#Pioneering research develops new way to capture light-for the computers of tomorrow The key breakthrough will allow large quantities of data to be stored directly on an integrated optical chip,
Light is suited ideally to ultra-fast high-bandwidth data transfer, and optical communications form an indispensable part of the IT world of today and tomorrow.
However, a stumbling block so far has been the storage of large quantities of data directly on integrated chips in the optical domain.
data transfer by means of light have long since become part of our everyday life, data on a computer are processed still
and stored electronically. The team of scientists from Germany and England have made a key breakthrough by capturing light on an integrated chip,
a nanoscale integrated optical memory that could open up the route towards ultra-fast data processing and storage.
The all-optical memory devices we have developed provide opportunities that go far beyond any of the approaches to optical data processing available today.
by delivering extremely fast on-chip optical data storage In addition, he says, the written state is preserved
he newly demonstrated laser nano-patterning method in graphene oxides holds the key to fast processing and programming of high capacity information for big data sectors.
which opens the way towards optical memories and smart pixel new devices. The new material could also lead to optical sensors that are highly sensitive to the electrical field in the environment on the nanometer scale e
Tactile sensors are data acquisition devices that detect and measure a diversity of properties arising from physical interaction
In classical computers, data is rendered as binary bits, which are always in one of two states:
and faster information searching through large databases s
#Flame retardant nanocoating is derived naturally and nontoxic (w/video) Inspired by a naturally occurring material found in marine mussels,
#Simple detection of magnetic skyrmions At present, tiny magnetic whirls so called skyrmions are discussed as promising candidates for bits in future robust and compact data storage devices.
"For future data storage concepts this promises a significant simplification in terms of fabrication and operation. Stable whirls in magnetic materials (see figure) were predicted over 25 years ago,
has opened the perspective to use them as bits in novel data storage devices. Up to now individual magnetic whirls were detected either by electron microscopy
Accordingly, crystallographic data collected for three types of crystal indicate that the more compact the crystal,
but also in transportation industry power backup, micro-grid storage, and for the wider use of renewable energy y
Microscopy and scattering data gathered at the Molecular Foundry and the Advanced Light source also a DOE Office of Science user facility located at Berkeley Lab,
To make sure they are getting data only on the protein of interest, the researchers label their target protein with carbon-13 a stable isotope of carbon
#New way to store information uses ions to save data and electrons to read data Scientists from Kiel University
and the Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB) have developed a new way to store information that uses ions to save data
and electrons to read data. This could enable the size of storage cells to be reduced to atomic dimensions.
But that is not the only advantage of the new technology, as the researchers reported in the journal Scientific Reports("A double barrier memristive device").
Modern computers use this principle in practically Every bit (unit of measurement for the digital information content) and the almost unbelievable increase in performance over the last decade was based on a very simple rule:
Standard memory devices are based on electrons which are displaced by applying voltage. The development of ever smaller and more energy-efficient storage devices according to this principle,
"Moving data between individual storage devices has begun now to take a not inconsiderable amount of time. Put simply:
That is why industrial companies and research institutes around the world are working on a more efficient, universal storage device that combines the advantages of all storage devices and moves as little data as possible back and forth.
This way, ions can be used specifically for storing and electrons specifically for reading data. The researchers also reported that their research had another very interesting element.
Rapid pattern recognition and a low energy consumption in connection with enormous parallel data processing would enable revolutionary computer architectures."
Data gathered from the electron signatures allowed the researchers to create images of the material's dimensions and orientation.
and 0s that create the digital image. While many phototransistors are fabricated on rigid surfaces, and therefore are flat,
Quantum bits-or qubits-are the fundamental data components of quantum computers. One of the final hurdles to scaling up to an operational quantum computer is the architecture.
