In this recent work Mirkin an experimentalist and professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences teamed up with Monica Olvera de la Cruz a theoretician
says Olvera de la Cruz who also is a professor of chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts
The semiconducting quantum wells at the center of the experiment contain particlesâ##in this case a dense collection of electrons
Traditional modeling and prototyping approaches used to take days but over the past several decades various additive manufacturing (AM) processes have been developed to fabricate both homogeneous and heterogeneous objects more quickly.
Currently AM processes such as multi-jet modeling which create a solid 3d object from a digital model by laying down successive layers of material can fabricate a complex object in a matter of hours.
Once dissolved the semiconductor solution can be applied as a thin film to substrates like glass and silicon.
Once heated the solvent evaporates leaving behind only a high-quality film of crystalline semiconductor##perfect for use in electronics. t s inexpensive and easily scalablesays Richard Brutchey a chemistry professor at the University of Southern
it s as big a leap going from film to semiconductors as it is going from semiconductors to these superconductors.
or desert allowing data collection for a long-term study that takes infrequent measurements. The Army Research Office supported the research.
and professor of chemistry and chemical biology. s an additive it greatly improves the cycling stability of the battery. n another approach to improving lithium-sulfur battery durability the researchers also report a new way
and can protect against the hellcracking during long cycling. Provisional patents for these innovations have been filed through the Cornell Center for Technology Commercialization and Enterprise.
Thin films of such materials are rife with defects which waste power and greatly lower the films performance in circuitsâ##a problem cell phone companies would like to solve.
Thin film could be the answer. An atomic-resolution electron micrograph reveals its design. It looks like bricks and mortar with very specific spacing between the well-defined interfaces.
The layered structure is orgivingwith regard to defects Schlom says. The ortarportions seem to soak up many of the defects
and determine if the experimental thermal emitters can deliver infrared light to a working solar cell. e ve demonstrated that the tailoring of optical properties at high temperatures is possiblebraun says. afnium
The researchers led by Rice graduate student Changsheng Xiang produced thin films of the composite material by solution casting GNRS treated with hexadecane and TPU a block copolymer of polyurethane that combines hard and soft materials.
They tested GNR/TPU films by putting pressurized nitrogen on one side and a vacuum on the other side.
For films with no GNRS the pressure dropped to zero in about 100 seconds as nitrogen escaped into the vacuum chamber.
and assembly of uniform films on each wafer or substrate resulting in patterns with essentially only one characteristic feature size
or spatially placed over a wafer. his invention to use ink-jet printing to deposit different block copolymer films with high spatial resolution over the substrate is highly enabling in terms of device design
##and manmade products constructed from similar materials has to do with the hierarchical architecture of the biological materialsâ##the way the silica-based skeletons are built up from different structural elements some
Julia R. Greer professor of materials science and mechanics at the California Institute of technology (Caltech) says the work was inspired by earlier work to fabricate extremely lightweight microtrusses. e designed architectures with building blocks that are less than five microns
long meaning that they are not resolvable by the human eye. onstructing these architectures out of materials with nanometer dimensions has enabled us to decouple the materials strength from their density
not only the individual unit cells but also the complete architecture can be endowed with unusually high strength depending on the material
Then I can design the optimal architecture with the optimal material at the relevant size
or atomic configurations. unding from the Dow-Resnick Innovation Fund at Caltech DARPA s Materials with Controlled Microstructural Architecture program
To make their uniquely compact electrode Li s team exploited an adaptive graphene gel film they had developed previously.
and keeps them from fragmenting during cycling, he adds. ince the tin oxide particles are only a few nanometers in size
Lin says the lab plans to build batteries with other metallic nanoparticles to test their cycling and storage capacities.
#The moves in the dance between the pollen and the pistil are a back -and-forth of signals as the pollen tube is growing.
who are experienced at cycling through emotional states, says George Loewenstein, professor of economics and psychology. For the study, 10 actors were scanned at the Scientific Imaging & Brain Research center while viewing the words of nine emotions:
and data collection and incorporates simple optics and fluid control to process a finger prick of blood.
