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The bioluminescent bacteria is kept in a wall of hand-blown glass cells. It is also connected to a food source at the base through thin silicon tubes. The food of the bacteria comes in the form of methane gas. This gas is obtained by converting solid bathroom waste and vegetable trimmings using the methane digester located in Philips' bio-digester kitchen island. The kitchen island is the main hub of the Microbial Home, said the report.
The Bio-light would be operative as long as there were a supply of nutrients. It is worth mentioning here that the resulting light is not bright enough to illuminate an entire room. According to Philips, the Bio-light can be used well to power night-time road markings, warning strips for planes and stairs. | ||||||
Intel has recently announced an undergraduate research internship position, based out of Bangalore, in area of Mobile CPU architecture. The internship is open to undegraduates (B.E/B.Tech), Masters, & Ph.D students.
About Internship: - Intel’s Mobile CPU Architecture team in Bangalore India is in the early development phase for the 2015-2016 generation of CPU/GPU products on Intel’s roadmap. They are currently engaged in architecture tradeoff analysis, microarchitecture research/development, performance/power modeling and analysis on a range of topics.
About Internship: - Intel’s Mobile CPU Architecture team in Bangalore India is in the early development phase for the 2015-2016 generation of CPU/GPU products on Intel’s roadmap. They are currently engaged in architecture tradeoff analysis, microarchitecture research/development, performance/power modeling and analysis on a range of topics.
Some of the focus areas include multilevel large-cache architectures, advanced interconnects for large number of cores and emerging memory technologies. Optimizing the cache hierarchy, interconnect and memory scheduling for power efficient performance, for disparate and concurrent data streams like traditional x86 applications, graphics and multimedia are key challenges being tackled.
How to apply: - Please refer to Intel page for more info and application details. Please search with “Internship, Bangalore” as keywords and you should see a job post no. 611937 with details in search results and application link.
Here is a chance to be a intern with Google in bangalore
The area: Engineering & Operations
Google is and always will be an engineering company. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to tackle some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on millions, if not billions, of users. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on massive scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From AdWords to Chrome, Android to YouTube, Social to Local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.
The role: User Experience Design Intern
The mantra of the the User Interface (UI) team is: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a UI Designer, you have a strong technical background and work closely with Engineers and Product Managers to design products that are simple but great for the user, focusing on interaction and visual design. Using your keen design aesthetic you design and conduct experiments with real users so that improvements to the user experience are based on real user behavior. Your job is to make sure that our products are intuitive, accessible and usable to our millions of users.
You plan and execute the UI designs for assigned projects, sometimes taking the lead on moderately complex projects including designing the high-level flow and the detailed interactions of the project.
Responsibilities:
- Help to define the user model and user interface for new and existing Google products and features
- Develop high-level and/or detailed storyboards, mockups and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
- Gauge the usability of new and existing products and make constructive suggestions for change
Minimum Qualifications:
- BA/BS degree (In lieu of degree, relevant skills or equivalent experience).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Currently enrolled in a BS or MS program in human computer interaction, cognitive psychology, information science or a related field
Gathering the principles of bacteria navigation, researchers are designing a new generation of smart robots that can form intelligent swarms.
| In a brand new trend, robots will seek inspiration from bacteria. Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) have finalised a computational model that defines how bacteria, moving in a swarm is quick at adapting to the given environment and the same could be applied to man-made technologies, including computers and robots. Gathering the principle of bacteria navigation, researchers are designing a new generation of smart robots that can form intelligent swarms and aid in the development of medical micro-robots or de-code systems used in social networks. |
In the computer model developed by the TAU researchers, bacteria decreased their peers’ influence while navigating in a beneficial direction, but listened to each other when they sensed they were failing. This is not only a superior way to operate, but a simple one as well. Such a model shows how a swarm can perform optimally with only simple computational abilities and short-term memory.
Here is the Summer Research Fellowships-2012 by Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, in association with Dept. of Science and Technology and Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi for graduate and post-graduate students.
Minimum academic requirements for applying:
Students who have secured not less than 80% in Maths and Science subjects in their 10th and
12th or equivalent examinations and not less than first class in graduation and post graduation ( if applicable).
Students presently studying in I & II year of B.Sc., I, II & III year of B.E/ B.Tech., I year of M.Sc and I- IV year of Integrated M.Sc. can apply for Life Sciences and Mathematics.
Students presently studying in II year of B.Sc., II & III year of B.E/ B.Tech., I year of M.Sc and II - IVyear of Integrated M.Sc. can apply for Materials Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Physical Sciences,Engineering Sciences and Atmospheric Sciences.
