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#Patient safety driving increased RFID use in hospitals The University of Vermont Medical center in Burlington, Vt.

announced recently that five million medications have been tracked using radio frequency identification technology. Adam Buckley, MD, interim chief information officer and chief medical informatics officer at UVMC, said any time a system allows a hospital to track reliably from ordering through dispensing through administration at the bedside,

patient safety has been enhanced greatly.""It's cutting down on medication errors, ensuring that medications are given in a timely fashion,

A vial of the drug Glycopyrrolate with a strength of 1mg/ML became the five-millionth RFID-tagged dose at UVMC tracked by Kit Check, a Washington, D c,

and medication tracking software. Karen Mcbride, UVMC's director of pharmacy services, said that patient safety was the main reason for utilizing RFID technology."

"We use a lot of kits in this hospital because our ORS are set up to have dispensed individual kits to the anesthesiologist for each case,

and that the RFID kit technology essentially eliminates that possibility. The way Mcbride explained it,

as the pharmacy receives drugs that are going to be going into these kits pharmacy technicians put into the software system

preparation and administration, said Kitcheck"has succeeded out of the gate"by applying RFID tags to anesthesia kits, already operational in over 100 hospitals.

Neuenschwander noted that in the past RFID companies thought at a universal rather than a macro level,

For example, MEPS Real-time Inc. a company that offers a suite of Intelliguard RFID Solutions, has shifted its from focus from macro to micro RFID solutions,

Aethon Inc.'s Medex tracking software links with its TUG robot that robotically transports items throughout hospitals

and track bullets throughout hospitals'pneumatic transport tubes with RFID. RFID vs. barcode Despite the progress RFID has made in the hospital setting, the debate over

which technology will sustain over the long hall, RFID or bar code, is ongoing among industry experts.

According to Neuenschwander, each technology has its advantages and disadvantages. Barcodes, he said, are less expensive data carriers than RFID chips.

And RFID chips have higher read-failure rates than bar codes.""Proximity reads are an advantage when

I want to read everything that is in a kit, as opposed to handling and scanning items one by one,

Why RFID hasn't been applied to drug packaging for point-of-care verification scanning? Neuenschwander said that he doubts

if RFID chips will ever displace barcodes on drug packages any more than on cereal boxes in grocery stores.

Rather, he contends that RFID will augment printed codes on a select number of items."

however, RFID is more than just a mirage on the frontier, he said:""RFID has materialized finally beyond prototypes to products that are live in hospitals today,

"said Neuenschwander. UVMC's Buckley said that people are going to figure out the best way to leverage RFID technology."

"Whether it will be the best way to leverage it or whether the price will be cost-prohibitive

"Going forward, UVMC said that its next step is to talk to Kitcheck about leveraging similar RFID technology in the OR setting."

PRI is a patient condition score that uses an algorithm composed of vital signs lab tests and nurse assessments (skin issues,

Perahealth software automatically pulls data from any major electronic health record in real-time. The data is translated into a 0-100 Rothman Index score

and presented in color-coded graphs trending patient condition across any care setting. The goal is to promote care team communication across shifts and alert clinicians earlier to unexpected health problems.

Yet the challenges are such that establishing useful exascale computers some 50-100 times faster than today leadership machines requires the coordinated efforts of a vast array of stakeholders.

Infinicortex refers to a set of geographically distributed high performance computing and storage resources based on Infiniband technology.

The project received further attention at the recent Big data and Extreme-scale Computing (BDEC event in Barcelona, a major conference for reporting ground-breaking research at the intersection of big

They claim it has the ability to provide a level of concurrent supercomputing necessary for supporting exascale computing They add that the concurrent and distributed fashion will address power

and infrastructure challenges and data replication and disaster recovery issues associated with a centralized approach.

The distributed supercomputing concept took off at SC14 with the demonstration 100 Gbits/s data transmission across the Pacific via subsea optical cables to the show floor.

The organizers employed Infiniband sub-nets with different net topologies to create a single topologically optimized computational resource, a so-called Galaxy of Supercomputers.

and dsync+(TITECH/Georgia Tech) Near real-time plasma disruption detection using ADIOS (Princeton Plasma Research Lab/ORNL) Automated microscopy image analysis for cancer detection,

also using ADIOS (Stony Brook University/ORNL) Researchers who are accustomed to TCP IP based file transfer (FTP) will want to note the major increase in data throughput enabled by long distance Infiniband.

