Weiyi Meng, a professor of computer science at Binghamton University, State University of New York is working on the next, great search engine technology. In the not too distant future....
Asking a questions, such as "What do Americans think of universal health care?" His new search engine will create a report indicating trends in opinion based on what has been posted to the Web. It will give the answer not pages with possible answers.
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Here are a couple of metasearch engines: Allinonenews
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
Live 3D TV Technology
The 3D TV system, called TransCAIP, captures a live scene using an array of 64 video cameras that are all connected via Ethernet cables to one PC, which converts images from all the video cameras into images for the display. Each video camera contains a built-in HTTP server, which sends motion JPEG sequences to the PC.
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3D-based Captchas
YUNiTi.com, a social Web site, have been working on 3D-based Captchas for a few weeks and have implemented the method on their Web site. The site announced Wednesday that it has created a 3D Captcha method that is unbreakable by current computer technology, yet much easier for humans to identify.
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Smart Dew
A remarkable new invention from Tel Aviv University — a network of tiny sensors as small as dewdrops called "Smart Dew" — will foil even the most determined intruder. Scattered outdoors on rocks, fence posts and doorways, or indoors on the floor of a bank, the dewdrops are a completely new and cost-effective system for safeguarding and securing wide swathes of property.
Unlike conventional alarm systems, each droplet of Smart Dew can be programmed to monitor a different condition. Sounds could be picked up by a miniature microphone. The metal used in the construction of cars and tractors could be detected by a magnetic sensor. Smart Dew droplets could also be programmed to detect temperature changes, carbon monoxide emissions, vibrations or light.
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Unlike conventional alarm systems, each droplet of Smart Dew can be programmed to monitor a different condition. Sounds could be picked up by a miniature microphone. The metal used in the construction of cars and tractors could be detected by a magnetic sensor. Smart Dew droplets could also be programmed to detect temperature changes, carbon monoxide emissions, vibrations or light.
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Water-induced superconductivity
Exposure of undoped SrFe2As2 epitaxial thin films to water vapor induces a superconducting transition.
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The Internet has yet to stop working
Spurred by a new wave of Skype-linked families, Hulu-watching flash mobs, and HD-video downloaders, global internet traffic is likely to quadruple by 2012. That’s an internet 75 times larger than it was just five years ago. It will be generating 27 exabytes—nearly 7 billion DVDs worth—of data each month.
Internet service providers are simply ramping up their infrastructure upgrade plans in response to the traffic growth.
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Internet service providers are simply ramping up their infrastructure upgrade plans in response to the traffic growth.
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My dog ate my homework
Earlier this month, the controversial Indian-German Lohafex expedition fertilised 300 square kilometres of the Southern Atlantic with six tonnes of dissolved iron. The iron triggered a bloom of phytoplankton, which doubled their biomass within two weeks by taking in carbon dioxide from the seawater. Dead bloom particles were then expected to sink to the ocean bed, dragging carbon along with them.
But No! The ocean's food-chain did what it was supposed to do. Everything is normal!
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But No! The ocean's food-chain did what it was supposed to do. Everything is normal!
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The Government and social networking sites
GSA signs deals for agencies to use social networking sites. After nine months of negotiations, the General Services Administration signed agreements with four video-sharing and social networking sites: Flickr, Vimeo, blip.tv and YouTube. GSA also is negotiating with the social networking sites Facebook and MySpace.
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Australian ISP Argues For BitTorrent Users
Surgical Robot
After making a small incision, the robot compensates for the natural shake and movement of the organ caused by heartbeats so that surgery can proceed as if the organ is still. That little trick could enable minimally invasive, endoscopic heart surgeries in the future.
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Waseda University
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Synthetic human blood
British scientists are on course to become the first to create synthetic human blood from embryonic stem cells.
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GlideCycle: fun bike for Everyone
Perfect for overweight individuals, disabled folks, amputees, or even injured able-bodied people, the no-impact GlideCycle lets folks exercise outdoors with ease.
