MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s CyberPow: Cyber Sensing for Power Outage Detection uses pervasive, internet-connected devices as an alternative sensing network to rapidly estimate and map the extent and location of power outages across geographic boundaries. Enabling real-time situational awareness without the need for electric utilities, allowing more timely and effective post-disaster decision making and resource prioritization.…
Cambridge Quantum Computing launches first cloud-based Quantum Random Number Generation Service with verification in partnership with IBM
Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) has launched the world’s first cloud-based Quantum Random Number Generation (QRNG) Service with integrated verification for the user. Randomness is an essential and ubiquitous raw material in almost all digital interactions and is also used in cybersecurity to encrypt data and communications and perform simulation analysis across many sectors, including the…
Purdue University to collaborate in NSF-funded Engineering Research Center to develop the IoT for Precision Agriculture
By David J. Cappelleri Purdue University will be a partner in a new National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center created to develop advanced agricultural technologies to address food, energy and water security challenges. With a five-year, $26 million grant, the NSF has established the Engineering Research Center for the Internet of Things for Precision Agriculture…
PicoScope 6000E Series: a smarter scope for faster debug
Pico Technology announces the PicoScope 6000E Series FlexRes oscilloscopes, featuring 8 channels with 500 MHz bandwidth, 16 digital channels, and resolution of 8, 10 or 12 bits. The products work with PicoScope 6 application software, which takes full advantage of the latest PC performance and display capabilities, showing clean, crisp waveforms on screens of any…
MIT News: Producing better guides for medical-image analysis
MIT researchers have devised a method that accelerates the process for creating and customizing templates used in medical-image analysis, to guide disease diagnosis. One use of medical image analysis is to crunch datasets of patients’ medical images and capture structural relationships that may indicate the progression of diseases. In many cases, analysis requires use of…
Adaptive Models Capture Complexity of the Brain and Behavior
For the scientists that study animal behavior, even the simplest roundworm poses huge challenges. The movement of squirming worms, flocking birds and walking humans changes from moment to moment, in ways that the naked eye can’t catch. But now, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam…
Discovery of New Superconducting Materials Using Materials Informatics
A NIMS-Ehime University joint research team succeeded in discovering new materials that exhibit superconductivity under high pressures using materials informatics (MI) approaches (data science-based material search techniques). This study experimentally demonstrated that MI enables efficient exploration of new superconducting materials. MI approaches may be applicable to the development of various functional materials, including superconductors. Superconducting…
Creating a Connected Digital Ecosystem for Pharmaceutical Research and Development
Advances in high-throughput, next-generation technologies mean that pharmaceutical R&D now demands the management of vast quantities of data. This information is increasingly diverse and comes from multiple sources, spanning the entire drug discovery and development process. Connecting laboratory instruments and systems remains a challenge as organizations look to streamline data sharing at every stage. Digital…
Creating a Connected Digital Ecosystem for Pharmaceutical R&D
New Informatics Tool Makes the Most of Genomic Data
The rise of genomics, the shift from considering genes singly to collectively, is adding a new dimension to medical care; biomedical researchers hope to use the information contained in human genomes to make better predictions about individual health, including responses to therapeutic drugs. A new computational tool developed through a collaboration between the University of…
NEC and Tohoku University Succeed in AI-Based New Material Development
NEC Corporation and Tohoku University applied new technologies developed by NEC, which use AI to predict the characteristics of unknown materials, to the joint development of cutting edge thermoelectric conversion technology known as a thermoelectric (TE) device*1 using spin current*2, and achieved 100 times better thermoelectric conversion efficiency over the course of approximately 1 year. These…
High-Frequency Chip Brings Researchers Closer to Next-Generation Tech
A novel, high-frequency electronic chip potentially capable of transmitting tens of gigabits of data per second — a rate that is orders of magnitude above the fastest internet speeds available today — has been developed by engineers at the University of California, Davis. Omeed Momeni, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC…
Keeping The Heat Out
Nokia Partners With Zeiss on Smartphone Optics
Bluebee, Medisapiens Announce Strategic Partnership
Mobile Health Increasingly Popular as Shift Towards Value-Based Medicine Continues
New Ways of Representing Information Could Transform Digital Technology
Many people who use computers and other digital devices are aware that all the words and images displayed on their monitors boil down to a sequence of ones and zeros. But few likely appreciate what is behind those ones and zeros: microscopic arrays of “magnetic moments” (imagine tiny bar magnets with positive and negative poles).…
Reaching for the Stormy Cloud With Chameleon
Some scientists dream about big data. The dream bridges two divided realms. One realm holds lofty peaks of number-crunching scientific computation. Endless waves of big data analysis line the other realm. A deep chasm separates the two. Discoveries await those who cross these estranged lands. Unfortunately, data cannot move seamlessly between Hadoop (HDFS) and parallel…
Indoor Temperatures in Buildings of the Future Will Automatically Adjust to User Needs
Edico Genome Raises $22M in Series B Financing
Dell Technologies Unveils Venture Arm Formerly in Stealth
Dell Technologies, the world’s largest privately-controlled technology company, brings out of stealth its venture practice, Dell Technologies Capital. Since its inception a few years ago, Dell Technologies Capital has been an active investor in more than 70 early-stage startups, with the mission of helping founders and their teams develop innovative technology solutions and bring them to…
Computers Create Recipe for Two New Magnetic Materials
Material scientists have predicted and built two new magnetic materials, atom-by-atom, using high-throughput computational models. The success marks a new era for the large-scale design of new magnetic materials at unprecedented speed. Although magnets abound in everyday life, they are actually rarities — only about five percent of known inorganic compounds show even a hint…
Satellites Map Carbon Sequestered By Forests, With Accuracy of up to 10 Meters
Turning to Chemistry for New ‘Computing’ Concepts
As the complexity and volume of global digital data grows, so too does the need for more capable and compact means of processing and storing data. To address this challenge, DARPA has announced its Molecular Informatics program, which seeks a new paradigm for data storage, retrieval, and processing. Instead of relying on the binary digital…
Automated Measurement System Enhances Quality, Reduces Handling in Pu-238 Production
Under a collaborative partnership between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy, a new automated measurement system developed at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory will ensure quality production of plutonium-238 while reducing handling by workers. NASA has funded ORNL and other national laboratories to develop a process that will restore U.S.…