#IBM creates a solar magnifying glass that could power the Earth IBM, the American multinational technology and consulting corporation are renowned the world over for being technology leaders
The team at IBM have developed a system called High Concentration Photo Voltaic Thermal (HCPVT), which is capable of concentrating the sun rays into a stream 2000x more powerful.
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,
despite the excitement that 3-D printing has generated. It can be used to make complex shapes,
But what if 3-D printers could use a wide assortment of different materials, from living cells to semiconductors, mixing
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,
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
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:
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
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.
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
Watching the machine build through thelens of an electron microscope is otherworldlybut the printer s potential runs beyond microscale model making.
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.
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.
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#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.
New software by California-based company Emotient can do just that. Using a simple digital camera Emotient's software can analyze a human face
and determine whether that person is feeling joy sadness surprise anger fear disgust contempt or any combination of those seven emotions.
The company's software called Facet can reconnect those dots by accurately reading the emotions registering on a person's face in a single photograph or video frame.
because the software can track the fluctuations and strengths of emotion over time and even capture microexpressions or little flickers of emotion that pass over people's faces before they can control themselves
The software can also pick up on other subtle facial signs that a human might miss.
In these types of cases the software does need images clearer than 40 pixels but the required resolution is still within a common webcam's capabilities.
Medical applications So what are some uses for software that can identify human emotions based on facial expressions?
Facet's applications are incredibly far-reaching from treating children with autism to play-testing video games.
Recognizing other people's emotions based on their facial expressions is a challenge for many people who have an autism spectrum disorder particularly children.
As a research professor at the University of California San diego's Machine Perception Lab Bartlett has been studying the use of facial recognition software to help people with autism for several years. 5 Controversial Mental health Treatments
Using an earlier version of Facet's software for example Bartlett and her colleagues created a game in
which players are asked to mimic the facial expressions of a cartoonish character on the screen. Using Emotient's software the game assesses the player's success in recreating that expression and returns a score.
This game helps children with autism recognize other people's emotions through their facial expressions as well as teaches them how to make facial expressions that express their own feelings.
#It's easy to speculate on how software that can recognize the emotions behind human facial expressions
Instead Bartlett said Emotient is now working on among other things the software's potential for identifying
and a touch screen monitor to allow miners to interact with the system; according to the company worker simply scans their badge
and gain access to the entire electrical infrastructure of the mine from a single workstation and a single software package.
A right-click of the mouse brings up a full suite of technical information including manuals information on the devices parameters and its role in the wider system.
with flange mounting options and a colour display controller mounted in a stainless steel enclosure. They can measure all types of Flotation Cell,
and provides enhanced capabilities through innovative software applications allowing operators to optimize the development of their unconventional reservoirs
The extremely fast hierarchical 3d reconstruction software speeds up imaging internal microstructures 10-100 times compared to traditional or GPU-accelerated micro-CT algorithms.
which can be inserted with a computer tablet that can be set to flash a bright signal when danger approaches.
The tablet mount also allows the rider to wirelessly connect and talk to the bicycle through a dedicated application.
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