Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software North Dakota oil production has hit another record (5 monthly records out of six months) and is at 315282 barrels of oil per day in June 2010 North Dakota has added 70,000 barrels of oil pre day over its peak of 245000 barrels of oil per …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Summary Links to the Entire Summit The best of the 2010Singularity Summit Shane legg has developed a formula and program that generates a continuous intelligence measurement for rating algorithms and systems This has the potential to more objectively guide the improvement of AI and algorithms. Goertzel …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software On June 13, China and Taiwan successfully wrapped up a fourth round of negotiations in Beijing on the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement, aimed at lifting tariffs on either side of the Taiwan Strait. The deal, which Taiwanese President Ma’s administration has said may be signed this …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software (a) The experimental resonant metalens on the ground copper plane. Experiments are performed in an anechoic chamber. (b-c) Signals and spectra received in the far-field after emission from central monopole with the lens (blue) and without as a control curve (red). (d) Focal spot obtained after …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software In 2010, China is expected to approve the construction of five nuclear power generating units, including Tianwan Phase III project, Fangchenggang Phase I project, Shidaowan high temperature gas cooled reactor demonstration project. China has approved 30 generation units of 11 nuclear power generation plants with installed …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Chemists at New York University and China’s Nanjing University have created a DNA assembly line that has the potential to create novel materials efficiently on the nanoscale. “An industrial assembly line includes a factory, workers, and a conveyor system,” said NYU Chemistry Professor Nadrian Seeman, the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Nanoletters – Ultrafast All-Optical Switching in a Silicon-Nanocrystal-Based Silicon Slot Waveguide at Telecom Wavelengths We demonstrate experimentally all-optical switching on a silicon chip at telecom wavelengths. The switching device comprises a compact ring resonator formed by horizontal silicon slot waveguides filled with highly nonlinear silicon nanocrystals …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Large-scale print-manufacturing of complex 3-D structures is going to the next level using a new additive manufacturing technology called High-Volume Print Forming Charles S. Taylor, the grandson of Boston Globe publisher Charles H. Taylor, developed manufacturing technology in which converted commercial printing equipment produces tiny layers …
The Washington Post and other sources are reporting the announcement by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Iran has a program of Laser Enrichment of Uranium It is believed that the laser enrichment is still at experimental quantities and that the main enrichment is still centrifuges. Here is a 14 page pdf of the history of …
Flight Global reports that european researchers developing a magnetic heat shield that could augment or replace the traditional ablative materials hope to make a test flight in the next decade. Under development by EADS Astrium, with support from German aerospace centre DLR and the European Space Agency, the magnetic field-protected vehicle will be launched from …
Researchers are making progress in developing new types of transistors, called finFETs, which use a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers to create faster and more compact circuits and computer chips. The fins are made not of silicon, but from a material called indium-gallium-arsenide, as shown in this illustration. (Birck …