computer Networking, Internet Services, Web Development, ACCPAC Representative, Custom Software, Multimedia. Provides Information
International Function Point User Group A non-profit organization promoting the use of function point analysis and other software metrics. Provides Information
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MIT LCS Theory of Computation Group algorithms, complexity theory, computation and biology, cryptography and information security, distributed systems, numerical analysis and scientific computing, semantics, and supercomputing technologies. Provides Information
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Opsis Java applet that can be used to teach balanced binary search tree algorithms. Unique in that it combines elements of programming, proof, and animation to enhance learning. Provides Information
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RAISE Describes a language, method and tools known as the Rigorous Approach to Industrial Software Engineering. Provides Information
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Software Architecture, Architects and Architecting Provides resources for software architects, answers such questions as "what is software architecture" and "why is it important", and covers the architecting process and role of the architect. Provides Information
Software Productivity Research Software process management articles, tools, and consulting, led by Capers Jones. Provides Information
Software Research, Inc. Improve customer delivered software quality through research, design, and implementation. Provides Information
Stony Brook Algorithm Repository a comprehensive collection of algorithm implementations for fundamental problems in combinatorial algorithms. Provides Information
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Tails of Software Engineering Information for professional women in the field of software and computer engineering, including discussion board, and programming tips. Provides Information
The ESPICE Project in Iceland Assisting and encouraging Icelandic companies in software process improvement. Provides Information