Breakthrough brings computers closer to human brains. Icann increases web domain suffixes. Posted by Anonymous on June 20, 2011 A global internet body has voted to allow the creation of new website domain suffixes, the biggest change for the online world in years.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) plans to dramatically increase the number of domain endings from the current 22.Internet address names will end with almost any word and be in any language.Icann will begin taking applications next year, with corporations and cities expected to be among the first.
“Icann has opened the internet’s addressing system to the limitless possibilities of the human imagination,” said Rod Beckstrom, president and chief executive officer for Icann. If you don’t have $185,000 handy are you going to end up in the Internet slow lane? And is that guy in black the person at ICANN who made the decision to set the price that high? Like this: Like Loading... Phase change memory-based 'moneta' system points to the future of computer storage. A University of California, San Diego faculty-student team is about to demonstrate a first-of-its kind, phase-change memory solid state storage device that provides performance thousands of times faster than a conventional hard drive and up to seven times faster than current state-of-the-art solid-state drives (SSDs).
The device was developed in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and will be on exhibit June 7-8 at DAC 2011, the world's leading technical conference and trade show on electronic design automation, with the support of several industry partners, including Micron Technology, BEEcube and Xilinx. The storage system, called "Moneta," uses phase-change memory (PCM), an emerging data storage technology that stores data in the crystal structure of a metal alloy called a chalcogenide. PCM is faster and simpler to use than flash memory – the technology that currently dominates the SSD market.
PCM Memory Chips. National Science Foundation (NSF) Discoveries - Researchers Control Collective Spin States Electrically at Room Temperature. DiscoveryResearchers Control Collective Spin States Electrically at Room Temperature Breakthrough paves way to store and process information in novel spin-electronics August 16, 2010 Processing large amounts of information in today's electronics requires large amounts of power, which results in heating.
Heat can ruin modern electronics by potentially damaging the stuff that makes them work--the ever smaller and denser structures in a computer's "brain," the microprocessor that incorporates all of its logic functions. So, researchers have been investigating something called "spintronics," a field of research that uses the spin state of electrons to pave the way for a future generation of advanced, fast, low-power, heat-limiting devices that perform memory and logic functions beyond today's microprocessors. Now, new lab work at the University of Nebraska Lincoln (UNL) Materials Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) may have made a significant breakthrough in the field of spintronics. National Science Foundation (NSF) Discoveries - Electronics Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Memory Chips.
DiscoveryElectronics Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Memory Chips Rice University graduate student Jun Yao's research with silicon-oxide circuits could be a game-changer in nanoelectronics October 8, 2010 Tenacity, audacity, intuition, patience, a lot of talent and a little luck are healthy qualities for a young scientist. Jun Yao has them all. The fifth-year graduate student at Rice University believed so strongly in his discovery two years ago that he went to the mat for it.
What Yao found could be a game-changer in the budding field of nanoelectronics. The breakthrough brings high-capacity, 3-D memory chips a step closer to reality; Rice's commercial partners are already working on prototypes that they expect will compete well with the technologies striving for dominance in next-generation computer memory. "I don't remember how this idea came to me.
"I was pretty surprised, yet excited. Yao spent months testing his idea, combining silicon oxide with every material he could find. Physicists move closer to efficient single-photon sources. Public release date: 16-Mar-2011 [ Print | E-mail Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: Charles E. Bluecblue@aip.org 301-209-3091American Institute of Physics Washington, D.C. (March 16, 2011) -- A team of physicists in the United Kingdom has taken a giant step toward realizing efficient single-photon sources, which are expected to enable much-coveted completely secure optical communications, also known as "quantum cryptography.
" The team presents its findings in Applied Physics Letters, a journal published by the American Institute of Physics. Fluorescent "defect centers" in diamond act like atomic-scale light sources and are trapped in a transparent material that's large enough to be picked up manually. This makes them strong contenders for use as sources of single photons (the quantum light particle) in provably secure quantum cryptography schemes, explains J. . [ Print | E-mail AAAS and EurekAlert!