Now We Want Our Funk Cut: Janelle Monáe’s Neo-Afrofuturism

We Want It All, and We Want It Now!

Low power, high performance, cost, integration, quality — consumer electronics customers demand all of these, with an increasing sense of urgency and diminishing product cycle times. Properly balancing these factors is the key for success in today's consumer electronics semiconductor industry. SOC designers are faced with challenges of not only delivering complex and highly integrated mixed sig...

And Now What Do We Do with Our Schoolchildren?

After training activities introducing computing, many teachers seem to ask themselves “And now: what do we do with our schoolchildren?”. When we had to design a course for about twenty-five teachers, from twelve primary and middle schools, our first concern was trying to change this. For about twelve hours of the course meetings we introduced programming, then we discussed with attendees three ...

Adhesive small bowel obstruction: where do we stand now?

Adhesive small bowel obstruction (ASBO) is one of the most frequently encountered disorders in Emergency Surgery Departments worldwide without negligible hospital admission rates and social costs (1,2). Notwithstanding significant improvements in techniques and materials, intra-abdominal adhesions following abdominal surgery still represent a major unsolved and debated issue harbouring challeng...

The Battle Against COVID-19: Where Do We Stand Now?

Do we want our data raw? Including binary mass spectrometry data in public proteomics data repositories.

With the human Plasma Proteome Project (PPP) pilot phase completed, the largest and most ambitious proteomics experiment to date has reached its first milestone. The correspondingly impressive amount of data that came from this pilot project emphasized the need for a centralized dissemination mechanism and led to the development of a detailed, PPP specific data gathering infrastructure at the U...