July 2011
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MOLECULAR PROGRAMMING DNA and the brain
By Eugene Barsky on July 28, 2011
An article in Nature by a UBC CS professor – Anne Condon – http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v475/n7356/full/475304a.html
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Transparent Battery Could Bring Us to See-Through Phones.
By Eugene Barsky on July 26, 2011
From the ASEE daily update – First Bell: On its website, MSNBC (7/26, Roach) reports, “Imagine a smartphone that looks like a piece of clear plastic, lighting up to display contacts, a game, the weather, or email from a friend. That future may be upon us thanks to a new, transparent and flexible lithium-ion battery.” [...]
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UBC Thunderbird Robotics hosts the 7th Annual International Autonomous Robot Racing Competition (IARRC) over the July 23rd – 24th weekend.
By Eugene Barsky on July 18, 2011
UBC Thunderbird Robotics hosts the 7th Annual International Autonomous Robot Racing Competition (IARRC) over the July 23rd – 24th weekend. IARRC is aimed at promoting R&D efforts into fully autonomous small-size ground vehicles – in particular the associated artificial intelligence software systems that run these vehicles. Student teams attending in the competition are expected to [...]
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Los Alamos National Laboratory Employees Working On Preserving Webpages.
By Eugene Barsky on July 18, 2011
From ASEE’s daily update: The Washington Post (7/18, de Vise) reports that Michael Nelson, a computer science professor at Old Dominion University in Virginia, “and some colleagues at Old Dominion and the Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a sort of Internet time machine called Memento” that lets users “search for a Web site as [...]
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