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Information as a concept has a diversity of meanings, from everyday usage to technical settings. Generally speaking, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control, data, form, instruction, knowledge, meaning, mental stimulus, pattern, perception, and representation.

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Intelligent Traffic System Predicts Future Traffic Flow on Multiple Roads

Intelligent Traffic System Predicts Future Traffic Flow on Multiple Roads

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (66) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- In urban areas, there’s almost always more than one way to get somewhere, but often it’s difficult to predict which road will be fastest. In an attempt to improve traffic flow and decrease ...


Physicists Demonstrate Three-Color Entanglement

Physicists Demonstrate Three-Color Entanglement

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (25) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, physicists have demonstrated the quantum entanglement of three light beams, all of different wavelengths. Entanglement of two light beams of different wavelengths has already ...


Physicists Investigate Unusual Four-Qubit Entanglement

Physicists Investigate Unusual Four-Qubit Entanglement

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, physicists have experimentally demonstrated a four-qubit bound-entangled state - a peculiar form of entanglement that cannot be distilled (optimized) by the usual means. ...


How to Measure What We Don't Know

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- How do we discover new things? For scientists, observation and measurement are the main ways to extract information from Nature. Based on observations, scientists build models that, in turn, are used to make ...


First-ever calculation performed on optical quantum computer chip

First-ever calculation performed on optical quantum computer chip

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (34) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- A primitive quantum computer that uses single particles of light (photons) whizzing through a silicon chip has performed its first mathematical calculation. This is the first time a calculation ...


Physicists Propose Scheme for Teleporting Light Beams

Physicists Propose Scheme for Teleporting Light Beams

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (22) | comments 21

(PhysOrg.com) -- Usually when physicists talk about quantum teleportation, they're referring to the transfer of quantum states from one particle to another without a physical link. Now, physicists have investigated ...


'Look Mom No Electricity': Transmitting Information with Chemistry

'Look Mom No Electricity': Transmitting Information with Chemistry

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (13) | comments 19

(PhysOrg.com) -- While information technology is generally thought to require electrons or photons for transmitting information, scientists have recently demonstrated a third method of transmission: chemical ...


Too much entanglement can render quantum computers useless

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- "For certain tasks, quantum computers are more powerful than their classical counterparts. The task to be performed is the same for quantum or classical systems. However, the former ones can do it in a more ...


Post-Quantum Correlations: Exploring the Limits of Quantum Nonlocality

Post-Quantum Correlations: Exploring the Limits of Quantum Nonlocality

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (22) | comments 20

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to nonlocal correlations, some correlations are more nonlocal than others. As the subject of study for several decades, nonlocal correlations (for example, quantum entanglement) ...


Entangled Light in Bose-Einstein Condensates

Entangled Light in Bose-Einstein Condensates

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- When physicists entangle light, they usually use nonlinear crystals as the source. However, it’s difficult to control the entanglement generation process in a bulk crystal, and so scientists ...


Machine Learning by Watching and Listening

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- To expand the boundaries of machine intelligence, Ben Taskar is using television shows with large fan bases like CSI, Alias, and Lost to teach computers how to be smarter about what they see, hear and read.


Diamonds may be the ultimate MRI probe, say Quantum physicists

Diamonds May Be the Ultimate MRI Probe, Say Quantum Physicists

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Diamonds, it has long been said, are a girl's best friend. But a research team including a physicist from the National Institute of Standards and Technology has recently found that the gems ...


It's all in the footwork: New research sheds light on parrot intelligence

It's all in the footwork: New research sheds light on parrot intelligence

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- You can tell how smart a parrot is by watching what it does with its feet, according to a new study by Macquarie University researchers.


Professor sequences his entire genome at low cost, with small team

Professor sequences his entire genome at low cost, with small team

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first few times that scientists mapped out all the DNA in a human being in 2001, each effort cost hundreds of millions of dollars and involved more than 250 people. Even last year, when ...


NIST demonstrates sustained quantum information processing

Sustained quantum information processing demonstrated

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 1

Raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically ...