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IEEE Presidents’ Change the World Competition
Do you know a student who is making a positive impact on the world? To help celebrate 125 years of engineering the future, IEEE is hosting a global competition for students who develop unique solutions to real-world problems using engineering, science, computing and leadership skills to benefit their community or humanity. Winners could walk away with up to US$10,000 and a trip to the 2009 IEEE Honors Ceremony in Los Angeles, California, USA. The competition runs from 1 September 2008 to 28 February 2009. For more information, read the Competition Flyer
Also be sure to visit the IEEE 125th Anniversary Web site for information on how you can help celebrate IEEE’s 125th Anniversary.
New Technique Could Aid Quantum Computing
Amplitude spectroscopy, a method of characterizing quantum entities over very broad frequency ranges, may surmount a key barrier to building quantum computers, according to the technique’s developers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Artificial atoms have energy levels that correspond to a very wide range of frequencies—from tens to hundreds of gigahertz—making standard spectroscopy techniques costly and difficult to apply. According to researchers, amplitude spectroscopy gleans information about a superconducting artificial atom by probing its response to a single, fixed frequency. This probe pushes the atom through its energy-state transitions, which allows the atoms to jump between energy bands at practically unlimited rates by adjusting the amplitude of the fixed-frequency source. The radiation emitted by the artificial atom in response to this probe exhibits interference patterns and can serve as fingerprints of the artificial atom's energy spectrum. Read more
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Firms Debut CPU-Sharing Technology in Kenya
New Ncomputing technology that enables multiple users to share one processor may make computing more affordable and accessible in Kenya, according to the two firms debuting the effort. The technology, known as user extension protocol, enables a central processing unit (CPU) to operate up to 30 computers, reducing the cost of a CPU by the number of computers it is shared among and making computing easily affordable for institutions, corporations and other organizations in a pooled area. A bonus is that Ncomputing Access Terminals consume less than five watts of power, compared to 400 watts for a normal computer, reducing energy and computing costs. Read more
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IEEE Computer Highlights New Generation of Online Games
With more multiplayer online worlds allowing users to create their own unique content in virtual worlds, demands on servers, clients and networks and grown steadily in recent years. As virtual worlds evolve to support more users, types of interaction and realism, these demands will continue to increase. In its September issue, IEEE Computer features articles that address these challenges. The issue also looks at next-generation RFID applications, XML document parsing, interconnection networks and data-sharing systems. Read more
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Rutgers University Offers Discount on Tech Courses
Need to catch up on your knowledge of Linux system administration or software and reliability engineering? Want to learn the do's and don'ts of participating in Web-based communities? Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, is offering IEEE members a 10 percent discount on its Rutgers Advanced Technology Extension courses and certification programs. The discount is being offered through the IEEE Education Partners Program and participants can earn continuing education units from all the courses and programs. Learn more
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Intelligent Computation Technology and Automation Conference
The 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Computation Technology and Automation (ICICTA 2008) will be held 20-22 October 2008 in Changsha, China. ICICTA 2008, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, aims to provide a high-level forum for scientists, engineers and educators to present cutting-edge intelligent computation and automation research and applications in diverse fields. The conference will feature plenary speeches given by renowned scholars and regular sessions with broad coverage. Topics of ICICTA 2008 cover advance computation theory and application, control theory and application, automation, decision and management. Learn more
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Technology Users Fail to Take Steps to Protect Their Digital Privacy
Given that technology will soon be able to not only track an individual’s movements, but predict them too, people are far too relaxed about protecting their privacy, according to social psychologist Saadi Lahlou. Citing recent experiments, Lahlou and other researchers claim the combination of information and communication technologies with pervasive computing will soon enable continuous monitoring of individual activity. According to Lahlou, the massive global system of interconnected data collection devices—mobile phones, internet sites and surveillance cameras—can search, compare, analyze, identify, reason and predict the movements, motives and actions of individuals. And even though many surveys show that such developments leave users concerned about privacy, they are not taking appropriate measures to protect themselves or their data. Read more
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Climate Modeling Could Go Petascale
New petascale computer models, depicting detailed climate dynamics and laying the foundation for the next generation of complex climate models, are being developed by researchers from the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, USA, collaborating with the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmospheric Studies and the University of California- Berkeley, USA, under a US$1.4 million award from the National Science Foundation. Petascale computers can make one quadrillion calculations per second—a staggeringly high rate, even compared to that of supercomputers. The availability of petascale computing would allow scientists working in climate simulation and prediction to dramatically advance Earth system science. Read more
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UK Firms Offer Cloud Computing To Go
The cloud computing technology and utility computing services firm 3Tera, Inc. has teamed up with DNS Europe Ltd. to offer AppLogic grid hosting services to customers across Europe, using the grid infrastructure to deliver service quickly, inexpensively and more efficiently. The firms say the product reduces infrastructure costs while increasing volume, adding features and expanding the reach of customers’ Web services. The AppLogic grid operating system converts commodity servers into scalable grids on which users can visually deploy, operate and scale transactional Web applications without any modification of code. According to the firms, the technology is able to run on any grid anywhere in the world. Read more
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New Conference Proceedings in IEEE Xplore®: Machine Learning and Cybernetics
IEEE Xplore digital library subscribers can now access the conference proceedings from the 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics. The IEEE-sponsored conference, which took place 12-15 July, brought researchers and practitioners from around the world together to discuss the latest breakthroughs in machine learning and cybernetics. The seven volume collection contains 750 papers on current research in the field. View conference proceedings
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Large Hadron Collider Grid Might Revolutionize Web
A global computer network called the LHC Computing Grid, built to process the estimated five-gigabyte-per-second dataflow of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, may be a glimpse of the Internet of the future, according to scientists working on the project, who say until now one thing the Web has not been very good at is processing large amounts of data. The challenge of making the flood of LHC data accessible to scientists anywhere in the world with a few keystrokes may be solved by handling the data in stages, or tiers, researchers say, with Tier 0, located at CERN: a massively parallel computer network composed of 100,000 of today's fastest CPUs that stores and manages the raw data from the experiments. Researchers say the grid ships portions of data over dedicated 10-gigabit-per-second fiber-optic lines to 11 Tier 1 sites across North America, Asia and Europe. From those sites the data is parceled out for easier access among 140 Tier 2 networks based at universities, government labs and private companies around the globe, from which scientists will actually access and analyze the data. Read more
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