The existing set of technology companies have taken us part of the way there, but bridging that gap will require energy tech companies that take these exciting new technologies from the lab to the living room.
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For an undisclosed sum, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has agreed to set up the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, or SkTech.
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Back in the early 1980s, this media guru drummed up some money from a lot of publishing, entertainment and technology companies and set up the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Padcaster was made by and for videographers to fit the needs of just about any filmmaker working with the ever-expanding set of production tools and technology.
This type of programming is based on a set of Java APIs, although new technology in the latest version of Apache Hadoop, called YARN, allows other languages to be used.
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The two-year research project is being funded by the Technology Strategy Board, a government agency set up to find innovative ways of using technology.
An idea for a morality play: capture the madness of an era when investors, entranced by new technology, a novel set of economic assumptions and an all-powerful Federal Reserve, lost their heads, blew an exuberant bubble and suffered a painful bust.
Even before Sept. 11 set off a rush of antiterror technology research, Sandia and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) had the zany idea of using honeybees to stand in for humans when collecting traces of bioweapons and explosives.
"I am thrilled to be working with HarperCollins to share some of my own crazy experiences on the front lines of social media and to inspire people of all ages to embrace technology, as well as the new set of social norms that come along with it, " she said.
With the introduction of 3D audio technology, the aural aspects of travel are set to be revolutionised, in the same way 3D movies like Avatar and game consoles like the Nintendo 3DS are revolutionising visual entertainment.
For example, there are 189 ISO standards for information security, our National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST) has produced a full set of world-class materials on information security, and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association ( ISACA) has developed its best practices, the Control Objectives for Information Technology ( CobiT).
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Digital Publishing Suite is a set of turnkey hosted services and viewer technology that tightly integrates with Adobe Creative Suite 6 products and Adobe Creative Cloud.
Obscured behind a persistent set of misconceptions is a much more nuanced view of this critical workplace technology trend and the opportunities it offers to improve business productivity.
Glasses.com, a new venture from 1-800 Contacts, which in turn is a subsidiary of the big insurer Wellpoint, is set to unveil a new try-on technology in a couple of months that will let you see how dozens of pairs look on a 3-D rendering of your face.
The ewe's birth in 1996 set off a firestorm of debate about the technology used to create her.
Novelty socks are the technology set's version of Wall Street's graphic neckties and silly suspenders of the 1980s.
Some will require a set of simple tools, others more advanced technology.
The problem boils down to an oversight in the regulations for government software set by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, says Wysopal.
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Yet, the exact same technology also carries a set of intimately-associated liabilities, dangers we must recognize and respect if we are to do more good than harm.
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As a tactile set of symbols it is believed that the technology could also be used by fire-fighters to communicate with each other in smoke-filled buildings when hand or radio communication is not possible.
Leading international scientists and policy-makers then came together during the Forum on Science Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro in July 2012 and put forward a set of recommendation to help establish such co-designed research, technology and policy agendas.
The world premier of an 82-inch Bravia prototype with wide-color gamma technology is set to deliver more realism via the full range of color.
Speaking of solar efficiency, this week solar manufacturer Amonix announced that its concentrated photovoltaic technology has set a new efficiency record with a conversion rate of 33.5 percent.
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But beyond a set of enthusiastic early adopters, the use of technology in formal education remained largely stalled.
The University of Texas (UT) System is joining the edX online platform project set up by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
However, the sport's governing body decided against using additional referees in South Africa and have instead opted to set up an inquiry into the benefits of video technology and extra officials.
"We are constantly striving to deliver the best possible customer experience for Cloud Player, and today we are offering our customers a significant set of new features, including scan and match technology and audio quality upgrade, " said Steve Boom, Vice President of Digital Music at Amazon.
Two months later, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, which is responsible for EHR certification, issued a different set of rules, stating that hospitals have to certify their EHRs on 24 measures to meet requirements.
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Dr Robock, who carries out geoengineering research while taking an avowedly hostile approach to any suggestion of deploying the technology, has teamed up with climate modellers at other institutions to produce a set of options that could be run on a range of computer models.
This situation is exacerbated by two major technology trends that demand a new set of technical skills: cloud computing and big data.
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