Category: science & technology
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What went wrong with the Hubble Space Telescope and what managers can learn from it – leadership, collaboration – IT Services – Techworld
“Theres a bunch of research I’ve come across in this work, where people say that the social context is a 78-80 per cent determinant of performance; individual abilities are 10 per cent. So why do we make this mistake? Because we spend all of these years in higher education being trained that its about individual…
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ARM Pitches Tri-gate Transistors for 20nm and Beyond
. . . 20 nm may represent an inflection point in which it will be necessary to transition from a metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor MOSFET to Fin-Shaped Field Effect Transistors FinFET or 3D transistors, which Intel refers to as tri-gate designs that are set to debut with the companys 22 nm Ivy Bridge product generation.…
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MIT boffin: Salted disks hold SIX TIMES more data • The Register
Disk drive technology has gone through revolutions and evolution at different times in its history of manufacture. From the introduction of the original IBM RAMAC to the newest 4TByte SATA hard drive progress has always been made towards higher densities at the least and higher speed access at the most. Now conventional magnetic recording techniques…
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Birck Nanotechnology Center – Ferroelectric RAM
The FeTRAMs are similar to state-of-the-art ferroelectric random access memories, FeRAMs, which are in commercial use but represent a relatively small part of the overall semiconductor market. Both use ferroelectric material to store information in a nonvolatile fashion, but unlike FeRAMS, the new technology allows for nondestructive readout, meaning information can be read without losing…
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ARM vet: The CPUs future is threatened • The Register
Many people have predicted the demise of Moore’s Law, only to have a new process or technology rush in to save the day. Current tools are variations on a theme started in the 1960s by Shockley, Fairchild, Intel and have continued to be refined over the years. Pure research in the tools and technologies underlying…
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David May, parallel processing pioneer • reghardware
Exotic chip architectures are always interesting because they tend to be designed to fix a very particular problem. The transputer was designed to be general purpose enough that you could get it to solve a variety of problems as long as you had the chops and the development tools to do it. It was in…
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History of Sage
There’s a lot of stuff in Sage. And there’s been a lot of people who have commited software to the project over the years. Let’s take a closer look at what’s gone on to see what we can deduce based on the publicly available information.
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Tilera preps 100-core chips for network gear • The Register
What darkness lurks in the hearts of men? Only the shadow knows right? Or possibly a Tilera Chip sitting in an NSA data skimming operation located at your local Internet GigaPOP.
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