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interesting reflections by MIT head on innovation in US

interesting, especially since in all COmmission papers US innovation is praised and changes expected are only related to China/India (for the better)... Article mixes a lot talk on innovation with numbers that I do not see necessarily connected (trade deficit, GDP growth etc.). Seems to me the real problematique behind the article is only the next planned distribution of federal funds and where they should cut...

well I understand her point. Spending cuts are only vicious short term solutions against economical downturn since growth (GDP is an interesting measure indeed) comes from innovation, research and production. Nonetheless, what she is describing is happening in EU too. So who will take the lead? I am not certain China is the one. In my view, it has not yet solved its domestic issues... and US still has more Nobel Prize than China. One thing for sure, the way it is EU is only a "wagon" of the train...

$50k prize to put documents back together

Final level will be something that has been burned to ashes which were then flushed down the toilet...

www.esa.int -> site not found. oops.

try without the "www"; esa.int / nasa.gov / dlr.de / cnes.fr ...

Another map of the web, based on icons.

Might be a useful reference for PyGMO-related works.

nice video on how libreoffice docs could be collaborately edited within a html5 compatible webbrowser ...

Something for Sante and Luis...

The usual question: can we use it for space?

Just in time for the end of the winter ....

Create an app without knowing how to program ...

Can we use it for space ? :P http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_QLguHvACs

wouldn't this be a very nice tool instead of our shared drive - or to start with in addition to our shared drive? anybody has already tried installing it? should we propose it to the CDF? or is there even an esanet drupal integration maybe?

We managed to convince ESA it was a good idea after all :)

"Despite the dramatic shift toward simplification in software interfaces, the world of development tools continues to shrink our workspace with feature after feature in every release. Even with all of these things at our disposal, we're stuck in a world of files and forced organization - why are we still looking all over the place for the things we need when we're coding?"

did not know about them and we never had any contact with them ... though they seem to have some interesting stuff ongoing, see especially the COCORO project ... any of you know them? Marek, Dario, Guido, Luke?

Yes I know all of them, also personally. Know all their work up to 2008-9, hopefully they have matured since then. Not very impressive stuff

Thanks for the answers guys!

Soooo beautiful!!! Just start at 49:25.

Weird.

This reminds me a 2013 paper on how to perform derivatives, integrals and even time reversal in optical fibres: http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130403/srep01594/full/srep01594.html "The manipulation of dynamic Brillouin gratings in optical fibers is demonstrated to be an extremely flexible technique to achieve, with a single experimental setup, several all-optical signal processing functions. In particular, all-optical time differentiation, time integration and true time reversal are theoretically predicted, and then numerically and experimentally demonstrated."

Would this kind of computer be more space environment resistive?

It is a very interesting projecto to easily perform quantum optics calculations.

Interesting read if you're interested on the kind of coding that goes into something like the Curiosity rover. :) btw.. nice fill-packet being sent by Curiosity: "Elvis has Spirit. The answer is 42....END\r\n"

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