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TEDxUVM 2012 - Melba Kurman - 3D Printing and Ultra-Large Systems of Cloud Manufacturing

Melba Kurman is a writer, analyst, veteran marketer and innovation strategist. She in an expert in forward-thinking business strategies for emerging university technologies and university IP management. In addition to university innovation strategy, Kurman writes about the social, economic and intellectual property potential (and challenges) of emerging technologies, most notably 3D printing

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Social Security's IT system could benefit by joining the cloud, scientist says

Social Security's IT system could benefit by joining the cloud, scientist says | Science News | Scoop.it

The Social Security Administration (SSA) should restructure its already massive information technology (IT) systems so they can be readily scaled up, much like the systems used by Google and Amazon, William L. Scherlis, professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, testified today before the House Ways and Means Committee's Social Security subcommittee.

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Customised computing clouds on the horizon

Customised computing clouds on the horizon | Science News | Scoop.it
Cloud services currently on the market do not provide sufficient security. According to one Norwegian research scientist, users are better off forming cloud computing ties among their circle of friends, family, town or municipality.
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CLOUD & MATRIX: How Setting the Cloud Free Could Change the Internet Forever

CLOUD & MATRIX: How Setting the Cloud Free Could Change the Internet Forever | Science News | Scoop.it
Cloud computing is very much tethered to the physical world through server networks. This startup has the technology to set it free.
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Improving security in the cloud

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Less and less of today's computing is done on desktop computers; cloud computing, in which operations are carried out on a network of shared, remote servers, is expected to rise as the demand for computing power increases.
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[VIDEO] Creativity in the Cloud: From the Big Bang to Twitter

[VIDEO] Creativity in the Cloud: From the Big Bang to Twitter | Science News | Scoop.it

What does it mean to be connected in the 21st century? Hope, interdependence, and possibly the creation of a new consciousness, says Tiffany Shlain. Shlain is the founder of the Webby awards and creator of a new documentary, Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology, which premiered this year at Sundance.

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Cloud Computing in Higher Education

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The irony about cloud computing in the higher education environment is that most schools have already been using it to some extent but may not even realize it. [...]

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Workforce from the digital cloud

By means of cloud computing, enterprises can access scalable computing power and storage capacity. A people cloud, by contrast, supplies a scalable number of workers via the internet.
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Education: Why Cloud Computing? | CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing Community

Education: Why Cloud Computing? | CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing Community | Science News | Scoop.it

There are a lot of good reasons why schools, both in the lower and higher education sectors, should adopt cloud computing and embed such into their systems. In this article, we are going to talk about the different benefits, as well as some of the disadvantages and limitations of using cloud computing. However, it is but unwise and illogical to go on with the aforementioned subjects without understanding the meaning of the word ‘cloud computing.’ [...]

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