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ESA ACT

IBM Reveals Five Innovations that Will Change Our Lives Over the Next Five Years - 0 views

www-03.ibm.com/...22683.wss

forecast technology

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Unveiled today, the second annual "IBM Next Five in Five" is a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years.
ESA ACT

Free PDF to Word Doc Converter! Just plain and simple pdf conversion software. - 0 views

pdfundo.net/convert

software online webapp conversion

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Worked really well
ESA ACT

Microscope-On-a-Chip Is One Step Closer to the Tricorder - 0 views

www.wired.com/...gallery_scope_chip

technology BIO BNG Microtechnology

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    These guys from caltech work on a minituarized, automated microscope. Could be interesting for any type of human space exploration.
ESA ACT

Physic Nobel prize 2008 - 0 views

nobelprize.org/...2008

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Delivered for work on broken symmetry
ESA ACT

Basics - Low-Tech Fixes for High-Tech Problems - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...19basics.html

technology gadget

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    the putting the laptop in the freezer worked for me.... (LS)
ESA ACT

Thumbs up for 3D bone printer - health - 07 March 2009 - New Scientist - 0 views

www.newscientist.com/...bs-up-for-3d-bone-printer.html

BIO regeneration health

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Wow, that's spooky - we did some work on organ regeneration, didn't we?
ESA ACT

Quantum lubricant could keep nanomachines rolling - tech - 07 January ... - 0 views

www.newscientist.com/...keep-nanomachines-rolling.html

PHY NAN physics casimir Microtechnology

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Haven't we also done some work on reversing the Casimir's force in the past?
ESA ACT

O3 spaces ... - 0 views

community.o3spaces.com/downloads

collaboration CollaborativeWork web2.0 webapp INF

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    collaborative working with open office - has anybody already tried this out? -LS
ESA ACT

A zoom camera using artificial compound eyes - 0 views

www.iop.org/...bb8_4_046008.pdf

BIO optics

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - No Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Nice work of an insect-like zoom camera without moving parts.
ESA ACT

iTunes U - 0 views

www.apple.com/...itunesu.html

INF education

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Tunes U puts the power of the iTunes Store to work for colleges and universities, so users can easily search, download, and play course content just like they do music, movies, and TV shows.
ESA ACT

Iain Couzin homepage - 0 views

www.princeton.edu/~icouzin

BIO swarm people

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    A biologist working on swarm behaviour of various types. Just gave a rather cool talk in Newton in the formation flying conference.
ESA ACT

FreeRice - 0 views

www.freerice.com

Fun social game education learning online

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    I guess we could all work on our vocabulary once in a while and this way we can contribute to a better world...
ESA ACT

JS Online: Does more IM = a lower IQ? - 0 views

www.jsonline.com/...index.aspx

fun Organisation

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Maybe the dutch approach is better? Anyway, reading emails has worse effects on work output than smoking dope.
ESA ACT

Buienradar.nl - Weer - Actuele neerslag en weerbericht - 0 views

www.buienradar.nl/

Fun LifeHacking

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    For all those of ACT who want to cycle to work: the RAINradar.
ESA ACT

Computational Neuroscience/Neuroinformatics - 0 views

www.hirnforschung.net/cneuro

YGT neuroinformatics neuroscience groups labs BIO INF AI

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    A collection of research groups working on neuroinformatics/computational neuroscience
nikolas smyrlakis

NASA Awards $350,000 to Winning Astronaut Glove Designers | International Space Fellowship - 0 views

spacefellowship.com/...ning-astronaut-glove-designers

nasa awards space glove_challenge_2009

shared by nikolas smyrlakis on 24 Nov 09 - Cached
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 24 Nov 09
     
    I just like this phrase: "It is remarkable that two designers working on their own could create gloves that meet the requirements for spaceflight - a task that normally requires a large team of experts,"
Ma Ru

Dark Matter or Black Hole Propulsion? - 1 views

www.newscientist.com/...s-for-interstellar-travel.html

NRG propulsion star travel space PHY

shared by Ma Ru on 25 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Ma Ru on 25 Nov 09
     
    Anyone out there still doing propulsion stuff? Two more papers just waiting to get busted... http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1429v1 http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1803
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  • Luzi Bergamin on 26 Nov 09
     
