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Illinois ECE 498AL: Programming Massively Parallel Processors
11 Aug 2009 | Courses | Contributor(s): Wen-Mei W Hwu
Spring 2009
Virtually all semiconductor market domains, including PCs, game consoles, mobile handsets, servers, supercomputers, and networks, are converging to concurrent platforms. There are two important reasons for this trend. First, these concurrent processors can potentially offer more …
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Energy and Nanoscience A More Perfect Union
29 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Ratner
Huge problems of energy and sustainability confront the science/engineering community, mankind, and our planet. The energy problem comes in many dimensions, including supply, demand, conservation, transportation, and storage. This overview will stress the nature of these problems, and offer a few …
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C.V. Raman and the Impact of Raman Effect in Quantum Physics, Condensed Matter, and Materials Science
18 Sep 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Anant K. Ramdas
Raman’s momentous discovery in 1928 that the spectral analysis of the light scattered by matter, illuminated with monochromatic light of frequency ωL, reveals new signatures at (ωL ± ωi) , ωi’s being the internal frequencies of the matter [Nature121, 501 (1928); Indian Journal of Physics …
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An Introduction to Quantum Computing
12 Sep 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Edward Gerjuoy
Quantum mechanics, as formulated more than 80 years ago by Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Dirac and other greats, is a wholly sufficient foundation for its modern interrelated subfields of quantum computation (qc) and quantum information (qi), which generally are lumped together into a single subfield …
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Hierarchical Temporal Memory: How a New Theory of Neocortex May Lead to Truly Intelligent Machines
12 Dec 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jeff Hawkins
Coaxing computers to perorm basic acts of perception and robotics, let alone high-level thought, has been difficult. No existing computer can recognize pictures, understand language, or navigate through a cluttered room with anywhere near a child's facility. Following nature's example, Jeff …