The Gregory Benford proposal sounds like the cheapest and safest method for climate modification. Of course society should to actually stop making the problems worse as described in Jamais article. But a problem is that most plans from environmentalist fail to recognize the scope of the problems or involve everyone suddenly becoming virtuous. Some propose …
The new age of climate re-engineering and the $25 million bounty from Richard Branson is discussed at open the future. It is noted that the re-engineering efforts would have the best chance of succeeding if we adjust technology and behavior to stop making the problems worse. Gregory Benford’s proposal for climate re-engineering is discussed at …
After seeing the Dwave demo and hearing more about how it works. A paper by Seth Lloyd now makes more sense to me. Seth says:Adiabatic quantum computation is a recently proposed, general approach to solving NP-hard combinatorial minimization problems. It consists of constructing a set of qubits with a time-dependent Hamiltonian ˆH (t) whose starting …
Wired magazine has an interview with David Deutsch, the father of Quantum computers I agree with almost everything that he says about Dwave, Quantum computers and nanotechnology. I have pulled what are my highlights from the interview. On quantum computing gaining mind share with the Dwave announcement.He replied: the field [quantum computing] doesn’t need acceptability. …
The Economist had an article called “The world’s first practical quantum computer is unveiled” Scientific American has the article First “Commercial” Quantum Computer Solves Sudoku Puzzles Scientific American article by JR Minkel feels that proof needs to wait to next year with more peer reviewed articles and the 1024 qubit version. It quotes Seth Lloyds …
It again reviews the uncertainty associated with whether it is quantum computing now and whether it will still quantum compute when it is scaled Here is link to my quantum computer article section This is my first of three articles related to the Feb 13 Dwave demo The second article has a picture taken by …
Worldwatch indicates that China has a program for shutting down its smallest, oldest and most polluting and inefficient coal plants It is a small step in the right direction. The State Council, China’s parliament, recently endorsed a plan to accelerate closure of the nation’s smaller coal-fired power plants. The plan is to close the small …
Photos of the event by Steve Jurvetson Geordie Rose on stage at the Computer History Musem as data streams into the quantum computer… Article about the event from the Register IEEE Spectrum also has an article and reaction from Lieven Vandersypen, an associate professor at Delft University Vandersypen was a wait and see attitude. Vandersypen …
Smart cells will reconfigurable chips with faster speeds and low power usage. A new class of computer chip is being developed. Huang’s reconfigurable computing device, called the smart cell, will combine the advantages of ASICs and FPGAs. It will incorporate more than a thousand individual processors wired onto a silicon substrate. Each processor will be …
An item related to my port security article, as we get better at catching a larger fraction of the illegal traffic in nuclear materials and dual use materials like beryllium and zirconium a computer model can piece together the partial information on traffic flows to determine who is working on a nuclear bomb and where …
A robotic exoskeleton controlled by the wearer’s own nervous system could help users regain limb function, which is encouraging news for people with partial nervous system impairment, say University of Michigan researchers. The ankle exoskeleton developed at U-M was worn by healthy subjects to measure how the device affected ankle function. The U-M team has …