UCLA Plasma Physics 256 G5 Cluster

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Powerful New Computer Cluster Will
Tackle Complex Problems In Physics And
Computer Science

Powerful New Computer Cluster Will
Tackle Complex Problems In Physics And
Computer Science 07/24/2004 07:49 PM
Playing the ancient Chinese game of go is among the tasks that awaits a powerful new cluster of Macintosh G5 computers set up at UCSC to tackle complex problems in physics and computer science. By Tim Stephens, UC Santa Cruz Currents (via MyAppleMenu)

Bad film physics to teach good real
physics

Bad film physics to teach good real
physics 04/29/2004 09:20 AM
Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics is a very good physics primer in the guise of a very funny critique of the ways that Hollywood bends the laws of physics when it makes movies.

Saying that shards of broken glass are razor sharp is an understatement. A shattered window contains thousands of incredibly sharp edges and dagger-like points. It takes almost no force for one of these points or edges to cause a laceration. However, people in movies routinely jump through plate glass windows without receiving a single scratch.

Broken glass has at least two mechanisms for slashing a person diving through a window: its weight and its inertia. First, large heavy shards of glass can fall like guillotines, slicing off body parts. Second, when a person jumps or, even worse, drives a motorcycle through a window, the shards of glass tend to stay in place due to their inertia. The only way to move them is to apply a force. If the person's body provides this force by pushing on the edge of a piece of glass, it can slice right through clothing, skin, and flesh. In the real world, jumping or driving through a plate glass window would be suicidal.

There are individuals who have accidentally fallen through windows without sustaining serious injuries. There are also people who have survived the Ebola virus. However, in both cases the odds are not particularly good.

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Avocent Introduces a Wireless VGA
Expansion Solution for Pioneer
Industrial Plasma Panels Eliminates
need for PC at each plasma for
efficient, cost effective digital
signage connectivity

Avocent Introduces a Wireless VGA
Expansion Solution for Pioneer
Industrial Plasma Panels Eliminates
need for PC at each plasma for
efficient, cost effective digital
signage connectivity 06/10/2004 03:08 AM
Avocent Wireless, a division of Avocent Corporation (Nasdaq: AVCT) today announced the world’s first wireless VGA plug-in module for Pioneer Electronics’ PDP-504CMX and PDP-434CMX plasma panels. A demonstration of the new Avocent technology can be seen in Pioneer’s booth #1055 at the InfoComm show June 9-11 in Atlanta. [PRWEB Jun 10, 2004]

Hitachi Agrees to Acquire Fujitsu
Hitachi Plasma Display Shares and Plasma
Technology Patents

Hitachi Agrees to Acquire Fujitsu
Hitachi Plasma Display Shares and Plasma
Technology Patents 03/25/2005 07:36 PM
Investors Business Daily Mar 25 2005 8:30PM GMT

Cluster SSH - Cluster Admin Via SSH

Cluster SSH - Cluster Admin Via SSH 12/15/2003 05:50 AM
ClusterSSH@SF.net Homepage Started

Semel donates $25 million to UCLA

Semel donates $25 million to UCLA 06/17/2004 05:43 PM
The university will use the windfall to fund research and education into autism, addiction and other illnesses.

Yahoo CEO Semel gives $25 million to
UCLA

Yahoo CEO Semel gives $25 million to
UCLA 06/17/2004 04:33 PM
Source: Yahoo! Finance - Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Terry Semel and his wife have donated $25 million to the University of California at Los Angeles to endow its Neuropsychiatric Institute, the university said on Thursday....

Yahoo CEO gives huge gift to UCLA

Yahoo CEO gives huge gift to UCLA 06/18/2004 06:29 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Jun 18 2004 10:27AM GMT

Fresno St. Wins Silicon Classic Over
UCLA

Fresno St. Wins Silicon Classic Over
UCLA 12/31/2003 12:04 PM
AP via Sunspot Dec 31 2003 10:19AM ET

Fresno St. Beats UCLA in Silicon Classic

Fresno St. Beats UCLA in Silicon Classic 12/31/2003 05:03 AM
AP via Sunspot Dec 31 2003 4:21AM ET

UCLA Geophysicist says major quake to
hit LA by September

UCLA Geophysicist says major quake to
hit LA by September 04/16/2004 11:50 AM
A geophysicist with a good track record of predicting quakes based on fault line stress data says Los Angeles will experience a nasty 6.4 quake by September.

