http://www.silicon.com Results for physics en-us http://www.silicon.com/i/s/feeds/simple_logo.gif http://www.silicon.com 124 50 News feed from silicon.com http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60816543p,00.htm The answer is a resounding yes for the first time, and enabled by the physics of RF propagation at UHF. RFID has been around a long time. But things have changed rapidly in the last two years, and new opportunities abound. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/agenda-setters-2009/stephen-wolfram-39550658.htm But Wolfram should not be seen as an overnight success, he is a 50-year-old former particle physics prodigy who has spent his life trying to unlock the potential of computers. Professor Stephen Wolfram hit the headlines earlier this year by... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:49:08 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39521543,00.htm Continually promising to deliver what the limits of physics say can't be done is no way for an industry to operate. For sure you can't run roughshod over the laws of physics, and to get anything like the advertised 3G data rate you would have to... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:09:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itpro/0,39024675,39495231,00.htm After all, they have regular access to superstar teachers like George Smoot, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics; Dan Kammen, co-director of the Berkeley Institute of the... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:05:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60651344p,00.htm Mesh networks technology is helping to enable the 4th generation of wireless mobility by using basic Radio Frequency (RF) physics in a new way - overcoming inherent limitations to achieve unprecedented coverage, throughput, flexibility and cost... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:20:53 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39481567,00.htm Some are natural and unavoidable within the system-design specification and the laws of physics, but for sure, many are down to poor software and ill-conceived architectures that will be with us for a very long time. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itpro/0,39024675,39481562,00.htm After a year of setbacks, Cern plans to restart its Large Hadron Collider in November at a tempo that won't overtax the machinery behind the giant particle physics experiment. The collider, located deep underground on the border between France and... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:49:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60642392p,00.htm Game physics is at the heart of any modern game engine which employs the laws of physics to simulate life-like movement and interaction between objects, such as rigid and deformable bodies, cloth, and water. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:21:13 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60642401p,00.htm Many such applications today are in the high performance computing domain, examples of such are financial options modeling, seismic exploration, game physics, and bio-informatics. New I/O usage models have emerged recently. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:21:13 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60635166p,00.htm More than 2,200 researchers from around the globe work at the CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) laboratory on ATLAS, a large-scale particle physics experiment that studies the forces that have shaped the universe since the Big... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:21:46 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39445485,00.htm Today analytics has broken free of the corporation and is shaping everything from nuclear physics to Formula One racing. Here silicon.com takes a look at some of the more unusual organisations where analytics is making a difference. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:41:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60630701p,00.htm Leszynski Group, for example, has built an interactive physics simulator that operates as a Semblio plug-in. Interactive content makes learning fun but is expensive to create. Semblio, a new set of Microsoft tools for the education community... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:20:40 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itpro/0,39024675,39452616,00.htm I've always liked physics, but I also want the equivalent lectures to be out there for biology, and computer science, and chemistry. In between trying to eradicate polio, tame malaria, and fix the broken US education system, Gates has managed to... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:34:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itpro/0,39024675,39445941,00.htm Some examples are signal processing, intensive physics simulations, and some kinds of data processing. A native application development kit has been released for Android developers, offering a way to create certain kinds of high-performing... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:07:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/pdas/0,39024643,39438775,00.htm Starting years ago from basic ingredients such as programming utilities, Intel has expanded its software work - for example by pushing the moblin mobile Linux project and bulking up its Software and Services Group via a spending spree for smaller... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:36:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/cio50-2009/david-tidey-39437236.htm Tidey graduated from the University of Exeter in physics and chemistry in 1982 from where he went to work for Greater London Council as a management trainee. David Tidey moved to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in the mid-1980s, and... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:45:07 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/retailandleisure/0,3800011842,39435625,00.htm Instead, the studio's computer whizzes figured out a way to turn the problem over to a programmed physical simulator, which, employing Newtonian physics, was able to address the animation problem. These are relatively simple physical equations, so... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 28 May 2009 17:06:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39422440,00.htm On e-skills the budget mentioned a £3m scheme to provide training for science teachers, a pilot programme to encourage science take-up in 20 local authorities and an additional £2m to be invested in providing support to encourage physics and maths... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:10:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60575969p,00.htm This paper advocates the use of wireless sensor networks in Developing Countries as one foresees they have a great role to play not only to expedite novel solutions that help mitigate development problems, but also to facilitate research... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:22:47 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39415808,00.htm While it may not win the Nobel Prize for physics just yet, Adam appears to be doing impressively well for a young scientist, carrying out scientific research automatically, without the need for further human intervention. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:31:01 +0000