which together would monitor, predict, cultivate and extract crops from the land with practically no human intervention.
Synthetic biology is about programming biology using standardized parts as one programs computers using standardized libraries today.
Consumer Physics will offer both Android and iphone apps, and also hopes to develop a platform upon
send it to SCIO servers, analyze it and compare it to a database of known spectral signatures,
Developer kits available through the Kickstarter for $200 offer barebones SCIO modules and come with CAD designs for 3d printers.
in addition to developing the hardware, is also populating the first databases and apps that work with the SCIO,
#A 3d printing breakthrough: 3d printed biological tissue 3d printing capabilities are limited rather despite the excitement that 3-D printing has generated.
It can be used to make complex shapes, but most commonly only out of plastics. Even manufacturers using an advanced version of the technology known as additive manufacturing typically have expanded the material palette only to a few types of metal alloys.
But what if 3-D printers could use a wide assortment of different materials, from living cells to semiconductors, mixing
and matching the nkswith precision? Jennifer Lewis, a materials scientist at Harvard university, is developing the chemistry
This means 3-D printing technology could make objects that sense and respond to their environment. ntegrating form and function,
s the next big thing that needs to happen in 3-D printing. A group at Princeton university has printed a bionic ear, combining biological tissue and electronics,
But even among these impressive efforts to extend the possibilities of 3-D printing Lewis lab stands out for the range of materials
In a basement lab a few hundred yards from Lewis office, her group has jury-rigged a 3-D printer, equipped with a microscope,
Another, larger 3-D printer, using printing nozzles with multiple outlets to print multiple inks simultaneously,
and easily destroyed as they are forced through the printing nozzle. In all cases, though, the inks must be formulated to flow out of the nozzle under pressure
Before coming to Harvard from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign last year, Lewis had spent more than a decade developing 3-D printing techniques using ceramics, metal nanoparticles, polymers,
Printing blood vessels was an encouraging step toward artificial tissues capable of the complex biological functions found in organs.
Most of us on our small team are musicians who are tired of being stuck behind computer screens, keyboards, faders
lightweight and self-contained system requiring little more than a laptop to function fully. The gloves capture the movements and postures of your hands.
Our software allows this information to be mapped to musical control messages which can then be routed easily to your favourite music software.
Specifically, the gloves track the following: The orientation of your hand The lexof your fingers Your current hand posture (e g. fist, open hand,
backwards) of your hand Sharp movements such as drum hits This information is transmitted wirelessly to your computer, over Wifi (via the x-OSC board on the wrist).
we have developed software allowing you to apglove data to musical control signals (e g. MIDI and OSC.
The software also allows you to combine glove inputs to make complex controls. For example, the software would allow you to program the following:
f I am making a fist with my right hand, and pointing downwards with my left hand,
map the ollof my right wrist to MIDI control change message 60 on channel 2 These mappings can then be used to control third party software such as Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic pro or Max
This ability of the software to combine postures and gestures for mapping, combined with other innovative technological advances,
-more than most MIDI controllers on the market all without having to even look at a screen during performance.
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.
hardware and software and we have arrived finally at a point where we can make them available to others through this Kickstarter.
and use to follow a line of text in a book or on a screen.
Fingerreader software recognizes that and offers haptic feedback, even knowing when it reaches the end of a line.
The Mayo Clinic Global Business Solutions wing has been actively building partnerships with everything from benefits providers to a variety of software developers.
and a bunch of other stuff that surprising if you think of them as a search engine company which hopefully nobody does anymore,
it will need to extend beyond software and into hardware. Drones are one means of doing so.
In the mouse model of Alzheimer disease, inhibiting p25 production improved cognitive function, greatly reduced plaque formation and neuroinflammation, hallmark features of Alzheimer disease.
The heavy lifting is done by the software that generates these designs employing a branch of mathematics called computational geometry.
For example, a user can tell the software he wants a two-wheeled robot of a certain size,
#DNA computers deliver drugs inside cockroaches Nano-sized entities made of DNA that are able to perform the same kind of logic operations as a silicon-based computer have been introduced into a living animal.
