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Memflector: Neuron-like computer component

Impact: Computer Power    June 28, 2011
I try not to put too much weight on very early advances in technology. This is particularly true of computer technology because there are so many relatively new avenues of research, all clamoring for attention: Quantum computing, DNA computing, optical computing…etc. On the other hand, computing has become so vital, especially for science and business, [...]
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NEWS: Short List

News:     February 2, 2011
Cell Biology – Biological clocks: Circadian rhythms not dependent on DNA | It has long been assumed that the internal clocks in all living things (loosely called the Circadian rhythm) is associated with DNA. Apparently, they are not. A new study by the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh (UK) has shown that red blood cells [...]
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Tianhe-1A: China and the world’s fastest supercomputer

News: Computer Power    October 28, 2010
It takes a coordinated team, in fact, a very large team of talented, schooled, adequately funded and dedicated people to develop a supercomputer to the pinnacle of ‘fastest in the world.’ This is the point that should not be overlooked in the headlines about China’s Tianhe-1A supercomputer – soon to be anointed as the top [...]
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Computer Power: Petabit disk storage

News: Computer Power    September 22, 2010
Just in case anyone thinks the pace of computer storage development has fallen into the doldrums, here’s a piece of data (news) to store: A research team from Sun Yat-Sen University (Guangzhuo, China) has used a laser assisted magnetic recording system to achieve 6,000 terabits of storage. That’s 6 petabits. That’s what? A graphic would [...]
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India announces world’s least expensive computer, again

News: Computer Power    July 24, 2010
The government of India announced on July 23 that it has developed a prototype $35 tablet-style computer for use in Indian schools beginning in 2011. This would be the least expensive computer in the world. (Queues for purchase will form on the west bank of the Yamuna River just north of the New Delhi ring [...]
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Oh please, “skinput”

News: Computer Power    March 3, 2010
Research work from a collaboration between Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University (USA) has resulted in an armband that can sense taps on human skin (the arm in this case) and uses sound vibration detection (an acoustic biosensor) to determine the location for a kind of crude ‘button’ or ‘keyboard’ arrangement. It also uses a picoprojector [...]
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Diode tunneling into quantum computing

News: Computer Power    October 23, 2009
One way or another, computers will eventually incorporate aspects of quantum physics. They may be true ‘quantum computers’ or just use components based on quantum mechanics, but the trends are moving in the quantum direction. (I realize quantum direction is pretty much an oxymoron.) We’re almost at the end of the road for current silicon-based [...]
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