NODUS Centro de Emprendimiento A Brief History of Text Messaging Where would we be without text messaging? The feature has grown from being favored by the tech-savvy to a universal staple. It's allowed us to be more efficient, independent and direct. When you're running late, you text someone to let them know. When you're in class or a meeting and there's an emergency, you know immediately. When you need a quick "yes" or "no," you ask via text. How did such a seemingly simple method of communication lead us to the trillions of texts sent today? Texting, or SMS (short message service) is a method of communication that sends text between cellphones — or from a PC or handheld to a cell phone. The "short" part comes from the maximum size of the text messages: 160 characters (letters, numbers or symbols in the Latin alphabet). The SMS concept was developed in the Franco-German GSM cooperation in 1984 by Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert. The first text message was sent in 1992 from Neil Papworth, a former developer at Sema Group Telecoms.
Corporativo BCE Coal-Eating Microbes Might Create Vast Amounts of Natural Gas Fracking technology has already made it practical to exploit previously inaccessible natural gas and oil in the United States (see “Natural Gas Changes the Energy Map”). Now several companies are demonstrating a way to use microörganisms that eat coal and excrete methane—the main ingredient in natural gas—as a possible means of extracting fuel from coal resources that had been too expensive to mine. Many coal beds contain large amounts of methane that can be harvested by drilling wells. In recent decades, researchers have demonstrated that a large fraction of the natural gas found in the coal beds is produced by naturally occurring microörganisms that feed on coal, and they have found ways to stimulate the microbes to produce more methane. Luca Technologies, based in Golden, Colorado, is using this approach to increase production from coal beds with existing methane wells. At this point, it’s too early to know how much methane these techniques could produce.
INCUEXPORT | Curriculum Vitae: Chris Eliasmith Professor Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Neuroscience Department of Philosophy Department of Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 Canada email: celiasmith@uwaterloo.ca [Education] [Books] [Refereed Journal Articles] [Refereed Conference Papers] [Chapters, Encyclopedia, etc.] Research Positions Education Books Eliasmith, C. (2013) How to build a brain: A neural architecture for biological cognition. Eliasmith, C. and C. Refereed Journal Articles [Theoretical Neuroscience][Theoretical Psychology][Philosophy] *Note: Many of these publications and related ones not listed can be found in full at my lab's main website. Theoretical Neuroscience Eliasmith, Chris and Oliver Trujillo. Rasmussen, Daniel and Chris Eliasmith. Eliasmith, C., Stewart T. Stewart, T. DeWolf, T., & Eliasmith C. (2011). MacNeil, D., Eliasmith, C. (2011). Eliasmith, C., Martens, J. (2011). Tripp B.P. and Eliasmith C. (2010) Population models of temporal differentiation. Kuo, D. and C.
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