APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY Agriculture BACKGROUND Farmers are seeking ways to make real-time adjustments in the field to increase productivity, however tools for estimating plant density are limited. This is true especially early in the season when the soil component is high, and visual observations tend to … [Read more...] about Plant density and enhanced plant vigor estimation algorithms for high-resolution images 2019-179
Available Technologies
A Thermal Energy Storage System: 2019-142
Applications: Building energy efficiency, HVAC Vehicle heating and cooling Medical device heating and cooling Background: With more than 120 million buildings in the US, utilization of the building envelope to provide thermal energy storage (TES) is a large untapped potential for energy efficiency savings. Current state of the art thermal … [Read more...] about A Thermal Energy Storage System: 2019-142
A New Design for RSFQ Superconducting Logic Computation Systems 2020-015
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY Next-generation data centers and high performance computing (HPC) systems Large-scale computing Large-scale science computing National security computing BACKGROUND Currently, data centers are bigger than football fields and require massive amounts of energy to operate. Yet large scale computing needs in science, industry, … [Read more...] about A New Design for RSFQ Superconducting Logic Computation Systems 2020-015
Bandwidth Steering in HPC Using Silicon Nanophotonics 2019-166
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Companies building HPC and datacenter systems Companies developing network components Future large-scale systems ADVANTAGES: More efficient network performance Lower latency Requires fewer network resources Cost effective BACKGROUND: As bytes-per-FLOP ratios continue to decline, communication is becoming the … [Read more...] about Bandwidth Steering in HPC Using Silicon Nanophotonics 2019-166
Novel Methods for the Barcoding of Bacteriophages 2019-113
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Phage engineering Cataloging and Control of phages Diagnosis and Antibiotic Discovery ADVANTAGES: No interference of the phage infection cycle No compromise of the host bacteria life cycle Enables easy amplification of the DNA “barcode” for identification, tracking and control of individual phages Standardizes the workflow … [Read more...] about Novel Methods for the Barcoding of Bacteriophages 2019-113