To bring his idea to life, the Silicon Valley-based designer first created a 3D computer model of the Tardis's interior using the free-to-use open source computer software programme Blender.

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In the same session, Massimo Banzi described the diverse uses, DIY computer enthusiasts have found for his affordable, open-source computer motherboard Arduino.

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But one genome pioneer is taking the opposite approach: imitating the open-source movement of computer science, which argues that technology works best when it is given away for free so that everyone can collaborate on it.

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Facebook created an initiative called Open Compute to create open computer architectures, including open source storage architectures.

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SourceXchange's mission is to help computer hackers who contribute to open-source software, such as the popular operating system Linux, to link up with computer companies.

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Consider AlienVault, a Spanish company that wrote open source tools to help companies report on computer security intrusions.

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Bioengineers, like computer programmers in the Linux open-source software movement, are encouraged to contribute "bricks" voluntarily, and can order the parts they need over the Internet.

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Sabre Holdings' hotel reservations arm, likewise, has cut operating costs by 50% by upgrading to embrace newer computer languages such as Java and run on open-source software.

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Sabre Holdings (nyse: TSG - news - people )' hotel reservations arm, likewise, has cut operating costs by 50% by upgrading to embrace newer computer languages such as Java and run on open-source software.

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Chrome OS, and its open-source sibling, Chromium OS, are Google's answer to the desktop computer.

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Besides open source, Eazel is thus also riding the other big trend that is changing the computer industry: software will increasingly be delivered as an online service and on a subscription basis.

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Another, called Bloom, was developed by computer scientists at UC Berkeley for analysis of large data sets in the popular open source Hadoop database.

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Faculty of information and computer science, King Fahd University also held a workshop for faculty on Open Access and open source.

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