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Smart Dust: Miniature Devices that can Monitor the Environment

By Dick Weisinger

Smart Dust refers to sub-millimeter-scale devices that are able to be suspended in an environment and sense and wirelessly communicate. These miniscule devices can sense many different kinds of things, like light, temperature, vibrations, pressure, acceleration, humidity, sound, stress, presence…

Digital Transformation: Governments need to Step Up Their pace

By Dick Weisinger

Digital Transformation has been on the top of the list of priorities for many organizations over the past five years. The pandemic accelerated the progress for many organizations, but the push has been most effective in the private sector. Digital…

Spin Glass: Nano-Magnetics That Show Similarities to the Human Brain

By Dick Weisinger

In ferromagnetic materials, the atomic spins of the poles in the material all line up in the same direction to produce a magnetic effect. Unlike ferromagnets, spin glass materials have randomly distributed equal number of positive and negative poles and…

Security: Privacy with Data Anonymity

By Dick Weisinger

Data anonymity is is the collection of data and the subsquent removal from the data set of any personally identifiable information. Data anonymity would allow data sets to be publically published without exposing any personal information from the people whom…

Solar Energy: Capturing Infrared Radiation to Make Nighttime Solar Possible

By Dick Weisinger

Solar energy by definition is energy produced from the sun. Max production is possible on sunny days and can drop to as much as only 10-25 percent of their maximum output on cloudy days. Both the predictability and the non-predictability…