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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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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.
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 of South Africa won the Overall Best award, and the team from Tsinghua University ranked second in terms of overall score at ISC’13. It is China’s second championship at ISC’13 after Tianhe-2 claimed the lead in the Top500 list. The world is marveling at China’s rapid development in system research, application development, and talent education in the field of supercomputers.
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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.
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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.
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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 Center.
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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
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 of Harvard University Science Center.
IEEE president and CEO Peter Staecker (right) at 2012 NECINA annual meeting (photo by David Li).
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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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