Innovation Pipeline

Looking back on the historic computer collaboration demonstration in 1968, it was as if a time traveler from the future had returned to San Francisco to share a glimpse of the future. There were other major technology milestones achieved that year with the first man walking on the moon.
The assassinations of Martin [...]

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Oil and water do mix — all too often. And they’re not so easy to separate. Just ask the research scientists trying to develop next-generation water-filtration technologies to do it.
But with the 21st century toolsets of nanotech and chemistry, they promise to overcome vexing problems of cost-effectively removing oil agents from drinking water.
Researchers at Purdue [...]

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Nanoparticles are all the rage for a variety of different applications, ranging from treatments for cancer to use in automobile sensors. Trouble is, the manmade nanomorsels have been raising concern about side effects in humans and the environment.
A University of Missouri research team has devised a method for creating nanoparticles that don’t have negative [...]

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Pushing boundaries. That’s the modus operandi for most students on college campuses. And it takes all forms–from social to political to technological.
Judging by the discussions at last week’s Bears Symposium on the Future of Technology, that spirit is alive and well at the University of California at Berkeley.
This year’s themes and buzzwords were not different [...]

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The exploding use of wireless has created a traffic jam in the communications ether. It’s getting tougher to find a quiet channel to have a conversation.
That’s got Georgia Tech and Purdue lab researchers, and industry partner BAE Systems, putting their heads together.
They’ve devised a solution: a low-power, low-cost spectral analyzer based on micromechanical circuits for [...]

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Research labs like those of UC Berkeley’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences offer a glimpse into the tech innovations a few years out. This year’s UC Berkeley’s annual Bears Research Symposium was no different. It brought out some of the best and brightest professors (and inspired grad students) working on a wide range of challenges from data management to wireless sensors to RF micro-mechanical systems.

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IBM’s life-changing innovations are five years off but engineers say they’ll offer society real benefits.

Crystal-ball gazing is a contact sport in the world of high tech. This past week IBM opened its lab doors to press and analysts to show off some of the innovations it has en route to market. This well-known Silicon Valley facility is a long way from concrete, traffic and noise. The cluster of buildings a few miles south of San Jose is surrounded by grazing land and rolling hills.

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Wireless sensors, or motes as they’re known, could very well be the next wave in network automation. They can serve as security centurions or help monitor heat and cooling in industrial facilities, homes and public places.

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Whenever there’s a shortage of capital, economists and VCs argue that market efficiencies will kick into gear and fill the gap. Others disagree.

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The prospect of harnessing cells to assemble nano-sized containers is expected to transform industries. And researchers have been cautious to set expectations for such nanotech innovations as taking more than a decade to happen.

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