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Emo jacket from Philips Labs
Designed to enhance the emotional experience of watching a movie, the emo jacket comprises 64 independent actuators, arranged in 16 groups of 4, across the arms and torso. Eight of these, spaced 6 inches apart and located on each sleeve, can create the illusion of being tapped in several spots.
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Monday, March 23, 2009
Visumotion's 3-D TV
Visumotion vision: bring glasses-free 3D visualization to mainstream for a broad range of users by applying compelling and intelligent turnkey solutions.
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Reversing Muscular Dystrophy In Dogs
A genetic technique successfully treats Duchenne muscular dystrophy in dogs. The researchers used a novel technique called exon skipping to restore partial function to the gene involved in Duchenne. The study, published in Annals of Neurology, gives hope that a similar approach could work in humans.
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Cold Fusion
Johan Frenje at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an expert at interpreting CR-39 tracks produced in conventional high-temperature fusion reactions, says the team's interpretation of what produced the tracks is valid.
You be the judge...
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You be the judge...
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
Pnictides and Superconductivity
Pnictides have very similar layered structures as the copper-oxygen compounds (known as cuprates), containing alternating layers of FeAs (iron arsenide) compared to alternating layers of CuO (copper oxide) for the cuprates. Both the pnictides and cuprates only become superconducting when significantly "doped" away from an antiferromagnetic parent compound via the addition of impurity atoms.
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Carbohydrate-Based Medicine
Scientists from Germany today reported a major advance toward opening the doors of a carbohydrate-based medicine chest for the 21st Century. Much more than just potatoes and pasta, these carbohydrates may form the basis of revolutionary new vaccines and drugs to battle malaria, HIV, and a bevy of other diseases. Peter H. Seeberger, Ph.D., described development of an automated carbohydrate synthesizer, a device that builds these intricate molecules in a few hours — rather than the months or years required with existing technology.
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Compressive Sensing
Compressive Sensing is a way of sampling and reconstructing an analogue signal at a rate far lower than standard information theory would deem possible. It relies on the fact that most analogue signals have a structure of some kind that can be exploited to reconstruct them. Know this structure and the signal can be reconstructed using a sampling rate that is significantly lower than the Nyquist rate.
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DNA cryptography
DNA computing may not be fast but it is massively parallel. With the right kind of setup, it has the potential to solve huge mathematical problems. It's hardly surprising then, that DNA computing represents a serious threat to various powerful encryption schemes such as the Data Encryption Standard (DES).
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Self-Assembling Photonic crystals
Photonic crystals are, in essence, an exploded view into the world of atomic-scale crystals. Instead of atoms, nanospheres of any number of materials can be arranged into a crystal with patterns on the order of the wavelength of light—about 400nm to 700nm for visible light, although photonic crystals are not limited to these wavelengths. Researchers have created precisely positioned arrays of self-assembling photonic crystals with a little help from semiconductor fabrication technology or capillary action, moving us another step closer to highly integrated devices that use photonic crystals.
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Continuous Monitoring Of The Human Body
The trio of bio-medicine, technology, and wireless communication are in the midst of a merger that will easily bring continuous, 24×7 monitoring of several crucial bodily functions.
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Saturday, March 21, 2009
Mussel "glue" and inkjet printers may allow for faster healing from surgeries
Researchers at North Carolina State University found a way to use the mussel glue along with a variation on the inkjet printer to make medical adhesives.
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Robot fish to monitor pollution
A school of mechanical, battery-powered robots in the shape of fish will be released into a Spanish port to help monitor pollution there, scientists said Friday.
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World’s First Color E-Paper Mobile Terminal - FLEPia
Fujitsu Frontech Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Limited announced the start of consumer sales in Japan of the world’s first color e-paper mobile terminal, FLEPia, available for purchase from today through Fujitsu Frontech’s online store “FrontechDirect”.
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Odor-Free Clothes
The clothes, developed by Yoshiko Taya and colleagues at the Japan Women's University in Tokyo, were tested by JAXA astronauts during two previous shuttle missions and won rave reviews. In addition to odor control, the clothes are designed to absorb water, insulate the body and dry quickly. They also are flame-resistant and anti-static -- as well as comfortable and attractive.
