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Top Visionaries - Agenda Setters
2008
KurzweilAI.net Oct. 29, 2008
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Silicon.com announced today its
selection of the top visionaries in
the worldwide technology and IT
industries whose ideas shake up the
status quo. The top three
visionaries named were Tim
Berners-Lee, Jimmy Wales, and Ray
Kurzweil. Other visionaries named
were environmentalist Jonathon
Porritt, reality TV guru Peter
Bazalgette, free...
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Nanoparticles Target Multiple
Cancer Genes, Shrink Tumors More
Effectively
PhysOrg.com Oct. 28, 2008
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Nanoparticles filled with small
interfering RNA (siRNA) molecules
targeting two genes that trigger
melanoma have shown that they can
inhibit the development of melanoma,
the most dangerous type of skin
cancer, while leaving healthy tissue
alone, Penn State College of
Medicine researchers have found....
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How High-Speed Gene Sequencing
Works
Wired Science 0ct. 28, 2008
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The price of gene sequencing is
falling fast and Helicos BioSciences
is poised to push it down even
further -- perhaps below the $1,000...
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New chapter for Google Book Search
Official Google Blog Oct. 28, 2008
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Google announced on Tuesday an
agreement with a broad class of
authors, publishers, and library
partners that will give U.S. readers
digital access to millions of
in-copyright books. It will also
make free, full-text, online viewing
of millions of out-of-print books
available in U.S. public and
university libraries, and will
create a new market...
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Black Silicon
Technology Review Oct. 29, 2008
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SiOnyx is making a new type of
silicon material, black silicon,
that captures nearly all of the
sun's light, generating hundreds of
times more current than conventional
silicon. The material makes it
possible to use less silicon for
light sensors, making the devices
cheaper, smaller, and lighter. The
compnay plans to license the
manufacturing...
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NSA and Army on quest for quantum
physics jackpot
Network World Oct. 28, 2008
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The US Army Research Office and the
National Security Agency (NSA) are
together looking for answers to
their quantum physics questions and
is soliciting proposals for these
broad goals: developing new quantum
computing algorithms for hard
computational problems,
characterizing the efficiency of
candidate quantum algorithms, and
developing insights...
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Scientists develop artificial heart
that beats like the real thing
Times Online Oct. 28, 2008
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An artificial heart that beats
almost exactly like the real thing
has been developed by Alain
Carpentier, France's leading cardiac
surgeon, and engineers from EADS,
Europe's aerospace and defence
giant. Sensors in the artificial
heart will automatically regulate
the heart rate and blood flow,
detecting the body's needs,
increasing the rhythm...
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