Winning the Education Future – The Role of ARPA-ED (16 pages) To address the under-investment in learning technology R and D, the President’s FY2012 budget proposes to invest $90 million to create an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Education (ARPA-ED). ARPA-ED will fund projects performed by industry, universities, or other innovative organizations, selected based on …
IEEE Computer – From Microprocessors to Nanostores: Rethinking Data-Centric Systems Historically, the first computer to achieve terascale computing (10^12, or one trillion operations per second) was demonstrated in the late 1990s. In the 2000s, the first petascale computer was demonstrated with a thousand-times better performance. Extrapolating these trends, we can expect the first exascale computer …
A nanotrampoline built out of graphene can directly detect radio frequency signals, paving the way for a new generation of radios. For some time now, physicists have been hoping to find ways of using nanoelectromechanical resonators to filter and generate radio signals directly. At present, this has to be done with various kinds of mixing …
Nuclear fusion rockets and spaceplanes would enable 1. Lower cost travel into space 2. Easy around the solar system in dramatically reduced trip times Mature fusion plasmoid space propulsion could enable speeds of up to 3% of lightspeed. Nuclear fusion / MHD spaceplanes could be developed by 2025 which would enable frequent single stage flights …
Heartland Robotics has raised $20 million in funding Heartland Robotics was founded in 2008 by iRobot co-Founder and former Director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Rodney Brooks, with the goal of introducing a new generation of robots to improve productivity in manufacturing environments. “Our robots will be intuitive to use, intelligent and …
Tata Motors used the Thailand International Motor Expo 2010 as the venue to introduce an electric car based on its Indica Vista and a variant based on the Ace pickup. The Indica Vista EV is powered by a super-polymer lithium-ion battery that promises 200 km on a single charge and an acceleration of 0 to …
A bullish analyst (Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair) is predicting that Apple will double 2010 iPhone sales in 2011 His checks with the supply chain suggest Apple intends to produce 45-48 million iPads next year, which would be up from his forecast of 13.5 million in 2010. Among the drivers he anticipates is the arrival …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Vertically-aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) “forest” microstructures fabricated by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) using patterned catalyst films typically have a low CNT density per unit area. As a result, CNT forests have poor bulk properties and are too fragile for integration with microfabrication processing. We introduce a …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Vietnam plans to mine uranium in the central province of Quang Nam to help support its nuclear power plans. The site targeted in Quang Nam may hold about 8,000 metric tons, while Vietnam’s nationwide uranium reserves may reach into the hundreds of thousands of tons. Vietnam’s …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. Dan Yurman of Idaho Samizdat reports Turkey may have another major nuclear reactor deal in the works. According to English language press reports from Ankara, South Korea is positioned to sign contracts by November to build a $10 billion project. An energy official said the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Here is the Boris Yakobson interview by Sander Olson. Dr. Yakobson is a materials science professor at Rice University, which was the University which initially discovered buckyballs and had key discoveries in the development of buckytubes and nanotubes. Dr. Yakobson has done groundbreaking research on both …