Posts Tagged ‘ science ’
Last year, a company called DWave Systems announced their quantum computer (the ‘Orion’) – another milestone on the road to practical quantum computing. Their controversial claims seem worthy in their own right but they are particularly important to the semantic web (SW) community. The significance to the SW community was that their quantum computer solved [ READ MORE ]
Andrew Cantos raised some interesting philosophical points in reply to my partially tongue in cheek post The Great Domain Model Debate – Solved the other day. As ever, my short reply turned into a blog post and this is it. Andrew’s point was that there is a metaphorical link between objects in a domain model [ READ MORE ]
I spent years bemoaning the fact that the laws of physics didn’t allow the wireless transmission of power. Now it seems that I bemoaned prematurely. Researchers at MIT have a found a way to use inductance to power a 60W (think similar power rating to a laptop) lightbulb from a distance of up to 2 [ READ MORE ]
Normally I have a very optimistic outlook. Especially when it comes to technological breakthroughs. But this morning I was given pause for thought. MAKE magazine carried a news article today about a highly accurate DNA replicator for $10. I am fully convinced that such breakthroughs can be used to tackle the issues of world poverty, [ READ MORE ]
Some of the low and high points of today’s science headlines: Smoking and Caffeine inversely associated with Parkinson’s disease Arsenic in chicken feed may pose health risk to humans Guns in homes strongly associated with higher rates of suicide Good behaviour, Religiousness may be genetic Why small dogs are small Study links propensity toward worry [ READ MORE ]
The surge of religiosity in the US continues unabated. A survey from NEWSWEEK is the current cause of distress – apparently over 90% of Americans profess to be religious, and almost half reject the findings of science. Alarmingly, 35% of college graduates (the most educated of Americans) accept the bible as fact and believe that [ READ MORE ]
For the mathematician there is no Ignorabimus, and, in my opinion, not at all for natural science either. … The true reason why [no one] has succeeded in finding an unsolvable problem is, in my opinion, that there is no unsolvable problem. In contrast to the foolish Ignoramibus, our credo avers: We must know, We [ READ MORE ]
D-Wave Systems, Inc. plans todemonstrate a technological first onFeb. 13: an end-to-end quantumcomputing system powered by a16-qubit quantum processor, runningtwo commercial applications, live.This is the core of a new quantumcomputer to be unveiled by D-WaveSystems, says Steve Jurvetson,Managing Director of Draper FisherJurvetson,…http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=6385&m=28179 A 16 qbit processor. Will it be demonstrating the ‘commercial application‘ MS-[ READ MORE ]
From KurzweilAI. If this isn’t worth blogging about, then nothing is. Could this be the most historic announcement ever to arrive in my inbox? Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers NewScientist.com news service Jan. 20, 2007 University of Alberta scientists have tested dichloroacetate (DCA) on human cells cultured outside the body and found that it [ READ MORE ]
NASA Ames research centre have announced a collaboration with Google to make available the gigaquads of data that they have gathered over the years. Hopefully this should make available data from lunar expeditions and some very interesting satellite imagery. I don’t know whether this will include data from things like the Hubble space telescope, but [ READ MORE ]
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