At a time when banks are shedding IT roles by the dozen, it seems counter-intuitive that 83 per cent of the nation’s chief information officers should report they are confident about the future of their business to the extent that 45 per cent expect to hire IT staff in the first six months of the year. The question remains – is this a dead cat bounce?
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William Atkins
Monday, 22 October 2007 18:54
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), along with associates from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) and the University of Rome (Italy) are studying these tiny wires, along with miniscule microchips. Their paper, to be published in the journal Science, could eventually lead to much smaller electronics, such as supercomputers the size of laptop computers, later to cell phones, and even later to smaller sized objects.
During their research they found that as wires get smaller in diameter they behave differently. In fact, they have developed a computer program that predicts different behaviors in wires as they get smaller and smaller. This information—how tiny nano-wires behave—is considered a major scientific discovery in computer science.
Professor of engineering and electronics (University of Edinburg) Michael Zaiser, one of the researchers, said of their work: “Holding a supercomputer in the palm of your hand will one day be possible - and we are going to make sure all the wires are in the right place."
Zaiser says such technology could be only a decade away.
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