July 13, 2009

Clearing those tabs for Sytek

Filed under: Sytek — Tim @ 9:47 pm

Haven’t cleared through the RSS feeds for the EE Times or Next Big Future in a while, so here are some posts. Btw, if you know the editor at NBF tell him his layout is terrible for trying to link to (i.e., it is nigh impossible to copy/paste headlines).

- Software-to-silicon verification @ 45 nm and beyond (EE Times)
- Next-generation semiconductor functional verification challenges (EE Times)
- Parasitic extraction: 3D or not 3D, that is the question (EE Times)
- Analysis: Intel slowly gears up for system-on-chips (EE Times)
- NIST advances quantum computing (EE Times)
- Memory to rise to 3-D challenges (EE Times)

- Near-lightspeed nano spacecraft might be close (MSNBC)
- First Drug Shown to Extend Life Span in Mammals (Technology Review)
- Getting More out of Crude (Technology Review)
- Nanoarches advance nanotechnology’s tool box (Nanowerk)
- Salamanders, regenerative wonders, heal like mammals, people (University of Florida)
- Laser-created temporal lens could lead to movies of molecular processes (University of Nebraska)
- Darpa’s Handheld Nuclear Fusion Reactor (Wired)
- Researchers find possible environmental causes for Alzheimer’s, diabetes (PhysOrg)
- 110th Carnival of Space (Kentucky Space)
- New Rice Plant Could Ease Threat Of Hunger For The Poor (Agriculture Business Week)
- Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dot Terahertz Detectors and On-Chip High Resolution near-field terahertz detector (Next Big Future)
- Erythropoietin improves operant conditioning and stability of cognitive performance in mice (BMC Biology)
- Nanopillars Promise Cheap, Efficient, Flexible Solar Cells (Berkeley Lab)
- Temporal lenses for attosecond and femtosecond electron pulses (PNAS)
- Caloric Restriction Slows Aging in Monkeys (Technology Review)
- A New Look At How Proteins Assemble And Organize Themselves Into Complex Patterns (ScienceDaily)
- Why Might China And India Want To Strengthen National Intellectual Property Policy? (TechDirt)
- Smartphoniacs: Addicts of the Information Age (WSJ)
- Pink Silicon Is the New Black (Technology Review)
- The Last Cautionary Broadband Mapping Tale Before $350 Million Is Wasted (Public Knowledge)
- The plant that pretends to be ill (BBC)
- Aphids defend themselves with chemical bombs (Not Exactly Rocket Science)
- Spiders gather in groups to impersonate ants (Not Exactly Rocket Science)
- How Printers can Breach our Privacy: Acoustic Side-Channel Attacks on Printers (UoS – Information Security)