Now THIS is a really good idea. Taco, Timothy...or anybody else that just wants to go straight to The Big Guy...the contact info for Wolfram is here...
Ha, ha, ha, joke's on me:) Actually, my two degrees from MIT are Master's degrees - one in aeronautics and astronautics (what MIT calls aerospace engineering) and the other in interdisciplinary science (I put together a curricula in remote sensing that was accepted by the faculty) both awarded in 1979...My mystery 4th degree is a Bachelor's in physics. It and my Bachelor's math degree are from U of Tennessee (Go Vols!). This was just before the Space Shuttle flew for the first time and I along with thousands of others was racking up whatever it took to be selected as a NASA astronaut - a VERY big deal back then. Detour, I married my first wife. That's another (offtopic) story. As for the book review, I had just returned from a graduation when I started writing this and had been waxing nostalgic about my own college days, which I miss. This spilled over into my stream-of-consciousness writing in the "personal" paragraph of the review. Lest anybody think otherwise, I really wasn't trying to toot my own horn. MIT grads fit a bell curve of their own, and I was pretty much on the tail end of people they've sent down the Infinite Corridor and into the world...
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I was surprised by this point, too. Wolfram mentions DNA (he MENTIONS just about everything) but not anywhere near as much as I would have thought he coulda/shoulda/woulda. If he'd spent ten years analyzing the various genome databeses out there with the same level of intensity, I think he would have REALLY come up with something spectacular. But that would make him a biologist, and he considers himself first and foremost a physicist...
Another advanced technology which may replace ilicon in the near term is spintronics. These devices have one advantage over nanotube transistors in that they may easily implement quantum computing...
Some very scary research has been aimed at discovering just how fast a worm could infect the entire Internet. This is the so-called Warhol worm, so named because instead of getting 15 minutes of fame, it would only take 15 minutes to infect the entire internet. If some nut combines a Warhol worm with a Kazza worm, we are in deep trouble.
A fairly good overview/jump point for the major certifications is here and some info about how much they add to your paycheck is here...
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The IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy is one of the longest-running forums on this topic and is well worth being aware of. The papers for the 2002 session are on CD-ROM; so is a compilation of those from 1980-1999...
Not to take anything away from IBM, but not only have individual nanotube transistors already been done, but they're already being used to produce inttegrated circuits of logic gates in Europe at Delft University of Technology. A paper about their nanotube logic circuitry is here...
Check out the numbers - they are unbelievable. Spiderman made 40% of AOTC's gate recipts on AOTC's first three days, and it was Spidey's third weekend. That's what the AMAZING in Amazing Spider-Man means...
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Now THIS is a really good idea. Taco, Timothy...or anybody else that just wants to go straight to The Big Guy...the contact info for Wolfram is here...
I agree...I saw it on videotape a year or so ago...the movie Pi certainly fits my mental image of Wolfram working on ANKOS...
Ha, ha, ha, joke's on me :) Actually, my two degrees from MIT are Master's degrees - one in aeronautics and astronautics (what MIT calls aerospace engineering) and the other in interdisciplinary science (I put together a curricula in remote sensing that was accepted by the faculty) both awarded in 1979...My mystery 4th degree is a Bachelor's in physics. It and my Bachelor's math degree are from U of Tennessee (Go Vols!). This was just before the Space Shuttle flew for the first time and I along with thousands of others was racking up whatever it took to be selected as a NASA astronaut - a VERY big deal back then. Detour, I married my first wife. That's another (offtopic) story. As for the book review, I had just returned from a graduation when I started writing this and had been waxing nostalgic about my own college days, which I miss. This spilled over into my stream-of-consciousness writing in the "personal" paragraph of the review. Lest anybody think otherwise, I really wasn't trying to toot my own horn. MIT grads fit a bell curve of their own, and I was pretty much on the tail end of people they've sent down the Infinite Corridor and into the world...
I was surprised by this point, too. Wolfram mentions DNA (he MENTIONS just about everything) but not anywhere near as much as I would have thought he coulda/shoulda/woulda. If he'd spent ten years analyzing the various genome databeses out there with the same level of intensity, I think he would have REALLY come up with something spectacular. But that would make him a biologist, and he considers himself first and foremost a physicist...
Ahem....and one non-math, non-MIT degree...
Another advanced technology which may replace ilicon in the near term is spintronics. These devices have one advantage over nanotube transistors in that they may easily implement quantum computing...
Getting to space in the first place is the key to space tourism. That's where the X-Prize comes in...
Some very scary research has been aimed at discovering just how fast a worm could infect the entire Internet. This is the so-called Warhol worm, so named because instead of getting 15 minutes of fame, it would only take 15 minutes to infect the entire internet. If some nut combines a Warhol worm with a Kazza worm, we are in deep trouble.
A fairly good overview/jump point for the major certifications is here and some info about how much they add to your paycheck is here...
The IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy is one of the longest-running forums on this topic and is well worth being aware of. The papers for the 2002 session are on CD-ROM; so is a compilation of those from 1980-1999...
These transistors can't be measured in Si units. They're made of carbon, not silicon...
Not to take anything away from IBM, but not only have individual nanotube transistors already been done, but they're already being used to produce inttegrated circuits of logic gates in Europe at Delft University of Technology. A paper about their nanotube logic circuitry is here...
An interesting comparison to the Red Mercury article is this one which claims M$ lost $80 per XBox sold at the original price...
Check out the numbers - they are unbelievable. Spiderman made 40% of AOTC's gate recipts on AOTC's first three days, and it was Spidey's third weekend. That's what the AMAZING in Amazing Spider-Man means...
Forget keboards and bacteria - the real fun is in dust mites and carpet.
The next logical step is to incorporate this into the hot new video game DDR (Dance Dance Revolution)...