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KnowledgeStorm is the Internet's top-ranked search resource for technology solutions and information. We give technology vendors the most opportunities to reach business and technology professionals conducting research on the Internet and convert them into Web leads

Internet2 is the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium. Led by the research and education community since 1996, Internet2 promotes the missions of its members by providing both leading-edge network capabilities and unique partnership opportunities that together facilitate the development, deployment and use of revolutionary Internet technologies.
By bringing research and academia together with technology leaders from industry, government and the international community, Internet2 promotes collaboration and innovation that has a fundamental impact on the future of the Internet.

Key Trend Alert: Nanotechnology - Knowledge Gap for Policy
Nanotechnology offers radically new ways of doing things but there are widespread concerns that the risks are not being adequately assessed and hence suitable regulations being put in place to protect the public.
The scientists themselves are profiling the largely unknown nature of the risks of a technology that is to do with controlling matter at near-atomic scales. An article in the prestigious journal Nature highlighted the challenges of developing new ways of measuring the exposure to nanomaterials, and in assessing the health and environmental impact of that exposure. Authors noted that "Fears over the possible dangers of some nanotechnologies may be exaggerated, but they are not necessarily unfounded."

The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices. Global warming is one of the most serious challenges facing us today. To protect the health and economic well-being of current and future generations, we must reduce our emissions of heat-trapping gases by using the technology, know-how, and practical solutions already at our disposal.

Speed-of-light computing comes a step closer - 18 July 2007 - NewScientist.com news service - Saswato Das
Computers that operate at the speed of light have come a step closer. Researchers have devised a light-based transistor made of semiconducting nanowires that could be a key building block of machines that are hundreds of times faster than today's supercomputers

The Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities - IATH is a research unit of the University of Virginia. Our goal is to explore and develop information technology as a tool for scholarly humanities research. To that end, we provide our Fellows with consulting, technical support, applications development, and networked publishing facilities. We also cultivate partnerships and participate in humanities computing initiatives with libraries, publishers, information technology companies, scholarly organizations, and other groups residing at the intersection of computers and cultural heritage.

PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) collaborates with sponsors and clients to discover breakthrough business and technology concepts that solve real needs, and transform how enterprises deliver value to customers.
PARC’s physical, computer, biological, and social scientists take an agile, cross-disciplinary approach to innovation, with the vision, expertise, and instinct to convert groundbreaking scientific findings into industrial-strength prototypes.

Powerset is a Silicon Valley company building a transformative consumer search engine based on natural language processing.
Our unique innovations in search are rooted in breakthrough technologies that take advantage of the structure and nuances of natural language. Using these advanced techniques, Powerset is building a large-scale search engine that breaks the confines of keyword search.
By making search more natural and intuitive, Powerset is fundamentally changing how we search the web, and delivering higher quality results.
Powerset’s search engine is currently under development. Please check back in the near future for more information about our technology and for signing up for our alpha.

ComputeNano.com is the ultimate information resource for computer-aided nanodesign (CAN), the field of using modeling, simulation, and informatics software to accelerate R&D in nano-manufacturing. This approach builds bridges between chemistry, biology, and engineering by scaling up precise nanoscale methods from the lab to the industrial manufacturing scale.