"Background In classical computers, data is rendered as binary bits, which are always in one of two states:
such as rapidly scouring vast databases, modelling financial markets, optimising huge metropolitan transport networks, and modelling complex biological molecules s
Facebook M will not be making use of data it has collected about you over the years.
used fluorescence microscopy and radioactive tracers to validate the MRI data and to assess the influence of body posture on the clearance of amyloid from the brains. t is interesting that the lateral sleep position is already the most popular in human and most animals even in the wild
the researchers used four large databases of sentences that have been parsed grammatically: one from Charles University in Prague, one from Google, one from the Universal Dependencies Consortium (a new group of computational linguists),
and a Chinese-language database from the Linguistic Dependencies Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania.
previous work has focused either on a small number of languages or on limited kinds of data about each language.
To the researcherssurprise, the data matched, adding even more evidence that cryofixation preserves the real anatomy of the brain. ll this shows us that high-pressure cryofixation is a very attractive method for brain imaging,
Another surprising finding is that our emotion brain signature using lots of people performed better at predicting how a person was feeling than their own brain data.
and co-authors responded to the letter to the editor with their own. ur analysis of the data Artes
Refined analysis of frequency doubling perimetric data was performed to assess binocular visual field conservation in patients with comparable degrees of bilateral glaucomatous damage,
Refined data analysis of paired Matrix visual fields confirms the existence of a natural optimization of binocular visual function in severe bilateral glaucoma via interlocking fields that could only be created by CNS involvement.
California-based Ekso Bionics which captures data that enables the research team to determine how much the subject is moving his own limbs,
The data showed that Pollock was actively flexing his left knee and raising his left leg and that during and after the electrical stimulation,
and collected data that may resolve several current issues regarding the pathology of Alzheimer disease.
The current finding grew out of an extensive evaluation of the data from last year study
all data sets and software are available for other researchers to use. AI2 is also building systems that can tackle science tests,
who have collected the neural data used to construct the models and algorithms. Signals and sensory input When your brain receives sensory input,
using data obtained by Deadwyler and Hampson, first from animals, and then from humans. Their prosthesis is designed to bypass a damaged hippocampal section
but instead uses incremental improvement and selection to rapidly converge on a solution. he artificial intelligence system evolved a pathway that correctly explains all the existing and very puzzling data.
Best of all, it also made correct predictions on data it had seen never, Levin said. The knowledge gleaned about these molecular signaling pathways has implications for finding new treatments
When enough data are said available, Levin, researchers could use this approach to develop a system to help doctors understand patientsindividual genetic responses to treatments as well as environmental factors that cause cancer.
and histological data capture that their delivery method was equivalent to direct injection of GDNF the current gold standard for delivering this drug in Parkinson disease despite its traumatic nature and high complication rates in diffusing drugs
Prof Driver said the data showed the amount of energy being generated was two times less than the amount of energy that was being generated two billion years ago. hat tells us that the universe is essentially dying,
#EU ruling means Facebook and Google can send data to the US If you live in Europe,
which personal data can be moved from the EU to the US for processing. The ruling against the 15-year-old law, known as Safe Harbour, threatens the business models of more than 3000 companies that use it to ship data to the US,
including Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook. The decision is the culmination of a case that Austrian lawyer Max Schrems brought against Facebook in 2013 for participation in US mass surveillance.
It means that The irish Data protection Commission which presides over Facebook data-export operations, is unable to use Safe Harbour as a reason not to investigate Facebook data protection practices in the US.
In a statement, The irish Data protection Commissioner confirmed that Schrems case would be brought back before The irish High court s soon as practicable The ruling also removes the legal blanket that allowed companies to send data gathered in the EU to the US for processing.
It not yet clear whether this will disrupt the day-to-day operation of major technology firms, but their ability to pool data from both sides of the Atlantic for analysis will be affected.
Apple new privacy policy explicitly states that personal data collected for its icloud service in the European Economic Area is shipped to Apple Inc in the US for processing via Cork in Ireland. t quite a huge thing to say that one region set of laws
is superior to that of the US, says Carly Nyst, a lawyer and privacy consultant based in London. hat the bigger implication of this the EU exerting its might over the US.