A computer inside a cockroach. The DNA computers known as origami robots because they work by folding
and unfolding strands of DNA travel around the insect body and interact with each other, as well as the insect cells.
and control of the nanobots is equivalent to a computer system. his is the first time that biological therapy has been able to match how a computer processor works,
The team says it should be possible to scale up the computing power in the cockroach to that of an 8-bit computer, equivalent to a Commodore 64 or Atari 800 from the 1980s.
according to a report by the Wall street journal. An Israeli startup by the name of Storedot revealed the technology at Microsoft Think Next Conference using standard smartphone batteries,
video) As the demo was held at a Microsoft conference, the actual demonstration was shown on a Samsung galaxy S3;
however, this technology could be used for other products such as Macbooks and ipads. And as Cult of Mac points out,
#3d printing is transforming manufacturing and General electric wants to lead the way A 20-year-old Indonesian student has helped General electric save considerable sums of money in development
And that all thanks to 3d printing. While it may be today buzzword, in reality it just a fraction of the overall manufacturing process and General electric wants to lead the way.
Furstoss told attendees at the Inside 3d printing conference in New york on Thursday that the aker movementis revolutionizing how the traditional manufacturers look at their own design
The Fairfield, CT-headquartered conglomerate has been pushing hard in the 3d printing and the next-generation manufacturing space.
and advantages that 3d printing has to offer, it invested in more than three hundred 3d printers across the company,
which helps it to learn how to develop the more difficult or traditionally expensive parts for aviation, oil and gas, healthcare,
and 45 other jurisdictions that have adopted new Common Core standards for English and math. The unprecedented scope of the move to standardize K-12 academic achievement targets has resulted in a flurry of business activity among startups,
state estimates peg the implementation costs of Common Core around $3 billion, opening the door for companies pitching cost-effective tech tools. here a cottage industry
now that sprung up around Common Core, said Deborah Stipek, an education researcher and professor at Stanford university. eople in district offices in schools have a really tough job.
Common Core offers new market incentives for entrepreneurs who can navigate those thorny realities. he big market condition that it enabling is consistency
Muhammed Chaudhry, CEO of the Silicon valley Education Foundation, said of the Common Core requirements. efore we had 50 states with 50 different standards.
like Portland-based Edcaliber, specifically mention Common Core in their mission statements. Edcaliber, which raised a $500,
advertises a curriculum management system that aims to urn Common Core into common practice. But one unique dynamic in the K-12 education tech market
Lots and lots of ipads. The proliferation of mobile technology is used often as a selling point for entrepreneurs hoping to get their products into classrooms.
But Khosla said there one major hitch in the vision for software-powered classrooms: A lack of necessary hardware. he biggest challenge is said access,
she, noting that many schools don have the technological infrastructure to make ed tech products viable on a consistent basis. Teacher training is another challenge that Chaudhry group has identified.
Apple Inc.,Google Inc.,Microsoft corp. and Cisco systems Inc. are a few major Silicon valley tech companies selling either hardware or software to K-12 educators.
GPS-guided rounds and stealth design that gives the 610-foot ship the radar signature of a small fishing vesselhere also a computer intelligence capable of preparing the ship for battle
which made most of the ship computer systems. his is a $5 billion UAV. Unlike aerial drones,
which allows it to be controlled from any of a couple dozen consoles around the ship.
The captain just signs in to the nearest console and enters a password, as if he doing some online banking.
The company says its technology places each word at the optimal location on the screen,
Witricity have demonstrated already their ability to power laptops, cellphones, and TVS by attaching resonator coils to batteries
The Ultrasonic Cover for its Galaxy Core Advance smartphone helps owners sense the presence of people and objects up to two meters away.
businesses will hopefully creatively utilize the open source design of Bitcoin to provide entirely secure and anonymous end-to-end experiences.
