Teleportation of Quantum data

Researchers at the university of south wales successfully "teleported" packets of light waves in a complex quantum data string.

"It opens the way for high-speed, high-fidelity transmission of large volumes of information, such as quantum encryption keys, via quantum communications networks."

it is a fairly brief article with a lot of technical data, I couldn't hope to explain it all here without making all involved in the process numb and reeling. Basically they transferred a complex string of linear equations with no actuall transfer. The subject was destroyed on the original end and created on the other. Since there is no real middle the data is duplicated with high fidelity at the other end. I really don;t know what else to do without spewing alot of jargon, so her eis the link and some wiki sites I used to try to figure out why this was a deal =p

 http://www.kurzweilai.net/beam-me-up-qantum-teleporter-breakthrough

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_problem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computronium

Triumph of the Nerds Pt. 2

I thought it was very interesting  how cutthroat it became, in a nerdy way. I always had a vague idea of how lucky people like Gates had to have gotten but it really was a case of everything lining up followed up by some initiative and hard work. How cliche does that sound? I suppose though that cliches and stereotypes were all based off of something though. IBM really missed out with their stodgy bureaucracy, and yet they still managed to hang on and even thrive despite several setbacks, I guess that's the upside to being established or set in one's ways. That other fellow Killdal messed up as well, even when he got tipped off by Gates he did not foresee the impact of that moment, but I suppose that's how most great moments are, you never recognize them except in hindsight. Although it was an interesting movie I find myself lacking in words at the moment. Perhaps I'll add more later but probably not =P

IBM wants to kick out the jams with predictive software

IBM is working on and testing software to predict traffic patterns and help people avoid traffic jams. They apparently already tried something like that out in London and it caused crashes and was generally a failure. They apparently moved on (read ignored) since then and want to have some finished soon that runs on smart phones using the location tracking data alongside road sensors to receive data for where people are driving and when and use this data to predict where traffic jams are liikely to occur. Nothing amazing but then again evryday can't be nanomachines removing cancer cells, or microchips storeing lightwaves.

http://www.techeye.net/software/ibm-wants-to-kick-out-the-jams-with-predictive-software?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+techeye+%28Tech+Eye%29

Rainbow trapping Scientist strives to slow light waves futher

In a paper published March 29 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Qiaoqiang Gan (pronounced "Chow-Chung" and "Gone") Published a paper march 29th that described how they slowed broadband light waves using a type of material called nanoplasmonic structures.

"Gan explains that the ultimate goal is to achieve a breakthrough in optical communications called multiplexed, multiwavelength communications, where optical data can potentially be tamed at different wavelengths, thus greatly increasing processing and transmission capacity."

It gets pretty heavy after that but basically he is trying to catch lightwaves of varying frequencies in nanoscale grooves in a metallic surface, which would slow down light waves and allow them to be processed better at the receiving end. If things keep advanceing as he hopes

"These plasmonic chips provide the critical connection between nanoelectronics and photonics, Gan explains, allowing these different types of devices to be integrated, a prerequisite for realizing the potential of optical computing, "lab-on-a-chip" biosensors and more efficient, thin-film photovoltaic materials."

Such applications are obviously awesome, really in my opinion, anything that gets us clsoer to SciFi is a win in my book, and light catching processor chips would definately fit that.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110412162406.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Google Speeds up the web with SPDY

Google created a new internet protocol to speed up web page loading over HTTP, called SPDY (speedy). It is  already in use in Chrome if you go to a google website as a toggle option. According to the author of this article it sped things up by about 20% and the benchmarking tool they provide backed up what he had seen himself showing a 15% increase in performance.
      Google started working on this in November 2009, and currently it only works if both the browser and the website server both use SPDY. Currently only chrome and google sites and services use it but
Google plans on open-sourcing SPDY and the C++ code is available today. There’s also an experimental SPDY Apache Web server module and Ruby code if you want to tinker with it yourself on the server side.
      SPDY also won’t work equally well on all kinds of data. According to a note in the SPDY developers’ mailing list, “SPDY requires that the client support gzip compression [a data compression program] of payloads. The hope is that gzip quickly, simply and automatically gets pretty good compression of the payload.”
      That means that since it compresses the data , transfers of data that is already compressed will not see much of an improvement, but you should still see some improvement because SPDY compresses the HTTP header, and  more importantly, according to the second draft of the SPDY specification, SPDY “adds a framing layer for multiplexing multiple, concurrent streams across a single TCP connection (or any reliable transport stream). The framing layer is optimized for HTTP-like request-response streams.” Under SPDY, there is no limit to the number of requests that can be issued concurrently over a single SPDY connection. Because requests are interleaved on a single channel, the protocol is more efficient over TCP.
     Also something I found neat is with SPDY, a Web browser can also prioritize requests. This way you can get the most critical data first, say a video stream, rather than wasting waiting around for an ad to appear before starting the video.


Overall this seems promising and like the author of this article says: "I hope that Google will soon officially open the source and submit SPDY to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to make it an official standard."



http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/google-speeds-up-the-web-with-spdy/930

Triumph of the Nerds Pt. 1

Well, I thought it was interesting to get some of the things I had heard about verified and clarified. Like why Silicon valley is called silicone valley and not computer valley (because the silicon chip got it's start there), and other such tidbits. I don;t know exactly what I supposed to do for this assignment. There were some questions on the board in class but to be honest I don't really remember what they were. So in lieu of any set guidelines I just figured I would give my thoughts on the film thus far:
      I really liked seeing how the whole industry got started, and what things were like for PC users back then as well as seeing how the big names got their starts. How the first PC didn't really do anything, but that they found ways to use it anyway, like playing the tune by putting the radio on top of it. That type of innovation and creative thinking is really how things developed to the point they are at now. Some people thought it was boring probably, and I suppose if you knew everything covered or were not interested in the topic it was a bit dry, and dated but I enjoyed it. There were several things covered that escape me as I sit here and type, but that does not mean I didn't absorb it, I'm just a little tired.
      I suppose the point of this whole assignment was to see if we payed attention to the film, and I watched it exclusively that day, but my memory is a fickle thing and can't be relied upon to produce facts from subjective material like a film, but I am fairly confidant I gained from watching the film and am looking forward to the next installment. If you are dissatisfied with my work, that's your prerogative I suppose and I shall have to take whatever judgement you render upon it and me.

Until Monday,  fare thee well

IEEE prepares to regulate the cloud

IEEE has announced that it will begin a new initiative that aim to put in place a set of global standards for cloud computing. The standards will be put forth in two projects: IEEE P2301 which they say will
provide an “intuitive roadmap” for firms such as HP, which is beginning to roll out cloud services.
It is hoped that the P2301 standards give more clarity to users over what they are buying into as the move to cloud computing gathers pace.
      The second project P2302 will define protocols and functionality that are required to enable the cloud-to-cloud interoperability demanded by users, which it claims will have the effect that for example, naming and routing protocols did for the Internet.


The man leading the proposals, Steve Diamond
believes that just as the early Internet caused an upheaval in the way information was transformed, the cloud is similarly “disruptive technology and business model that is primed for explosive growth and rapid transformation”.
     He also claims that “without a flexible, common framework for interoperability," innovation could become stifled.
No one knows how restrictive the regulations will be but there is talk in some quarters that over-regulation would not be beneficial. With the big companies like Microsoft and IBM pushing cloud forward and the responses of business to it, mass migration to the cloud will probably be happening sooner rather than later.

The cloud cometh...


http://www.techeye.net/internet/ieee-prepares-regulations-for-the-cloud?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+techeye+%28Tech+Eye%29