Theye saying our standards are higher than yours, and you need to step up your game:
Surveillance concerns Although the court decision is ostensibly about data protection, it inevitably addresses surveillance. The ruling backs up the claim by Schrems that he law and practice of the United states do not offer sufficient protection against surveillance by the public authorities of the data transferred to that country This claim must now be heard
and decided upon by The irish authorities. The development will stretch US-EU relations, which are misaligned already over the right to be forgotten
Nyst says that data protection standards are emerging around the world, providing a crucial component of an internet that is not only hugely useful,
A global internet with standards for protecting our data may help bridge that gap. Paul Bernal of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, says the judgement makes it hard to see how it is legal for any personal data gathered in the EU to now be sent to the US for processing. he ruling basically says US surveillance cannot be allowed to override our fundamental rights,
but US law says surveillance must override fundamental rights, says Bernal. he EU court is largely saying that indiscriminate gathering of data is enough to interfere with fundamental rights,
and therefore you shouldn be able to do it. In a statement on the ruling, Max Schrems said that S companies that obviously aided US mass surveillance may face serious legal consequences from this ruling
when data protection authorities of 28 member states review their cooperation with US spy agencies He added that he average consumer will not see any restrictions in daily use,
"As we started to dig into the data, we were seeing more and more signs that there was no duplication."
or pixels--unless they are desired actually. This prevents light from"leaking"out of the pattern
which were assembled then to form a 3d data set. Due to the shortness of the X-ray pulses, this technique may be used in future to freeze ultrafast processes on the femtosecond time scale e g. in molecules
ZETA imaging software has been developed specifically for the High Content Analysis of live cell imaging data, in
#German-UK research yields permanent optical data storage chip A partnership between scientists at Karlsruhe Institute of technology,
While optical fibers have long been used for the transmission of data with light, inside a computer
data are processed almost invariably and stored electronically. But electronic exchange of data between processors and the memory limits the speed of modern computers.
To overcome this so-called Von neumann bottleneck, it is not sufficient to optically connect memory and processor,
Therefore scientists have been seeking methods to carry out all-optical calculations and data storage. The KIT-led team have developed now the first all-optical, nonvolatile on-chip memory.
This allows for extremely quick data storage by our all-photonic memory. Pernice headed a working group of the KIT Institute of Nanotechnology
Professor Harish Bhaskaran of Oxford university added, he memory we have developed is compatible not only with conventional optical fiber data transmission,
The new memory can store data for decades even when the power is off. Its capacity to store many bits in a single cell measuring just 1nm across featuring a multilevel memory is a highly attractive format.
For the memory, the scientists used the phase change material Ge2sb2te5 (ST. The change from crystalline to amorphous (data storing phase)
and from amorphous to crystalline (data-erasing) is initiated by ultrashort light pulses. For reading back the data, weak light pulses are used.
The scientists conclude that permanent all-optical on-chip memories could onsiderably increase future performance of computers while reducing their energy consumption.
Cutting data center power consumption They suggest that a wide range of applications stand to benefit from the kind of low-cost,
Photonic integrated circuits (PICS) based on the technology could dramatically change the architecture of fiber-optic transceivers used in data center optical interconnects, by pushing down the cost of chip-level data transfer between logic and memory devices.
That would in turn enable a radical scaling of a data center capacity, while simultaneously reducing increasingly colossal power demands with higher-efficiency data transfer.
According to analysts at the Yole Développement consultancy in France data centers are on track to consume more than 500 TWH of energy annually by 2020
but by implementing new technologies like silicon photonics this total could be cut by at least 10 per cent.
new data that suggests liquid water exists on Mars even today. This could be the first time in mission history that we have definitive reason to believe there might be microbial life on our closest neighbor.
execute superfast database searches and perform otherwise intractable mathematics calculations that aren't possible for supercomputers.
but the most useful data from each image can be combined computationally to generate a final image with good resolution in all dimensions.
