Both Rohm and NEC are focused on unveiling new chip designs for integrated circuits that would consume no standby power. Integrated circuits are briefly inactive in between cycles on chips, and the new chip designs take into account that not all parts of the circuit require constantly receiving full power. In an attempt to curtail …
Category Archive: Science
Jul
31
The next step for cellular phone
Can one say today that they purchase a cellular phone mainly to use it to talk, without all the little features that comes with them? For the technologically savvy, the answer is “no”. Its inventor, Dr. Martin Cooper made the first US analogue mobile phone call in 1973. The Motorola DynaTac has broken the barrier …
Jul
31
More about A.I.
While looking online, I found some articles about AI that talked about how certain kind of technology could be helpful in the next years for us in order to create better artificial intelligence. Some days later, I was on facebook and my friend posted this link about how computers and machines would “take over” our …
Jul
24
Computers and technology thus far…
So this last week in technology was all about the moon landing that happened on July 20th, 40 years ago. And I found this youtube video that makes you think of the possibilities for our future: Erick Janampa
Jul
21
UNH Tech Camp visits Project 54
This week UNH’s Tech Camp visited Project 54 to take a look at the simulator. The tech camp is a program based out of Kingsbury Hall, where kids from seventh through tenth grade are able to get a sense of STEM professions (These include Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). The camp is designed to give students interested in …
Jul
17
Wireless Power
For the past one hundred or so years, the most common way to transmit electricity to homes and businesses has been through the use of electrical cables, and the extensive power grid that runs throughout the United States and the rest of the world. As a result of recent research done by the Massachusetts …
Jul
16
Program discovers Newtonian Laws
I found this article about people from Cornell University creating a powerful computer program that was able, due to some major calculations, to figure some scientific laws of physics such as the Newtonian Laws. It’s pretty cool to know that a program could do that and that in the future it might be able to …
Jun
03
NH EPSCoR Conference and Workshop
On Wednesday June 3rd the New Hampshire EPSCoR Conference and Proposal Writing Workshop was held at the Common Man Inn in Plymouth, NH. EPSCoR stands for Experimental Project to Stimulate Competitive Research, which is not very descriptive of its purpose. The goal of this huge project is to stimulate research in science and engineering in …
May
10
Flywheel Energy Storage
Last week an interesting lecture was held by Dr. Frank Rudolph of Beacon Power about flywheel energy storage systems as part of the UNH’s energy club series of seminars on renewable energy. Flywheels are not a new concept, but the technological development in the last 10 years or so made it feasible to become a …
Apr
22
Energy-aware traffic engineering
Hello ecebloggers, Yesterday, Tuesday 04/21/2009, a close friend of mine, Nedeljko Vasic (in the picture below), gave a talk at UNH CS Weekly session on his current research titled Energy-aware traffic engineering. Nedeljko is currently a second year PhD student at EPFL’s Networked Systems Laboratory. In 2006 he was awarded with “St. Sava’s” award by …