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1. NSF and SRC to Fund Research to Create Failure-Resistant Systems and Circuits for Tomorrow’s Computing Applications

   

   Leaders of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, today announced 18 new projects funded through a joint initiative to address research challenges in the design of failure-resistant circuits and systems.

   The three-year, $6 million collaborative program ...
   

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2. National Science Foundation-Funded Researchers Present Commercial-Ready Technologies to Industry

   

   For the first time in a national showcase setting, a group of National Science Foundation (NSF) grantees--who are funded through the Accelerating Innovation Research (AIR) program--presented to industry representatives various technologies they believe are ready for commercialization.

   On May 14 in Baltimore, Md., 10 investigators, whose research support came from the NSF Engineering Directorate's AIR Technology Translation program, introduced a system that uses ionic liquids to ...
   

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3. Two-month Time-lapse Video of Antarctic Ice Goes Viral

   

   Cassandra Brooks is a Stanford University doctoral student with the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources.

   She spent two months in 2013 aboard the National Science Foundation-operated icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer as part of a research cruise investigating the role of dissolved organic carbon in the Ross Sea ecosystem.

   She--and a video she produced on the voyage--became ...
   

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4. University of Chicago Launches Bionimbus Protected Data Cloud to Analyze Cancer Data

   

   The University of Chicago launched the first secure cloud-based computing system that enables researchers to access and analyze human genomic cancer information without the costly and cumbersome infrastructure normally needed to download and store massive amounts of data.

   The Bionimbus Protected Data Cloud, as it is called, enables researchers who are authorized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to access and analyze data in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) ...
   

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