An all-weather foldout ragtop roof is also available for commuting in the rain. Team Building With much of the interest in the Humancar focusing on the environmental and physical health advantages of the car,
inexpensive ethylene sensors that could be used in places such as supermarkets. There, they could let shopkeepers know which batches of fruit need to sold the soonest
#Pi-powered Kinograph makes preserving film heritage affordable As the Raspberry Pi Foundation (RPF) has worked to make computing more accessible,
whose Pi-powered Kinogarph digitizes old film stock at a fraction of the cost of conventional off-the-shelf systems.
such as rollers that can take different sized film, and a few components that can be cheaply sourced over the internet.
As a point of comparison, the cost to digitize 50 films on reels at a film lab would cost around $480, 000,
"the cost of digitization is prohibitive for anybody with more than a few films.""This is as true for individuals with private collections as it is for libraries, museums and other public institutions.
Capable of digitizing 35,16, and 8 mm films at high-definition resolutions with sound, the Kinograph makes preserving our cultural heritage much more affordable.
The image capture system uses openframeworks, an Arduino, and embedded Linux on a Raspberry Pi,
and around 50 percent of the films with audio made before 1950 have been lost to the ages.
#NASA probe will reveal 3d architecture of forests from space NASA is developing a laser-based instrument for deployment on the International space station that will probe the depths of Earth's forests from space in a bid to reveal more about their role in the planet's carbon cycle.
GEDI's 3d maps could be combined with maps from other satellites to examine the role forest architecture plays in biodiversity and land use,
which is comprised of individual microscopic tablets that interlock in a fashion similar to Lego blocks.
It has been created as an easily reconfigurable platform using a modular system architecture that may be programmed easily to govern robots with a varied array of configurations.
and develop an easily-programmable and extensible system architecture to control robots a wide variety of configurations."
"The architecture is built on Ethernet computer networking technology, "said Choset.""Ethernet doesn't require that the computers connected to it be of a specific type,
The interfaces used in the modular architecture allow robot designers to focus on specific capabilities without having to worry about detailed systems issues
Similarly VR could transform the way we watch sports. Imagine the 2016 NBA Finals with 360-degree cameras placed at various points courtside (or even hanging above the court or on the backboards.
so if you want really big 3d effects for a sports stadium or a billboard.
such as those used at the cinema where only two different pictures are projected, one for each eye,
"Today 3d cinema movies can be converted into our 3d format, but we expect that new footage will be created especially for our displays perhaps with a much larger number of cameras,
and West Coasts by the end of 2015 as part of an effort to promote greater sales of EVS such as the BMW i3 and the VW e-Golf.
and the e-Golf as well as the CHADEMO connector used on the Nissan leaf. The stations will also have Level 2 chargers,
BMW and VW said the Chargepoint DC Fast ports will be able to recharge an i3 or an e-Golf up to 80 percent in 20 to 30 minutes.
the printing machine can produce up to 100 metres of layered film per minute. The manufacturing of the OPV cells is affordable;
omen who do cheat usually do so in a well-planned and discrete sic fashion,
The great outward migration of jobs, deftly chronicled by Kenneth T. Jackson in rabgrass Frontier,
The rebirth of national retail in urban areas, for example, is a promising development commercial vacancy rates are now much lower than in the suburbs.
could also revolutionize everything from advertising to architecture. A team at the University of Bristol in Great britain worked on the project,
At a Dementia March outside the World cup Soccer Stadium, children carried signs promoting Dr. Yang Mapo district center:
and attempting physical therapy with dances and alloon badminton (the racket is stretched pantyhose on a frame).
The boys write observations to help Seobu adjust programs. At school, they wrote questions on the blackboard:
said that ads for packaged foods on television shows aimed at children 2 to 11 had dropped significantly since 2004,
vast amounts of new data are being generated about the complicated path that food takes from field to supermarket shelf.
The 13-page report describes initiatives ranging from the high-tech (500 officers have received Samsung Rugby smartphones equipped to deliver real-time crime data) to the bureaucratic (new guidelines for recruiting
#The cyborg future of telemarketing While a human is picking up the phone, and a human is dialing the phone,
Semi-autonomous telemarketing connects nicely with the developments it parallels in the drone world.#####Ventriloquistic telemarketing##has a nice, multisyllabic ring, too.
