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2020
Manhattan Project: America’s Groundwork for Innovation in MEDICINE
SECURITY
COMPUTING
SPACE
INDUSTRY
Ultrasonic Imaging At Los Alamos National Laboratory, a team of scientists invented a technology that uses sound to see through solid objects. By developing the innovative sound beam known as ACCOBeam, researchers can now identify issues several miles into the ground when exploring for natural resources and can improve long-range communications, imaging, and video transmission beneath the world’s deepest oceans.
Neuromorphic Computing As the demands on computers rapidly change to more data-centric tasks — such as image processing, voice recognition or autonomous driving — the need for more efficient computing grows just as rapidly. Sandia researcher Elliot Fuller introduced a novel approach to parallel programming of an ionic floating-gate memory array, which allows processing of large amounts of information simultaneously in a single operation. The research is inspired by the human brain, where neurons and synapses are connected in a dense matrix and where information is processed and stored at the same location.
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