Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A team of physicists has achieved ultrafast “switching” time in an operation central to quantum information processing, changing the state of a single trapped ion in less than 50 picoseconds (10-12, or trillionths of a second) with more than 99 percent reliability. That is the fastest …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Reinventing Life Sciences: Realizing the full potential of the New Biology Speaker: Stephen Quake, Stanford University Introduced by: Rodney Pearlman, RPM Pharma Joined by: Brook Byers, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Susan Desmond-Hellmann, UCSF fluidic integrated circuits, formulator device (2004), Now microfluidic LSI (2002-2007) Fluidigm corporation …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Reinventing the Economy: Combination, complexity and value Speaker: Brian Arthur, Santa Fe Institute all of the complexity in the world has arisen from combining simpler things Economist used to have a view that the economy exists stand alone and then inventions and technology are originated (the …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software AMD has new Bulldozer core design planned as the basis for our next generation AMD Opteron processors Bulldozer is — a brand new design featuring up to 8 cores for client products and up to 16 cores for server products. Bulldozer will feature a new floating …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Based on new pressure readings, data, and analysis, the U.S. scientific teams charged by National Incident Commander Thad Allen with determining the flow of oil from BP’s leaking well have refined their estimates of the oil flow prior to the well being capped on July 15. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Northwestern University has developed beam pen lithography technology which offers a means to rapidly and inexpensively make and prototype circuits, optoelectronics and medical diagnostics and promises many other applications in the electronics, photonics and life sciences industries. Using beam-pen lithography, the researchers patterned 15,000 replicas …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The most basic of plot summaries for the move Inception: Dominic Cobb (Leo DiCaprio) is a master of his art, paid handsomely by well-funded businessmen to extract information from people’s brains. But his latest job is something different – he must plant a thought in someone’s …
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 …
By Alvin Wang and Brian Wang Vote for the idea of Domed Cities at the GE Ecomagination competition Over a series of articles (I will link in the other articles as they are written) we will be showing that dome cities can be made profitably and that they can provide energy efficiency and other benefits. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Arxiv – Indications of room-temperature superconductivity at a metal-PZT interface 5 pages (H/T superconductors.org) From the University of Bengal, India – We report the observation of an exceptionally large room-temperature electrical conductivity in silver and aluminum layers deposited on a lead zirconate titanate (PZT) substrate. The …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. The journal of Current Biology – Visceral-Locomotory Pistoning in Crawling Caterpillars The next step for these ‘softbots’ includes a diverse array of potential uses, such as shape-changing robots capable of engaging in search-and-rescue operations, space applications for which a ‘gravity-agnostic’ crawler would be highly valued, …