Your computer performs most tasks well. For word processing, certain computations, graphic arts and web surfing, the digital box on your desk is the best tool for the job. But the way your computer works, with its style of mathematics that relies on the binary code system of “on” and “off” 1s and 0s, isn’t […]
Designing A Better Superconductor With Geometric Frustration
Superconductors contain tiny tornadoes of supercurrent, called vortex filaments, that create resistance when they move. This affects the way superconductors carry a current. But a magnet-controlled “switch” in superconductor configuration provides unprecedented flexibility in managing the location of vortex filaments, altering the properties of the superconductor, according to a new paper in Nature Nanotechnology. “We work […]
Notre Dame To Lead $26 Million Multi-University Research Center Developing Next-Generation Computing Technologies
In today’s age of ubiquitous computing, society produces roughly the same amount of data in 10 minutes that would have previously taken 100 years. Within the next decade, experts anticipate the ability to create, share and store a century’s worth of data in less than 10 seconds. To get there, researchers and technologists must overcome […]
Physicists Create First Metamaterial with Rewritable Magnetic Ordering
University of Notre Dame physicists and their collaborators have produced the first rewriteable artificial magnetic charge ice. The research, described in a paper published in Science today, shows strong potential for technological applications from information encoding, reprogrammable magnonics, and also to spintronics. Notre Dame physicist Yong-Lei Wang and his colleagues have found a new way […]
Health IT expert: Electronic medical records finally catching on with policymakers — and Olympians
The U.S. Olympic Committee is converting to electronic medical records (EMRs) this month for hundreds of athletes who will be competing in London, as well as thousands of other athletes who have been seen by Olympic Committee doctors in recent years. EMRs also are catching on nationwide as the federal government encourages health care providers […]