2011 – the year Ireland became ‘home of the cloud’

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Dec 22 2011) Cloud Computing

... and Ireland has been at the cusp of this revolution ever since Apple came to Cork in the 1980s and Intel began making chips to power the PC revolution in the 1990s. In recent weeks, Kinsale-based Avego ma......r and new RTÉ 'Dragon' Sean O'Sullivan was recognised by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Technology Review as being the co-creator - along with George Favaloro - of the term 'cloud comput... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Europe   Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Can We Build Tomorrow's Breakthroughs?

Explore Technology Review (Dec 19 2011) Solar

...quent strategy these days for early-stage energy startups. Gerbrand Ceder, a materials scientist at MIT, initiated a "materials genome project" several years ago that uses computers to analyze and predic......ge of Nanoscale Science and Engineering there are familiar to anyone in the semiconductor industry: Intel, IBM, TSMC, Applied Materials, and Tokyo Electron. The idea is that the shared facilities provide a... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Carnegie Mellon University   General Electric

Looking forward: energy efficiency from the computer to the cloud

Explore Scientific American Blog Network (Oct 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...______________________ ____________________________________________________________ Send Last month MIT’s Technology Review reported on a new development that the energy efficiency of computers doubles r......months: The conclusion, backed up by six decades of data, mirrors Moore’s law, the observation from Intel founder Gordon Moore that computer processing power doubles about every 18 months. But the power-co... (Read Full Article)

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