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“Scores of eminent scientists from India and the US discussed several key issues in the field of nano computing at the Indo-US Shared Vision Workshop on soft, quantum and nano computing being held here.

The workshop, held at the Dayalbagh Educational Institute, began Friday with a talk by Nikhil Ranjan Pal, professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He spoke on ‘Fuzzy Rule Based Systems: Applications, Design Issues, Solutions and Open Problems: Where do we stand?’.

Pal, an authority in the area of Fuzzy Systems, is a Fellow at the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), US, and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is currently a visiting fellow in Taiwan as well.

He stressed how effective the tool of Fuzzy Logic was in a variety of applications ranging from satellite image processing to medical image processing for the detection of cancer in the young. While covering a wide range of issues in the field, he also explained them with great lucidity.

G. Ramnath, professor at the Rennsselaer Polytechnic Institute, US, talked on ‘Transmuting Nanostructures for Nanocomputing Technologies’.

The world of computing is set to be revolutionized with nano devices (nano = 10-9 m) wherein a few atoms would be manipulated to do computational functions to produce powerful computers that would make the computers of today appear pedestrian in comparison.

Ramnath detailed the work being done by developing carbon nanotube architectures to produce nanodevice architectures of the future.

‘Towards understanding the origin of genetic languages’ was the topic of Apoorva Patel, professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Lov K. Grover of Bell Labs, US, who chaired the session, said that Patel had made the presentation at his institute earlier and had been rated as one of the five most important talks ever given at Bell Labs.

In his talk, Patel explained how nature processes information in creating species with the lowest amount of information processing in the most optimal manner.

He provided pointers for answering the most complicated questions like ‘How did I come into being?’, ‘How does nature evolve life?’ and ‘What is Life?’.

Bringing together difficult concepts from Biology and Computer Science, Patel gave very convincing answers to some of these difficult questions on life”

I read this story off the wire you can read the entire story by clicking on the headline link was wondering if anyone out there has the speech in any format would love to hear more.

My son wanted a car so I gave him a Chevy Camaro and his Birthday is almost around Christmas so I gave him a 1997 Chevey Camaro Z28 Convertible White on White with Leather seats and ground effects with a spoiler.

My oldest Daughter recieved Sony Playstation 3 and couple of games along with a 60 inch High Definition Plasma Screen television and some other goodies like a PSP with some cool games and some clothes which Iam sure she hates but hey whatever.

My Youngest and still little sweetie got a Nintendo Wii along with a couple games more furniture for girls her size along with more toys and games for her age to tp help her learn.

My husband got a new 30.06 sniper rifle with trophy scope and 9 milimeter Glock along with some rounds to sight it in and some nice camo I hope hope he waers to bed sometime this week.

What I got

Well first I got what I always want every year “a happy family and great friends” along with a great job and I think what every mother wants self time my first present I opened was a very old bottle of wine to add to the cellar along with some jewelry in achampagne glass to go in the  jewelry box and some computer parts and software and survlielance equipment, a wireless internet housewide, I also started an Angel funding company that funds great ideas or people and threw a bunch in Google stock along with buying several properties around the airport here that I hope to get developers one day to buy several years from now for atleast tens times the amount I paid for it today. I also started several online companies along with helped on several open source projects along with friends that we hope to se blossom one day. Also and solved several bugs this year and highlighted several hacks that I believe helped the internet community at whole thus the whole world and universe “yea baby I am a super Mom” And finally I donated over twenty thousands dollars to twenty differnt charities.

So what did you get this Christmas or Give ?

The difficulty of keeping computer chips cool is one of the most immediate challenges for the IT industry. Researchers at IBMs Zurich lab are using nano-scale technologies to make self-contained water-cooling systems that are much smaller and can handle much higher power densities than the air-cooled copper heatsinks in use today.

Nanoscale devices are made of components that measure less than 100nm. A nanometre is equivalent to one billionth of a metre.
Dr Bruno Michel, manager of advanced thermal packaging research at the Zurich lab, said the paste between the chip and the heatsink, called the thermal interface material (TIM), currently accounts for 50 percent of the thermal resistance of chip-cooling systems. The TIM is needed because the silicon chip and the copper heatsink have different thermal expansion coefficients, so they can not be directly joined together.

This is a must read article and make sure to let me know what you think.

A tiny colour projector designed to be used with mobile phones, handheld devices and PDAs has successfully passed its first batch of tests.

Israel-based Explay says its nano-projector engine is a hundred times smaller and more efficient than rival technology.

The projector, little larger than a matchbox, will take images from a portable device and display them at any size up to 35ins on a wall or screen.

What a great use of this new technolgy I was totaly impresssed with the article and am glad they have made it so far in such a short amount of time.Be sure to read the rest.

Intel showed off what it called the worlds first fully functional SRAM (static RAM) chip made with a 45nm process technology. It has more than 1 billion transistors, according to a company statement. Like other test chips, it functions as SRAM, but includes all the elements of a multicore PC processor, said spokesman John Casey. It is not intended as an Intel product, but only to demonstrate that the company can build a chip with the next-generation technology, he said.

A nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter, and each chip production technology is measured by the size of the smallest feature it can produce on a chip. With the 45nm manufacturing process, Intel can make processors with five times less power leakage than current chips, Intel said, and as a result, it will allow for PCs with higher performance per watt. The companies most advanced manufacturing technology today is 65nm, which went into commercial production in the fourth quarter of last year. Intel moves to a new process generation every two years, the company said.

Moores Law, coined by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, states that the number of transistors on a chip will double every 18 months.

The chips will be made on large 300-millimeter wafers, Intel said. Those wafers deliver higher volume and lower cost per chip than smaller wafers. The companies initial 45nm work is taking place at its D1D fabrication plant, or in Oregon. It is also building two more fabs for 45nm manufacturing, Fab 32 in Arizona and Fab 28 in Israel, the company said.

A computer chip based on the esoteric science of quantum mechanics has been created by researchers at the University of Michigan. The chip might well pave the way for a new generation of supercomputers.

Employing the same semiconductor-fabrication techniques used to create common computer chips, the Michigan team was able to trap a single atom within an integrated chip and control it using electrical signals.

Electrically charged atoms (ions) for such quantum computers are stored in traps in order to isolate the qubits, a process that is essential for the system to work.

The challenge is that current ion traps can hold only a few atoms, or qubits, and are not easily scaled, making it difficult to create a quantum chip that can store thousands or more atomic ions. A string of such atoms, in theory, could store thousands of bits of information.

In the chip created at Michigan, which is the size of a postage stamp, the ion is confined in a trap while electric fields are applied. Laser light puts a spin on the ion’s free electron, enabling it to flip it between the one or zero quantum states.

The spin of the electron dictates the value of the qubit. For example, an up-spin can represent a one, or a down-spin can represent a zero — or the qubit can occupy both states simultaneously.