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Robots that create copies of themselves
Scientists have created a robot that can replicate itself in minutes. The team behind the machine says the experiment shows that self- reproduction is not unique to living organisms. Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
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Turning facial ticks into remote control commands
A wink, a smile or a raised eyebrow can change the music on your iPod or start up your washing machine. The device looks like a normal set of headphones but is fitted with a set of infrared sensors that measure tiny movements inside the ear that result from different facial expressions.
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
3-D light system captures fingerprints
The University of Kentucky's Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments is developing a machine that can snap 10 fingerprints in high resolution in less than 10 seconds, without human intervention.
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Military Spy Blimp
Pentagon plans to spend $400 million developing a giant dirigible that will float 65,000 feet above the Earth for 10 years, providing radar surveillance of the vehicles, planes and people below. It is absolutely revolutionary!
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Mathematical analysis to determine the value of each employee.
The trend, though early, is unmistakable. Based on a mathematical analysis of work at an undisclosed Internet company, each circle represents an employee. Those who generate or pass along valuable information within the company are portrayed as large and dark-colored. The others? They don't add a hell of a lot.
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The News Industry has a bright future
Steven Johnson at SXSWi says: "...why cling to failed systems when new ones that are rising to meet the needs of the future are emerging all on their own?"
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Self-repairing materials
Material scientists from the University of Southern Mississippi have created a new polymer that can fix its own scratches under regular sunlight. Source
A technique pioneered at Bristol University in England and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council allows aircraft built with fiber-reinforced polymer (or FRP), which most commercial planes use, to automatically repair minor wear and tear during flight. Source
A technique pioneered at Bristol University in England and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council allows aircraft built with fiber-reinforced polymer (or FRP), which most commercial planes use, to automatically repair minor wear and tear during flight. Source
Mud as an energy source
The soil lamp uses the chemical reaction between copper, zinc, and slightly moistened mud to create enough electrical current to power an LED lamp.
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Friday, March 13, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Spin Battery
Researchers at the University of Miami and at the Universities of Tokyo and Tohoku, Japan, have been able to prove the existence of a "spin battery," a battery that is "charged" by applying a large magnetic field to nano-magnets in a device called a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ).
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A phase-change material
A phase-change material changes from a solid to a liquid as the temperature in the environment changes from cold to warm.
NASA used changes in ocean temperature to make a phase-change liquid that turns sloid and then melts and thus generates electricity.
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NASA used changes in ocean temperature to make a phase-change liquid that turns sloid and then melts and thus generates electricity.
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MIT's batteries fully recharge in seconds
MIT engineers have developed a type of high-speed tunnel for transporting electrical energy through lithium iron phosphate, a well-known battery material. The discovery may yield lithium ion batteries that fully discharge and recharge in seconds, rather than hours, making batteries lighter, more powerful, and finally suitable for the all-electric vehicle that can be recharged in the same amount of time it takes to refuel the tank today.
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Wolfram Alpha Search Engine
A new search engine — called Wolfram Alpha — differs from conventional search engines in that users can ask questions using natural language and the search engine uses "knowledge models" to bring you the right answer.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Cleaning Up Space Debris
Lasers and Water Guns.
Using aging rockets loaded with water to spray orbiting junk. His idea is that the extraterrestrial shower would gradually knock refuse down toward the atmosphere, where it would burn up, as would the launcher. The water would turn to steam.
Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, a leading space research center, recently conducted feasibility studies into junk-zapping lasers and garbage-collecting rockets
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Using aging rockets loaded with water to spray orbiting junk. His idea is that the extraterrestrial shower would gradually knock refuse down toward the atmosphere, where it would burn up, as would the launcher. The water would turn to steam.
Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, a leading space research center, recently conducted feasibility studies into junk-zapping lasers and garbage-collecting rockets
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Batteries Charge In 10 Seconds
Developed by Gerbrand Ceder, a professor of materials science at MIT, it could be particularly useful where rapid power bursts are needed, such as for hybrid cars, but also for portable electronic devices. In testing, batteries incorporating the electrodes discharged in just 10 seconds.
