Technological mercantilism and technological colonization: new challenges for Russia

Technological Enlightenment in Russia

Peter the Great brought technological enlightenment to Russia. In his lifetime, two special schools for training engineers were established, the Engineering School in 1700, and the Mathematical-Navigation School in 1701. Peter the Great introduced engineering training into other institutions as well, not only into the Naval Academy, but also regimental schools and even religious colleges. (See ...

Technological Challenges for Transparent Conductors

Transparent conductors (TCs) have a variety of properties that can limit their performance in various applications. These properties include their optical and electronic behavior: optical transparency, electrical conductivity, plasma wavelength, ultraviolet absorption edge, work function, conductivity type; factors affecting device fabrication: synthesis temperature, thermal stability, resistan...

Future Technological Challenges for High Performance Computers

A high performance computer (HPC), sometimes called a supercomputer, is a highspeed, large-scale computer system designed for scientific and technical computations in application areas such as meteorology, molecular and bio-science, energy development, space science and so forth. These applications are called “Grand Challenge Problems” in which the major target is to run application programs wi...

New interfaces expand technological

Technological and Educational Challenges of Resilient Computing

The adjective resilient has been used in dependable computing essentially as a synonym of fault-tolerant, thus ignoring the unexpected aspect of the phenomena the systems may have to face. These phenomena are very relevant when moving to systems like the future large, networked, evolving systems constituting complex information infrastructures that are the emergence of the ubiquitous systems th...