Science and Technology

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  • A Lean, Mean Electronic Poetry Machine Proves April Is Not the Cruelest Month
    3/30/00
    April is National Poetry Month and what better place to behold a gallery of daring new work than the University at Buffalo Electronic Poetry Center (EPC), the Web-based definitive world-wide resource for digital poetry and an example of ways in which information technology assists the exploration of the humanities.
  • UB Media Artist Receives International Honors For Innovative Online Multimedia Production
    3/22/00
    Media artist Mary Flanagan, assistant professor in the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo, had her work selected for exhibition in "VRML-ART 2000," the annual international media art conference held last month in Monterey, Calif.
  • UB Geologist’s Study Of Volcanoes On Earth May Help Determine If There Ever Was Life On Mars
    3/15/00
    Was there ever life on Mars? That question may one day be answered in part by research now being conducted by a University at Buffalo geologist who studies volcanoes on earth.
  • Gift From Myricom Speeds Up UB’s Supercomputer
    3/15/00
    You can never have a computer that's too fast. That's the thinking of University at Buffalo researchers in the university's Center for Computational Research (CCR), who received a $139,680 equipment donation that will speed up processor communications nearly 100-fold. Myricom, Inc. has donated leading-edge Myrinet interfaces and switches that have been integrated into the CCR dual-boot Linux/Solaris Sun Microsystems cluster.
  • UB Geologists Find Evidence That Upstate New York Is Criss-Crossed By Hundreds Of Faults
    3/14/00
    Mention New York State's Finger Lakes region or its Southern Tier, and most people don't automatically think of earthquake country. But these upstate areas may be about to gain a reputation for greater seismic potential, according to recent research by a team of University at Buffalo geologists.
  • UB Develops High-Quality IP-Based Videoconferencing System
    3/8/00
    Information-technology specialists at the University at Buffalo have developed a revolutionary production-grade, PC-based, high-performance, video-conferencing system that is portable and available at a much lower price than was previously possible.
  • UB Technology Solves Chip Fabrication Problem
    3/2/00
    A University at Buffalo professor who has spent the past decade developing a laser ablation apparatus that solves one of the trickier problems in computer-chip fabrication has received a $900,000 grant under the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to commercialize the technology.
  • Peace Bridge Designs Come To Life Virtually At UB
    3/1/00
    The final decision on whether to build a "Superspan" or to "twin" the existing Peace Bridge is still months away, but starting this week, all of the proposed bridge and toll plaza designs have come to life, virtually that is, in the Center for Computational Research (CCR) at the University at Buffalo.
  • Grant To Advance Case-Study Approach To Teaching Science
    2/28/00
    A University at Buffalo professor who says his mission in life is to revolutionize the teaching of science has received an $800,000 grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to do just that.
  • “SNAP” Offers Computers To Financially Strapped Freshmen
    2/28/00
    The so-called "digital divide" between the "haves" -- those who can afford computer access -- and the "have nots" has been erased, at least in the freshman class at the University at Buffalo. Thanks to the university's Students Needing Assistance Program (SNAP) and its corporate partners financial hardship simply is not an issue for 264 freshmen, at least where computers are concerned.