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Wednesday January 30, 2013 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines DARPA shows off 1.8-gigapixel surveillance drone, can spot a terrorist from 20,000 feet Near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 to miss Earth on Feb. 15 Breaking the million-core supercomputer barrier Artificial pancreas and algorithm improve treatment for type 1 diabetes Army Corps of Engineers using 3D printers to create dam models Latest News DARPA shows off 1.8-gigapixel surveillance drone, can spot a terrorist from 20,000 feet January 30, 2013   DARPA and the US Army have taken the wraps off ARGUS-IS, a 1.8-gigapixel video surveillance platform that can resolve details as small as six inches from an altitude of 20,000 feet (6km), ExtremeTech reports. ARGUS is by far the highest-resolution surveillance platform in the world, and probably the highest-resolution camera in the world, period. ARGUS, … more… Near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 to miss Earth on Feb. 15 January 30, 2013   A small asteroid named 2012 DA14 will pass inside the geosynchronous satellite ring on February 15, but the orbit will be no closer to the Earth’s surface than 3.2 Earth radii , according to NASA JPL.. Although its size is not well determined, this near-Earth asteroid is thought to be about 45 meters in diameter. Breaking the million-core supercomputer barrier January 30, 2013   Stanford Engineering‘s Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) has set a new record in computational science by successfully using a supercomputer with more than 1.5 million computing cores to solve a complex fluid dynamics problem: the prediction of noise generated by a supersonic jet engine. Joseph Nichols, a research associate in the center, worked on the newly installed Sequoia IBM … more… Artificial pancreas and algorithm improve treatment for type 1 diabetes January 30, 2013 The first trial comparing a new dual-hormone “artificial pancreas” with conventional diabetes treatment using an insulin pump has been completed by researchers at IRCM (Institut de Recherches Cliniques) of Montreal, led by endocrinologist Dr. Rémi Rabasa-Lhoret. It showed improved glucose levels and lower risks of hypoglycemia. How it works The artificial pancreas developed at IRCM is … more… Army Corps of Engineers using 3D printers to create dam models January 30, 2013   About 25 miles northeast of Sacramento, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District construction crews are working to complete one of the Corps’ biggest projects — a new spillway at Folsom Dam, designed to help reduce the risk of flooding throughout the Sacramento region. With an estimated project cost of more than $750 million, it’s … more… New EVENTS Long Now Seminar – Chris Anderson presents “The Makers Revolution” Dates: Feb 19, 2013 Location: San Francisco, California more...   First Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy and Ethics Dates: May 20 – 21, 2013 Location: Chandler, Arizona more...   Future Publishing and Accessibility Dates: Jun 13 – 14, 2013 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark more... New VIDEOS   Can robots be made creative enough to invent their own language? New books Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age author Steven Johnson   Combining the deft social analysis of Where Good Ideas Come From with the optimistic arguments of Everything Bad Is Good For You, New York Times bestselling author Steven Johnson’s Future Perfect makes the case that a new model of political change is on the rise, transforming everything from local governments to classrooms, from protest movements to health care. Johnson paints a compelling … more… Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning author Benjamin K. Bergen   Whether it’s brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning—a uniquely human magic trick in which you vibrate your vocal cords to make your innermost thoughts pop up in someone else’s mind. You can use it to talk about all sorts of things—from your new labradoodle … more… The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future author W. Patrick McCray   In 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity’s expansion. A decade later, Eric Drexler, an MIT-trained engineer, turned his attention to the molecular world as the place where society’s future needs could be met using self-replicating nanoscale machines. These modern utopians predicted that their technologies … more… Visit KurzweilAI.net You are currently subscribed to the KurzweilAI.net newsletter as *|EMAIL|* To unsubscribe, please click here. To change your email preferences, please click here. *|LIST:ADDRESS|*.