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Google’s Energy Foray
Google is trying to meet its growing energy demands by investing in the clean energy market. The company plans to become a major player in capturing, owning, tracking and trading energy.
Date: 05/05/2010
Type: Blog, News
Technologies: Computing and Networks, Energy Conversion
Tags: alternative energy, clean energy economy, data center, energy market, energy production, google
computer clunker
How About Cash for Tech Clunkers?
Popular Science commentary on the Cash for Clunkers program suggest a Cash for Tech Clunkers program.
Date: 08/27/2009
Type: Blog
Technologies: Computing and Networks, Economic Impact, Electronics
How IT Can Cut Carbon Emissions
The rapid growth of the IT sector requires a huge amount of electricity, causing a growing percentage of carbon emissions, but the internet can also be used as a tool to abate carbon emissions.
Date: 10/01/2008
Type: Article
Technologies: Computing and Networks
Tags: carbon emissions, communication, green internet, internet, IT
How Software Will Help Build the Green Cloud
Cloud computing will increase activity at central servers. This increased traffic must be accompanied by energy efficiency gains.
Date: 03/23/2009
Type: Blog
Technologies: Computing and Networks
Tags: computing, green internet, IT
How Vehicle Automation Will Cut Fuel Consumption
In addition to being safer, intelligent cars and trucks could save money through lighter materials and drafting efficiencies from close-distance convoy driving.
Date: 10/24/2011
Type: News
Technologies: Computing and Networks, Transportation
Tags: advanced vehicles, efficient vehicles
Hybrid Silicon Lasers: The Final Frontier to Intergrated Computing
In this recent paper in Optics & Photonics News, John Bowers and the team at UCSB discuss how silicon photonics may revolutionize the 21st century by bringing together two technological areas that transformed the 20th - photonics and microelectronics.
Date: 05/18/2010
Type: Article
Technologies: Computing and Networks, Electronics, Photonics
Tags: integrated circuits, lasers, semiconductors
IBM's New Chips Compute More Like We Do
Researches at IBM have developed two chip prototypes that intertwine computational power with memory, similar to the how the human brain functions. Not only can these chips take on novel tasks, they require a fraction of the electricity and computing power of conventional computers.
Date: 08/18/2011
Type: News
Technologies: Computing and Networks
Tags: computer chips, energy-efficient computing, IBM
Inaction in IT means computing still ain’t green
A report released showed that IT companies are lagging in energy efficiency, an area that can greatly benefit them.
Date: 02/09/2009
Type: Blog
Technologies: Computing and Networks
Tags: green computing, IT
Initiative Seeks 1,000-Fold Cut in IT Power Demand
Alcatel Lucent's Bell Labs launches an initiative to reduce emissions from the information and communications technology sector by a factor of 1,000.
Date: 01/11/2010
Type: News
Technologies: Communication, Computing and Networks, Data Centers
Tags: communications, Green Touch, information technology
Institute faculty member Umesh Mishra.
Institute Faculty Member's Startup Backed by Google Ventures
Institute faculty member Umesh Mishra's start-up company, Transphorm, has come up with a set of chips that could substantially curb power consumption in computers, electric cars, motors and other appliances.
Date: 02/23/2011
Type: Article
Technologies: Computing and Networks
Tags: conversion loss, Gallium Nitride, power consumption, power converters, semiconductors, Transphorm, UCSB, waste heat

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