The Argentine School of Micro-Nanoelectronics, Technology and Applications (EAMTA) and its associated Conference (CAMTA) is a high technical quality Argentine forum for researchers, technologists and companies in the fields of micro and nano electronic technologies. The School is an initiative whose main objective is to promote the development of advanced technology in the country, through the design of integrated circuits and its support/associated technologies. The fourth School of Micro and Nanoelectronics will take place from September 26 till October 4, 2009, in the facilities of Instituto Balseiro (http://www.ib.edu.ar/) and CAB (Atomic Center Bariloche) in Bariloche (http://www.bariloche.com/) During the week of the event, basic and advanced courses will be offered.

The amount of equipment you need to operate your small or home business office will depend on what kind of business you operate. For instance, if you have made a career out of repairing leaded glass windows in your clients' homes, chances are, your technological needs are minimal and you may not even need a computer. But if you operate a research business, conducting on-line database searches for corporate clients, you will need at least a computer, modem, telephone, fax machine, printer, file cabinet, answering machine or voice mail, and comfortable office furniture. If you spend

The British Science Festival  is one of Europe's largest science festivals, taking place each September. The Festival is in a different location in the UK each year, bringing you the latest in science, technology and engineering. The British Science Festival, one of Europe's largest science festivals is being held this year at the University of Surrey, Guildford. Continue reading...

The Size of a Real Mind:  Beyond the Physicist's Paradigm The human brain contains somewhere around 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses.  That's the hardware.  The software of the human brain is the result of millions of years of evolution and contains perhaps tens of thousands of complex functional adaptations.  The brain itself is not a uniform lump but a highly modular supersystem; each of the two hemispheres of the cerebral cortex is divided into 52 areas, most of which can be further subdivided into five or six maps.  The evolutionarily ancient subcortical structures

Hundreds of disorders affect the nervous system. Some, like stroke, the epilepsies, and Alzheimer’s disease, affect millions of Americans. Others are rare. All are important. As we learn more about the nervous system and about mechanisms of disease, classification schemes are in a state of flux. The following presents one brief and admittedly incomplete listing of nervous system disorders by categories. A few examples are included. • Stroke and vascular diseases • Epilepsies • Demyelinating disorders, such as multiple sclerosis. • Tumors, such as

To begin understanding the curious phenomenon of "Webcams" or Web cameras, ask yourself this: Is a live picture of a cat sunning itself on a rug an event likely to draw thousands of spectators? Then consider this: During the four days after the print edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer published an April 22 feature about it, the KittyCam.com Web site logged more than 2,500 individual visitors a day. These were all people who came for a live view of an ordinary cat laying next to an ordinary patio door. Continue reading...

In his April 9 column in The New York Times, Nicholas Kristof claimed it was time for environmentalists to “drop the hostility to nuclear power” because it is relatively clean when compared to the greenhouse gases produced by burning coal. His article, coupled with Judith Miller’s recent piece in the Times about the new Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, took me back more than 25 years, to when I lived in northern New Mexico and reported on one legacy of the nuclear age that was -- and apparently still is -- greatly overlooked, and

A California judge recently passed on the chance to help settle the phony existential debate that has roiled the traditional media for a decade: Can independent, online news-gatherers invoke shield-law protections, thereby obtaining the status of “journalists” under the law? The answer should be yes -- despite the residual prejudices of some media elites against the Internet’s lone wolves. Reporting by bloggers a few years ago helped topple former U.S. Senate leader  And “guys in their pajamas” -- to paraphrase one former CBS executive’s impolitic comments -- took the legs out from under Dan Rather’s “scoop”

Among the greatest challenges facing marketers today is how to make their investment in the Internet worthwhile. While most companies have at least a basic Web presence, they haven’t all found ways to make their Web sites vital to their marketing programs. Those who have, however, are finding that the Internet extends new benefits to their customers, making it easier and faster for them to find and purchase items, and allowing them to check current product availability and pricing. Companies that have implemented such capabilities on their sites report that demands on customer service have been reduced and sales are

International Congress of Science Education 10 years of the Journal of Science Education Cartagena, Colombia, 15-18 July 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS

We would like to invite academic teachers, researchers as well as postgraduate students to the INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF SCIENCE EDUCATION, 10 YEARS OF THE JOURNAL OF SCIENCE EDUCATION.

The Congress will be held in Cartagena, Colombia from 15th to 18 of July 2009 Continue reading...