Archive: 09/29/2004
Extraterrestrial Communication
In a cover story for the journal Nature, Christopher Rose, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rutgers, contends that inscribing information and physically sending it to some location in deep s ...
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Tiny arm shuttles electrons in a new transistor
Using a vibrating arm less than one-millionth of an inch long and one-thousand times thinner than a human hair, a new transistor toggles on and off through the movement of a single electron. The infinitesimal size and low power requirements of this single electron transist ...
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TI Introduces 20-A Isolated Plug-In Power Module with Auto-Track
DC/DC Converter Delivers High Efficiency Input-Output Isolation for 24-V, -48-V Telecom, Computing Distributed Power Systems Texas Instruments announced today a 20-A, wide-input (18 V to 60 V), isolated DC/DC ...
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New Supercomputing Center in Pittsburgh
The U.S. academic community will soon have access to a new supercomputer modeled on the highest-performance systems currently being built in the United States, through a $9.7 million award to the Pittsburgh Supercomputin ...
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Scientists tame electron beams, bringing 'table top' particle accelerators a step closer
Scientists from the UK and the USA have successfully demonstrated a new technique that could help to shrink the size and cost of future particle accelerators for fundamental physics experiments and applications in materials and bio ...
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Laser Wakefield Acceleration: Channeling the Best Beams Ever
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have taken a giant step toward realizing the promise of laser wakefield acceleration, by guiding and controlling extremely intense l ...
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Industry's Highest Power Density Thin SOT23 Buck Switching Regulators
LM273x Family of Buck Regulators Offers Clock Speeds of up to 3 MHz in Ultra-Small Packaging National Semiconductor Corporation today introduced a new family of switching buck regulators that combine smal ...
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New SteelVine Storage Architecture Brings Affordable Storage to Mass Market
Silicon Image, Inc., a leader in multi-gigabit semiconductor solutions for the secure transmission and storage of rich digital media, today announced the new SteelVineTM storage architecture that radically alters the landscape of storage solutions availabl ...
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Bell Labs Researchers Push The Limits of Mobile Computing
Researchers from Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs are presenting two papers based on innovative research this week at MobiCom 2004 in Philadelphia, the premier international forum for mobile computing and wireless networki ...
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Hitachi and HP Offer Industry-first High-performance 300 Gigabyte Drives for Server and Storage Solutions
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and HP today announced availability of the industry's first storage and server solutions offering high-performance 300 gigabyte (GB) Fibre Channel and SCSI disk drive capacity. HP will offer the Hitachi Ultrastar 10K300 ...
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ARM Presents New Multimedia Technology And Latest On-Chip Interconnect
At Fall Processor Forum, ARM will be presenting two of its newest technologies for one of the most knowledgeable technical audiences in chip design.
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Mars Drill Will Seek Knowledge and Resources
It will be drilling for information first, then for resources, though oil is not likely to be among exploration targets. The futuristic drilling rig, under development at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston, is designed for use on the moon or on ...
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ESO Views of Earth-Approaching Asteroid Toutatis
Unique Photos from La Silla and Paranal Measure the Distance Today, September 29, 2004, is undisputedly the Day of Toutatis, the famous "doomsday" asteroid. Not since the year 1353 did this impressive "space rock" pas ...
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New, Shape-Changing Materials Will Make Planes Like Hawks
Over the next 17 months, Virginia Tech will lead a team of researchers exploring the development of a new class of materials that will use plant protein structures in an attempt to mimic biological systems. The De ...
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Large Asteroid Will Make Its Closest Approach to Earth Wednesday
A mountain-sized asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth at 9:35 a.m. EDT wednesday. Although asteroid 4179 Toutatis will come no closer than four times the distance between the Earth and the moon (app ...
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