Lust for life - 9/17/1996 - Electronics Weekly. Significant strides are being made towards the use of supercapacitors for energy storage and power smoothing in vehicles. Supercaps are already being used in larger vehicles, such as trucks and buses, to store energy wasted during braking. The US Advanced Battery Consortium, formed by DaimlerChrysler, Ford, General Motors and the Department of Energy, wants to push the technology down to smaller vehicles.
Maxwell Technologies is now in production of 2.7V, 2,600F cells and 16V balanced modules based on those cells. It is developing a 48V version specifically for cars. These cells will be tested for energy capacity, pulse power, abuse tolerance, calendar life and cycle life at the Sandia and Idaho national labs. “This independent third-party testing will supplement and validate the performance and reliability data that we have been generating internally,” said Richard Smith, Maxwell’s executive v-p for business development. www.maxwell.comwww.uscar.org/…/con-usabc.htm Related posts. Hybrid Technology Could Bring 'Quantum Information Systems' Exhibits | This Day in History: October 28. Marcian (Ted) Hoff October 28, 1937 Microprocessor Co-Inventor Hoff is Born Dr.
Marcian Edward (Ted) Hoff, Jr. was born October 28, 1937 at Rochester, New York. He received a BEE (1958) from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. During the summers away from college he worked for General Railway Signal Company in Rochester where he made developments that produced his first two patents. Bill Gates' original BASIC 1.0 tape October 28, 1955 Bill Gates, cofounder and CEO of Microsoft Corporation, was born Bill Gates developed a version of BASIC for the Altair 8800 while being a student at Harvard. A Quantum Leap for a Big, Cold Computer - Digits. ByDon Clark What’s big, black, cold, controversial and a new addition to the University of Southern California?
An unusual computer from a Canadian company called D-Wave Systems that has been a dozen years in the making. Ziva Santop/Steve Cohn Photography USC’s Daniel Lidar with the D-Wave system The university on Friday held a coming-out party for its new quantum computing center in Marina del Rey, Calif., which houses the first system sold by D-Wave. Quantum computers have been theorized by researchers for decades, building on some of the mind-bending discoveries in the field known as quantum mechanics. A key difference is how information is handled. But researchers propose the alternative of a quantum bit–or qubit in the parlance of the discipline–that represents a 1, a 0 or both states at the same time.
D-Wave’s initial system has just 128 qubits–and they need to be treated very carefully to work as they are supposed to. Intel 4004 Micrprocessor Hoff (M. Ted) and Mazor (Stan) discuss their contributions | Computer History Museum. Catalog Number Title Intel 4004 micrprocessor : oral history panel with Ted M. Hoff and Stan Mazor Type Text Date Contributor Publisher Computer History Museum Place of Publication Mountain View, California Extent 11 p. Description Ted Hoff and Stan Mazor describe their work on the design and development of Intel's first microprocessor family the MCS-4 in the 1969 through 1972 period. Category Transcription Subject semiconductor history; Hoff, M. Collection Title Oral Histories Online Lot Number. Computer History Museum - Timeline of Computer History. A tale of two qubits: how quantum computers work.
Quantum information is the physics of knowledge. To be more specific, the field of quantum information studies the implications that quantum mechanics has on the fundamental nature of information. By studying this relationship between quantum theory and information, it is possible to design a new type of computer—a quantum computer. A largescale, working quantum computer—the kind of quantum computer some scientists think we might see in 50 years—would be capable of performing some tasks impossibly quickly.
To date, the two most promising uses for such a device are quantum search and quantum factoring. To understand the power of a quantum search, consider classically searching a phonebook for the name which matches a particular phone number. If the phonebook has 10,000 entries, on average you'll need to look through about half of them—5,000 entries—before you get lucky. Single qubits. Pairs of qubits. Quantum physics 101. How do they work? Is the polarization horizontal or vertical?