• DocumentCode
    25674
  • Title

    News Briefs

  • Author

    Garber, Lee

  • Volume
    46
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    Jan. 2013
  • Firstpage
    24
  • Lastpage
    26
  • Abstract
    Topics include a fast new 3D transistor, a group of nanomachines that can coordinate their movements so that they function like contracting muscles, a surveillance system that monitors users´ brainwaves to detect threats, a UN report that says developing nations should foster domestic software production, the online theft of personal information for perhaps 80 percent of the Greek population, and restoration of the world´s oldest original working digital computer.
  • Keywords
    3D transistors; CT2WS; Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System; DARPA; Harwell Dekatron computer; UK National Museum of Computing; UNCTAD; WITCH; computer restoration; data theft; energy-efficient chips; indium gallium arsenide; nanomachines; polymer chains; sensors; software development; surveillance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9162
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MC.2013.26
  • Filename
    6419710