Vietnam. Sydney. Scholarship. 10 Emerging Technologies 2008. Modeling Surprise Much of modern life depends on forecasts: where the next hurricane will make landfall, how the stock market will react to falling home prices, who will win the next primary. While existing computer models predict many things fairly accurately, surprises still crop up, and we probably can't eliminate them. Probabilistic Chips Krishna Palem thinks a little uncertainty in chips could extend battery life in mobile devices--and maybe the duration of Moore's Law, too. NanoRadio Alex Zettl's tiny radios, built from nanotubes, could improve everything from cell phones to medical diagnostics.
Wireless Power Physicist Marin Soljacic is working toward a world of wireless electricity. Atomic Magnetometers John Kitching's tiny magnetic-field sensors will take MRI where it's never gone before. Offline Web Applications Adobe's Kevin Lynch believes that computing applications will become more powerful when they take advantage of the browser and the desktop. Graphene Transistors Connectomics. Bellingen Jazz and Blues Festival. Self catering Minden Haliburton Highlands Ontario Canada. Encounter - 30 July 2006 - A Perspective from Palestine. This program presents Dr Sabella's address to a Canberra audience during his Australian visit this month.
Margaret Coffey: Welcome now to Encounter. This week, a perspective on events in the Middle East. Bernard Sabella: I would like to share with you some of my experiences as a Palestinian Christian ... Margaret Coffey: It's a perspective from a minority position, some would say a highly threatened position, but this speaker wants to talk about what Palestinian Muslims and Christians hold in common ... in a place where pilgrims go to gaze on ruins and ancient stones.
News montage:At the same time in Gaza Israel launched its bloodiest strikes yet in response to the earlier capture of Corporal Gilad Shalit ... Bernard Sabella: You know about the living stones. Margaret Coffey: Hello, I'm Margaret Coffey .. and that Palestinian Christian perspective is offered by Dr Bernard Sabella.
Jim Barr: Dr Sabella is a Palestinian Christian of the Latin Rite. And here comes the challenge. Music.