In an effort to spur U.S. scientific competitiveness, as well as accelerate development and widespread deployment of 100-gigabit technology, the Advanced Networking Initiative (ANI) was created with $62 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and implemented by ESnet. ANI was established to build a 100 Gbps national prototype network and …
MSNBC – James Lovelock, the maverick scientist who became a guru to the environmental movement with his “Gaia” theory of the Earth as a single organism, has admitted to being “alarmist” about climate change and says other environmental commentators, such as Al Gore, were too. Lovelock, 92, is writing a new book in which he …
China is set to speed up spending on roads, railways and utilities to boost economic growth, the , gdpofficial China Securities Journal said on Monday, citing government economists. Zhang Hanya, the head of China’s investment association, a think tank affiliated with China’s economic planning agency, was quoted as saying that boosting investment is the only …
Nature – Three studies published this week show that introducing new cells into mice can replace diseased cells — whether hair, eye or heart — and help to restore the normal function of those cells. These proof-of-principle studies now have researchers setting their sights on clinical trials to see if the procedures could work in …
A decade ago, MIT broke ground with its OpenCourseWare initiative, which made MIT course materials, such as syllabi and lecture notes, publicly accessible. But over the last five years, MIT Provost L. Rafael Reif has led an effort to move the complete MIT classroom experience online, with video lectures, homework assignments, lab work — and …
Researchers at the University of Nottingham in the UK are currently testing the Energy Bag, a large inflatable energy storage device submerged in water’s off Scotland’s Orkney Islands. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology floated a similar idea last year using hollow concrete spheres instead of inflatable bags as a storage vessel. Now the …
This is a review of estimates for a nuclear energy century. 1000 reactors for 2030 would be the high-2030 scenario from the World Nuclear Association (WNA) – Nuclear Century. The WNA lists nuclear generation targets by country. China is talking to Turkey and Vietnam about building nuclear reactors Since October 2008, two reactors total 2000 …
I previously looked at a technological outline for the next 30 years. I will focus on what could be possible by the latter half of the middle decade. Robin Hanson had a vision of accelerated economic activity based upon Whole Brain Emulation in mini robots. My projection will be focus on ways to accelerate economic …
The best paper award for the IEEE International Symposium on Physical Design 2012 was given to Professor Chirs Chu at Iowa State University, who proposed an algorithm for determining the optimal circuit block shape in VLSI fixed-outline floor-planning, achieving a 10-to-100 increase over previous state-of-the-art techniques. Specifically formulated for fixed-outline floorplanning * Optimal, efficient and …
Sara Gottfried. How to make the new genetic information actionable By 2015 the full human genome sequencing will be $100. It should be about $1000 this year. $100 is about the cost of a blood count test (CDC) Why DNA testing * Diagnostic testing * presymptomatic and predictive testing * having babies – carrier testing, …
The Wealth Report 2012 (68 pages) forecasts the wealthy and the world economy on a purchasing power basis to 2050 They are using the World Bank purchasing power parity statistics as a starting point. The Penn (university of Pennsylvania) World tables of purchasing power parity 7.0 has adjusted PPP as follows. China is estimated at …