Dec. 2, 2013 (Xinhua), — China launched the Chang’e-3 lunar probe with the country’s first moon rover aboard early on Monday, marking a significant step toward deep space exploration. [Special coverage] The probe’s carrier, an enhanced Long March-3B rocket, blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China at 1:30 a.m.
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2014 IEEE Fellows Include Twenty from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
By David Li, bostonese.com Boston, Nov. 29, 2013, IEEE, the largest professional association for the advancement of technology in the world, announced the 2014 class of IEEE fellow just before the U.S. Thanksgiving Holiday this week. IEEE fellow is deemed as a prestigious distinction, reserved for IEEE members with extraordinary accomplishments. (L to R)2014 IEEE… Continue reading 2014 IEEE Fellows Include Twenty from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
China Shocks the Supercomputer Community Again with HUST’s HPL Championship at ISC 2013
BEIJING, /PRNewswire/ — On June 19 (German time), the 2013 International Student Cluster Challenge (ISC’13) was closed in Leipzig, Germany. The team from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in China has won the Best Linpack award and set a world new record with 8.455TFLOPS. The team from the Centre for High Performance Computing… Continue reading China Shocks the Supercomputer Community Again with HUST’s HPL Championship at ISC 2013
Lihong Wang Wins NIH Highly Competitive Transformative Research Award
Cancer researchers have been limited by current imaging technology in their ability to detect not only structure and function of tumors, but also tumor cell circulation. A technology proposed by Lihong Wang, PhD, at Washington University in St. Louis, may hold the key to reaching this goal.
Willy Wu and Betsy Pu Win Lincoln Labs National Education Competition
Acton, Mass., Oct. 20, 2013, –Willy Wu of Acton Boxborough Regional High School and Betsy Pu of Lexington High School recently won the first place of the prestigious Lincoln Labs National Education Competition. They are also Kapparate CS03 students, and developed the winning application with Kapparate instructor Ben Pu.
The First-ever Taiwan IDEAS Day Boston Brings Brilliant Ideas
Cambridge, Mass., October 18, 2013 — The first-ever Taiwan IDEADS Day Boston was held at Cambridge Innovation Center on October 17. Founders of eight start-up teams of Taiwanese origin delivered their pitches for an audience of investors, mentors and members of Boston’s start-up community who packed the conference room. Taiwan IDEAS Day at Cambridge Innovation… Continue reading The First-ever Taiwan IDEAS Day Boston Brings Brilliant Ideas
2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Goes to Three Americans
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells
Two Events at Harvard–A Busy Day for NECINA
By David Li, bostonese.com Cambridge, Mass. — On September 21, 2013, New England Chinese Information & Networking Association (NECINA) will host two events from 8:15 AM until 4:00 PM. The first one is Global e-Commerce Conference in the morning, and the second one is NECINA Entrepreneurship@Suzhou Info Seminar in the afternoon, both at Hall E… Continue reading Two Events at Harvard–A Busy Day for NECINA
“35 Top Innovators Under the Age of 35” Focus on Internet, Mobile and Life Sciences
Cambridge, Mass. — MIT Technology Review recently released its annual list of “35 Top Innovators Under the Age of 35.” Innovators and inventors from Internet, mobile tech and life sciences dominated the list.
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