    What an awful bunch of complete nonsense!!! But I don't think anybody wants to hear MY opinion on this...
  • pacome delva on 26 Nov 09
     
    wow, is this serious at all...!?
  • Luzi Bergamin on 26 Nov 09
     
    Are you joking?? The BH drive propses a BH with a lifetime of about an year, just 10^7 tons, peanuts!! Then you have to produce it, better not on Earth, so you do this in space, with a laser that produces an equivalent of 10^9 tons highly foucussed, even more peanuts!! Reasonable losses in the production process (probably 99,999%) are not yet taken into account. Engineering problems... :-) The DM drive is even better, they want to collect DM and compress it in a propulsion chamber. Very easy to collect and compress a gas of particles that traverse the Earth without any interaction. Perhaps if the walls of the chamber are made of artificial BHs?? Who knows??
  • LeopoldS on 26 Nov 09
     
    WRONG!!! we are all just WAITING for your opinion on this ....!!!
  • pacome delva on 27 Nov 09
     
    well, yes my remark was ironic... I'm surprised they did a magazine on these concepts...! But the press is always waiting for sensational. They do not even wait for the work to be peer-reviewed now to make an article on it ! This is one of the bad sides of arxiv in my opinion. It's like a journalist that make an article with a copy-paste in wikipedia ! Anyway, this is of course complete bullsh..., and I would have laughed if I had read this in a sci-fi book... but in a "serious" article i'm crying... For the DM i do not agree with your remark Luzi. It's not dark energy they want to use. The DM is baryonic, it's dark just because it's cold so we don't see it by usual means. If you believe the in the standard model of cosmology, then the DM should be somewhere around the galaxies. But it's of course not uniformly distributed, so a DM engine would work (if at all...) only in the periphery of galaxies. It's already impossible to get there...
  • Luzi Bergamin on 27 Nov 09
     
    One reply to Pacome, though the discussion exceeds by far the relevance of the topic already. Baryonic DM is strictly limited by cosomology, if one believes in these models, of course. Anyway, even though most DM is cold, we are constantly bombarded by some DM particles that come together with cosmic radiation, solar wind etc. etc. If DM easily interacted with normal matter, we would have found it long ago. In the paper they consider DM as neutralinos, which are neither baryonic nor strongly or electromagnetically interacting.
  • pacome delva on 27 Nov 09
     
    well then I agree, how the fu.. they want to collect them !!!
santecarloni

Physics anniversaries: How Professor Maxwell changed the world | The Economist - 1 views

www.economist.com/...physics_anniversaries

physics

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  • santecarloni on 04 Apr 11
     
    Maxwell remains the great unsung hero of human progress, the physicists' physicist whose name means little to those without a scientific bent. His life's work [....] is among the most enduring scientific legacies of all time, on a par with those of his more widely acclaimed peers, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.
Francesco Biscani

What Larry Page really needs to do to return Google to its startup roots - 0 views

slacy.com/...rn-google-to-its-startup-roots

google inf

shared by Francesco Biscani on 27 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • I worked at Google from 2005-2010, and saw the company go through many changes, and a huge increase in staff.  Most importantly, I saw the company go from a place where engineers were seen as violent disruptors and innovators, to a place where doing things “The Google Way” was king, and where thinking outside the box was discouraged and even chastised.
  • Let engineers do what they do best, and forget the rest.
  • This is probably the most important single point.  Engineers at Google spend way too much time fussing about with everything other than engineering and product design.
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  • Meetings.  Seriously, people are drenched in “status update” and “team” meetings.
  • Weekly Snippets, perf, etc. I was continually amazed by the amount of “extra cruft work” that goes on.  I know it sounds important, but engineers should be coding & designing.
  • Francesco Biscani on 27 Mar 11
     
    An opinion piece by an ex-Googler, talking, among other things, about how corporate culture is creeping into Google. I've highlighted some snippets which I've found eerily familiar :)
Luís F. Simões

Robot biologist solves complex problem from scratch - 1 views

www.kurzweilai.net/s-complex-problem-from-scratch

science automation BIO data mining genetic programming

shared by Luís F. Simões on 17 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Ref.: Michael D Schmidt, et al., Automated refinement and inference of analytical models for metabolic networks, Physical Biology, 2011; 8 (5): 055011 [DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/8/5/055011]
  • Luís F. Simões on 17 Oct 11
     
    The latest from Schmidt / Lipson / Eureqa. A significant improvement over their previous work is that now "The algorithm selects between multiple candidate models by designing experiments to make their predictions disagree."
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