Facebook and Microsoft play such a central role in the Internet worldwide functioning. The NSA revelations exacerbated those concerns. his is a step in the right direction to resolve important international disputes about how the Internet is governed,
but as a computer scientist there are other things that bother me. I mean, how reliable is a computer system?
Sharkey, of Stop Killer Robots, said. Sharkey noted that warrior robots would do battle with other warrior robots equipped with algorithms designed by an enemy army. f you have two competing algorithms
say a machine that designed to destroy incoming mortar fire such as the U s c-RAM or Germanymantis, is tasked also with destroying the launcher.
This is the first time cannabinoid receptors have been identified in the central nucleus of the amygdala in a mouse model,
A device that allows desktop 3d printers to print in color for less than $100 Full color printing is generally a privilege limited to professional and high-end consumer 3d printers,
so the more casual user is stuck likely printing in one or two colors. But Cédric Kovacs-Johnson and Charles Haider, both chemical engineering undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, say they have come up with a solution:
a sub-$100 device that upgrades desktop 3d printers to print in a full rainbow of colors.
The system is fused compatible with deposition modeling 3d printers that use a standard-size spool of filament.
FDM printers melt string-like plastic bit by bit and lay it down in layers to create an object.
allowing printers to shift between colors. hat we find really innovative in our approach is we went back to the roots of paper printing
Desktop 3d printer makers have gotten generally around the one color problem by adding more than one print head. botobjects,
a desktop printer maker that has been teasing the community for years with its full-color printing abilities,
Spectrom doesn require a specialized printer to work. The idea is that you install it on your existing printer
and youe ready to go. Your computer outputs code that tells the device when to switch between colors
and your printer operates as if it was printing with a regular filament spool. The duo didn arrive at the method immediately.
During a year and a half of development, they tried combining different colors of filament and different dyeing methods.
and as a result are focused on making sure it is compatible with any printer. e want to get it out to as many people as possible,
#3d printing may finally give artificial organs a blood supply Vascularized tissue constructed by printing cell-laden inks in a layered zigzag pattern.
Using a custom-built four-head 3-D printer and a isappearingink, materials scientist Jennifer Lewisand her team created a patch of tissue containing skin cells and biological structural material interwoven with blood-vessel-like structures.
The tissue is built by the 3-D printer in layers. A gelatin-based ink acts as extracellular matrixhe structural mix of proteins and other biological molecules that surrounds cells in the body.
Two other inks contained the gelatin material and either mouse or human skin cells. All these inks are viscous enough to maintain their structure after being laid down by the printer.
A third ink with counterintuitive behavior helped the team create the hollow tubes. This ink has a Jell-o-like consistency at room temperature
and we think it going to be essential toward organ printing or regeneration, says Lewis, who is member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard university.
The hope is that the 3-D printing method will set the overall architecture of blood vessels within artificial tissue
the over-the-air-software updates) and now it doing the same thing for the core part of the electric car:
like our laptops and cell phones. Given Tesla production goals outline above, the planned factory would more than double the current entire world lithium ion battery production.
Traditionally auto makers have multiple suppliers for core components so that they can get the best price and use the other suppliers as leverage.
Vicsek says that those attempts involved cutting some corners the copters were restricted to indoor arenas or controlled by a central computer.
Vicsek and his team drew inspiration from a computer program called Boids, created in 1986 by Craig Reynolds,
attraction, repulsion were enough to produce a computer simulation of a bird-like flock, but real fliers face other problems.
You probably have your smartphone, maybe a tablet or e reader. You may also have a fitness band or even a second smartphone.
a Phd Student in Human computer interaction at the University. hen unfolding Paddle completely it is nearly the size of an ipad,
The team plans to create a prototype that entirely self-contained by replacing the external tracking system with tiny integrated displays like O-LED
and E Ink displays that are sensitive to the user movements. They expect to have a working prototype in another 12 to 18 months.
devices that combine the flexibility of touch screens with the physical qualities that real-world controls provide.
