Slimmer nanorods may revolutionise 3-D computer chip technology

September 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - An international team of scientists has developed a novel system that detects "unusual behaviours" in drivers before a curve or an obstacle on the road and generates signals of alarm to warn of an accident risk. The so-called DRIVSCO system allows vehicles to learn from the behaviour of their drivers at the wheel.

August 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Flasks, beakers and hot plates in chemistry labs may soon be passé, thanks to UCLA scientists who have developed a microchip technology that can perform thousands of chemical reactions at once. The scientists have developed technology to perform more than a thousand chemical reactions at once on a stamp-size, PC-controlled microchip, which could accelerate the identification of potential drug candidates for treating diseases like cancer.

July 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new computer game prototype, called FunSAT, utilises human ability of intuition to help solve a fundamental problem underlying many computer hardware design tasks. The online logic puzzle combines work and play and could help integrated circuit designers select and arrange transistors and their connections on silicon microchips, among other applications.

July 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - What is being expected to prove the most powerful computer of its kind in the world became operational at the University of Florida this week. The supercomputer has been named by its designers 'Novo-G'.

July 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Its music, not electromechanical valves, that controls a novel lab-on-a-chip device designed at the University of Michigan (UM). The new system could significantly simplify the process of conducting experiments in microfluidic devices.

June 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - While animal drug trials have been facing huge criticism from ethical groups, scientists have now created artificial organs like liver, skin, intestine and windpipe that may revolutionise the way new medicines are being tested. Developed by Professor Heike Mertsching of the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB in Stuttgart, in collaboration with Dr.

June 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Indian Americans have engineered a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip mimicking the inner ear, or cochlea, one that could enable wireless devices to receive cell phone, Internet, radio and TV signals. Rahul Sarpeshkar, MIT associate professor of electrical engineering and his graduate student, Soumyajit Mandal, designed the chip.

June 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of Indian-origin researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have modelled a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip on the human inner ear. Rahul Sarpeshkar, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and his graduate student Soumyajit Mandal say that their device may enable wireless devices capable of receiving cell phone, Internet, radio and television signals.

April 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists from University of California, Davis have developed an ultra small chip that provides breakthrough speeds for a variety of computing tasks. The 167-processor chip, known as AsAP, is fully reprogrammable, extremely energy-efficient, highly configurable.

April 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Marrying ultrasound technology with a smartphone, computer experts have created a compact, mobile, palm-sized medical imaging device. William D. Richard, associate professor and research associate David Zar at the computer science and engineering department of Washington University have made commercial ultrasound probes compatible with Microsoft Windows mobile-based smartphones, thanks to a $100,000 Microsoft grant.

April 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - An Indian-origin researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has come up with a new way for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip by exposing it to certain wavelengths of light. Research engineer Rajesh Menon and his colleagues call the new technique absorbance modulation.

March 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Researchers have built a microchip from graphene, a form of pure carbon, that can operate at much higher speeds than existing silicon chips. This will enable faster data transmission in mobile phones and computers.

March 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Using a material called graphene, scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created new superfast chips which can lead to cell phones and other communications systems that can transmit data much faster. Graphene is a form of pure carbon that was first identified in 2004.

February 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Engineers have created a process that may revolutionise the manufacture of nano-devices from computer memory to biomedical sensors by exploiting a novel type of metal. The material can be moulded like plastics to create features at the nano-scale and yet is more durable and stronger than silicon or steel.

January 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Network administrators might soon be able to mount effective, low-cost defences against self-propagating infectious programmes known as worms, thanks to a new strategy devised by an Indian American researcher. Many computers are already equipped with software that can detect when another computer is attempting to attack it.