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David Tidey
CIO Profile Tidey graduated from the University of Exeter in physics and chemistry in 1982 from where he went to work for Greater London Council as a management trainee. David Tidey moved to the Royal Borough of Kensington and... [01 Jun 2009]
The tech that lifts Pixar's Up
News Instead, the studio's computer whizzes figured out a way to turn the problem over to a programmed physical simulator, which, employing Newtonian physics, was able to address the animation problem. These are relatively... [28 May 2009]
Budget: £750m cash injection for UK tech
News On e-skills the budget mentioned a £3m scheme to provide training for science teachers, a pilot programme to encourage science take-up in 20 local authorities and an additional £2m to be invested in providing support to encourage... [22 Apr 2009]
Wireless Sensor Networks: A Great Opportunity for Researchers in Developing Countries
White Paper This paper advocates the use of wireless sensor networks in Developing Countries as one foresees they have a great role to play not only to expedite novel solutions that help mitigate development problems, but also to facilitate research... [15 Apr 2009]
Robot scientist makes gene discovery - without humans
News While it may not win the Nobel Prize for physics just yet, Adam appears to be doing impressively well for a young scientist, carrying out scientific research automatically, without the need for further human intervention. [03 Apr 2009]
A Low-Power Monolithic CMOS Transceiver for 802.11b Wireless LANs
White Paper Wireless LANs (WLANs) are currently seeing significant growth in the worldwide consumer electronics market. The high data rate (11 Mbps) WLAN standard IEEE 802.11b in unlicensed 2.4 GHz ISM band is the most popular one. [02 Apr 2009]
Red Bull Racing revs up computing grid
Case Study In the future, Nevey said it's likely the grid will soon incorporate the team's computer-aided design machines while the team is looking to develop a multi-physics simulator to bring all the various data together. [24 Mar 2009]
Johns Hopkins University APL Streamlines IT Management and Reduces Provisioning Time by 97%
White Paper The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) wanted to reduce time and effort associated with applying quarterly Critical Patch Updates (CPU), which have to be applied within a month of their release and... [27 Feb 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: There is no magic tech
Comment For those of you with an engineering or physics background, it is worth looking at the resemblance to an entropy calculation. Compiled in my office over a nice warm coffee while snowed in with roads that are mostly black... [16 Feb 2009]
Kurzweil and friends launch Silicon Valley university
News Among the faculty are George Smoot, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics; Vint Cerf, Google's chief internet evangelist; and Stephanie Langhoff, Nasa Ames'... [03 Feb 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.01.09
Round-Up The robot can be programmed to move into balancing positions that can teach children how basic physics works. The Round-Up looks back at its school days with a sense of misty nostalgia, tempered by a certain amount of... [23 Jan 2009]
Photos: From robot teachers to Microsoft Surface
Photo ED-E can also be used to teach the physics of walking, forces and basic computer programming. Forget laptops - tomorrow's classrooms could be getting their lessons from robots. This is ED-E, a humanoid robot and learning... [19 Jan 2009]
University Improves Research and Saves 30 Per Cent of Budget With a High-Performance Computing Cluster
White Paper The department of physics at University Alexandru Ioan Cuza of Iasi was looking for a cost-effective way to build a supercomputer that was powerful enough to run complex mathematical research simulation and give... [01 Jan 2009]
Programming Languages & Translators: XML Document Manipulation Language (XDML)
White Paper In the last few years, XML has been adopted in fields as diverse as law, aeronautics, finance, insurance, robotics, multimedia, hospitality, travel, art, construction, telecommunications, software, agriculture, physics,... [19 Dec 2008]
Radioss-Altair Engineering's Solution for Crash and Multi Physics Analysis on Windows Compute Cluster Server
White Paper This webcast looks into the Altair/Microsoft solution and explains how it combines the supercomputing scalability and performance of RADIOSS, one of the market leading solvers for multi physics simulations (especially... [11 Dec 2008]
