Nanotechnology To Change Our Lives
News Thus far the discipline has been largely confined to sci-fi dramas but according to Depak Uttamchandani, professor at the electronic and electrical engineering department of Strathclyde University, nanotechnology is far from fiction.
[August 25, 2000, 13:52]
SpamNet Signs Up Surfers To Fight Junk Email
News Prakash drew inspiration for the company from the sci-fi novel A Fire Upon The Deep, by computer science professor Vernon Vinge, who wrote about a router the size of a planet "that could filter spam," Prakash said.
[June 19, 2002, 14:09]
US Scientists Build Brainy Leech Computer
News Despite being age-old fodder for Sci-Fi writers, computers that think for themselves is within our reach, said Ditto. A US team at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has developed a machine based on the neurons of leeches, in a pioneering project...
[June 7, 1999, 12:22]
Researchers, Literally, Catch Some Rays
News Just a few years ago, Hau brought the speed of light down to a manageable 30 metres per second, much slower than its normal 300 million metres per second, according to Seth Lloyd, an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
[January 22, 2001, 8:33]
