SciTech Digest - 15/2017.
SciTech Digest - 15/2017.
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On-chip particle accelerator, Diamond laser amplifier, Tensor processing units, Robot cloud brains, Memory circuit formation, Octopus gene regulation, CycleGAN deep learning, Tailored thymus organoids, Self assembling transistors, Blockchain voting applications.
1. Particle Accelerator on a Chip
The accelerator on a chip project continues to make progress towards the end-goal of getting the power gradient of a 3.2km long accelerator down to 30m http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/devices/nanofabrication-enables-acceleratoronachip-technology, but with applications including desktop accelerators that might produce medically-relevant particle beams for example.
2. Diamond Laser Amplifier
Ultrapure diamond crystal lenses are being used at the point of convergence to combine incoming laser beams into a single, more powerful output laser beam, which would have a range of obvious applications http://www.mq.edu.au/newsroom/2017/04/03/the-star-wars-superlaser-may-no-longer-be-sci-fi-new-australian-research/.
3. Google’s Tensor Processing Units
Google’s custom machine learning chips, known as Tensor Processing Units, have been demonstrated to be 15x - 30x faster than conventional chips for these applications, and offer 30x - 80x better efficiency https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/05/google-says-its-custom-machine-learning-chips-are-often-15-30x-faster-than-gpus-and-cpus/?ncid=rss.
4. Cloud Brains for Robot Pickers
RightHand Robotics has a robotic hand picking system for warehouses and assembly lines that uses cloud-based learning and memory so that every robot hand gains the benefits of each hand learning distinct and independent picking tasks for different objects and situations https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604038/a-robot-with-its-head-in-the-cloud-tackles-warehouse-picking/.
5. Better Understanding Memory Formation
New research provides better insight into human memory formation, and shows that in the neural circuits underlying this process in the brain, memories are actually formed simultaneously in the hippocampus and cortex-located long-term storage http://news.mit.edu/2017/neuroscientists-identify-brain-circuit-necessary-memory-formation-0406.
6. Novel Gene Regulation in Octopuses
An unusual type of gene regulation has been found to be very common in octopuses, which is based on extensive RNA editing to a degree much greater than any other animal group https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/octopuses-do-something-really-strange-to-their-genes/522024/. Lots of interesting questions to be answered here, and lots of implications including the counter-intuitive finding that the octopuses genome evolves at a much slower rate than other animals.
7. More Deep Learning Image Processing
Seems like not a week goes by without some project or announcement concerning the application of deep learning to image processing. This week CycleGAN is particularly impressive for genuinely impressive artistic photo conversions http://gizmodo.com/someone-finally-hijacked-deep-learning-tech-to-create-m-1793957126.
8. Tailored Thymus Organoids
More progress in creating functional thymus tissue has led to the point of now being able to custom-produce thymus tissue that produces T-Cells with specific desired characteristics https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2017/04/tailored-thymus-organoids-produce-specifically-configured-t-cells/.
9. Self Assembling Carbon Nanotube Transistors
A new method selects out semiconducting carbon nanotubes from solution and self assembles these into transistors on a circuit of gold electrodes http://www.rug.nl/sciencelinx/nieuws/2017/04/20170405_loi?lang=en.
10. Blockchain Voting Applications
Blockchain technology continues to demonstrate prototype voting applications that might be coming to us soon for a range of secure voting applications. For example, Broadridge has a stockholder blockchain voting system http://www.coindesk.com/broadridge-is-building-a-global-blockchain-for-stockholder-voting/, and Open Vote Network uses Ethereum to achieve similar ends http://www.coindesk.com/voting-scheme-ethereum-doesnt-give-away-vote/.
Permalink here: http://www.scitechdigest.net/2017/04/on-chip-particle-accelerator-diamond.html
On-chip particle accelerator, Diamond laser amplifier, Tensor processing units, Robot cloud brains, Memory circuit formation, Octopus gene regulation, CycleGAN deep learning, Tailored thymus organoids, Self assembling transistors, Blockchain voting applications.
1. Particle Accelerator on a Chip
The accelerator on a chip project continues to make progress towards the end-goal of getting the power gradient of a 3.2km long accelerator down to 30m http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/devices/nanofabrication-enables-acceleratoronachip-technology, but with applications including desktop accelerators that might produce medically-relevant particle beams for example.
2. Diamond Laser Amplifier
Ultrapure diamond crystal lenses are being used at the point of convergence to combine incoming laser beams into a single, more powerful output laser beam, which would have a range of obvious applications http://www.mq.edu.au/newsroom/2017/04/03/the-star-wars-superlaser-may-no-longer-be-sci-fi-new-australian-research/.
3. Google’s Tensor Processing Units
Google’s custom machine learning chips, known as Tensor Processing Units, have been demonstrated to be 15x - 30x faster than conventional chips for these applications, and offer 30x - 80x better efficiency https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/05/google-says-its-custom-machine-learning-chips-are-often-15-30x-faster-than-gpus-and-cpus/?ncid=rss.
4. Cloud Brains for Robot Pickers
RightHand Robotics has a robotic hand picking system for warehouses and assembly lines that uses cloud-based learning and memory so that every robot hand gains the benefits of each hand learning distinct and independent picking tasks for different objects and situations https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604038/a-robot-with-its-head-in-the-cloud-tackles-warehouse-picking/.
5. Better Understanding Memory Formation
New research provides better insight into human memory formation, and shows that in the neural circuits underlying this process in the brain, memories are actually formed simultaneously in the hippocampus and cortex-located long-term storage http://news.mit.edu/2017/neuroscientists-identify-brain-circuit-necessary-memory-formation-0406.
6. Novel Gene Regulation in Octopuses
An unusual type of gene regulation has been found to be very common in octopuses, which is based on extensive RNA editing to a degree much greater than any other animal group https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/octopuses-do-something-really-strange-to-their-genes/522024/. Lots of interesting questions to be answered here, and lots of implications including the counter-intuitive finding that the octopuses genome evolves at a much slower rate than other animals.
7. More Deep Learning Image Processing
Seems like not a week goes by without some project or announcement concerning the application of deep learning to image processing. This week CycleGAN is particularly impressive for genuinely impressive artistic photo conversions http://gizmodo.com/someone-finally-hijacked-deep-learning-tech-to-create-m-1793957126.
8. Tailored Thymus Organoids
More progress in creating functional thymus tissue has led to the point of now being able to custom-produce thymus tissue that produces T-Cells with specific desired characteristics https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2017/04/tailored-thymus-organoids-produce-specifically-configured-t-cells/.
9. Self Assembling Carbon Nanotube Transistors
A new method selects out semiconducting carbon nanotubes from solution and self assembles these into transistors on a circuit of gold electrodes http://www.rug.nl/sciencelinx/nieuws/2017/04/20170405_loi?lang=en.
10. Blockchain Voting Applications
Blockchain technology continues to demonstrate prototype voting applications that might be coming to us soon for a range of secure voting applications. For example, Broadridge has a stockholder blockchain voting system http://www.coindesk.com/broadridge-is-building-a-global-blockchain-for-stockholder-voting/, and Open Vote Network uses Ethereum to achieve similar ends http://www.coindesk.com/voting-scheme-ethereum-doesnt-give-away-vote/.
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