The students selected under this programme are placed with scientists at the Centre or elsewhere in India,for 2 months with a stipend of Rs. 6000 /- p.m and travel support as per Govt. of India norms.
Detailed information and application form can be downloaded from http://www.jncasr.ac.in/srfp.php
Minimum academic requirements for applying:
Students who have secured not less than 80% in Maths and Science subjects in their 10th and
12th or equivalent examinations and not less than first class in graduation and post graduation ( if applicable).
Students presently studying in I & II year of B.Sc., I, II & III year of B.E/ B.Tech., I year of M.Sc and I- IV year of Integrated M.Sc. can apply for Life Sciences and Mathematics.
Students presently studying in II year of B.Sc., II & III year of B.E/ B.Tech., I year of M.Sc and II - IVyear of Integrated M.Sc. can apply for Materials Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Physical Sciences,Engineering Sciences and Atmospheric Sciences.
The students selected under this programme are placed with scientists at the Centre or elsewhere in India,for 2 months with a stipend of Rs. 6000 /- p.m and travel support as per Govt. of India norms.
Detailed information and application form can be downloaded from http://www.jncasr.ac.in/srfp.php
Prosthetic Arm with Smartphone
Trevor Prideaux, a fifty year old man from United Kingdom was born without his left forearm. Years later he was given a prosthetic arm with limited degrees of freedom. Though he got used to the idea, he was still in need of more useful resources for his prosthetic limb. With the invent of smart phones, he thought of an idea by which he could easily text, dial and also use all the applications provided by the gadget. He thought of integrating the device as a part of his prosthetic limb, so that he could easily use it like a normal person.
So, he sought help from Nokia and the Exeter Mobility Center in Devon, and got his wish done. He became the first person in the world to smart phone dock integrated into his prosthetic arm. Prideaux first asked Apple iPhone developers for integrating their device. But, as they were not too confident in this project, he decided to ask the Nokia team. They decided and integrated their latest smart phone, Nokia C7 into the prosthetic limb.
After the integration, he is now easily able to text messages using his manufactured limb, and also make calls by putting his prosthetic forearm up to his ear or by using speakerphone, leaving his right hand free.
This single experiment has led to further unique ideas inside Prideaux’s mind. Apart from being able to record data on how the limb is used to help designers better customize the prosthesis to the person; the limb could also be augmented to make better use of the phone or computer. A small speaker could be attached on to the limb so that the user can listen to some music. He could also add in some extra batteries so that the phone could be continuously charged.
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The CERN Summer Student Program offers undergraduate students of physics, computing and engineering a unique opportunity to join in the day-to-day work of research teams participating in experiments at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Beyond the outstanding first-class scientific value of their stay, the selected students will find working in a multidisciplinary and multicultural environment an extremely enriching personal experience. It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make valuable and long lasting contacts with other students and scientists from all over the World.
In addition to the work in the experimental teams, Summer Students attend a series of lectures specially prepared for them. Several scientists from around the world share their knowledge about a wide range of topics in the fields of theoretical and experimental particle physics and computing. Visits to the accelerators and experimental areas are also part of the Program, as well as discussion sessions, workshops and a poster session.
For detailed information go to this link :
The NASA Space Radiation Summer School (“NSRSS”) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory is designed to provide a “pipeline” of researchers to tackle the challenges of harmful radiation exposure to humans who will travel on space exploration missions. Co-sponsored by NASA’s Space Radiation Research Program, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Universities Space Research Association, the three-week course has been offered each summer for eight years through an open and increasingly competitive application process.
Application to the program is open to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty with an interest in radiation biology. Both foreign nationals and U.S. citizens may apply to the program. Due to the intense nature of the course, applicants must demonstrate oral and written proficiency in the English language. All selected students must satisfy Brookhaven National Laboratory and Department of Energy safety and security requirements in order to be admitted.
This concentrated program is taught by leading university and national laboratory biologists and physicists actively engaged in NASA space radiation research and BNL experts in heavy ion experimentation and methods. Each “professor” lectures on his/her research specialty, with topics including DNA damage and repair, genotoxicity, cell cycle checkpoints and apoptosis, mutagenesis, genomic instability, epigenetics, cell and tissue signaling, neurodegeneration, systems biology, and the relationship of these processes to carcinogenesis and late degenerative effects following exposure to space radiation, as well as the space radiation environment, physics and biochemistry of charged particle interactions, track structure, dosimetry, accelerator operations and space radiation protection.
The Scientific Directors for the 2012 NASA Space Radiation Summer School are Dr. Dudley T. Goodhead and Linda Goodhead, M.Sc. Dr. Dudley Goodhead is Emeritus Director of the Medical Research Council Radiation and Genome Stability Unit, UK. Linda Goodhead is retired Head of the Science Department at Headington, Oxford, UK.
