Technology

Robotic Arm Opens Doors For the Wheelchair Bound

For people confined to wheelchairs, the proliferation of ramps has greatly enhanced their mobility. Unfortunately, opening doors remains an omnipresent, and frustrating, challenge. Oddly enough, opening doors also presents a serious impediment for anthrop ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - Nov 25 2009 - 8:28am

Robot Airplane on Mars!!!

<!--paging_filter--> Since budget cuts and the inability to overcome problems like boredom and high radiation doses have ruled out any manned mission to Mars in the foreseeable future, NASA has shifted gears back towards a program of robotic explora ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - Nov 25 2009 - 9:07pm

Supercomputing once for one, now for all

The article, "Supercomputing for the Masses," caught my eye. The key quote of the article, "Seven of the world’s top 10 supercomputers use standard chips from A.M.D. and Intel, as do about 90 percent of the 500 fastest machines. “I think thi ...

Blog Post - Sina Kashefipour - Nov 28 2009 - 11:28pm

Drones, Drones, and More Drones!

The use of pilotless drones are up 94% in 2008.  The flight hours graph is particularly enlightening; 400,000 hours logged for all of 2008 between the military services. I wonder what the numbers will be in 2009 and in 2010 as the United States escalates i ...

Blog Post - Sina Kashefipour - Dec 6 2009 - 9:46pm

Insidious Imperialism! Creeping Colonization!

A meeting of the San Diego Software Industry Council. The subject: What will Web 3.0 look like? “Why don’t we know?” asked one venture capitalist. “Are we idiots?” The VC was pandering to an in-group audience. The implied answer was, No, we’re not idiots, ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Dec 14 2009 - 3:19pm

The Trouble with Drones

The trouble with drones is proliferation and sovereignty.  Take this story for example where the Pakistan's minister of Information and Broadcasting urges the United States to " transfer drone technology to Pakistan as deadly attacks are proving ...

Blog Post - Sina Kashefipour - Dec 9 2009 - 3:35pm

Autism In Computer Science

Discussion of the rise in diagnosed autism is a controversial topic, and I applaud one company that is sidestepping the entire 'why' and 'who is at fault' issue and tackling it like good capitalists. MSNBC writes about Aspiritech's ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Mar 31 2010 - 4:39pm

Photonic Computers: Faster And Cooler Than Their Electronic Counterparts

University of Toronto quantum optics researchers have discovered new behaviors of light within photonic crystals that could lead to faster optical information processing and compact computers that don't overheat. "We discovered that by sculpting ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 14 2009 - 7:43pm

Cyber Warfare and International Law: Differing Views

The United States, Russia and a United Nations arms control committee are discussing methods to, "strengthen Internet security and limiting military use of cyberspace." ...

Blog Post - Sina Kashefipour - Dec 14 2009 - 7:59pm

We need a Comp Sci section

Consider this an open letter to Hank, not as an act of aggression but because, hey, I'm due a blog post for today anyway. We need a " Computational Science " section.  It's okay for stuff that relates to a science subfield to go there-- ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Dec 15 2009 - 3:32pm