DURHAM -- Nu Tech 2010, a conference focusing on uncommercialized technologies from Nagoya University in Japan, was held at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel on Wednesday.
The event featured more than 20 breakthrough technologies from the fields of life science, biotechnology and engineering from the university, home to four Nobel Prize-winning professors in physics and chemistry, as well as technologies from N.C. State University, UNC Chapel Hill and East Carolina University.
More than 30 representatives from Nagoya University and the Japan Science and Technology Agency were present to network with area scientists and researchers.
N.C. Secretary of Commerce Keith Crisco and Ray Wood, vice president of Eisai Inc., spoke at the event, along with Nagoya University President Michinari Hamaguchi.
RTI gives $150K for Haiti efforts
DURHAM -- RTI International donated $150,000 to American Red Cross earthquake relief efforts in Haiti, the research organization announced Wednesday.
The $150,000 included about $75,000 raised by employees and a matching contribution from RTI.
The Red Cross is using donations to send food, provide clean drinking water and distribute shelter items such as blankets and tarps to those in need in Haiti.
Google plans new networks
WASHINGTON -- Google Inc. plans to build a handful of experimental, ultra-fast broadband networks around the country to connect consumers to the Internet and ensure that tomorrow's systems can keep up with online video and other advanced applications that the search company will want to deliver.
The Google project, announced Wednesday, is also intended to provide a platform for outside developers to create and try out all sorts of cutting-edge applications that will require far more bandwidth than today's networks offer.
The company said its testbed fiber-optic networks will deliver speeds of 1 gigabit per second to as many as 500,000 Americans. That would be roughly 50 to 300 times faster than the DSL, cable and fiber-optic networks that connect most U.S. homes to the Internet today, at speeds typically ranging from 3 megabits to 20 megabits per second.
-- From staff, wire reports
