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Small, Self-Assembling Minirobots Swim, Manipulate Objects – article in Nature Materials

By Eugene Barsky on August 9, 2011

From ASEE First Bell: Popular Science (8/9, Boyle) reports, “Small colonies of swimming magnetic particles can self-assemble into micro-machines that can manipulate other particles,” according a study published in Nature Materials. “The particles can be remotely controlled to grasp and move other objects, which could enable precise and delicate fabrication processes that were previously not [...]

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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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International Business Times article on a Study that Finds Biofuels May Be Less Green Than Fossil Fuels.

By Eugene Barsky on May 17, 2011

From ASEE daily news digest: The International Business Times (5/17) reports that researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in a study funded by the Federal Aviation Administration and Air Force Research Labs, found that “biofuels may pollute the environment much more heavily if the process used to make them isn’t done in the right [...]

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APSC 262 – Tue, 1 February, 11am – 12pm in MCLD 228

By Eugene Barsky on February 1, 2011

Teaching APSC 262 class – Tue, 1 February, 11am – 12pm in MCLD 228. Library course page is here – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/ereserve/er-coursepage.cfm?id=2500

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APSC 150 – Engineering Cases – Wed, 26 January

By Eugene Barsky on January 25, 2011

APSC 150 students will see us on Wed, 26 January, 8:30am – 9:00am and Wed, 26 January, 3:30pm – 4:00pm for a short class talking about researching engineering failures. Here is the library class page – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/ereserve/er-coursepage.cfm?id=2411

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APSC 201 and APSC 176 sessions this week

By Eugene Barsky on January 17, 2011

This week APSC 201 and APSC 176 students will see Kevin Read, Heidi Schiller , Andre Iwanchuk and myself coming to their classes to talk libraries. We will show the major engineering databases, ebook packages and talk about evaluating engineering information. We have booked six (6) sessions this week…see you in one of those!

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Google Translate – Useful Tool or Gibberish Generator?

By Kevin Lindstrom on November 19, 2010

Putting Google to the Test in Translation An article posted in the March 9, 2010 issue of the New York Times compares how well Google Translate, Yahoo Babel Fish and Microsoft Bing Translator compare against the skills of a human translator. Google has poured resources into improving its automatic translation service. Some of these systems [...]

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Enhancements to the Compendex Database

By Kevin Lindstrom on November 5, 2010

Articles in Press are now available in Compendex. “The section “Articles in Press” contains peer reviewed accepted articles to be published in this journal. When the final article is assigned to an issue of the journal, the “Article in Press” version will be removed from this section and will appear in the associated published journal [...]

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Important New Changes to the ACS Copyright Agreement

By Kevin Lindstrom on October 8, 2010

New ACS Journal Publishing Agreement expands author rights and clarifies responsibilities WASHINGTON, Oct. 6, 2010 — The American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Publications Division will begin rolling out a new publishing agreement in mid-October that expands author rights and clarifies author responsibilities. The ACS Journal Publishing Agreement (JPA) is a result of ACS’ ongoing efforts to [...]

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Nine APSC 201 sessions this week

By Eugene Barsky on September 28, 2010

This week, our excellent students librarians – Kevin Read, Heidi Schiller and Andre Iwanchuk, myself and Kevin Lindstrom are working extra hard to cover most of our APSC 201 classes for this week – nine in total…we will see around 300 engineering students out there this week…we are looking forward for that…

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