SINGAPORE : The National University of Singapore's (NUS) Faculty of Engineering on Monday launched a new Aerospace Systems initiative which will prepare engineering students for the growing aerospace industry.
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Geeking out aero-style for a hundred bucks - Dan Shapiro
When Dan Shapiro was a kid, radio control flight meant spending thousands of dollars to put what was essentially a slightly aerodynamicized lawnmower in the air. You spent thousands on engines and electronics and balsa, months building your plane, crashed it your first flight out, and then repeated. Over and over, and over again. Enter lithium polymer batteries, rare earth magnets, miniaturized solid state inverters, 2.4 GHz spread spectrum frequency hopping transmitters and receivers. Then stir it up in a huge domestic Chinese market for RC gear that has pushed remote control aircraft off a Moores law cliff of price and performance. Watch Dan explain how you can get off the ground for a single Benjamin.From:ignitenightViews:14553 25ratingsTime:05:26More inScience Technology
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Moores Law
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Energy Efficient Electronics: Searching for the Milli-Volt Switch
Eli Yablonovitch [Professor, Electrical Engineering Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley] Abstract: Because of miniaturization represented by Moores Law, the energy efficiency of information processing steadily improves. We anticipate that the energy required to process a single bit of information will eventually become as tiny as 1 electron volt per function. Inevitably, most logic functions, including storage and readout, will eventually be that efficient. However, there is one information-processing-function that bucks this trend. That is communication, especially over short distances. Our best projections of improvements in the short distance communication function show that it will still require hundreds of thousands of electron volts just to move one bit of information 10 micrometers. This energy per bit discrepancy for communications is caused by the difference in voltage scale between the wires and the transistor switches. Transistors are thermally activated, leading to a required voltage kT/q. Wires are long, and they have a low impedance, allowing them to operate efficiently even at ~1 millivolt. The challenge, then, is to replace transistors with a new low-voltage switch that is better matched to the wires. I will present some of the technical options for such a new switch.From:citrisucViews:1337 7ratingsTime:55:39More inScience Technology
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Correlated electronic materials
[Opening up a new world of electronics by designing strongly correlated electronic materials] The Matoba Laboratory is working to design new, strongly correlated electronic materials that can solve environmental and energy problems associated with semiconductors. As semiconductor materials are essential for computers and energy applications, they play a major role in daily life. So, the goal of research by the Matoba Laboratory is to create more functional electronic materials. Q. "Were developing substances that enable electronic properties to be manifested more effectively than before, by enabling very poorly conducting metals to conduct electricity. " To do this research, its necessary to start by studying inter-electronic structure. However, theres a principle called Moores Law, which implies that todays electronics will get down to the atomic level by 2020. So its predicted that development beyond that level will be difficult. To solve this problem, itll be necessary to develop materials that enable electronic properties to be manifested more effectively. Q. "For example, were seeking to design materials that dont conduct heat much at all, but conduct electricity, or as an ultimate goal, materials that have almost no electrical resistance. Were doing experiments that we hope will enable us to provide materials useful to society in the future." The negative charges of electrons cause an interaction called Coulomb repulsion. In assemblages of electrons where Coulomb ...From:keiouniversityViews:1122 4ratingsTime:04:00More inScience Technology
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Aiming to establish new spintronics
