12/02/2019
Cryogenics is the study of the production of extremely cold temperatures and is a field of science that looks at what happens when materials, whether metals or gases, are exposed to very low temperatures.
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11/02/2019
Is software ever finished? As Leonardo da Vinci observed with art 500 years ago, it is not so much finished as worked on until it is time for it to be abandoned.
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23/01/2019
Since Galvani discovered the effect of electricity on frogs’ legs more than two centuries ago, scientists have gradually been able to tune into what the body’s nervous system is doing through charge transfers.
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21/01/2019
In not much more than a decade, deep learning has moved from a research curiosity to a technology that could underpin a new generation of autonomous vehicles and robots: machines that can respond more intelligently to the world they perceive.
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14/01/2019
From the first autonomous vehicles to 5G and the realisation of mobile AR devices, here’s what to look out for in the year ahead.
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06/12/2018
Today, artificial neural networks underpin much of the research into artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.
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22/11/2018
Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are familiar terms, and can actually be dated back as early as the 1830s. Today, industry raves about their potential, so why is it that these technologies have still to deliver on the promises being made?
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29/10/2018
Artificial intelligence (AI) has kindled the imagination of computer scientists for decades and while the ambition and enthusiasm around AI has tended to clash with the complexity of the task, today’s computational power has risen exponentially and the ambition of general AI has been curbed sufficiently to match that power.
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25/10/2018
When it comes to engineering outreach, AESSEAL puts its money where its mouth is and proved a worthy Grand Prix Winner.
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26/09/2018
As the maker-market thrives, a new breed of engineer has appeared, and one which needs some nurturing.
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10/09/2018
By 2020, for every human, there are expected to be 26 smart devices and if that forecast from Intel is accurate, that means around 200billion connected ‘things’.
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10/09/2018
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The Cockcroft Institute is unique among institutions, bringing together industrialists, scientists and engineers to advance the science and technology supporting particle accelerators.
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27/06/2018
While the dominance of 300mm continues, it has come under unexpected pressure from its immediate predecessor, the 200mm wafer.
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25/06/2018
Health, social care and medical research are all witnessing profound change at the hands of technology. Could digitalised healthcare help to transform the provision of services?
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12/06/2018
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The NESD programme is looking to develop technology that can interface with single neurons in the brain.
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25/04/2018
Demand is growing for faster processor architectures to support embedded vision and artificial intelligence.
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10/04/2018
When it comes to delivering wearable devices the balance between power and performance remains the key design challenge.
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13/03/2018
Augmented reality is an old technology with new hopes – and could change the face of electronic design.
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14/02/2018
UKRI is to map the UK’s research and innovation infrastructure, looking to identify what will be needed for the UK to stay competitive in the next 10 to 15 years.
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11/01/2018
Oxford University has a reputation not only as an internationally recognised seat of learning but increasingly as a hotbed of commercial innovation and small business creation.
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13/12/2017
Last month saw the publication of the Industrial Digitalisation Review which outlined a series of proposals to boost the UK’s economy through the deployment of advanced digital technologies including: robotics, 3D printing, augmented and virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
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12/12/2017
At the turn of the 19th Century, Friedrich Heusler was surprised to find he could unlock the magnetism inside the distinctly non-magnetic metals copper, manganese and tin by combining them.
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28/11/2017
It is easy to see artificial intelligence (AI) as a naturally power-hungry technology; it demands racks of servers stuffed with a combination of multicore CPUs, GPUs and, increasingly, FPGAs that crunch through terabytes of data to form the connections between millions of virtual neurons.
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16/11/2017
Of all the new semiconductor device technologies that have been introduced over the past few years, gallium nitride (GaN) is arguably generating the most far-reaching effect across a number of different applications areas.
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14/11/2017
Set up in 1956 Roke Manor Research has over the past 60 years established itself as a world-class electronics engineering consultancy.
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