According to the A*Star team, the time it took to send a 1. 143 terabyte file of genomics data from Australia to Singapore via Seattle

A preview of upcoming projects includes GPGPU applications with Reims University in France, asynchronious linear solvers with University of Lille,

just got clearance to begin acquisition of a supercomputer in the 1-3 petaflops range.

#IARPA Seeks Partners in Brain-Inspired AI Initiative US intelligence officials have set in motion a five-year project to spark progress in machine learning by reverse-engineering the algorithms of the human brain.

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA) recently put out a call for innovative solutions with the greatest potential to advance theories of neural computation as part of the Machine intelligence from Cortical Networks (MICRONS) program.

IARPA lays out its strategy for fostering multidisciplinary approaches at the intersection of data science and neuroscience that increase scientific understanding of the cortical computations underlying neural information processing.

Although there has been much progress in modeling machine learning algorithms after neural processes, the brain remains far better-suited for a host of detection and recognition tasks.

The agency sees the emerging research area of neurally-inspired machine learning as crucial for closing the performance gap between software and wetware. espite significant progress in machine learning over the past few years,

today state of the art algorithms are brittle and do not generalize well, the proposal authors contend. n contrast,

This performance gap between software and wetware persists despite some correspondence between the architecture of the leading machine learning algorithms and their biological counterparts in the brain,

The MICRONS program is predicated on the notion that it will be possible to achieve major breakthroughs in machine learning

but also employ lower-level computing modules derived from the specific computations performed by cortical circuits.

TA1 experimental design, theoretical neuroscience, computational neural modeling, machine learning, neurophysiological data collection, and data analysis; TA2 neuroanatomical data collection;

and TA3 reconstruction of cortical circuits from neuroanatomical data and development of information technology systems to store, align,

and access neural circuit reconstructions with the associated neurophysiological and neuroanatomical data. ver the course of the program, participants will use their improving understanding of the representations, transformations,

and learning rules employed by the brain to create ever more capable neurally-derived machine learning algorithms,

the IARPA proposal further explains. ltimate computational goals for MICRONS include the ability to perform complex information processing tasks such as one-shot learning, unsupervised clustering,

and scene parsing, aiming towards humanlike proficiency. MICRONS is set to run from September 2015 through September 2020.

which uns the world largest collection of scientific user facilities (aka research infrastructure) operated by a single organization in the world,

according to the request, such that dedicated exascale funding at the four DOE crosscuts Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), Basic energy Sciences (BES), Biological and Environmental Research (BER),

and the energy technology offices in the development of advanced computing technologies to provide better understanding complex physical systems, notes Dehmer.

and develop exascale node technologies and exascale hardware and software computer designs at the system level;

hardware architectures and system software, and programming for energy-efficient, data-intensive applications. Other pieces of the ASCR roadmap include the mandate to maintain operations with>90 percent availability, deployment of a 10-40 petaflop upgrade at National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC),

and continued preparations for 75-200 petaflop upgrades at Oak ridge Leadership Facility (ORLF) and Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF).

The Office of Science lays out the upgrade paths for NERSC, OLCF and ALCF with supercomputers Cori, Summit,

and Aurora presented as successors to Edison, Titan, and Mira (respectively). While Cori and Summit were announced previously,

this is the first time that we are hearing about Aurora, which along with Summit and Sierra, falls under the CORAL collaboration framework.

As the chart below shows, the planned upgrade for ALCF is scheduled for the 2018-2019 timeframe.

The listed peak performance of more than 150 petaflops would give Aurora at least 15 times more computing power than its predecessor, Mira,

the 10-petaflops IBM Blue Gene/Q that was installed in January 2012. Funding allocated to the ASCR program would also be directed to the following efforts:

Accelerating progress in scientific computing through Scidac partnerships. Fully funding a new cohort of students through the restored Computational Science Graduate Fellowship.

