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Scientific Journals: Increase in Paper Mill Submissions and Fraud Cause Editors Headaches

By Dick Weisinger

Writings found in scientific academic journals might be expected to be heavily checked and verified. If you can find it in a journal article, it’s likely to be true or our best-known understanding of the truth. But alternative truths seem…

Vertical Intelligence: Expert-Guided Big-Data Analytics

By Dick Weisinger

What do you get when you combine human expertise with the results from big-data analytics? Something called ‘Vertical Intelligence’. Experts in a particular area or vertical understand it well and they know that there are specific data indicators, relationships, and…

Technology: Building our Future with Carbon

By Dick Weisinger

“Carbon has a very special status in the periodic table of the elements and forms the basis for all forms of life due to the extremely large number of chemical compounds it can form. The most well-known examples are three-dimensional…

Moore’s Law: Are the Current Alternatives Enough?

By Dick Weisinger

Semiconductor chips are continually shrinking and performing faster, something predicted by More’s Law. Taiwanese chip maker TSMC has announced plans to manufacture a 1-nanometer size chip in 2027. However, it is becoming increasingly difficult technically and from a cost perspective…

Computing: Alternative Computations Scale the Limits of Moore’s Law

By Dick Weisinger

Because advances in conventional semiconductors are coming up against the limits of Moore’s Law, researchers are looking for other options for improving computing performance. Quantum Computing is one path being investigated. Another novel hardware approach is called the Ising Machine,…