American Patents: 216,557 Apparatus for making extracts and distilling liquids

A Simple Apparatus for Distilling Water

Making Patents Useful to Small Firms

The EU-commissioned study, Enforcing Small Firms' Patent Rights, I represents the first time that the actual value of the patent system to firms of this kind has been investigated by direct contact with them in every country of the European Union. The present article arises from the experience of directing this research, and in it "SMEs" covers individual inventors as well as small and medium-s...

Distilling a Language for Cyberspace

In the past twenty years the Internet has grown, from text -entry green-screen communication between the military, a few universities and res earchers, to a visually-based mass communication and advertising medium and even a tool for political activists. This growth has been ad hoc, spectacular and peripatetic. The advent of the GUI into mainstream computing was the point at which the Internet ...

Distilling nonlocality.

Two parts of an entangled quantum state can have a correlation, in their joint behavior under measurements, that is unexplainable by shared classical information. Such correlations are called nonlocal and have proven to be an interesting resource for information processing. Since nonlocal correlations are more useful if they are stronger, it is natural to ask whether weak nonlocality can be amp...

Distilling GeneChips

EDITORIAL Editorial I was not able to attend GECCO this year, but everybody told me it was as great as usual and I am sure that all the people who attended it enjoyed it a lot! I had not spent the second week of July in Milan since 2000, when I could not attend GECCO-2000 in Las Vegas. Thus, spending the GECCO week at work while all my friends were enjoying themselves in Philly, has been kind o...