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Lyric Semiconductor, a startup company founded by an MIT scientist and a veteran semiconductor executive, is working on a processor designed to calculate probabilities that could dramatically increase computer performance in certain applications. Lyric described the GP5 chip as a “general purpose programmable probability processing platform” and said it could perform probability calculations 1,000 times [...]

VoltDB, a new open-source database for large-scale transaction processing, emerged from beta on Tuesday. VoltDB was co-founded by longtime database industry figure Michael Stonebraker. Its origin stems from the H-Store project, a collaborative effort by Brown University, Yale University, HP Labs, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Stonebraker is an adjunct professor. [ Stay [...]

Despite the unrelenting hype around cloud computing, it’s just one aspect of several that will shape the next generation of enterprise IT, according to Barry Briggs, CTO of Microsoft IT. Increased government regulation, the complexities introduced by globalization, and explosive growth in data are major issues, Briggs said at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on [...]

Alcatel-Lucent wants the telecommunications industry to turn a little more green by developing new equipment that cuts power consumption by a factor of 1,000. On Monday, the company is announcing a global research and development consortium that will tap brainpower from Samsung, China Mobile, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other participants. The goal of [...]