Conducting mathematics research to address the challenges of increasing complexity; as well as computer science research in order to address the productivity and integrity of HPC systems and simulations and support data management, analysis and visualization techniques

#Delivering drugs straight into the brain A team of Canadian scientists has found a way to inject the drugs directly into the brain,

breaking the barrier of the human body that keeps the nervous and circulatory systems apart by using arrierantibodies.

the project`s scientific head, told Motherboard. Scientists add that it could become a significant step towards slowing the spread of brain diseases like Alzheimer, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson.

voltage-controlled liquid metal antenna that may play a role in future mobile devices and the coming Internet of things.

an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering at NCSU and a co-author of an open-access paper in the Journal of Applied Physics, from AIP Publishing.

and adapted to correct for near-field loading problems such as the iphone 4 well-publicized eath gripissue of dropped calls

said Kim and Chau. he achievements of Bolt Threads should encourage entrepreneurs and investors to look beyond their comfort zone of apps and software to support true innovation and science,

It often hinders the development of novel devices and gadgets simply due to their bulky size or limited storage capacity.

or even in clothing to charge gadgets on the go. Image credit: Max Hamedi and Wallenberg Wood Science Center Via IFLSCIENC g

The team used large-scale atomistic computations on the Mira supercomputer at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility to prove that the effect could be seen not merely at the nanoscale

or turbines to computer hard disks and microelectromechanical systems, said Sumant e

#World thinnest lightbulb developed using graphene A postdoctoral research scientist, Young Duck Kim, has led a team of scientists from Columbia, Seoul National University (SNU),

is published in the Advance Online Publication on Nature Nanotechnology website on June 15. ee created what is essentially the world thinnest light bulb,

and transparent displays, and graphene-based on-chip optical communications. Creating light in small structures on the surface of a chip is crucial for developing fully integrated hotoniccircuits that do with light

#Spoken sentences can be reconstructed from brain activity patterns It is now possible to reconstruct spoken sentences from activity patterns of the human brain surface. rain to Textcombines knowledge from neuroscience, medicine and informatics.

our recent results indicate that both single units in terms of speech sounds as well as continuously spoken sentences can be recognized from brain activity. hese results were obtained by an interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers of informatics, neuroscience, and medicine.

In Karlsruhe, the methods for signal processing and automatic speech recognition have been developed and applied. n addition to the decoding of speech from brain activity

and machine learning algorithms to extract the most likely word sequence. Currently, Brain-to-Text is based on audible speech.

Later on, the researchers in Karlsruhe analyzed the data to develop Brain-to-Text. In addition to basic science and a better understanding of the highly complex speech processes in the brain,

Potential sites include businesses near U s. Route 95 that are willing to host the charging stations

Host sites must agree to let consumers use the stations at no charge for at least five years

#Google Project Soli will put gesture controls everywhere Every motion controller currently on the market may have just become obsolete thanks to Google.

one of Google latest cutting-edge experiments from its secretive Advanced Technology and Projects group (ATAP), provides an enticing example of the type of powerful motion controller that could actually change how we interact with everything from smartwatches and tablets to appliances and other everyday objects.

At a basic level, motion controllers are premised on the idea that a user hands replace traditional input devices like touch screens or mouse and keyboards.

Rather than touching a physical object like a display or button to control a device, you use hand gestures.

Using hand gestures, proponents say, makes user interfaces much more intuitive and easy to use and opens up new ways for designers

and developers to create better user experiences. Radar to gesturesproject Soli gesture-tracking takes a particularly unique approach in that it depends on radar.

Radar, which detects objects in motion through high frequency radio waves, enables what Project Soli design lead Carste Schwesig calls a undamentally different approachto motion tracking. typical model of the way you think about radar is like a police radar

or baseball where you just have an object and you measure its speed, explains Schwesig. ut actually we are beaming out a continuos signal that gets reflected by an arm,

and machine learning techniques to detect gestures. f course, gesture-based controllers are not, in themselves, new.

Companies like Leap Motion and, more recently, Intel (via Realsense) have been experimenting with motion controllers for some time.

As displays shrink, he said, interacting with devices becomes increasingly difficult. Even the most responsive smartwatch displays can be difficult to navigate in some situations.

But Soli utility isn limited to wearables at all. In its current form, its radar tech lives in a single tiny chip that can be embedded in about any type of device,

even objects that don have a traditional display. t in chip form, since there are no moving parts involved it can be embedded inside devices,

Imagine dismissing smartphone notification with the wave of a hand or pressing your fingers together to play music from a bluetooth speaker.

With Ara, people submitted applications for a chance to get their hands on the project development hardware

Where the radar-based gesture tech eventually ends up will likely depend on developer response and the level of interest from hardware manufacturers.

