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MOSCOW - Russia, US and China will create a global circled computer network around the Earth, as was reported by Russian Academy of Sciences member Eugeniy Velikhov at the Academy Presidium. The project named GLORIAD is designed for development of sciences and education. “World science will evolve in a different way in the nearest future”, the scientist said. He noted that volumes of scientific information have a tendency to increase globally, and increasingly more powerful computers and high-speed networks are needed for its processing. “Russian science fate depends on its access to high-speed Internet. Speed no less than 10Mb per...

AP • New York Times • CBS • MSNBC • AP Medical • MSNBC Space New Network to Link U.S., Russia, China   Dec 23, 10:10 AM (ET) By JIM PAUL CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - Soon scientists in the United States, China and Russia will be able to collaborate in cyberspace over a new high-speed computer network that includes the first direct computer link across the Russia-China border, developers say.The network, expected to go online next month, will ring the Northern Hemisphere, connecting computers in Chicago with machines in Amsterdam, Moscow, Siberia, Beijing and Hong Kong before hooking up...