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I especially like " The program will also create a "developer's kit" of open hardware and software specifications to make it easier for new components to integrate into such fractionated systems." Joris: wanna take the lead on having a closer look on this, I definitely would like to be part of it and happy to contribute, possibly also Juxi? - first assessment by Christmas realistic?

I think it a very interesting approach. If you google "darpa F6", you should see that a lot seems to be on-going. So, should we do something about it before having the conclusions of the Darpa study ?

wait and see is never a good approach in these cases .... first step has to be anyway to understand what they are up to and then to think about our own ideas on it, own approaches, alternatives and then to see what we can do specifically in the team on it.

well a bit misleading title...

How about that for an abstract discipline, and I thought CMS was abstract. Sounds great though: Social Innovation Generation: "Social innovation is an initiative, product, process or program that profoundly changes the basic routines, resource and authority flows or beliefs of any social system. Successful social innovations have durability and broad impact. While social innovation has recognizable stages and phases, achieving durability and scale is a dynamic process that requires both emergence of opportunity and deliberate agency, and a connection between the two."

A "spooky" quantum effect is seen in a mechanical system for the first time.

Nonradiative resonant energy transfer in optimized QD-QW systems may provide a solar energy conversion approach with a viable tradeoff with the bottlenecks of charge carrier generation and/or transport to/in electrodes faced by excitonic solar cells.

Carrier multiplication (CM) is a process in which absorption of a single photon produces not just one but multiple electron-hole pairs. This effect is a potential enabler of next-generation, high-efficiency photovoltaic and photocatalytic systems.

Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (Virginia)

"We pursue an alternative strategy, namely that of realizing monopoles not as elementary but rather as emergent particles-that is, as manifestations of the correlations present in a strongly interacting many-body system."

Employ of semantic knowledge as a source of information to PEIS (Physically Embedded Intelligent Systems)

New Propulsion Systems

ZetaGrid is a platform independent grid system that uses idle CPU cycles from participating computers. Problem: The ZetaGrid activities must come to a final end! Now all services are down and this domain will be closed soon. The official last update note

distributed version control system

BibSonomy is a system for sharing bookmarks and lists of literature.

Artificial life investigates the fundamental properties of living systems through simulating and synthesizing biological entities and processes in artificial media.

When you finally get bored asking "what is love?", ask: "what is money?" There's of course a bit of propaganda, but one thing seems to be true - one day, the system *will* collapse.

in case anyone ever doubted our final choice...

An atomic physics experiment demonstrates a solution to an eighty-year-old quantum conundrum by mimicking in an atom the astronomical problem of a satellite moving in a sun-earth system. How to stabilize a wave packet?

Regardless how good the intention of the government might have been, the facts are that tested implementations of the ePassports Inspection System are not secure.