One obvious example would be Android Wear watchmakers: It no secret that Android Wear sales have been lackluster

since the first devices went on sale last year. Soli new gesture-based interface could potentially revitalize sales.

In hands-on demos at Google I/O, ATAP focused more on displaying Soli gesture-recognizing capabilities rather than specific implementations.

and hardware manufacturers to help determine the future of Project Soli. ATAP has shown already, in just one day,

but doesn have the cash to make it happen. very single major invention like thishether they were cell phones

or personal computers or airplanes or carsere laughed at by their contemporaries in every case, says Mikosza y

electrically conductive sheets of tiny carbon nanotubes to form a jellyroll-like sheath around a long rubber core.

But even a iantstretch of the new conducting sheath-core fibers causes little change in their electrical resistance, said Dr. Ray Baughman,

Because the rubber core is stretched along its length as the sheets are being wrapped around it,

Radical electronic and mechanical devices possible By adding a thin overcoat of rubber to the sheath-core fibers and then another carbon nanotube sheath

or twice the width of a human hair to much larger sizes, depending on the size of the rubber core.

an author on the paper and chief research and intellectual properties strategist at Lintec of America Nanoscience & Technology Center. he rubber cores used for these sheath-core fibers are inexpensive and readily available,

Before mini-brains, scientists had to shift through gobs of genomic data to fish out gene variants associated with autism.

Although similar, mouse brains don exactly follow the same developmental trajectory as human brains, so we don know how well the findings translate.

after all, how can one know for sure that a mouse is depressed autistic or hallucinating? Then there one more perk.

the core suffocates. But Lancaster and other organoid-enthusiasts are hard at work. Just last month at the International Society for Stem Cell Research conference in Stockholm, scientists reported updated methods to more reproducibly culture organoids with better architecture.

As of now, the organoids most certainly can hink without external output and mature neural networks to support information processing,

All of that data is fed into he central driver assistance control unit (zfas), a compact central computer

which uses the data to create a comprehensive image of the environment around the car.

which could soon produce self-healing nail polish and a cure for cracked mobile phone screens. A team at the University of Bristol has been quietly developing the technology for the past three years.

or 10 years wee going to see things like mobile phone screens that can heal themselves if they crack,

letting people take back their embarrassing emails Gmail newest addition is an ndo sendfeature, which lets people recall emails that have been sent,

up to 30 seconds after theye been despatched. It works by holding back the email for a predefined time,

and then letting it go if users don say that theye sent it in error.

Users must enable the feature through the settings page in Gmail, by clicking in the cog at the top right hand screen

and scrolling through the general tab. It also gives the option to choose how long the undo send feature shows for offering settings between 5 and 30 seconds.

Google's special mobile app that organises emails and aims to make them easier to read.

which gives Gmail users special features that can usually be accessed, before moving them to the main product if theye successful.

Other features currently being experimented with are options to use canned responses to emails so that they don have to be typed out every time,

#High school student from Canada invents revolutionary iaid gadget for blind people Alex Deans, from Ontario in Canada, began creating the device after becoming curious

while helping a blind woman cross the street one day. he told me that all existing devices only let users see in one direction

The belt-like gadget comes with a joy stick and works by releasing sound waves that bounce-off objects in the user path to show how close things are to them.

The iaid workings have been compared to the combination of a whale sonar and the technology used in cars to alert drivers

and guide dogs Whereas canes tell users what directly in front of them, they don help them figure out where they are in relation their destination

me two to three years just to get the programming and coding knowledge. he teen invention has been attracting attention

scientists could make an internet of human brains Scientists have attached successfully together the brains of monkeys

scientists suggest that they could create Brainets a system of brains attached together to make an rganic computer The experiments found that the successfully connected animals brains were at least as good as one single one,

The three of them successfully learnt to control a virtual avatar on a screen, working together to move its arm.

Last year, a supercomputer became the first AI to pass the Turing Test, successfully (and worryingly for cybercrime) convincing humans it was a 13-year-old boy

#It is illegal to rip music off a CD or put DVDS onto hard drives, UK High court says The ruling had previously been in place,

or films off discs so that they can be watched on portably entertainment gadgets like ipods or ipads.

and Tissue Engineering (3d printing Industry) A research team at Northwestern University has begun printing three-dimensional structures with graphene nanoflakes.

and all of them could potentially be used as ground zero for printing more complex organs. Shah believes these inks could one day play a significant role in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering.

