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GIST Initiative Launches Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programs

At the recent conference on Economic Development through Science and Technology Innovation, the State Department-sponsored Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) initiative launched two programs that will foster innovation and technology entrepreneurship through social networking, skill development, and financing.

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Green Room Retail Help Develop Sony PlayStation Mobile Demo Unit

Green Room Retail, leading expert providers of retail solutions including retail design, point-of-purchase, shop-in-shop and flagship store design, won the contract to design and create an in-store demonstration unit for Sony PlayStation.

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Smarter Building Management Cuts Costs

Green buildings are not confined to new construction anymore. IBM recently unveiled its Intelligent Building Management software that applies analytics and automation algorithms to make any building new or old "green."

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Tulane University’s Richardson Memorial Hall is being turned into a "smarter building living laboratory" for its architecture students.

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3D Printers Now in Homes and Classrooms

Once relegated to scientific industries like space, medicine and engineering, 3D printers are becoming less expensive and easier to use. The newest models are now appearing in classrooms and even households around the country.

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The RapMan 3D printer is transparent, simple and significantly cheaper than previous 3D printer models.

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Picture This: Smarter Data

Visualization is the next important frontier for IT and business pros.

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Full Monty: The Allosphere lets researchers literally climb inside their data to explore in 3D.

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Keeping Pace With the Exabytes of Medical Data

The overwhelming abundance of health data is prompting the development of smarter health analytics integrated with cloud computing to quickly sift out the nuggets of knowledge that help patients.

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Smart applications like the free AsthmaMD help patients create diaries that caregivers can access to make sure directions are being followed and medications are being taken on time.

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Smarter Organics-Based Displays Provide Visual Realism

Unparalleled visual realism is being created by smarter electronic displays using organics, as demonstrated by the new spherical mega-display in Japan.

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The world’s largest globe, covered with over 10,000 organic displays, hangs 60 feet above the lobby floor in Tokyo's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation.

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Smart-City-in-a-Box Solution Aids Timely Decision-Making

The IBM Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities gives cities of any size a grand view of decision-making information across city departments and agencies. Leveraging built-in analytics, managers can then better anticipate problems, respond to crises and manage resources.

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The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority has used smart meters and analytics to quickly identify problems such as water main breaks.

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Jupiter's Youthful Travels Redefined Solar System

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Not long after Jupiter formed, it got pulled slowly toward the sun, carried on currents of swirling gas. Saturn also got pulled in, and when the two giant planets came close enough to each other, their fates became linked. Their sun-bound death spiral came to a halt when Jupiter was about where Mars is now; then the pair turned and moved away from the sun. The researchers who developed this model of the early solar system call it the "Grand Tack," a reference to the sailing maneuver.

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Cloud Computing Expands Reach with iDataCenters

Around the world, data centers are popping up to address the continued expansion of cloud services into mainstream computing, and the latest convert is the same company that brought you iPods, iPhones and iPads.

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The new DuPont Fabros data center in Santa Clara, Calif., will likely house Apple's new family of cloud-computing services.