But perhaps the best term is##cyborg#telemarketing.####As one experienced manager in the Philippines told me,##Basically,
the agent is just the driver but the system has its own life. The agents work as ears and hands of the system.##
##In other implementations, the telemarketing humans can step in with their own voices to answer queries.
A company that helps firms stay on the right side of American telemarketing regulations looked at Callassistant s##Echo##technology,
It may be that only a cyborg solution can alleviate the inhumane nature of modern telemarketing labor.
Let s imagine that cyborg telemarketing makes call-center workers happier, call receivers more satisfied, and the sales companies more successful.
When I reached out to people in the telemarketing industry, they expressed skepticism that the system found in the#Time#recordings could be a computer.
I wrote up my story as,##The Only Thing Weirder Than a Telemarketing Robot.####This week,#Time#confirmed with the insurance company#that they were using a soundboard-assisted telemarketing firm.
Ever since I started this project, I ve been looking for the company that created Samantha West.
they push the idea that their systems can help people who want to do telemarketing stay within the bounds of the existing American regulations.
Callassistant s Bills pointed out#that a nationwide debt-settlement company is being sued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau#for deceptive telemarketing calls made by an old-school telemarketing company.##
what s left is a more ideal telemarketing call experience. For example, the data that they can capture with these systems is far less noisy than
because the##shift fatigue##that hits other outbound telemarketing firms doesn t set in in quite the same way.**
A world in which mass telemarketing exists, driven by the dictates of the global economic system,
means that something like 1. 5 million people have to sit in call centers doing telemarketing, and more than 10 million others have to take inbound calls.
for that to happen, people would have to ignore how their telemarketing sausage was made.####I think this is the way it all should be done,
If we end up with this weird future of semi-autonomous telemarketing, let this story show why it made sense at the time.
Suddenly it was easy to enter queries like##My friends who like Rihanna###handy for when you re buying concert tickets, perhaps.
and heavy enough on sensor data to betray the user s gender, rough height and weight, and more.##
which you live#to offering information about the television show#you re watching at that exact moment.
and later several sculptures. He admits they re not perfect; he says he could have used more-complicated optics.
and will make them free to read online National Library of Norway All of the books in the National Library of Norway s collection will be digitized.
Librarians estimate the digitization of the entire collection, which includes materials dating back to the Middle ages,
#Tesla batteries are powering an energy revolution Solarcity generator Tesla motors lithium-ion battery packs aren t just powering electric luxury sports sedans for wealthy any more.
##So far, the company s algorithms have been used mainly to monitor people s expressions as a way to test ads, movie trailers and television shows in advance.
Once#in space, TUI s Trusselator, the first step in the Spiderfab architecture, would use 3-D printing techniques
It would then lay a membrane on the structure of either thin-film PV or reflecting materials,
and radio and entertainment usage. Over the next few years, auto makers and suppliers will collect this datain a variety of ways:
as the same material can also be adapted to make a##transparent conductive film,##in other words a see-through electronic circuit,
##The semantics of the architecture and visual cues indicate that the back of the seat belongs to the passenger facing it,
According to the report, 48.1 percent of the users hope wearable devices can help them to keep fit and 37 percent want to use them to overcome laziness and implement sports plans.
poverty and profit tend not to mix##except when it comes to solar power for the poor.
To make it all work in a concerted fashion, to meaningfully corral all that data, we d just need more sensors.
A hyper-connected world#ups the opportunities for data collection, big time, and for hacking, too.
According to the blurb,##the film details plastic s path over the last 100 years and provides a wealth of expert interviews on practical and cutting edge solutions to recycling, toxicity and biodegradability.##
##Selling this collection of information is an attempt at recouping all or a portion of my investment of time, effort, personal monies,
Imke Hoehler, an inductrial design student at Germany Muthesius Academy of Fine arts has turned a lot of heads with her thesis project, the Dropnet fog collector.
and surf the Internet in a secure fashion, or featuring ways to pay to eliminate such intrusions on our privacy,
In promotional materials, Audi and GM both emphasize 4G LTE service as a mechanism for users to get in-car entertainment, rather than for navigation or safety monitoring.
