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COMSOL Multiphysics
Initially of the workshop provides an overview of COMSOL Multiphysics V4.2a - capabilities, new abilities and functionality enhancements, and its new, more efficient, user interface the COMSOL Desktop.
Autonymous car heads into legal storms
The car has always been an accommodating electronics box, but recently seems to be taking on the role of technology showpiece. GM turns car windows into interactive displays. BASF and Phillips integrate their solar OLED into car roofs. Google pushes its autonomous vehicle programme as achieving 200,000 miles under computer control without an accident. But the US warns that questions of legal liability, privacy and insurance may be far more challenging and difficult to resolve than any mere matter of technology.
Devolution impact: telecoms and broadband
In January 2012 the Westminster government offered to devolve to the Scottish Parliament the powers necessary to conduct a referendum on the independence of Scotland, with the possibility of repealing the Act of Union of 1707. This could return Great Britain to a Union of the Crowns, with separate parliaments under one sovereign.
UKube countdown for 3Q 2012
UK educational satellite FUNcube-1, on show at the ASE conference in early January, is to be launched in 3Q, 2012 Created by volunteer radio amateur organisation AMSAT-UK, it will join several other spacecraft on a DNEPR rocket .
3D print manufacture heads for home
Cubify launched at CES amid the tablets, smarttphones, TV's and ultrabooks. It is likely to be the most dramatic device at the show and the start of a new cottage printed product manufacturing industry that will be globally ubiquitous. With much less publicity, in the UK Exeter's chocolate printing pilot has turned in the CALM centre and offers free help to interested SMEs
BT leap year fibre rollout
The project, which will begin in 2012, will see BT roll-out a fibre optic network across 34 exchanges in the country, including Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow, part of the £2.5bn investment in next generation broadband.
Digital overtakes tourism
The newly expanded directorate which sees Graeme Dickson, a former Treasury civil servant with 10 years’ experience in the oil industry and formerly director of Enterprise, Energy and Tourism, now heading up the newly-created Enterprise, Environment and Digital directorate. His posting, rather than a private sector figure appointment for the digital portfolio, is seen as a reassuring concession to the current overhaul of the Civil Service.
Urban, rural broadband, innovation and databases
Broadband, communications, the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) innovation, and public datasets, all feature in Chancellor George Osborne's Autumn Statement.
K again ranks World 1
The "K computer from RIKEN and Fujitsu is more than OK, having taken No 1 position in the the 38th TOP500 list announced today in the US for a consecutive two terms in a row. The K computer, currently under joint development, was designated as being the world's fastest supercomputer.
Economic future options?
"Scotland's Economic Future" edited by the economist Professor Sir Donald MacKay, (below left) advisor to successive Scottish Secretaries over three decades as well as a consultant to both private and public sector organisations and co-edited by the chairman of Reform Scotland, Ben Thomson (below centre), who authors one chapter, and think tank's director, Geoff Mawdsley (below right).
Smart grid: report & research funds
UKERC, that has just released its report Smart Grid Capability has awarded over £500,000 to support a new research project that examines scenarios for smart grids in the UK. “Smart grids promise to transform the way that all users of electricity systems – produces and consumers – interact with each other."
Lochaline quartz mine reopens
The reopening of the silica sand mine at Lochaline, whose workings cover around 370 acres, accessed by around 48 km of tunnels, lying under something like 150 metres of basalt is good news for Morvern and the Lochaline Quartz Sand Ltd which expects to produce around 100,000tpa.
Computing perspectives: change process and image
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg show that interactive technology generates new ways of seeing, showing and creating and that new technology boosts architectural creativity. But out this month is Martin Gayford's epic "A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney" foreshadowed by Gayford in Technology Review, and showing that multiscreen film collages are closer than conventional photography to the actual experience of human vision.
Freescale R&D opens in East Kilbride
Freescale Semiconductor have formally opened its newly established R&D Centre of Excellence (CoE) in East Kilbride. This leading edge R&D program employs more than 170 highly skilled employees primarily in the development of new products for Freescale’s automotive customers worldwide. A significant part of the team is also focused on the networking and industrial markets
Nobel prizes: 7 scientists, 1 poet, 3 women and 2 economists
Nobel prizes for physics, physiology or medicine and chemistry have been awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Physics and Medicine have three winners each. In chemistry, the laurels go to one fighter. The prize for literature goes to the poet Tomas Tranströmer, the Peace Prize is shared among three women in Liberia and Yemen while Economics goes to two graphics oriented economists, Thomas J Sargent and Christopher A Simms for their empirical research and macroeconomics.
Cleanliness next to technology
The contrast lies between the state of the art technology in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and a recent report by the healthcare Environment Inspectorate who find a lack of cleanliness and hygiene rubbing shoulders with and invalidating the benefits of high technology.
Quantum computing: photon loops & low error qubit
Research at the Joint Quantum Institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland, together with Harvard University use multiple rows of resonators to allow an alternative pathway for photons to navigate any physical defects on a microchip. Advances in experimental design has allowed NIST physicists to achieved a record-low probability of error in quantum information processing with a single qubit. The first published error rate small enough to meet theoretical requirements for building viable quantum computers.
Rubric trades language in South Africa
As of September, the South African based Web-lingo will trade as Rubric South Africa. The Cape-based translation company merged in February with with Edinburgh-based Rubric, a provider of software 'localisation' services to the high technology industry.
EuroScience Forum 2012
Dublin will host ESOF2012, Europe’s largest general science conference.
ESOF2012 will bring together over 5,000 international researchers, policy-makers and media to discuss major global challenges such as ageing, food security and climate change.
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