Adenekan Dedeke proposes that the field of computer science look into adding more laws in addition to Moore’s and Metcalfe’s Laws. One such law is Hoff’s Law of Scalability, named after Marcian Edward (Ted) Hoff Jr., an Intel engineer. The law states that the more customisable, or less standardised, a tech product is, the less potential it has to scale. Hoff convinced Intel’s then CEO to apply scalability — previously only seen in the automobile industry — to their processors, allowing them to mass-produce their products and dominate the market. Read full article here
Science
‘Ghostly’ neutrinos provide new path to study protons
In groundbreaking research, an international collaboration of scientists from the University of Rochester have used a beam of neutrinos to measure the size and shape of the protons that make up the nuclei of atoms. This feat, once thought impossible, provides scientists with a new way of looking at the small components of an atom’s nucleus and opens up a wealth of new information about the structure of an atom’s nucleus and the dynamics of the forces that affect neutrino interactions. The researchers solved the challenge of harnessing neutrinos in large numbers by using a neutrino detector containing a target of both hydrogen and carbon atoms, and over nine years of data collection at Fermilab’s accelerator. Read full article here
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March 25, 2023