The experts predicted in June an earthquake measuring 6.4 or higher would strike within nine months in a 496-kilometre region of central California, including San Simeon, where a 6.5-magnitude temblor struck December 22, killing two people. In July, they said they predicted a magnitude 7.0 or higher quake in a region that included Hokkaido by December 28. The September 25 quake fell within that period. Now they predict a major quake will hit an area that stretches across desert regions to the east of Los Angeles, home to around nine million people, including the Mojave desert and the resort town of Palm Springs, which lies near the notorious San Andreas fault.

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UCLA laptop theft exposes ID info

UCLA laptop theft exposes ID info 06/10/2004 04:02 PM
Notebook nicked from van months ago contained data on blood donors. Officials say they only recently recognized danger.

Yahoo! Chairman donates 25 million
dollars to UCLA

Yahoo! Chairman donates 25 million
dollars to UCLA 06/17/2004 06:00 PM
Xinhua News Agency Jun 17 2004 9:43PM GMT

Lawrence B. Robinson, 85; UCLA Professor
Emeritus of Engineering

Lawrence B. Robinson, 85; UCLA Professor
Emeritus of Engineering 04/15/2005 04:39 AM
Los Angeles Times Apr 15 2005 8:44AM GMT

Yahoo! CEO Semel, wife give $25 million
to UCLA institute

Yahoo! CEO Semel, wife give $25 million
to UCLA institute 06/17/2004 04:29 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Jun 17 2004 7:37PM GMT

Yahoo Exec and Wife Give UCLA $25
Million (Los Angeles Times)

Yahoo Exec and Wife Give UCLA $25
Million (Los Angeles Times) 06/18/2004 05:10 AM
Los Angeles Times - The board chairman of Yahoo Inc. and his wife are donating $25 million to endow the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, the institute's director, Dr. Peter Whybrow, announced Thursday.

UCLA says stolen computer puts 145,000
blood donors at theft risk

UCLA says stolen computer puts 145,000
blood donors at theft risk 06/10/2004 03:06 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Jun 10 2004 7:47AM GMT

UCLA Alumni Association Retains the
Accounting Firm of Singer Lewak
Greenbaum & Goldstein, LLP

UCLA Alumni Association Retains the
Accounting Firm of Singer Lewak
Greenbaum & Goldstein, LLP 07/17/2004 02:52 AM
The UCLA Alumni Association today announced that they have selected the accounting firm of Singer Lewak Greenbaum & Goldstein, LLP (SLGG) as its new independent auditor. [PRWEB Jul 17, 2004]

So You Think Physics is Funny?

So You Think Physics is Funny? 12/05/2003 04:12 PM
mzs writes "I just found this article in PhysicsWorld by Robert P. Crease detailing some of the 'better' physics jokes that readers sent him in response to an ...

3D Physics Engine

3D Physics Engine 06/29/2004 05:28 PM
First Post

Physics-Unit-0.03

Physics-Unit-0.03 03/20/2003 05:29 PM

Physics Goes To Hollywood

Physics Goes To Hollywood 04/24/2004 06:08 AM

Extreme Physics

Extreme Physics 02/19/2004 02:40 AM

Using Physics Engine in UI

Using Physics Engine in UI 04/14/2004 06:27 AM

While Longhorn will be breaking some new grounds in GUI when it is released (eyeroll), I am afraid the Longhorn GUI team is too focused on the 'look' and not enough on the 'feel'.  Onscreen objects should not only look great, but also feel right.  If an object looks heavy, it should feel heavy when I am pressing on it or moving it around.  If the surface of an object looks rubbery or plastic-like, objects behave accordingly when objects are dropped on it.  GUI designers have forgotten about physics, something game programmers have not.

