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A map for all seasons

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Australia's National Resource Information Center (NRIC) has developed a computerized mapping technology with a variety of applications. The center gathers cartographical data from various sources and converts them into digital form. One advantage of these colorful high-resolution maps over conventional ones is that they can be simultaneously compared and overlapped. NRIC's mapping technology has been successfully applied to crop yield and water resource management.

Australia, Information services, Digital mapping

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Liberating the serfs

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Observers from around Japan have been sent to view the Zushi municipal government's computer system. The system is unique from those being used by other local governments because a local area network connects the some 70 desktop computers of the system, unlike the old mainframe computers prevalent in other Japanese towns. Former Mayor Kiichiro Tomino is credited with establishing the system, which had gotten mixed reactions from other local governments.

Software, Science and technology policy, Local government, Computer engineering, Zushi, Japan

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Fact before theory

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Technegas, the trade name for a new form of carbon, buckminster-fullerenes, popularly called bucky balls, was originally discovered by Burch, a biomedical scientist at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, in 1984. Burch started using Technegas in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism, a lung disorder, much before American researchers patented the invention and demonstrated its effectiveness.

Research, Product introduction, Diagnosis, Pulmonary embolism, Buckminsterfullerene, Australian National University, Technegas

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