Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 have said they will work to grow their collective gross domestic product (GDP) by an additional two percent of world GDP or about $2 trillion over five years. This would be an increase of 10-12% over projected world GDP growth that was expected for the …
The actor and writer-director, known for playing Egon Spengler in the Ghostbusters films and for directing comedies such as Groundhog Day and Caddyshack. He also wrote Animal House and Meatballs. He had characters on SCTV like Moe Green. Moe Green on SCTV SCTV Quotes Moe Green: [on Dialing for Dollars] [to camera] Moe Green: We’re …
Long-distance communications in space may be easier now that researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have designed a clever detector array that can extract more information than usual from single particles of light. The NIST/JPL array-on-a-chip easily identifies the position of the exact detector in a …
Stephen Roach says the days of Sino-US mutual dependency are nearing an end, as China strikes out on its own towards a consumer-led economy. And, if it is to prosper, the US must also find a new growth strategy. Stephen S. Roach is a faculty member at Yale University and former chairman of Morgan Stanley …
Future of robotics Massimiliano Versace, director of the Boston University Neuromorphics Lab and CEO of Neurala, Inc., talks about the future of robotics. He specifically talks about the robot body, brain and mind. These three components are advancing rapidly to form the future of robots. Three ingredients for useful robots are coming. * smart minds …
U.S. Patent Office in February 2014 issued to Neurala, Inc. a patent that covers brain-based computational models, often called Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) running on graphic processing units (GPU). The invention is seen as an important foundation for real-time artificial intelligence and robotics applications. Humans outperform computers in many natural tasks, including vision and language …
Another important milestone was reached recently for TSMC and ARM when the teams taped out at the end of December 2013 (see block diagram) the first 64 bit ARMv8 processors in a big.LITTLE configuration on TSMC’s leading edge manufacturing process, 16nm FinFET. Why is this important? Not only is this the 2nd tape out under …
Abandoned by his own guards and reviled across the Ukrainian capital but still determined to recover his shredded authority, President Viktor F. Yanukovych fled Kiev on Saturday to denounce what he called a violent coup, as his official residence, his vast, colonnaded office complex and other once impregnable centers of power fell without a fight …
A new military LIDAR chip shows promise for faster and more precise aerial mapping—doing in minutes what used to take day. In 2012, 20 hours of helicopter flight time were needed to map 370 square kilometers to a resolution of one meter. A new LIDAR (light detection and ranging) 3-D imaging system could perform the …
South Korea tried to control the size of Seoul half a century ago. In Seoul’s first Basic Urban Plan, in 1966, its population was expected to grow from three to five million by 1985. But it hit that target in 1970. Now half of the population of South Korea is in Seoul. South Korea’s government …
By 2015 China plans to extend the network to 19,000 kilometers (about 11,800 miles), with a mixture of new and existing infrastructure. On the dedicated high-speed lines, trains can exceed 300km/h (186mph); secondary lines allow travel between 200 and 299 km/h (124-185mph); and existing lines that have been upgraded permit some high-speed travel. Bullet trains …