[Keio Spintronics Network - Nitta Laboratory , Tohoku University] School of Engineering, University:Aiming to establish new spintronics Current semiconductor technology has advanced by making things smaller. But its clear that progress in the electronics supported by smaller devices will reach a limit in the near future, in line with Moores law. At Tohoku Universitys Nitta Laboratory, researchers are working to solve this problem by focusing on electron spin. They aim to develop entirely new methods of controlling electron spin. This field of electronics using spin, called spintronics, is very topical right now. Q In our Lab, were looking for new functionalities based on electron spins, which have so far been controlled using magnetic fields. If we can control spins using electric fields, we can develop new horizons of electronics using electron spins. Thats the goal of this research. In conventional electronics, information is processed by using the on and off states of current flow as 1 and 0 in calculations. To do these calculations in spintronics, the electrons spin direction can be treated as information. So information can be processed using just the number of spins in each direction. However, controlling the direction of spin at the electron level is considered very difficult. So far, no clear method for such control has been found. Therefore, instead of controlling spin using magnetic fields, as has been done so far, the Nitta Lab is experimenting with the use of ...From:keiouniversityViews:1183 5ratingsTime:04:00More inScience Technology
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Towards next-generation devices through computer nanomaterial design for semiconductor spintronics
[Keio Spintronics Network - Yoshida Laboratory , Osaka University] The Yoshida Laboratory in Osaka Universitys Graduate School of Engineering Science designs new functional materials and devices, and discovers and explains new properties. Advances in todays industries require a variety of materials. The Yoshida Lab uses quantum mechanics to predict and design the properties of materials before doing experiments. This helps the researchers to design device materials with higher precision. Q. The materials were currently working on are made by adding the magnetic metal manganese to the semiconductors indium arsenide and gallium arsenide. One of our goals is to discover materials with superior properties by using different combinations of these materials. Todays integrated circuits, which utilize electronic charge, have advanced through microfabrication. However, its clear from Moores Law that such progress will reach its limit in the near future. To achieve next-generation devices that overcome this limit, research is under way on semiconductor spintronics, which uses another property of electrons - their spin degree of freedom. However, the ferromagnetic materials needed for semiconductor spintronics have only been confirmed to function at extremely low temperatures. The Yoshida Lab is trying to achieve a breakthrough, by means of computer nanomaterial design through first-principles calculations using quantum mechanics. Q. The good thing about this method is that it isnt ...From:keiouniversityViews:674 1ratingsTime:03:32More inScience Technology
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Global Challenge Part Fifty
http://www.myfirsthomenewsletter.com The Singularity The basic concept was popularised by futurist Ray Kurzweil. He argues that we can expect the continued application of Moores law the doubling of computer power every 12-18 months for many decades. Moores law coupled to advances in AI will lead to a point around 30-40 years from now when devices will have so much computing power that machine intelligence will exceed human intelligence.From:myfirsthometvViews:5054 0ratingsTime:00:38More inScience Technology
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Explaining Moores Law [HD] - MOCustoms.co.uk
MO Customs Computers is one of the Best Desktop PC Manufacturers in the UK We Challenge You To Find Cheaper Desktop PC #39;s Anywhere Else: http://www.mocustoms.co.uk ------------------------- Moore #39;s law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware. This is that the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years.From:MOCustomsComputerViews:145 2ratingsTime:01:42More inScience Technology
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Moores Law performs Vehicle at PIB
Moores Law performs Vehicle at Put-in-bay Beer Barrel Saloon Gary Justen, Troy Moore, Scott Williams, Scott Bylow, Terry RiceFrom:garyjustenViews:280 1ratingsTime:02:51More inMusic
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Rise of the transapients
An elaboration on the challenges involved in coping with the emergence of superhuman intelligences, which will outcompete and displace us from our own domain if proper steps are not taken. Human beings must be insulated from such brutal matchs, lest they be destroyed. The daunting issue of machines gaining self awareness is also broached: Alloting a sufficient amount of computing power under the right framing modules will lead to this. Moores law is shown for the destabilising force it is, an accomplice in the inadvertant grinding away of mankinds dominance. #39;Rise of the transapients #39; is part of a series on transhumanist/ singulatarian subjects. Two other videos that may be pertinent to view are: youtu.be :The singularity youtu.be :Programming difficultys in artifintsFrom:TheJamesrocketViews:132 5ratingsTime:10:48More inPeople Blogs
