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February 12, 2009
By the early 1980s, there were numerous data networking technologies. IBM’s System Network Architecture (SNA) dominated the commercial world; DECNET, from Digital Equipment Corp, was widely used ...
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February 12, 2009
No Description Available From the Series:UVA NewsMakers 1998 - 2000
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February 12, 2009
The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is one of the premier awards honoring triumphs in environmental science, energy and medicine of worldwide importance.   Administered ...
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February 12, 2009
Science is often viewed upon as important but cryptic to the general public. In this spirited discussion, former astronaut Mae Jemison and Kathie Olsen, the deputy director of the National ...
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February 12, 2009
The word 'community' may sound archaic, a social remnant of the idyllic 1950s.  But paradoxically, in our high-tech age of instant information, ...
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February 12, 2009
Mathematical computer models of two ancient and famous genetic networks act early in embryos of many different species to determine the body plan. Models revealed these networks to be ...
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February 12, 2009
Dr. Kerstin Lehnert provides insights into cyberinfrastructure projects in geochemistry. She describes efforts related to successfully building new communities of users and information scientists ...
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February 12, 2009
In 1992, the only Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility located on a college campus was completed at the University of Maryland. The Neutral Buoyancy tank simulates weightlessness and is ...
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February 12, 2009
Rogers Hollingsworth, director of the Institute for Biomedical Research at the University of Wisconsin, discusses the organizational and psychological factors influencing creativity in ...
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February 12, 2009
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February 12, 2009
Environment, lifestyle, diet, marketing, and biology are all contributors to the obesity epidemic.  How do our bodies balance the storage and burning of dietary fat? Fat carries ...
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February 12, 2009
Pancreatic cancer shows few symptoms, a silent killer that led to the deaths of 33,000 Americans last year. Now, scientists are making strides in developing a marker for early detection of the ...
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February 12, 2009
The dedication of the Stimson Bullitt Professorship celebrates a new professorship at the University of Washington School of Law with a speech by Stimson Bullitt, Esq., and a multi-media ...
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February 12, 2009
The early Internet included military links to European allies prior to the late 1980s, and these were augmented by a few between the NSFNET and European academic networks in the late 1980s. NSF’s ...
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February 12, 2009
This program features Rices Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and describes nanosciences presence in much of the new materials and products that are available to ...
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February 12, 2009
UW faculty converse about the future of where science is going, and what role the UW will play. This program, which is the second half of a two-part series, focuses on human health, quality of ...
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February 12, 2009
The UW has a leadership role in NEPTUNE, a revolutionary ocean observatory being built off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia. The 3,000-km network of heavily instrumented ...
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February 12, 2009
The University of Hawaii has developed a new technology that turns locally available macademia nut shells into charcoal for use locally and for export. From the Series:UH Today
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February 12, 2009
On this episode of Researching Maryland, we feature two very different research projects.  The first is a study about parent/offspring communication in bats with doctoral student ...
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February 12, 2009
Many blame the feverish pace of modern society and the intensity and ferocity of competition for today’s lack of morals and common courtesy.  Yet, many more believe that society ...
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