Paddle could also provide a welcome relief to those who struggle with touch screens, such as the elderly.
and even data-conditional transactions, in which a script uses a data input such as a regular Google search to monitor real-world events that would automatically trigger disbursements or other actions.
since Napster used centralized servers to track music sharing, while Bitcoin is distributed entirely. That means loans without banks, contracts without lawyers,
and recorded across hundreds of servers at all corners of the earth. Consultant Andreas M. Antonopoulos, echoing a 2012 white paper by software developer J. R. Willett,
says that the Bitcoin protocol is distributed to finance what Internet Protocol has been distributed to information. The blockchain is IP.
which recreate financial functions in software code by matching offered and desired transactions between parties without the need for intermediary institutions.
If you hack my servers, there s nothing to get. Somebody call#Target#(TGT. Such hedging functions have particularly unique promise because of the extremely low transaction costs of peer-to-peer currency.
This idea was explored in a#1997 paper#by computer scientist and former George washington University law professor Nick Szabo (who has come under occasional suspicion of being pseudonymous bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto).
but by hardware or software that wouldfully embed in property the contractual terms which deal with it.
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
#New 3d printed materials lighter than water and as strong as steel A Nanoscribe 3d printer can print models of the Empire state building in a space the width of a human hair using precision lasers.
Watching the machine build through thelens of an electron microscope is otherworldlybut the printer s potential runs beyond microscale model making.
believe such 3d printers may help craft a new generation of materials lighter than water and strong as steel.
Now, there s the Nanoscribe 3d printer. The printer s mirror-focused laser shines on and hardens a droplet of liquid plastic on a slide.
A computer moves the plate under the laser, selectively hardening it, layer by layer, to match a digital 3d model.
Once complete, the excess liquid is washed away, leaving a pristine structurewith features a few millionths of a meter across.
Microscale 3d printing is still new, but it s quickly progressing. In 2012, researchers at the Vienna University of Technology 3d printed a race car and cathedral smaller than a dust mite.
it may not be the only new computer-enabled approach to materials research. In a recent article, Scientific American predicted supercomputerswill yield a Golden age of materials science.
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.
from the filament in a light bulb to the silicon in a computer chip. Whether we 3d print them
The technology involve a head-mounted display, custom video technology, and a targeted molecular agent that makes cancer cells glow
With his software Witty says users can set up and run a real-time experiment in a virtual online classroom that can explain
but let pull in widgets like 3d animation and so onhe said. his tool is focused on that group of people who need to learn visually
and with more and more foreign university students now returning to their home countries to begin their careers instead of staying in the U s. the outlook for continued U s. technical dominance is worrisome. don think the U s. can keep (leading the world)
For example, it can take a supercomputer several weeks to simulate a 10-femtosecond process. One reason for the high cost is that real-time simulations of ultrafast phenomena require small time steps to describe the movement of an electron
PETOT is a plane-wave pseudopotential density functional ground-state calculation package designed for large system simulations to be run on large parallel computers
and Linux cluster machines.""With this new algorithm, the rt-TDDFT simulation can have speed comparable to the Born-Oppenheim ab initio molecular dynamics simulations,
Being able to run the code on a supercomputer like Hopper for long periods of time was central to the success of this study, according to Wang.
The new supercomputers are critical, and so are the fast processors, he said. his code does not necessarily scale to many processors.
Typically we use a few hundred processors. But the long time run is critical. Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory t
#Pointwise Adds Overset Grid Assembly to CFD Meshing Software Today Pointwise announced the latest release of its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) meshing software featuring direct integration with overset grid
assembly (OGA) software. The integration of grid generation and overset grid assembly represents a vast improvement over the hodge-podge of disparate tools typically employed by practitioners of overset CFD,
said Nick Wyman, Pointwise director of applied research. hat we are releasing today for production use is the result of a multi-year research effort Pointwise conducted with funding from the U s. Air force Arnold Engineering Development Complex,
Air force Materiel Command. That research was followed by a full year of fine-tuning in preparation for release to all our customers.
The overlap is computed using overset grid assembly software. Users of OGA software typically rely on a circuitous collection of homegrown tools that are patched together.