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Computer Apple 1 KK4WW Follow us at http://www.twitter.com Vintage Antique Computer Museum items Apple 1 Microcomputer - How to determine the Value Apple 1 Microcomputer designed by Steve Wozniak of the Apple Computer Computer. This Apple 1 is part of the #39;Bugbook Computer Museum #39; Historical Computer Collection, managed by the LCF Group in Floyd, Virginia includes 4 original Apple 1 microcomputers. Apple1 microcomputer - links discussed in this video Apple 1 micromputer Registry http://www.willegal.net Web site macmothership with lots of Apple information - good resource http://www.macmothership.com Apple 1 Sells for $213000 video http Zaltair Computer Hoax video http://www.youtube.com Original Apple 1 video in wooden case http://www.youtube.com pdf of first #39;West Coast Computer Conference #39; 1977 http://www.floydcountyvirginia.org vintage Apple 1 Video http://www.youtube.com ----Important Names Words in the History of Microcomputers Imsai, Adam Osborne, bugbook, Ed Roberts, polymorphic, Ex8l, Heathkit, colleco, IBM PC, IBM PC jr., DEC, Don Lancaster, Wayne Green, teletype, Hewlett Packard, Jon Titus, Bill Gates, Apple, Microsoft, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Digital, museum, cyber, TI, IC, micro processor, Intel, logic, memory, USB, robotics, server, data, history, fiber optic, gateway, internet, texting, computer, Moores law, IBM, cyber engineer, automation, personal computer, PC, John Von Neumann, Thomas Watson, Intel 4004floppy disk, RAM chip, TRS-80, radio shack, commodore, Steve Jobs, Steve Wuzniack, WOZ, Atrai ...From:lcfgroupViews:491 2ratingsTime:03:03More inNews Politics
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What you MUST know about the future
The video is about the exponential progression of information technology (exemplified by eg Moores Law), and how that in combination with more advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and the reverse-engineering of the human brain in the future could lead to a technological singularity, as theorized by people such as Ray Kurzweil. It discusses the development of technology as an evolutionary process, and shows by examples that evolution is an exponential process. The video also mentions how more advanced technology in the future could enable us to cure aging, and how this can give us eternal life (or at least enable us to live indefinitely), as proposed by people such as Abrey de Grey. The video also mentions the potential of molecular nanotechnology, and technologies such as virtual reality. It argues that investing in science and innovation is the best way of solving our challenges of global warming, resource scarcity, global poverty, and lack of space and resources due to population growth. CHARITIES THAT I RECOMMEND 1. The Open Cog Foundation: opencog.org 2. The Foresight Institute: http://www.foresight.org 3. The X-prize foundation. Watch video here: http://www.youtube.com Donate here: http://www.xprize.org If you know of good charities promoting research and innovation that will bring about long-term technological progress, then leave a comment, and Ill consider including them. A FEW FAQ 1. Wont the robots turn against us like they do in Hollywood-movies? I dont think so. First of all I ...From:Tor BarstadViews:8405 158ratingsTime:15:00More inScience Technology
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Good explanation of the singularity
The video is about the exponential progression of information technology (exemplified by eg Moores Law), and how that in combination with more advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and the reverse-engineering of the human brain in the future could lead to a technological singularity, as theorized by people such as Ray Kurzweil. It discusses the development of technology as an evolutionary process, and shows by examples that evolution is an exponential process. ABOUT THE LICENSING OF THE MATERIAL IVE USED A lot of the pictures Ive used are in the public domain. And a lot of pictures have a Creative Commons license. You can find links to all the different pictures with CC-license I have used in the video of which this video is a part here: licensedmaterialformyvideos.wordpress.com The links will give you information about the copy-right-holders. Thank you very much to all of the people who have released your work into the public domain, or given it a CC-license! I believe that my use of book- and film-covers, as well as a screen-shot from IBMs Watsons participation in Jeopardy, as qualifying very clearly as being fair use: en.wikipedia.org The graphs with exponential y-axis were produced by Ray Kurzweil and his team. His book can be bought here: http://www.amazon.comFrom:Tor BarstadViews:1945 21ratingsTime:06:58More inScience Technology
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Moores Law @ Beer Barrel Put-in-Bay Hip Hop Medley
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