New Stuff

Global Perspectives

• China
  energy efficient house, automobiles, SARS vaccines, CPU chips
  
  
• The Netherlands
  hydraulic engineering, water purification, functional food
  
  
• Germany
  Cars: intelligent cars, automotive internet, hydrogen cars
  Energy: renewable energy, safe nuclear energy
  Neurotechnology: brain implants, noninvasive brain-machine interfaces
  
  
• South Africa
  Human Language Technology, knowledge, communication
  Go Open Source Campaign, be developers, not consumers!
  
  
• U.S.
  defense research (at the cost of other underfunded techs)
  
  
• Brazil
  Energy: Biodiesel made from oil seeds, flex-fuel technology
  IT: VM on a disc, voting machines
  
  
• Chile
  Biotech: biomining, vaccine
  and applications in aquaculture, forestry, wine, and fruit.
  

posted by Ling @ 6:42 PM