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Photos: When art meets tech - Nokia phone Morphs into view

Photo Morph is intended to demonstrate how nanotechnology might be used to make mobile devices stretchable, flexible, transparent and easier to keep clean. Announced in March last year, the partnership between Nokia Research Center and the University of...

Tags: nokia, phone, art, phones

[26 Feb 2008]

Research Institute Reduces Administration of Messaging System From Days to Just Minutes

whitepaper The Walter Schottky Institute (WSI) of the Munich University of Technology in Germany is one of the world's leading academic research organizations, specializing in semiconductor-based nano-science and nanotechnology.

Tags: application servers

[19 Feb 2008]

Energy Sciences Network Enriches Scientific Collaboration With Integrated Voice, Video, and Web Conferencing

whitepaper Behind some of the world's most important scientific projects - the Human Genome, fusion energy research, nanotechnology and research on climate change ? one will find ESnet, a high-speed network serving thousands of scientists and collaborators...

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[10 Jan 2008]

Nanotechnology: The Coming Revolution in Manufacturing

whitepaper Most scientists agree we will approach these limits but differ about how best to proceed, on what nanotechnology will look like, and on how long it will take to develop. This process of creating a greater shared understanding both of the goals of...

Tags: nanotechnology, limits, energy, flexibility

[22 Jun 2007]

The Recursive NanoBox Processor Grid: A Reliable System Architecture for Unreliable Nanotechnology Devices

whitepaper Advanced molecular nanotechnology devices are expected to have exceedingly high transient fault rates and large numbers of inherent device defects compared to conventional CMOS devices. The authors introduce the Recursive NanoBox Processor Grid as...

Tags: fault, processor, transient, nanotechnology

[08 Mar 2007]

The NanoBox Project: Exploring Fabrics of Self-Correcting Logic Blocks for High Defect Rate Molecular Device Technologies

whitepaper Molecular computing (building computer components out of molecules) is a rapidly growing topic in the field of Nanotechnology. Trends indicate that these emerging process technologies will experience an increase in the number of noise induced...

Tags: circuit, coding, device, errors

[08 Mar 2007]

Nokia and Cambridge Uni team up on nanotech

News Nokia is teaming up with Cambridge University to research nanotechnology. Ian Leslie, pro-vice-chancellor for research at the university, said the pair will be researching nanoscience both in terms of how nanotechnology could be incorporated into...

Tags: university, cambridge, nokia

[07 Mar 2007]

Photos: The business boat race

Photo Also in the running for the entrepreneurial prize were Camerge, a company with an algorithm to improve digital picture quality, and NeoHeal - with sutures that use nanotechnology to promote tissue repair.

Tags: oxford, time, medical, digital

[21 Feb 2007]

Benchmarking Nanotechnology for High-Performance and Low-Power Logic Transistor Applications

whitepaper There has been tremendous progress made in the research of novel nanotechnology for future nanoelectronic applications. In particular, several emerging nanoelectronic devices such as carbon-nanotube Field-Effect Transistors (FETs), Si nanowire FETs...

Tags: progress, device, logic, transistors

[22 Dec 2006]

IBM backs $100m supercomputer centre

News The centre is expected to develop new semiconductors and advancing nanotechnology. The new Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations, planned to be operational by the end of the year, will be the largest supercomputing centre at a...

Tags: supercomputer centre, nanotechnology, supercomputer, ibm

[12 May 2006]

Seagate bets millions on Northern Ireland plants

News Hard drive giant Seagate is making one of the largest ever technology investments in the UK, developing nanotechnology expertise and creating its main global manufacturing facility in Northern Ireland.

Tags: seagate, northern ireland

[14 Dec 2005]

Grids and anti-terror bio-sensors get funding boost

News The funding was divided into eight technology areas: design, micro and nanotechnology; pervasive computing; waste management and minimisation; smart materials; bio-based industrial products resources; energy technologies; imaging technologies; and...

Tags: grid computing

[25 Nov 2005]

Google and Nasa to collaborate on R&D

News Google has announced plans to work with Nasa on a number of research and development activities around supercomputing and nanotechnology. The two organisations have signed a memorandum of understanding that outlines plans for co-operation in...

[29 Sep 2005]

Tim Draper

AS Profile And the fact his firm is willing to back developing yet promising areas such as nanotechnology suggests he's got plenty of good deals to come. In a world where a venture capitalist is only as good as his last deal, Tim Draper stands out for his...

[23 Sep 2005]

National Security

whitepaper This paper identifies seven goals for NBIC augmentation of national security, all of which require the close integration of several of the nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognition fields of endeavor.

Tags: network security, military, war, identifies

[30 Aug 2005]

Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance

whitepaper In the early decades of the twenty-first century, concentrated efforts can unify science based on the unity of nature, thereby advancing the combination of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and new technologies based in...

Tags: human capital management, science, timely, term

[30 Aug 2005]

Ville de Grenoble Strengthens Its Collaborative Organization Using Oracle and Softeam

whitepaper With 150,000 residents and large-scale projects that include constructing a town stadium, a third tram line, and the Minatec Center for innovation in micro and nanotechnology, Grenoble is a growing and lively city.

Tags: directory services, suite, city, collaboration suite

[04 Aug 2005]

France grapples with its image problem

France grapples with its image problem

News In the tech market, the government intends to invest more in nanotechnology, biotech automotive, and aeronautics. Government officials and tech executives in France have conceded that the country is still viewed around the world as a difficult...

Tags: france

[26 May 2005]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Valley lessons

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Valley lessons

Comment It should look forward to nanotechnology, biotech and smart materials. I just hope we manage to hold it together and retain our current lead in nanotechnology, biotech and smart materials. In over 30 years of travel to and from Silicon Valley I...

Tags: silicon valley, valley, peter cochrane, uncommon sense

[31 Mar 2005]

Beyond the Conventional Transistor

whitepaper Nanotechnology is examined in the context of continuing the progress in electronic systems enabled by silicon microelectronics technology. This paper focuses on approaches to continuing CMOS scaling by introducing new device structures and new...

Tags: semiconductor tech. - manufacturing, device, examined, gate

[29 Mar 2005]

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