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Sunday, March 8, 2009
What a Map
A new mobile map service allowing users to create, find, and share maps on the web, and download those directly to the their cell phones as Java applications anywhere in the world.
What A Map
Tribler 4.5.2 is here!
Tribler, which is a joint research project from Delft University of Technology and the VU University Amsterdam, is a video aggregator that pulls in YouTube videos, Torrent downloads and other video file formats. Tribler layers on some personalization to help users find niche content in the sea of Net videos.
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Data-Density Increase
The density achievable with the technology "could potentially enable the contents of 250 DVDs to fit onto a surface the size of a quarter" says Ting Xu of the University of California at Berkeley.
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Saturday, March 7, 2009
Berkeley University's View of Cloud Computing
"Cloud Computing refers to both the applications delivered as services over the Internet and the hardware and systems software in the datacenters that provide those services. The services themselves have long been referred to as Software as a Service (SaaS), so we use that term. The datacenter hardware and software is what we will call a Cloud. When a Cloud is made available in a pay-as-you-go manner to the public, we call it a Public Cloud; the service being sold is Utility Computing. … We use the term Private Cloud to refer to internal datacenters of a business or other organization that are not made available to the public. Thus, Cloud Computing is the sum of SaaS and Utility Computing, but does not normally include Private Clouds."
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Claytronics
Intel and Carnegie Mellon University's goal is to give tangible, interactive forms to information so that a user's senses will experience digital environments as though they are indistinguishable from reality.
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Artificial corneas
Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new kind of artificial cornea, one that's "showing promise" in animal studies and could eliminate the need for cornea transplants completely.
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Bionic eye - Argus II
A 73-year-old British gentleman named Ron may once again be able to discern light thanks to a bionic eye called the Argus II. For 30 years he's been completely blind, but the Argus — which consists of a camera and video processor mounted on a pair of shades sending data to an eye-mounted transceiver — enables him to pick out things such as the white lines painted on a road and match socks.
"...the receiver passes on the data via a tiny cable to an array of electrodes which sit on the retina - the layer of specialised cells that normally respond to light found at the back of the eye. When these electrodes are stimulated they send messages along the optic nerve to the brain, which is able to perceive patterns of light and dark spots corresponding to which electrodes have been stimulated." BBC
Source: BBC with video
"...the receiver passes on the data via a tiny cable to an array of electrodes which sit on the retina - the layer of specialised cells that normally respond to light found at the back of the eye. When these electrodes are stimulated they send messages along the optic nerve to the brain, which is able to perceive patterns of light and dark spots corresponding to which electrodes have been stimulated." BBC
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Project Eyeborg
EYEBORG-- The Two Week Trial from eyeborg on Vimeo.
Filmmaker Rob Spence lost an eye as a child, and now he's created the next best thing: a camera that fits onto his prosthetic eye.
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Cell Phone Displays Real 3D
Currently provided by KDDI Corp, the Wooo H001 is a flip top phone that doesn't look like anything overly spectacular. However, located at the bottom left of the keypad is a 3D button that activates the 3-dimensional abilities on the 3.1-inch liquid crystal display.
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Real Virtuality
At the Pioneer 09 science show in London on Wednesday, researchers unveiled a mock-up of a virtual-reality headset that will provide input to the five major human senses. Professor David Howard of the University of York, who's leading the project, observes that virtual-reality projects tend to focus on sight and sound. He said he's not aware of any other research group attempting to simulate sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell.
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Green Bullets
The Department of Defense started the Green Bullets program and developed a new nontoxic bullet designed for the M-16 rifles used by US and NATO troops. This new "green bullet" is just as effective as traditional ammo but poses no environmental threat. Instead of a lead core, the bullet is composed of a mixture of tungsten and tin.