The team developed new software capable of processing 10 terabytes of data from one hour of imaging in about two days.
who is currently flipping through financial data on a spreadsheet. Perhaps the suspect will make a mistake,
and still get some streaming data.""Having eyes glued to a screen can cause a SIGINT Marine not to see real-world objects that might be relevant.
theye very interested in the spectrum data from the glasses. But they said f someone shooting at me, the first thing
The researchers built the visualization using radar data taken during the storm. While wearing an Oculus Rift headset,
The system will have a database of bomb explosion signatures so it knows just which strategy to use.
More precise data helps coaches make arm-saving decisions such as pulling a pitcher when his arm needs rest.
Data loggers record the data, transmitting the information to a wireless setup and relay system, which then sends it out via cell networks to a remote server.
From there, presumably civil engineers have access to the data and can use it to inform future maintenance planning
With the combination of data from the photodetectors, which are arranged in a triangular configuration, the device can determine the speed and direction in its view,
#DNA Can Store Your Digital data For Up to 2, 000 Years Your DNA holds an incredible amount of information in a very small space.
Recently, researchers have looked to DNA as a method to store large amounts of digital information that are saved currently on hard drives.
e are nonchalantly throwing all of our data into what could become an information black hole without realizing it.
A team of swiss engineers hope to employ DNA as a method to store more data.
our hard drives can store up to five terabytes of data, encoded with the zeros and ones of binary code.
But if data were stored in DNA, the four chemical nucleotides (A c, G, and T) could theoretically hold up to 300,000 terabytes.
The researchers also wanted to see if the DNA would be able to retain information longer than a hard drive does now
It not likely that your next computer will store your data in DNA. It still prohibitively expensive,
#The Future Of The DNA Hard drive Back in August at a chemistry conference, the worlds of science fiction and fact merged with the announcement of a technological advancement in data storage.
After all, imagine being able to store the entirety of the world data on one hard drive.
DNA data storage and access is already possible from a technological standpoint, but not necessarily from an economical one.
For example the cost of reading genetic data, or identifying the components of genetic material, is getting dramatically cheaper.
However, the cost of writing that data or chemically synthesizing the sequence of nucleotides that represent your data is a different story.
Specifically researchers in the UK estimated recently that it would cost more than $12, 000 per MB to encode DNA data,
but only around $200 per MB to read that data back. The hope is that the techniques for writing DNA will catch up with the amazing progress that is happening in technology to sequence
or read DNA. Until there is greater demand, it will be many years until we see greater technological adoption due to cost factors.
and read genetic data. But in terms of long term storage, he believes DNA offers the perfect choice. hat really interesting now is that researchers are using DNA as a medium for digital archival storage
because the stability of the DNA structure in principle lets one access the data after centuries under reasonable storage conditions.
For him, it may be better to use more traditional means of data storage: the brain. ince the average human has about 100 trillon bacteria in
solar-powered sensor reading station that can report Vinduino sensor data via the Thingspeak platform.
and interpret the data and feed it back to the irrigation valves closing the loop on fully automated watering.
Now wee just waiting with bated breath for the beautiful pen that can not only capture a digital image,
Data gathered from the electron signatures allowed the researchers to create images of the material's dimensions and orientation.
what our data really meant, said senior author Erez Lieberman Aiden, a geneticist and computer scientist with joint appointments at Baylor and Rice. hen one day,
he said. n our data, we noticed that when particular keywords appeared, a loop would form.
but they proved mathematically that such packing could not explain the data. Next, the researchers tested a model of DNA folding where tension along the DNA chain caused it to condense like an elastic band
but this model also did not fit the data. Eventually, they hit on the tri-glide model.
and some are familiar with the different magnetic phases that store data in our electronic devices and the liquid crystalline phases that are used to create an image on certain electronic displays,
so that the data can be compared to the developing theories, Csáthy said
#Promising technique improves hydrogen production of affordable alternative to platinum Scientists have demonstrated that microwaves can help create nanostructured molybdenum disulfide (Mos2) catalysts with an improved ability to produce hydrogen.
he data you get back from these reflections are very minimal, says Katabi. owever, we can extract meaningful signals through a series of algorithms we developed that minimize the random noise produced by the reflections.
he data you get back from these reflections are very minimal, says Katabi. owever, we can extract meaningful signals through a series of algorithms we developed that minimize the random noise produced by the reflections.
