Informatics

The regional winners of the YouTube SpaceLab contest (photo Bryan Rapoza www.avenfoto.com)

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The partners who sponsored the YouTube Space Lab Contest have announced the winners. At its start in September 2011, YouTube, NASA, ESA and other partners such as Lenovo asked students aged between 14 and 18 years to devise an experiment to be carried out in the International Space Station. Two experiments were chosen from over one thousand finalists to be carried out on the International Space Station and broadcast through a live streaming on the Internet.

Official portrait of Albert Einstein after receiving the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has announced it has started a project that will put online more than eighty thousand documents relating to Albert Einstein on the already existing website Einstein Archives Online dedicated to the famous scientist.

The micro-computer Raspberry Pi

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The Raspberry Pi is a tiny computer the size of a credit card. That’s a project started about six years ago that has now finally seen the light. Yesterday its sales started and the success has been incredible, so much that the available computers were sold very quickly. The official project website was taken down because of the excessive traffic and the sites of its partners who resell the Raspberry Pi suffered high traffic problems.

3D superconducting qubit device suspended in the center of the cavity on a small Sapphire chip (Image courtesy of International Business Machines Corporation. Unauthorized use not permitted)

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The team at IBM Research made very important progress in reducing the error in elementary computations and in maintaining the integrity of the quantum properties of qubits. A key element in the production of superconducting qubit was to use manufacturing techniques developed for the production with silicon currently in use.