This months issue of Technology Review presents its annual listing of top emerging technologies in various disciplines. Some of the emerging technologies include: -- Connectomics -- Jeff Lichtman at Harvard hopes to elucidate brain development and disease with new technologies that illuminate the web of neural circuits.
-- Graphene Transistors -- A new form of carbon being pioneered by Walter de Heer of Georgia Tech could lead to speedy, compact computer processors. -- Reality Mining -- Sandy Pentland is using data gathered by cell phones to learn about human behavior. -- Wireless Power -- Physicist Marin Soljacic is working toward a world of wireless electricity. -- Offline Web Applications -- Adobe's Kevin Lynch believes that computing applications will become more powerful when they take advantage of the browser and the desktop. To find out what all new technologies are about read the article online @ http://technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=specialsections&sc=emerging08&id=20241 _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
