Will our plugged-in planet have a green or black future?

Explore MiamiHerald.com (Feb 1 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Wind , Cloud Computing

...s City, perhaps as much as anywhere in America, that discussion could become ever more profound. If Google Inc. succeeds with plans to blanket the market in lightning-fast Internet hookups - its service wil......here's so many times you say, 'It depends if ... ' " said Jennifer Mankoff, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2008, she published the article "Some Computer Science Issues in Creating a Sustainable World" ... (Read Full Article)

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Will our plugged-in planet have a green or black future?

Explore http://www.kansascity.com (Jan 24 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Wind , Cloud Computing

...ow using the Internet will change your wear and tear the planet could become ever more profound. If Google Inc. succeeds with plans to blanket the market in lightning-fast Internet hookups the change could ......imes you say, ‘It depends if …’” said Jennifer Mankoff, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University.

In 2008, she published the article “Some Computer Science Issues in Creating a Sustaina... (Read Full Article)

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Power Will Be Wasted, Until IT Pays Its Bills

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Sep 21 2011)

...ge. The process – called the “capability maturity model” or CMM, and developed by Watts Humphrey of Carnegie Mellon University – sounds a bit arcane, and is necessarily subjective. But if we give the results a bit of licence, ......ge organisations are doing better – which agrees with the received wisdom from many sources such as Google. Organisations with over 5,000 people have an average score of 61.7, while those with ... (Read Full Article)

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Google Extends Outside Research Funding to New Fields

Explore Technology (Feb 1 2010)

Google, like other leading technology companies, funds university research in fields where its interest an......al regulations. Four of the 12 projects are in the field of privacy. One of privacy projects is at Carnegie Mellon University, where a research team led by Lorrie Faith Cranor is conducting technology-and-beha... (Read Full Article)

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chasing cheap kilowatts has its limits by doug mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Aug 27 2009) Power and Cooling

...ne businesses "millions" of dollars each year in power, says a study written by researchers at MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, and Akamai.  Digging deeper, there are interesting subtleties within the actual scheme – and one h...... all current server hardware doesn't have a big power consumption difference between idle and peak; Google's custom servers only consume 65 percent of peak power when "idle." Net-net is if you are going ... (Read Full Article)

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