physics
RSS physicsUHF Gen 2: The Definitive, Myth-Busting, Item-Level Solution
White Paper The answer is a resounding yes for the first time, and enabled by the physics of RF propagation at UHF. RFID has been around a long time. But things have changed rapidly in the last two years, and new opportunities abound. [14 Nov 2009]
Stephen Wolfram
AS Profile But Wolfram should not be seen as an overnight success, he is a 50-year-old former particle physics prodigy who has spent his life trying to unlock the potential of computers. Professor Stephen Wolfram hit the headlines... [30 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: 3G Reality bytes
Comment Continually promising to deliver what the limits of physics say can't be done is no way for an industry to operate. For sure you can't run roughshod over the laws of physics, and to get anything like the... [14 Sep 2009]
Singularity University: Where today's tech titans teach the next generation
News After all, they have regular access to superstar teachers like George Smoot, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics; Dan Kammen, co-director of the Berkeley... [21 Aug 2009]
Mesh Networks: Decentralized, Self-Forming, Self-Healing Networks That Achieve Unprecedented Coverage, Throughput, Flexibility and Cost Efficiency
White Paper Mesh networks technology is helping to enable the 4th generation of wireless mobility by using basic Radio Frequency (RF) physics in a new way - overcoming inherent limitations to achieve unprecedented coverage,... [15 Aug 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Digital TV too annoying to watch?
Comment Some are natural and unavoidable within the system-design specification and the laws of physics, but for sure, many are down to poor software and ill-conceived architectures that will be with us for a very long time. [11 Aug 2009]
Cern ready to restart LHC at half power this year
News After a year of setbacks, Cern plans to restart its Large Hadron Collider in November at a tempo that won't overtax the machinery behind the giant particle physics experiment. The collider, located deep underground on... [10 Aug 2009]
Game Physics Performance on the Larrabee Architecture
White Paper Game physics is at the heart of any modern game engine which employs the laws of physics to simulate life-like movement and interaction between objects, such as rigid and deformable bodies, cloth, and... [05 Aug 2009]
Atomic Read Modify Write Primitives for I/O Devices
White Paper Many such applications today are in the high performance computing domain, examples of such are financial options modeling, seismic exploration, game physics, and bio-informatics. New I/O usage models have emerged recently. [05 Aug 2009]
Intel Xeon Processors Help Capture and Analyze Massive Amounts of Scientific Data From the World's Most Powerful Particle Accelerator
White Paper More than 2,200 researchers from around the globe work at the CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) laboratory on ATLAS, a large-scale particle physics experiment that studies the forces that have shaped... [30 Jul 2009]
Photos: From Big Bang physics to F1 racing - how analytics is shaping the world's decisions
Photo Today analytics has broken free of the corporation and is shaping everything from nuclear physics to Formula One racing. Here silicon.com takes a look at some of the more unusual organisations where analytics is making a... [27 Jul 2009]
Creating Interactive Educational Content Is Quick, Inexpensive With Extensible Platform
White Paper Leszynski Group, for example, has built an interactive physics simulator that operates as a Semblio plug-in. Interactive content makes learning fun but is expensive to create. Semblio, a new set of Microsoft tools for... [27 Jul 2009]
Bill Gates: 'We're going to make the cows that don't fart'
Comment I've always liked physics, but I also want the equivalent lectures to be out there for biology, and computer science, and chemistry. In between trying to eradicate polio, tame malaria, and fix the broken US education... [16 Jul 2009]
Android development kit goes native
News Some examples are signal processing, intensive physics simulations, and some kinds of data processing. A native application development kit has been released for Android developers, offering a way to create certain kinds... [26 Jun 2009]
Intel: From silicon company - to software company?
News Starting years ago from basic ingredients such as programming utilities, Intel has expanded its software work - for example by pushing the moblin mobile Linux project and bulking up its Software and Services Group via a spending spree... [05 Jun 2009]
