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,
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,
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,
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:
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.
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,
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),
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
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.
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,
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.
and hardware manufacturers to help determine the future of Project Soli. ATAP has shown already, in just one day,
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,
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.
All of that data is fed into he central driver assistance control unit (zfas), a compact central computer
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, says Massimiliano Di Ventra, a physicist and computer scientist at the University of California, San diego. His team has built a memcomputing prototype with standard electronics that operate at room temperature.
#IBM Improves Solar Forecasts with Machine learning Today IBM Research announced that solar and wind forecasts produced using machine learning
IBM system combines predictions from a number of weather models with geographic information and other data to produce the most accurate forecasts from minutes to weeks ahead,
explained Dr. Siyuan Lu, Physical Analytics Researcher at IBM. IBM also announced that for a limited time it will provide foundational solar forecasts at five-kilometer spatial resolution to help government agencies
and other organizations in the lower 48 states best evaluate their impact on supply and demand as well as operations.
Entering the third year, IBM researchers worked with academic, government and industry collaborators to develop a Self learning weather Model and renewable forecasting Technology, known as SMT.
IBM approach provides a general platform for renewable energy forecasting, including wind and hydro. It advances the state-of-the-art by using deep machine learning techniques to blend domain data,
The team of scientists from IBM and NREL are presenting a paper on their preliminary findings this week at the European Control Conference (ECC 2015) in Linz
Aerial Burton Japanese company engaged in the development and manufacture of displays and has introduced new technology for tactile 3d-image.
Possibility to work with such displays provide lasers, that transmit airborne gases enough energy to heat the electrons
Taiwanese start-up Aidmics is hoping to cash in on the $40 billion global human fertility market with an ipad compatible gadget it calls isperm.
The light beams the moving image to the ipad camera, and algorithms then analyze the sample for total sperm count and motility,
As a first step, auto parts makers will standardise software for self-control navigation and for sensors that detect obstacles
#Google releases work tools designed for Android phones Google is releasing a set of tools designed for businesses
and employees who want to get work done on Android-powered smartphones setting up a skirmish on another key front of mobile computing.
The technology unveiled Wednesday launches Google's attempt to turn Android phones into the digital hub of people's personal and professional lives.
The expansion will pit Google Inc. against Microsoft corp. and Blackberry Inc . which have been focusing on the corporate market for years.
which forged a partnership with IBM last year to build more iphone and ipad applications tailored for businesses and government agencies.
Google and Apple have become so dominant that 96 percent of the smartphones sold last year run on the companies'software according to the research firm IDC.
But most people use those phones to take pictures message their friends check Facebook and Twitter and engage in other personal endeavors.
"Our vision is that every employee out there should have enabled a work device in their hands"said Rajen Sheth director of product management for Android's push into the office.
Far more people already own Android phones than iphones a lead that Google hopes works to its advantage in the corporate mobility market.
IDC estimates more than 1 billion Android phones were sold last year compared to 193 million iphones.
The huge disparity has largely been driven by Google's decision to give away its Android phones helping to make the devices running on the software more affordable than iphones.
Google announced its Android for Work program at a conference eight months ago but needed more time to test the technology before its release.
and personal apps such as Facebook to appear on the same home screen for convenience. Android for Work will be automatically available on phones running on the most recent release of the operating system'Lollipop
'or version 5. 0. An Android for Work app can be downloaded to make the package work on phones running older versions of the software.
Google's Play store is also opening a section devoted to work applications s
#Toyota Nissan Honda to jointly support hydrogen station infrastructure development Toyota motor Corp Nissan motor co and Honda motor Co have agreed to work together to help accelerate the development of hydrogen station infrastructure for fuel cell vehicles (FCVS.
(2) cloud server using Sony analysis algorithm,(3) Skin Analyzer application software, which runs on a dedicated tablet computer and (4) Skin Viewer smartphone application.
The first, second and third elements are used for customer services at beauty-treatment clinics, cosmetics makers and beauty product stores.
Measurement data is sent to a cloud server via Wifi. One of the distinguishing features of the new system is that its measurement results are analyzed by a cloud server using SKEP,
an algorithm that Sony developed in 2012. The state of skin is analyzed by applying LED LIGHTS with different wavelengths (such as visible light
and redness contained in the skin. easurement items can be added (because of the use of the cloud server),
Skin Analyzer shows analysis results on a tablet computer by using five-grade evaluation and indexes such as skin age so that they can be understood easily.
