Can you point to a place where the Nobel site is incorrect? Note that the Prize is for "efficient blue light-emitting diodes", not the first. Also if you look at this document is specifies that the work was in efficient blue LEDs and mentions earlier work on blue LEDs.
None of them were based out of Harvard.
According to this document from the Nobel committee, white LEDs emit more than 300 lm/W, while CFLs are at 70 lm/W. This suggests white LEDs are more than 4 times as efficient than CFLs.
Apparently the Nobel Prize in Physics also goes to inventions. See this comment: 'Nobel Prizes in physics often go to fundamental discoveries such as the Higgs Boson. But when the committee makes an award for an invention, "we really emphasize the usefulness of the invention," said Anne L'Huillier, an atomic physics professor at Lund University in Sweden, also speaking at the press conference. And the blue LED is nothing if not useful.' (From here.)
The Nobel Prize in Physics was previously awarded for the inventions of the transistor and integrated circuits.
When Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura produced bright blue light beams from their semi-conductors in the early 1990s, they triggered a funda-mental transformation of lighting technology. Red and green diodes had been around for a long time but without blue light, white lamps could not be created. Despite considerable efforts, both in the scientific community and in industry, the blue LED had remained a challenge for three decades.
They succeeded where everyone else had failed. Akasaki worked together with Amano at the University of Nagoya, while Nakamura was employed at Nichia Chemicals, a small company in Tokushima. Their inventions were revolutionary. Incandescent light bulbs lit the 20th century; the 21st century will be lit by LED lamps.
White LED lamps emit a bright white light, are long-lasting and energy-efficient. They are constantly improved, getting more efficient with higher luminous flux (measured in lumen) per unit electrical input power (measured in watt). The most recent record is just over 300 lm/W, which can be compared to 16 for regular light bulbs and close to 70 for fluorescent lamps. As about one fourth of world electricity consumption is used for lighting purposes, the LEDs contribute to saving the Earth’s resources. Materials consumption is also diminished as LEDs last up to 100,000 hours, compared to 1,000 for incandescent bulbs and 10,000 hours for fluorescent lights.
The LED lamp holds great promise for increasing the quality of life for over 1.5 billion people around the world who lack access to electricity grids: due to low power requirements it can be powered by cheap local solar power.
The invention of the blue LED is just twenty years old, but it has already contributed to create white light in an entirely new manner to the benefit of us all.
Shuji Nakamura went on to develop the white LED and the blue laser which is used in Blu-Ray devices.
There's no justice in this world.
The more precise term is Industrial Internet which is considered a subset of the Internet of Things. It is considered a subset because the same types of technologies are being used.
The Internet of Things doesn't require third-parties, but such third-parties are often helpful if they provide useful services.
Was that supervisor one of the people that got laid off?
Ibrahim Balic is the researcher who in the past claimed to have been responsible for uncovering a flaw that brought down Apple's Dev Center. As it turned out, he uncovered a lesser problem around the time a more significant flaw was exploited. It seems that he is a bit of an attention seeker, so I would take anything that comes from him with a grain of salt.
I can't find the exact links that cover the older story, but here are some related ones:
http://www.cultofmac.com/24151...
http://9to5mac.com/2013/08/20/...
http://venturebeat.com/2013/07...
You don't need to learn languages to do linguistics. You need to learn about languages. It helps to know the languages involved, but if that was required comparative linguistics would get nowhere. Comparative linguistics works by building on the data gathered about the target languages, often by researchers who went to study them.
Amusingly, there are actually more devices deployed with my Objective-C stack than Apple's.
Where do you obtain these #s? What are some of the apps running your stack?
...many years ago. An extra $10,000 a year isn't enough to get me to program in that language again.
I wouldn't advise anyone to study COBOL unless they really needed the job. If you go that route you are going to be doing uninteresting (to me anyway) programming in a ghetto while other programmers of your generation are doing more interesting things. COBOL is a dead-end.
Yes, Apple is claiming that the A8 only draws 50% of the power of the A7, so the emphasis was probably on power reduction as opposed to performance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
According to Apple, the A8 draws 50% of the power of the A7. So it is a significant improvement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
I'm no archaeologist, but I doubt most archaeologists would claim this discovery ranks that highly. The person making the claim is an expert on the Franklin expedition, so he's bound to be a bit biased. It certainly sounds interesting, but we know a lot about Britain in the 1840s. I think the bigger archaeological discoveries involve civilizations we don't know much about.
Crazee Edeee, his prices are INSANE!!!
