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Windows 8 will be the biggest thing in the world of Windows since Windows 95.   That is my prediction based on months of using it in virtualization and now natively on my convertible tablet PC.  In short it is a marked improvement over Windows ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jun 3 2012 - 5:11pm - 0 attachments

Both in her recent appearance on KQED’s Forum talk show and in her blog , Stanford University’s Joan Roughgarden continues her campaign to discredit me and my book, The Man Who Would Be Queen. Roughgarden’s rate of false accusations per ...

Article - Michael Bailey - Sep 5 2007 - 11:33am - 0 attachments

Is there a 'Singularity', an ascension of man being able to become machines or machines becoming sentient, coming in 2045? Given the current state of artificial intelligence and robotics, that would only happen if we were able to put a man on the Moon ...

Cool Link - Hank Campbell - Jul 13 2011 - 5:48pm - 0 attachments

I received an interesting question today from an Alex Ziller in the comments thread of a recent post. Here it is: Do you think blogging actually improves Science? (I know, one should first define what "improving Science" actually means). I think ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 7 2009 - 1:37pm - 0 attachments

... first organic electrical laser!   The smallest ever transistor! It's like a late night paid advertisement, except it cost ... which when prompted by an electric current behaved as a transistor, leading scientists (see Taubes quote above) in a dozen labs to ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 5 2009 - 1:20pm - 0 attachments

... challenges of using silicon as a semi-conductor is that a transistor must be created with a "top down" approach. Manufacturers start with ... chemistry for a different approach to building the ideal transistor. When they appled various combinations of blood, milk, and mucus ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 7 2012 - 10:39am - 0 attachments

... but nobody understands a computer all the way from the transistor physics to the software either, nor can we make a modern computer ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Feb 6 2012 - 12:42am - 0 attachments

... in terms of logic gates--one has to go to the transistor level to crack them--evolution probably led to neural circuits that ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Feb 2 2012 - 10:09am - 0 attachments

... 7 centimeters on each side. Each pixel contained a transistor made up of hundreds of semiconductor nanowires. Nanowire transistors ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2010 - 3:16pm - 0 attachments

... called chitosan to create the first protonic transistor . That is extremely cool . Chitosan is, of course, extracted ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Sep 27 2011 - 1:15pm - 0 attachments