For example, it displays such words as exture: 4. 8, Blotch: 2. 4, Pore: 4. 2, kin age-10 years oldand ily dry.
With Skin Viewer, customers can check data stored on the cloud server with their smartphones and use the data as, for example,
#Tech identifies users vulnerable to cyberattack based on ways they use their computers Fujitsu Ltd and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd have announced the development of the industry first technology for identifying users vulnerable to cyberattacks based on the ways they use their computers,
such as their e-mail and web activities. This will make it possible to implement security measures tailored to individuals and organizations.
#Technology IBM unveils'breakthrough'computer chip NEW YORK IBM on Thursday unveiled a powerful new chip
The new chips could help meet demands of future cloud computing and Big data systems, cognitive computing, mobile products and other emerging technologies, according to IBM,
Mobile devices, typically smartphones, are consulted increasingly before or during shopping trips in the United states, influencing nearly a trillion dollars in in store sales last year, according to Alferness.
Google also rolled out enhancements to shopping ads on mobile devices, including expanded information regarding topics such as product ratings
or ipad users in the United states buy items they like at the popular online bulletin board interest is designed already to work like a catalogue,
for display purposes, are housed in a robust plastic coating. The cell is just 1 millimetre thick with a surface area of 80 square centimetres;
New Software Could Make Better Personal Assistants You can already use your smartphone to locate the nearest Thai restaurant
A new software program that integrates with a phone's voice recognition system (such as Apple's computerized assistant,
by telling the software if they're willing to forgo going out for breakfast in order to catch the right bus. 11 Odd and Intriguing Smart Home Technologies"The idea is that you really have a dialogue with this system.
which is developing the software. The program, known as the Personal Transportation system, or PTS, was conceived originally as a joint project between the MERS group, the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford university and aerospace giant Boeing,
This smart software understands what risks exist ranging from inclement weather to traffic jams as well as what kinds of risks a user is willing to take.
"While the flying car that the software was developed originally for is still a work in progress, there are plenty of other uses for a software system that can assess risk,
Williams said. For example, people who plan routes for mass transit systems could use the program to help them come up with the most efficient ways around a city.
the software can suggest other solutions that might work (such as having the buses reach their destination at 12-minute intervals instead of 10-minute ones).
when it is time to plug in, but also help people find the best place to recharge
and used an infrared laser to scan each mouse. The researchers found that the nanoparticles caused bright spots where cancer cells
Another printer uses a combination of conductive inks and filaments to print quadcopters already embedded with the electronics that allow them to hover in the air.
But you would use our printer to build things that aren't developed yet: theories, research.
and MC-2 printers were both on display at CES. The machines use a process known as stereolithography (SLA), in
This technique sets OWL's printers apart from other 3d printers on the market, such as Makerbot's Replicator or the Ultimaker 2, that use a process known as fused deposition modeling (FDM), not SLA.
But OWL's machines are advanced more than these printers, according to Liverman, who said that his company's machines print objects that are 200 times more accurate,
than objects created with other SLA printers. OWL is currently using its super-accurate printers to bring complex ideas to life.
For example, cancer researchers who want to deliver localized treatments to patients are using OWL's machines to build what Liverman called"microfluidic devices."
"You can inject stem cells into the scaffold that you build with the printer and then you can,
"Coming off the printer is not just a plastic shape but a fully functioning electronic device,"said Voxel8 cofounder Daniel Oliver.
The printer then used conductive ink (which takes the place of wires) on top of the plastic, connecting these electrical components.
Voxel8's printer is designed to do more than just print tiny drones. The company will also be releasing new printing materials in order to try its hand at printing resistors, sensors and, for future models of its printer, even lithium-ion batteries.
These objects are in addition to the custom circuit boards that Voxel8's printers have perfected already.""We're talking about printing out a circuit at your desk in less than 30 minutes,
"Oliver said. This represents a vast improvement over earlier options for printing custom circuit boards, a process that,
Oliver said, traditionally could take up to a month to complete. Engineers and developers will not only be able to realize their designs much quicker with a Voxel8 printer,
they'll also be able to try out unconventional geometries for their electronics, Oliver said. For example, rather than trying to get a rectangular circuit board to fit inside a curved object,
it will now be possible to customize the shape of a circuit so that it fits inside objects of any shape or size."
That such nanostructures could even be made is because of the decades-long investment by the electronics industry in developing nanofabrication tools to make the tiny components in computers.
"a steam-powered sewage processor that burns up solid waste and creates both potable water and electricity.
and webcams that will let engineers in the United states control the machine remotely.""It might be many years before the processor is being used widely,
"Gates wrote in his blog post.""But I was impressed really with Janicki engineering. And I excited about the business model.
The processor wouldn just keep human waste out of the drinking water; it would turn waste into a commodity with real value in the marketplace.
For instance, Samsung introduced a computer monitor made of 30 percent recycled plastic that runs on less energy
when it's not in use than conventional monitors. Electronics company LG announced a whole line of"greener"home appliances that use less energy and water than the company's previous models
Once plugged in, Automatic connects the car's computer system to your smartphone, relaying data about all of your car's subsystems from the gas tank to the engine.
These panels can absorb enough sunlight in 90 minutes to charge a standard smartphone according to the company.
but past activity monitors haven't really taken advantage of that knowledge. But a new app called Lifeq takes data from wearables, such as movement and heart rate,
and then plugs them into a computer model that uses hundreds of mathematical equations that relates those variables to many others,
versus while typing at a computer. A small study suggests their system works: In a trial with 10 people exercising to 40 percent of their maximum effort, their model was able to accurately predict heart rate and respiration s
and it is nearly impossible for these printers to produce semiconductors or single crystalline metals,
Video game Therapy Proving Powerful for Stroke Patients (Op-Ed) The critical advance of this technology is the navigation tool,
From sensors that aim to halt asthma in its tracks, to home monitors that warn the family
several new trackers on display at the 2015 Consumer electronics Show are going far beyond older medical alert systems.
including a heart-rate monitor, sensors that track when someone got out of bed or made a phone call.
That's the grim outlook from board members of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Frustrated with a lack of international action to address climate change and shrink nuclear arsenals,
to a computer that acted as a kind of artificial motor cortex. The computer used specific signals from the parietal cortex to detect what kind of movement Sorto intended to make,
and then translated that into signals for the robotic arm. Video: Tetraplegic Patient Controls Robotic Limb With His Brain In a video by the researchers, Sorto used the arm to serve himself a beer.
Sorto's ability to sip a brew came from the fact that the signals from the parietal cortex told the computer the general trajectory of the movement Sorto wanted to make,
and the computer could smooth out the movements of the artificial arm so that they resembled those of a real arm.
but in the new prosthesis, the computer looked at the whole picture of what Sorto intended to do just"get the beer,
the resulting technology could offer new ways to make displays or study high-temperature phenomena at small scales,
#Water Droplet-Powered Computers Could Run Mini Science labs A computer made using water and magnets can move droplets around inside itself like clockwork,
The device demonstrates a new way to merge computer calculations with the manipulation of matter, scientists added.
the aim is to develop a completely new class of computers to precisely control matter.
The core of the new microfluidic chip, which is about half the size of a postage stamp,
The presence of a droplet in any given space represents a one in computer data
or a computer that can be folded up and carried on your person. This electron microscope image shows tiny nanoparticles of bismuth ferrite embedded in a polymer film.
researchers at the University of Bonn in Germany made a skeletal muscle of a mouse contract in response to light.
The team introduced a gene into a mouse that codes for a protein normally produced by light sensing blue-green algae.
but by producing it within the mouse own cells, it has the same effect of contracting muscle cells
The researchers specifically focused on the larynx that they removed from the mouse so that light can be delivered correctly.
Here a video of a mouse larynx being opened and closed in response to light g
#Rice Microendoscope Hopes to Make Esophageal Biopsies Thing of Past (VIDEO) At Rice university engineers have been working on making certain biopsies unnecessary by imaging suspected tissues without excising them.
#Robotic Arm System Senses Quadriplegic Man Intentions for Movement Control Brain-computer interfaces have been used in the past to control prosthetic devices.
The researchers created software that processed and decoded the signals, which then were converted into control signals to move the robotic arm.
The device is programmed via the Illumina 3d software that takes into account the spatial positioning of the leads
said Dr. Simon Thomson, a consultant in Pain Management and Neuromodulation at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals, UK. he simplicity of the programming software saves valuable time in the operating theatre,
Unlike any other primary cell system, the Precision Novi intuitive Illumina 3d neural targeting software incorporates three-dimensional lead location,
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