Unfortunately, there aren't any physics engines for GUI available today and it would take more than a patch to retrofit existing game physics engine for GUI.  I hope someone writes one so onscreen objects can exhibit real world properties like momentum, collision effects, elasity, etc.  There is also the sound to consider but, until affordable sound projection technologies becomes readily available, noise will be too much to bear in typical office environments.

Physics?s Puzzle

Physics?s Puzzle 05/03/2004 01:53 PM
Something?s been puzzling me about physics: why is it so easy? Everything can be expressed in a handful of relatively?

The Physics of Baseball

The Physics of Baseball 05/20/2004 10:15 AM

£1,000 to tempt physics students

£1,000 to tempt physics students 01/22/2004 11:36 AM
The Institute of Physics is offering poorer students bursaries to study the subject.

Comic Book Physics

Comic Book Physics 02/16/2004 12:59 AM

Cartoon Laws of Physics

Cartoon Laws of Physics 01/18/2004 08:08 AM
Piirrettyjen filmien fysiikan lait .. The Cartoon Laws of Physics .. Physics .. More

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Social Physics Takeaways

Social Physics Takeaways 06/24/2005 09:08 PM
John Clippinger of SocialPhysics.org provided some Provocative Take Aways at the end of his Supernova speech: Trust is biologically encoded and supported by emotions Can have principled strategies for acheiving high levels of trusted exchange Identity is multiple. distributed....

The Physics of the Hydrogen Economy

The Physics of the Hydrogen Economy 01/04/2005 05:56 PM

The Shaggy Steed of Physics

The Shaggy Steed of Physics 09/14/2004 06:12 PM

Betting on the big questions of physics

Betting on the big questions of physics 08/27/2004 01:46 PM
David Pescovitz: British bookmaker Ladbrokes is now accepting wagers on the future of physics. They've opened a book on:

* Understanding the origin of cosmic rays by 2010 (4/1 odds)
* The ATLAS experiment at CERN finding the Higgs Boson by 2010 (6/1 odds)
* The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) detecting gravitational waves by 2010 (10/1 odds)
* Building a fusion power station by 2010 (100/1 odds)

Anyone can place bets on these breakthroughs during the next two weeks. Apparently, New Scientist magazine is also involved in the gamble, dedicating ten pages to it in the print edition.

“I’d be tempted to take a bet on the Higgs at 6-1,” says Brian Foster who heads the particle physics group at the University of Oxford in the UK. “I’ve been quite instrumental in betting the taxpayers’ money on us finding it, so I’d better put my money where my mouth is.”

Link to New Scientist article. Link to Ladbrokes.

Top 100 Papers in Physics Ranked

Top 100 Papers in Physics Ranked 08/02/2004 01:52 PM

Physics goes in search of 'cool'

Physics goes in search of 'cool' 01/05/2005 01:58 PM
Einstein Year is launched in the UK and Ireland to inspire the next generation of physicists.

Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics

Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics 05/05/2004 07:05 AM

Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics

THE NOBLE CAUSE

Technonerds go to movies strictly for entertainment, and of course, the most entertaining part comes after the movie when they can dissect, criticize, and argue the merits of every detail. However, when supposedly serious scenes totally disregard the laws of physics in blatantly obvious ways it's enough to make us retch. The motion picture industry has failed to police itself against the evils of bad physics. This page is provided as a public service in hopes of improving this deplorable matter. The minds of our children and their ability to master vectors are (shudder) at stake.

I love physicists.

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Physics A-level loses momentum

Physics A-level loses momentum 08/19/2004 12:59 PM
There are worries about the economic consequences of a decline in students taking science subjects.

Jam--Nuclear Physics Data Acquisition
1.5.1

Jam--Nuclear Physics Data Acquisition
1.5.1 07/01/2004 02:09 AM
Java-based nuclear physics data acquisition.

PhysOrg: The Physics of Santa Claus

PhysOrg: The Physics of Santa Claus 12/25/2004 05:00 PM
Now a team of four top researchers looked into the case and concluded .. PhysOrg: The Physics of Santa Claus

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