"The data that can be secured using the technology is restricted not to bitcoin transactions. Two parties could use it to exchange any other information,
Measuring the levels of the proteins in patient tissues followed by database analysis of clinical information from The Cancer Genome Atlas
1. Statistical data reveal that just under 40%of patients with a favorable balance were still alive seven years after samples were taken.
Data from 83 010 male veterans, all without history of myocardial infarction (MI) or stroke, who were treated between December 1999
#Spontaneous Rare Mutations Cause Half Of Autism Researchers are saying a new analysis of data on the genetics of autism spectrum disorder disputes a commonly held belief that autism results from the chance combinations
The team's data helps the research community prioritize which genes with LGDS are most likely to play a causal role in ASD.
The data demonstrates the value of high-coverage sequencing for constructing population-specific variant panels, which covers 99.0%SNVS of minor allele frequency?
"Based on our clinical data, we helped validate that this could be applied to melanoma and lung cancers,"said Dr. Nhan Tran, an Associate professor in Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGEN)' s Cancer and Cell biology Division,
The new figures are based on January to March data from the 2015 National Health Interview Survey,
the data may be skewed slightly by the impact of new year resolutions. According to the statistics, 17.4 percent of adult men are current smokers,
new wireless technology uses your body to transmit data Bluetooth redefines ubiquitous. It seemingly everywhere,
Researchers at the University of California, San diego in the US have developed a prototype to show off a new wireless communication technique which they say massively outperforms existing wireless tech by using the human body itself to help send data between devices.
Whereas Bluetooth devices worn on the body transmit data via radio signals, the electromagnetic radiation that makes up these signals is blocked by something you.
Yep, our bodies get in the way of the data transmissions, creating obstructions and resulting in ath loss
By sending data via magnetic fields directly through our bodies, however, path loss can be cut down by a huge amount.
which transmits data in a wide radius of several metres, magnetic field human body communication prevents any kind of digital eavesdropping,
While this means the method won be suitable for sending data from wearable devices to remote gadgets (such as audio speakers or a computer), for personalised applications,
and fingerprint databases have become much more sophisticated, and now a new method is being tested that can tease out much more information from a single print.
Each little bit of extra data investigators can get from a print can make a huge difference in an investigation-imagine being able to discount all women from your enquiries right at the start of a murder case, thanks to just one print,
"We've increased very significantly the amount of data that can be taken from a crime scene to help support law enforcement's hypothesis about how a crime occurred
#New light-based memory chip is the first ever to permanently store data Scientists in the UK have developed the first ever memory chip that entirely light-based
and can store data permanently, and it could one day allow us to send and receive data at the speed of light.
Light-based computers are increasingly looking like our best shot at clearing the biggest roadblock to faster computers:
Right now, the speed at which our computers transmit data is slower than the speed at
While this speeds up the rate at which we can send data significantly, the silicon chips we have now still require the photons to be converted back to electrons
when the data reaches our computer. This slows everything back down again and consumes a whole lot of extra energy,
Not only have previous attempts at light-based computer chips turned out to be quite volatile, theye all required power to store data,
what theye calling"the world first all-photonic nonvolatile memory chip"."It stores data using the same material that found in rewritable CDS and DVDS-a phase-change alloy of germanium-antimony-tellurium known as GST."
"This material can be made to assume an amorphous state, like glass, or a crystalline state,
"This is the first ever truly nonvolatile integrated optical memory device to be created,"one of the team,
"And wee achieved it using established materials that are known for their long-term data retention-GST remains in the state that it placed in for decades."
so their light-based memory chips can directly interact with the other components using light, rather than electrical signals."
The hope is that a material like this could have future applications in both data transfer and data storage.
A study published in The Lancet last month analysed data from 25 studies that monitored health of over 600
but it means that there's a finite amount of data that can be processed. Qubits, on the other hand, can be in the state of 0, 1,
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