Stony Brook University unveiled its latest engineering feat, a 1.5 billion pixel Reality Deck. The Reality Deck, a 416 screen super-high resolution virtual reality four-walled surround-view theater, is the largest resolution immersive display ever built driven by a graphic supercomputer. Its purpose and primary design principle is to enable scientists, engineers and physicians to tackle …
Instead of reflecting on the unlikelihood of rare catastrophes after the fact, Stanford risk analysis expert Elisabeth Paté-Cornell prescribes an engineering approach to anticipate them when possible, and to manage them when not. Her research suggests that other fields could borrow risk analysis strategies from engineering to make better management decisions, even in the case …
1. Weirdwarp looks at light and whether it is made up of waves or particles. This question has been around for ages. Photons which are particles of light are said to be both particles and waves by quantum theory. Physicists from the University of Bristol have backed up the quantum theory with a new demonstration …
Technology Review reports who the largest corporate research and development spenders are. The information is from 2011. Nokia and RIM are shrinking and becoming far weaker. Google, Apple and Samsung continue to see strong revenue growth. Microsoft, Intel, Cisco and HP are holding steady. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review …
At 20 petaflops, Titan would be significantly more powerful than the current Top 500 champ, the Sequoia supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Labs, which clocks in at 16.3 petaflops. Data Center Knowledge – “We envision two systems beyond Titan to achieve exascale performance by about 2018,” wrote Jeff Nichols, Associate Laboratory Director for Computing and …
Miami Herald – When he was only 43, Peter Harrison had a severe heart attack that left him suffering from the symptoms of a damaged heart: shortness of breath, chest pain and increased risk of another heart attack. An otherwise healthy commercial real estate agent from Key Biscayne, Harrison was in and out of the …
Venturebeat also notes that this is Mac versus PC all over again. Apple is already down to 14.9% marketshare in smartphones. There are about 700 million smartphones shipping in 2012. By about 2018 there will be about 3 billion smartphones shipping. Apple grew by 58%, so they increased their marketshare as overall smartphones grew by …
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory launched a new era of scientific supercomputing today with Titan, a system capable of churning through more than 20,000 trillion calculations each second—or 20 petaflops—by employing a family of processors called graphic processing units first created for computer gaming. Titan will be 10 times more …
Technology Review – Researchers have created mice that are 500 times more sensitive than usual to TNT. They could provide a cheap, fast way to find buried explosives. Genetically engineered mice could be created as cheap methods to detect anything that releases molecules into the air. (drug detection, some kinds of cancers and disease) Scientists …
Researchers at Rice University are designing transparent, two-terminal, three-dimensional computer memories on flexible sheets that show promise for electronics and sophisticated heads-up displays. The technique based on the switching properties of silicon oxide, a breakthrough discovery by Rice in 2008, was reported today in the online journal Nature Communications. The Rice team led by chemist …
Hybrid Air Vehicles Limited and Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) announce the successful completion of the first flight of the U.S. Army’s Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV). They have designed a 400ft (122m) long “lighter-than-air” hybrid vehicle for the US Army, in a contract worth half a billion pounds. The LEMV, a first-of-its-kind airship, took to …