X-Message-Number: 15153 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 15:30:19 +0000 From: "Joseph Kehoe" <> Hi, Merry Christmas http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/health/newsid_1080000/1080303.stm Scientists say they have developed a potent vaccine for Alzheimer's disease which is ready to be tested on humans. The vaccine, developed by a team from the University of Toronto, Canada, appears to prevent and treat the disabling memory loss and dementia associated with the disease. nanodot.org has a link to an article about using Turing Machines in Nanotechnology. Seems relevent considering the recent discussions (but I have not read it) plus other articles on rate of progress (one was already sent to the list) http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/cn121100.htm?iid=update+001211& Intel Corporation researchers have achieved a significant breakthrough... The transistors feature structures just 30 nanometers in size and three atomic layers thick... Scientists expect such powerful microprocessors to allow applications popular in science-fiction stories -- such as instantaneous, real-time voice translation -- to become an everyday reality... Also significant is that these experimental transistors, while featuring capabilities that are generations beyond the most advanced technologies used in manufacturing today, were built using the same physical structure as in today's computer chips http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/20/1421201&mode=thread The project has finally broken 500,000 years of computing time. They haven't detected any Extra Terestrials yet but there have been some interesting close calls. Now if only all 2.6 million of their users could join distributed.net For your amusement... http://www.millennial.org/~ccleave/solarpop/ A Modeling Tool for Solar System Demographics in the Third Millennium Solarpop begins modeling in the year 2000 with current estimates of world population, birth and death rates. Solarpop creates a simple demographics model based on a set of parameters that determines how and when various solar system settlements are created and grow over time. Joseph. ---------------------------------------------- Joseph Kehoe, MSc Raven Internet Technologies Ltd. ph: +353 503 52450 www.raven.ie Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15153