Micron3dp has succeeded in printing oftglass at a temperature of 850 degrees Celsius, as well as borosilicate glass at a melting temperature of 1640 degrees Celsius.

Smartphone-Based 3d printed Diagnostic Device for Viruses (3ders. org) A team of researchers from the California Nanosystems Institute at UCLA has created a low-cost,

smartphone-based device and app that is made with a 3d printer and can read enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA) diagnostic plates on the spot, with up to 99.6 percent accuracy for certain viruses. With the UCLA researcher new invention,

a small and low-cost 3d printed device is attached to a smartphone and illuminates a 96-well plate with an LED array.

A custom-designed smartphone app then reads the resulting images and analyzes them using a machine-learning algorithm.

The diagnostic results can be sent back to the phone within one minute. The ELISA is a common diagnostic tool that requires large and expensive readout instruments that can only be found in well-equipped hospital labs. ELISA is not typically available in remote or developing countries in

which the ability to track and diagnose contagious and life-threatening viruses such as HIV, West Nile and Hepatitis b could save thousands, if not millions of lives every year

#Photonics Moves Forward for Future Computing Technology The development of photonic technologies to speed up computing has taken two steps forward,

following recent announcements demonstrating the use of photonics in both processing and data transfer. Optalysys, a start-up company based in Cambridge England,

IBM has announced that it has produced an integrated wavelength multiplexed silicon photonics chip, which will allow the bulk manufacturing of 100 Gbps optical transceivers.

Research into ways of boosting the speeds of both processors and interconnects is looking at many different technologies.

Some use conventional silicon-based electronic technologies, such as FPGS as discussed in Robert Roe article,

while other avenues being explored include server on a chip and IBM Openpower initiative as discussed in Robert Roe second article on Future processing technologies.

More exotic and much longer term techniques such as quantum computing are also being explored as discussed in Quantum computing takes a step closer.

Optalysys hopes optical processing will accelerate computation by performing processor-intensive tasks at much faster rates and with a significant reduction in energy consumption.

The principle is similar in some ways to how a GPU is used to accelerate compute intensive tasks

but the Optalyssys prototype is sized a desktop system rather than a single card connected through PCIE.

The prototype achieves a processing speed equivalent to 320 Gigaflops and, because it uses light rather than electricity as the processing medium,

and he expects them to achieve HPC-levels of performance up to an equivalent processing rate of 9 petaflops. He said that this was omparable to the 5th fastest computer in the world today.

which will soon enable manufacturing of 100 Gbps optical transceivers. This will allow datacenters to offer greater data rates and bandwidth for cloud computing and Big data applications.

IBM silicon photonics chips uses four distinct colours of light travelling within an optical fibre to transmit data in and around a computing system.

The critical point is that IBM has integrated the optical components side-by-side with electrical circuits on a single silicon chip using sub-100nm semiconductor technology.

where the optical signals are transported via multimode optical fibre. Demands for increased distance and data rate between ports, due to cloud services for example, are driving the development of cost-effective single-mode optical interconnect technologies,

IBM CMOS integrated nanophotonics technology combines the essential parts of an optical transceiver, both electrical and optical, on one silicon chip.

IBM engineers have demonstrated a reference design, targeting datacenter interconnects with a range up to two kilometers.

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developing a processor about double the size of D-Wave previous generation. According to D-Wave, this is a major technological and scientific achievement that will allow significantly more complex computational problems to be solved than was possible on any previous quantum computer.

D-Wave quantum computer runs a quantum annealing algorithm to find the lowest points, corresponding to optimal or near optimal solutions, in a virtual nergy landscape.

Every additional qubit doubles the search space of the processor. At 1000 qubits the new processor considers 21000 possibilities simultaneously,

a search space which dwarfs the 2512 possibilities available to the 512-qubit D-Wave Two. n fact,

As the only manufacturer of scalable quantum processors, D-Wave breaks new ground with every succeeding generation it develops.

The new processors, comprising over 128,000 Josephson tunnel junctions, are believed to be the most complex superconductor integrated circuits ever successfully yielded.

A 1000 qubit processor will also be on display at the upcoming GEOINT conference in D-Wave booth,#10076.

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