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The AirPod
The AirPod vehicle is small, holding just three passengers, with a single seat facing front for the driver and a bench facing backward for two more people. MDI claims a range of more than 112 miles in an urban setting, and less than two minutes to refill the 46-gallon air tank. But even though the AirPod can reach speeds of just less than 45 mph, the air-powered engine produces only 8 horsepower, suggesting slow acceleration.
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Make or Break for Green Industries
Facing the worst economic conditions since World War II, the green-tech industry is heading for a make-or-break period in which perhaps only the well-funded, the most innovative, and the most politically connected will survive.
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The Smart Grid
A smart grid delivers electricity from suppliers to consumers using digital technology to save energy, reduce cost and increase reliability.
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DOE's Introduction to the Smart Grid
Smart Grid News
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DOE's Introduction to the Smart Grid
Smart Grid News
Cyber-robots
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has created software that uses colonies of borg-like cyberrobots it says will help government agencies detect and fend off attacks on the nation's computer network infrastructure.
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Office 14
Microsoft has said it will offer desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote as well as versions that can run online in a browser, be it Internet Explorer, Safari, or Firefox. As previously noted, that means that for the first time Office will also work on both Linux and Apple's iPhone. CEO Steve Ballmer told financial analysts last week that Office 14 would not come out this year.
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RainCloud
Anyone with a home dehumidifier knows water can be sucked out of the air. Cleanworld Ltd. in the UK designed the RainCloud C-15 for your home or office. Simply put, it's a small dehumidifier with a built-in water purification system to produce drinking water, with hot and cold options.
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Temperature Sensitive Tiles
These are temperature sensitive textured glass tiles which change color with the ambient, body or water temperature.
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Holographic 3D TV
A 3D television system which would display holographic images floating in mid air - reminiscent of a famous scene from Star Wars - could be a reality in households within the next decade according to findings by a team of University of Aberdeen academics.
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Autostereoscopy
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Autostereoscopy
Creating Matrix-Style Simulated Realities
Supercomputers are on the verge of creating Matrix-style simulated realities. Michael McGuigan at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, says that virtual worlds realistic enough to be mistaken for the real thing are just a few years away.
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Toward the Graphics Turing Scale on a Blue Gene Supercomputer
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Toward the Graphics Turing Scale on a Blue Gene Supercomputer
McKinsey's newest Web site launches this week.
McKinsey is using the site to give some of the world's leading thinkers an opportunity to weigh in on questions that will shape the future. Every few weeks, the site will highlight a different topic, along with a related debate.
For the first, climate change, our experts argue the merits of a carbon tax versus a cap-and-trade system.
What Matters
For the first, climate change, our experts argue the merits of a carbon tax versus a cap-and-trade system.
What Matters
Monday, March 2, 2009
Rubidium May Reveal Clues For Exotic Computing
Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaborative venture of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland at College Park, have caused ultracold rubidium atoms to undergo a startling transformation.
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Quantum Computing and Teleportation
Researchers have for the first time succeeded in teleporting the state of an atom across a significant distance to another atom. That's important because atoms can be trapped and held in the same quantum state for considerable periods of time, so can serve as memory units for quantum information. Teleportation between atoms could therefore be an important ingredient in quantum computers or quantum communication systems.
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Canada and Quantum Computing
Canada will become home to the largest concentration of quantum computing talent in the world, thanks to $150 million in funding from government and the founder of Research In Motion Ltd.
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Immersive Virtual Reality Process technology
Invensys Process Systems (IPS), a global technology and consulting firm, today unveiled its Immersive Virtual Reality Process technology, a next-generation human machine interface (HMI) solution that will revolutionize the way engineers and operator trainees see and interact with the plant and the processes they control.
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IPS Video This video is very slow.
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IPS Video This video is very slow.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Light-guide Solar Optic
By Morgan Solar, Toronto, Canada -- a revolutionary new way to capture, transport and concentrate sunlight.
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MIT's 10 technologies that can change the way we live.
MIT's Technology Review has announced the annual list of 10 emerging technologies with the potential to shape the way we live and do business. Clicking on the MIT link below will give you the 10 emerging technologies for each year from 2001.
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