Buick boasts they cankeep everyone happy with streamed movies, music, and games, while Audi emphasizesfaster downloads and high-definition video streaming for up to eight devices used by passengers over the in-vehicle#Wi-fi#hotspot.
and many more military, immigration, territorial, and Indian Country#facilities. Compared to the rest of the world,
Any meaningful discourse on racism, poverty, immigration, the drug wars, gun violence, the mental-health crisis,
or income inequality is incomplete without addressing the societal ramifications of imprisoning Americans by the millions for long stretches of time with little hope for rehabilitation.
Brooks Kincaid, the company s cofounder and president, says the batteries combine the best features of thin-film lithium batteries and printed batteries.
##Fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3d printers mainly are limited to plastic and plastic-like materials. Plastics are the only materials that can be melted,
lifelike anatomical 3d models in the medical field, full scale models of architecture, and the list goes on.
and listened to him explain the rules of soccer during the FIFA World cup. This is going to sound so weird I talk to her all the time,
while partly a result of the boom-bust-recovery theory of capitalism, should be taken seriously at least for the sake of fashion.
Kurzweil said transnational fashion enterprises aren t into it because like other industries, they're afraid their bottom line is going to suffer, that somehow,
Big Fashion had damn well better get used to the idea they're going to need to change,
So too for fashion. Printing socks and underwear may go on to reduce the difficulty of making jeans to making toast
#New recyclable plastics discovered by accident A collection of new plastics that are recyclable and adaptable have been developed by researchers
of course, was to hit the literature, to try and see if it d been done before.
Since snubbing Microsoft seems to be the sport of tech royalty this year, shorting MS stock might be fun money too t
The work was funded partially by the U s. Department of energy Office of Science and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Mesodynamic Architectures program m
For example, a PVC sheet sandwiched between two films of rigid polyester featuring slits of different sizes contracts
creating different angles where the edges of the polyester films press against each other. Producing the pattern of slits is quite a difficult process as every edge in the system moves at the same time,
They get XP for doing well in sports or helping each other after school. They even tidy the classroom in the hope of leveling up quicker.
And I worry that some who would like to won t be able to because of the stark economic reality of poverty.
a paralyzed teen is set to open this year World cup by kicking a football while wearing a motorized exoskeleton controlled by his or her brain.
The giant wave lagoon, three times the size of a football pitch, will be the first of its kind in the world.
and could transform the sport of surfing giving it the potential to be considered as an Olympic event.
The giant wave lagoon is about three times the size of a football pitch t so much fun!
the International Surfing Association believes this facility could help persuade the International Olympic committee to accept surfing as an Olympic sport. ne of the obstacles is that every competitor wants precisely the same conditions as the other competitor,
which could revolutionise the sport of surfing l
#Toshiba s new vegetable factory to bring perfect produce to Japan When you hear the name Toshiba,
After all, medicine is a business where customer service is important, but it also a science. Doctors are often talkative during the ubjectivepart of an exam,
So, for example, customer service organizations can monitor the web for complaints in order to intervene and financial analysts can track sentiment on the companies they cover.
JAXA has come up with another more sophisticated approach that solves the solar collection problem by employing two huge reflective mirrors.
Simple provides mobile-first banking with no need to visit a branch, no hidden fees and great customer service.
In the very traditional payments Market square is enabling plumbers, window cleaners and street market vendors to grow their business
Food may benefit directly from genetic tailoring and potentially from producing meat directly in a lab. Automation will help agriculture via large-scale robotic
Mu Glove for Music will change the way we make music. The time has arrived! We are making the first Mi.
Mu gloves available to people who want to work with us to shift the paradigm of how music is made
and wildly successful gestural music system with and for Imogen Heap, to finalising a design that can be open-sourced,
knobs, and buttons to make our music. We feel there could be a better way that is more like the experiences we have with traditional instruments:
which can then be routed easily to your favourite music software. Specifically, the gloves track the following:
In order to turn this information into music, we have developed software allowing you to apglove data to musical control signals (e g.
Finally, you can use the software to listen out for other inputs, as well, further increasing the richness of control and expressive mappability with your favourite music software.
We are certainly not the first to attack this problem, even for music, but we have a unique approach that already more affordable than others
Perhaps what most impressive about these high-tech designs is how flattering they areach seamlessly blends fashion and cutting-edge technology,
Smart sensors installed across the city will also provide real-time information and services on weather, traffic, entertainment, tourism, emergency services and flights.