By integrating OGA (in the form of the PEGASUS and Suggar++software packages) with Pointwise the entire process is made more efficient.
Pointwise has been a proud, long-time sponsor of and participant in the biannual Overset Grid Symposium, said John Chawner,
#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
Gen9 the world's best-selling server. AMD Firepro server GPUS combine with HP Proliant DL380 Gen9 servers for a variety of specialized applications including Academic
and Government clusters Oil and Gas research and Deep Neural networks. The AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU is supported by a powerful software ecosystem enabling developers to better harness its compute performance including support for Opencl 2. 0. Featuring the first AMD Graphics
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
TFLOPS double precision barrier. With 16gb of GDDR5 memory and maximum power consumption of 235 watts AMD Firepro S9150 server GPUS provide massive compute performance
while helping maximize available power budgets. With AMD STREAM technology customers will be able to leverage the massive parallel processing power of the AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU
and accelerate applications beyond just graphics. The server GPU features: The AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU also provides support to handle workloads in a variety of sectors by enabling Openmp an API for high-level parallelism in the C C++ and Fortran languages.
In segments such as Oil and Gas Computer Aided Engineering and Computational Science many organizations have made substantial investments in Openmp to create scalable workloads.
AMD's collaboration with Pathscale to provide support for Openmp 4. 0 will allow customers in these HPC fields to harness the compute power of AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU.
Additionally AMD Firepro-S4000x server GPUS can be found the HP Proliant WS460C Graphics Server Blade5.
With high-quality 3d graphics and multidisplay functionality the AMD Firepro S4000x server GPU module delivers workstation-class graphics performance on remote desktops.
Designed with blade server and blade workstation platforms in mind each module consumes 45w maximum power includes 2gb of GDDR5 memory up to 72 GB/s of memory bandwidth
and the ability to support up to six high resolution remote displays s
#Mellanox Shows Record Performance with Connectx-4 100gb/s Interconnect Adapters Today Mellanox announced world-record performance on its Connectx-4 EDR 100gb/s Infiniband adapters.
Achieving Infiniband throughput of 100gb/s, bidirectional throughput of 195gb/s, applications latency level of 610 nanoseconds and message rate of 149.5 million messages per second,
Connectx-4 is the highest performing adapter for the HPC, Web 2. 0, cloud, machine learning, storage and enterprise applications.
Interconnect performance capabilities are critical to data -and compute-intensive applications which require ultra-low latency
#Seagate & Supermicro Optimize SQL Databases As part of our strategy and commitment to engage with ecosystem vendors to jointly bring optimized
wee excited to be working closely with industry leaders Microsoft and Supermicro to provide enhanced performance
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.
Microsoft. ee proud to work with companies such as Seagate and Supermicro who continue to innovate
and deliver highly reliable and high performance Microsoft Fast Track Data warehouse designs. With this solution companies will be able to more efficiently support real time reporting and streaming data,
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,
consistently high performing solution for quick and trusted deployment. Supermicro high-performance 4u 4-way SYS-4048b-TRFT Superserver
efficient deployment of Microsoft SQL SERVER 2014 Fast Track Data warehouse, said Don Clegg, vice president of marketing and business development at Supermicro. ur Microsoft certified solution comes preconfigured with quad Intel Xeon E7 processors, Seagate Nytro Flash Accelerator cards, memory,
storage and SQL SERVER 2014 installed and validated. With this turnkey solution, organizations can focus efforts on more strategic decision making activities around data analytics
For more information please visit http://www. seagate. com and Seagate and Microsoft Fast Track.
Information on Microsoft SQL SERVER Fast Track Data warehouse reference architecture can be found at Microsoft Solutions o
#Precision farming Gains Global Foothold (Op-Ed) Lloyd Treinish leads the environmental science team in the Industry Solutions Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research center.
A co-developer of IBM's Deep Thunder precision agriculture system he contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:
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.
A supercomputer processes the combined data and generates a four-dimensional mathematical model derived from the physics of the atmosphere.
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