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The Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) has announced the creation of its official blog, Information Space (http://ischool.syr.edu/blog).

Social media saturation, smarter search engine development, mobile devices and cell phone proliferation, IT energy consumption, and ease of IT adoption and use are among the topic areas that researchers from Syracuse University School of Information Studies will be exploring at the 2010 iConference: iMPACTS.

The Center for Emerging Technologies (CENT) and the Convergence Center merged to create the new Center for Convergence and Emerging Network Technologies (CCENT).

A Syracuse University scientist has invented a new technology for handling wireless traffic that significantly reduces bandwidth use.

Novel agents shown to reduce growth of fungi by more than 80 percent.

An obscure phenomenon called stochastic resonance can improve the clarity of signals in systems such as radar, sonar and even radiography, used in medical clinics to detect signs of breast cancer.

The new Center for Information and Systems Assurance and Trust (CISAT) is currently developing its research agenda and reviewing proposals.

Thanks to a $27 million investment over five years from IBM, Syracuse University students will now have access to IBM hardware, software and maintenance services to learn about innovative enterprise computing technologies.

Jeffrey Rubin and his wife, Jennifer, have committed $100,000 over five years to the Raymond F. von Dran Fund.

The Syracuse Biomaterials Institute in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science will host the fall Stevenson Biomaterials Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 19.