#Speedy Shop a giant vending machine provides groceries for neighborhoods without local stores Peter Fox, an electrical engineer, has developed the Speedy Shop,
a large vending machine that sells a variety of items like toiletries, groceries like milk and eggs, kitchen items, pet food, and more.
The system is fused compatible with deposition modeling 3d printers that use a standard-size spool of filament.
The hope is that the 3-D printing method will set the overall architecture of blood vessels within artificial tissue
when driving a car, cycling, eating with Chinese sticks or playing sports or instruments, he explains. n contrast,
Szabo offers the humble vending machine as an existing case. But combining telecommunications with the Bitcoin blockchain presents more intriguing possibilities for example, cars able to read the blockchain could disable themselves
one of the main developers of the Bitcoin architecture alongside the mysterious Nakamoto, has said that any implementation of the concept is at least a decade away because of the need for hardware upgrades on physical goods. The functions that advocates say could be automated through the Bitcoin network
they coated it with a thin film of alumina (aluminum oxide). The best configuration, a honeycomb lattice with a 50 nanometer coat of alumina, is less dense than waterthat is,
The article went on to note that the powerful modeling capabilities of supercomputers and the principles of quantum mechanics are together allowing scientists to build virtual materials atom by atom.
Users of OGA software typically rely on a circuitous collection of homegrown tools that are patched together.
#HP Sports AMD Firepro GPUS in Proliant DL380 Gen9 Servers Today AMD announced that the AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU for HPC is now available on the HP Proliant DL380
Core Next (GCN) architecture specifically with compute workloads in mind the AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU supports enhanced double precision floating point computation and breaks the 2. 0
planning and architecture for Seagate electronic solutions. his reference design strives for the best balance of all componentspu, memory,
Microsoft SQL SERVER 2014 Fast Track is a program to develop reference architectures to give medium to large data warehouses a step-by-step guide to building out a data warehouse using well-tuned hardware.
The goal of reference architectures is to achieve high performance at a cost-effective price for rapid deployment.
Predicting the performance capabilities of a collection of components can be difficult and a reference architecture helps to eliminate any uncertainty in determining the right mix of components to best suit the specific needs of a data warehouse.
This reference design utilizes the Seagate Nytro Flash Accelerator Card, Supermicro Superserver SYS-4048b-TRFT system and Microsoft SQL SERVER 2014 Enterprise Edition to deliver a fully-optimized,
Information on Microsoft SQL SERVER Fast Track Data warehouse reference architecture can be found at Microsoft Solutions o
and modeling and localizing it even within a particular farm. Knowing that it will rain in Nairobi Kenya is irrelevant
At IBM we developed a precision agriculture weather-modeling service using Deep Thunder our Big data analytics technology for local customized high-resolution and rapid weather predictions.
Coupling predictive analytics and modeling techniques with other sophisticated farming methods can prove to be quite beneficial
Powered by Landmark's Decisionspace next-generation earth modeling solution the workflow is unique to the industry in that it is capable of updating dynamically
Halliburton's petroleum systems modeling technology defines the distribution of hydrocarbons in the unconventional reservoir to aid well placement
This approach has simplified greatly the collection of nickel from laterites as per the following table:
and imaging to interpretation and modeling, reservoir characterization, reservoir engineering and drilling and data management.
and technology that enable effective seismic data processing and imaging, velocity modeling and seismic interpretation. In this release, significant enhancements were made in the Paradigm processing
It opens unique possibilities for 3d imaging and exact modeling of geological materials in oil and gas exploration, composite materials, fuel cells and electronic assemblies.
which is slated to officially go on sale within the next two years sports a radar system mounted below the handlebars that can detect approaching obstacles.
The Von neumann architecture contains a processing unit, a control unit, memory, external storage, and input and output mechanisms.
In contrast, IBM's new chip architecture resembles that of a living brain. The chip is composed of computing cores that each contain 256 input lines
She said the finished film will have pedicabs, bicycle messengers, food delivery and, yes, pizza guys. t would be great if a big company,
Canning is a longtime film editor, and"Less Car More Go"will be her first film as a director.
She has modest goals of maybe being able to hire an assistant, pay for music rights,
her editor instincts will lead to a sharply paced film. OK, it not professional video,
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