For more information follow this link : http://www.dsls.usra.edu/education/SRSS
After a long hiatus, NASA is returning humans to the Moon. The agency and its partners in academia, industry, and the international community are engaged in an exciting new exploration initiative designed to study the lunar surface robotically beginning in 2008 and with crewed landers before 2020.
NASA asked the National Research Council (NRC) to develop a set of science priorities for this lunar exploration initiative. They recently released a report that summarizes The Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon.
To help integrate those science priorities with NASA's exploration program, the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) is hosting a special summer intern program to evaluate possible landing sites for robotic and human exploration missions. Two teams of students will work with LPI science staff and other collaborators to evaluate the best landing sites to address each of the NRC’s science priorities. This will be a unique team activity that should foster extensive discussions among students and senior science team members. This Lunar Exploration Summer Intern Program will operate parallel with LPI’s regular summer intern program.
This program is open to graduate students in geology, planetary science, and related programs. It is also open to undergraduates with at least 50 semester hours of credit in those fields so that they, too, can participate in lunar exploration activities. The 10-week program runs from May 29, 2012 through August 3, 2012. Selected interns will receive a $5,000 stipend to cover the costs associated with being in Houston for the duration of the program. Additionally, U.S. citizens will receive up to $1,000 in travel expense reimbursement and foreign nationals will receive up to $1,500 in travel expense reimbursement.
The Lunar and Planetary Institute is adjacent to NASA's Johnson Space Center. The Johnson Space Center is home to the human exploration program and the integrated robotic and human systems that are being designed to push exploration beyond low-Earth orbit.
The Lunar Exploration Summer Intern Program is supported by funding from the Lunar and Planetary Institute and the NASA Lunar Science Institute at NASA Ames Research Center.
for more information follow this link - http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar_intern
for more information follow this link - http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar_intern
The Lunar and Planetary Institute invites undergraduates
with at least 50 semester hours of credit to experience cutting-edge research
in the lunar and planetary sciences. As a Summer Intern, you will work
one-on-one with a scientist at the LPI or at the NASA Johnson Space Center on a
research project of current interest in lunar and planetary science.
Furthermore, you will participate in peer-reviewed research, learn from
top-notch planetary scientists, and preview various careers in science.
The 10-week program runs from June 4, 2012 to August 10, 2012. If
selected, you will receive a $5000.00 stipend plus a U.S. travel stipend in the
amout of $1000.00. (Foreign nationals will receive a $1500.00 foreign travel
reimbursement in lieu of the travel stipend.) You will be responsible for U.S.
taxes.
The LPI is located near Johnson Space Center, on the south side of
Houston, Texas. The LPI provides, on NASA's behalf, leadership in the
scientific community for research in lunar, planetary, and solar system
sciences, and linkage with related terrestrial programs.
Go to this link for more information
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lpiintern
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Flytrap Robots Can Hunt and Catch Bugs for Meals
- Flytrap Robot
Researchers at the University of Maine and the Seoul National University have developed two robots that can not only hunt small bugs, but can also digest them for filling their stomach. Both the robots depict the same principle of Venus Flytraps, who snap-shuts its mouth as soon as an insect sits on its sensitive hair.
The robot developed at Maine has muscles designed for capturing its prey. They are artificial in nature and are made of special gold type nanomaterials. The nanomaterials are designed to mimic the muscles that functions inside a flytrap’s mouth. The first report about the robot came in the online version of the journal “Bioinspiration and Biomimetics”. According to them, an ionic polymeric metal composite is used in the manufacture of the device. This composite has a unique bending feature in the presence of an electric field. This feature is applied to make the device trap the insect, similar to the way the flytrap’s lobes expand and contract to catch its prey. All this can be done only in the presence of an electric field. The sensor hairs are made out of the ionic metal composite and two leaves were also designed using a polymer membrane coated with gold electrodes. As shown in the figure above, these two leaves are again connected to a copper electrode and waits for its prey. When an insect sits on top of the sensor hairs, it senses it and sends a signal to the lobes to capture it. The lobes snap towards each other in a fast pace and thus captures it.
The robot developed at Seoul is designed in the similar way as a mouse trap. It consists of a pair of springs made out of carbon fibers. As soon as an insect sits on top of the spring, it sontracts and pulls the carbon fiber leaves together. Thus, the prey is caught.
Both the developers are trying to make some further developments by transporting the dead insect to some small gut for digestion and caloric production. If this experiment becomes successful, not only will they develop a robot that can hunt and kill, but also produce one that can turn its output into something useful.
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