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Electric Contact Lense by Opto-electronic | Technology Bytes | Emagzine.Org
Now we can have a tiny computer display in our eye through the ongoing work with opto-electronic contact lenses taking place at the University of Washington in Seattle.The lab there has been showing off the latest prototype, the handiwork of Dr. Babak Parviz: a semi-transparent array – including an LED – embedded into a contact [...]
IBM Researchers Go Way Beyond AI With Cat-Like Cognitive Computing
IBM researchers have developed a cognitive computer simulation that mimics the way a cat brain processes thought, and they expect to be able to mimic human thought processes within a decade. “A cognitive computer could quickly and accurately put together the disparate pieces of any complex data puzzle and help people make good decisions rapidly,” [...]
‘Big Bang’ experiment to re-start
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment could be re-started on Saturday morning at the earliest, officials have said.
Engineers are preparing to send a beam of sub-atomic particles all the way round the 27km-long circular tunnel which houses the LHC.
The £6bn machine on the French-Swiss border is designed to shed light on fundamental questions about the [...]
Steve Jobs Conquers the Decade – Now What?
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been named the chief executive of the decade by Fortune, and it’s hard to call that a bad pick, considering the turnaround Apple has undergone since Jobs returned to the helm in the mid-’90s. What’s next on the list for a tech leader who’s already changed the way we use [...]
Internet Turns 40 Today: First Message Crashed System
Everyone surfing for last-minute Halloween costumes and pictures of black Lolcats today—what you might call the 40th anniversary of the Internet—can give thanks to the simple network message that started it all: “lo.”
On October 29, 1969, that message became the first ever to travel between two computers connected via the ARPANET, the computer network that [...]
Intel Claims Memory Research Milestone
Intel (NSDQ: INTC) and Numonyx say they have achieved a research milestone in computer memory that could one day lead to a less expensive and higher-performing alternative to the technology used today.
The accomplishment stems from the work the two companies have been doing together on a type of non-volatile memory called phase-change memory, or PCM. [...]
WiFi pioneer John O’Sullivan wins PM’s Prize for Science
ALMOST two decades after pioneering high-speed wireless technology, John O’Sullivan has won one of the nation’s top science gongs.
The CSIRO scientist was awarded the prestigious Prime Minister’s Prize for Science for 2009 for his WiFi technology now found in millions of laptops, printers, wireless access devices and even Nintendo’s Wii.
Dr O’Sullivan and his team found [...]
Mars missions boosted by communication breakthrough
Communication with Mars had not been possible for several weeks at a time when the Sun obscured the Earth’s view of the planet.
But the University of Strathclyde researchers found a way to allow continuous communication with just one spacecraft.
The breakthrough centres on Lagrange points, five areas in space where an object such [...]
Ostrom, Williamson Win Nobel Prize for Economics – WSJ.com
Two American economists, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson, who study the way decisions are made outside the markets on which many other economists focus, were awarded the Nobel Prize in economics Monday.Ms. Ostrom, who teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind., is the first woman to win the prize, which, before Monday, had been awarded [...]
3 Win Nobel for Ribosome Research
3 Win Nobel for Ribosome Research – NYTimes.com
Three scientists who showed how the information encoded on strands of DNA is translated into the thousands of proteins that make up living matter will share the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, the Swedish Academy of Sciences said Wednesday.
The trio are Venkatraman Ramakrishnan of the M.R.C. Laboratory of [...]
