The Internet's earliest development stretched back to 1969, but Smarr helped speed its development by building the National Science Foundation's fiber backbone.

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Of course, they haven't built a living genetic PC just yet, but to speed up its development, the team has contributed all the transcriptor-based logic gates to the public domain.

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Public opinion may be mixed about the ethics of stem cell research, but medical development is plowing full-speed ahead.

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The ability to work in the kind of visual environment that designers are used to, generate working comps for clients and export code for developers will both speed up design development, but also avoid the unintended awkwardness that can result from programmatic design decisions made without sufficient visual feedback.

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But newfangled artery-imaging techniques used in the study, touted as a way to speed drug development, caused problems as well.

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But today, file-sharing is one of the most cutting-edge areas of software development, as high-speed Internet connections allow users to trade music, movies and applications at a blistering pace.

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