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ArX - Distributed RCS (Revision Control System)
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>30 days ago by aerickson, 1 User, more info save‘Smart Dust’ for Planetary Exploration
"What Barker has in mind is using ’smart dust’ — tiny computer chips surrounded by a polymer sheath — to form intelligent swarms for research on a planetary surface."
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveSecond Life 2.0 To Face Off With Outback Online?
"...they’re taking the old argument over virtual worlds - centralized versus distributed - and done what I believe to be the logical thing and created a hybrid; note that Linden Lab’s virtual wor
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveRogue Second Life Server Goes Open Source
"...it is a step toward a virtual world, solar system, galaxy or universe free from centralized corporate control, one that looks more like the World Wide Web of individually controlled sites...&
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info savePsiphon against censorship
"Psiphon is downloaded by a person in an uncensored country, turning that person's computer into an access point. Someone in a restricted-access country can then log into that computer [...] usin
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveBye Swarmbots, Hello Swarmanoids
"The use of different kinds of robots in the same team follows the division of labor in ant colonies extremely well ... And if scientists can scale the robots to a much smaller size than an ant,
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info savewww.undersound.org
"Not all subways are created equal. What if technology designers recognized this fact and attempted to create an interface that took a deeper look at what being mobile means to each of us?"
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 2 Users, more info saveThe Information Factories
"As we approach a billionth of a cent per byte of storage, and pennies per gigabit per second of bandwidth, what kind of machine labors to be born?" Nice long Wired article on the new Google
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 2 Users, more info saveWhat a lot of bots
"Known collectively as a Swarmanoid, the robots will consist of three types: eye-bots, hand-bots and foot-bots. The three will act together to form a heterogeneous robotic system that can operate
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveInterstellar space dust hunted from home
The Stardust@home project kicks off...got a few spare weeks?
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveBalls to Mars!
Engineers envision exploring Mars with mini probes...more efficient, more versatile, less of a financial disaster when one goes wrong.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveTalk about missing the boat...
Sandia National Labs in the US reckon that supplying military bases their energy from a number of small renewable energy sources rather than a single power plant would be a great idea. Which may be wh
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveBackyard Approach Finds Extrasolar Planet
Score one for the amateurs and lo-fi freaks
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveExploiting Similarity for Multi-Source Downloads Using ...
>30 days ago by naufraghi, 1 User, more info saveRipple Project Homepage
Ripple is a monetary system based on trust that already exists between people in real-world social networks. By cutting out the institutional middlemen, Ripple is both more community-oriented and more
>30 days ago by naufraghi, 1 User, more info saveAllegra » About Allegra
Allegra is an innovative library for web peer applications development. It provides a framework for asynchronous network peer programming, a simple stack of Internet standards implementations, and two
>30 days ago by naufraghi, 1 User, more info saveThe JoCaml system
JoCaml is Objective Caml plus (&) the join calculus, that is, OCaml extended for concurrent and distributed programming.
>30 days ago by qubit, 1 User, more info saveruby queue (rq)
ruby queue (rq) is a tool used to create instant linux clusters by managing sqlite databases as nfs mounted priority work queues.
>30 days ago by qubit, 1 User, more info saveruby queue (rq)
ruby queue (rq) is a tool used to create instant linux clusters by managing sqlite databases as nfs mounted priority work queues.
>30 days ago by qubit, 1 User, more info savePig | Yahoo! Research
We are creating infrastructure to support ad-hoc analysis of very large data sets. Parallel processing is the name of the game.
>30 days ago by qubit, 1 User, more info saveMonster Muck Mashup - Mass Video Conversion Using AWS
Expert AWS developer Mitch Garnaat takes us through his Monster Muck Mashup application, which supercharges the process of converting video for his iPod. Mitch uses Amazon S3 for rock-solid video file
>30 days ago by qubit, 1 User, more info saveinferno-os - Inferno Distributed Operating System
Applications written in Inferno's concurrent programming language, Limbo, are compiled to its portable virtual machine code (Dis), to run anywhere on a network in the portable environment that Inferno
>30 days ago by qubit, 1 User, more info saveThe Borealis Project
Applications that deal with continuous data streams are becoming increasingly important primarily due to the emergence of sensors and similar small-scale embedded computing devices that continuously p
>30 days ago by qubit, 1 User, more info save