Digital Ants Protect Computers

clipped from www.treehugger.com New Biomimicry in Digital Security - Ants Swarm to Protect Computers Science Daily reports that biomimicry is playing a key role in upcoming computer security technology. By looking at the way ants call for backup and overpower invaders through sheer quantity of soldiers, security experts have devised a "digital ant" that will help human operators more quickly spot threats to computer systems. clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk Ants inspire new computer antivirus software Scientists have studied the behaviour of ants to develop a new generation of antivirus software for computers. clipped from www.wfu.edu Computer science professor Errin Fulp works with graduate students Brian Williams (center) and Wes Featherstun (far right), who worked this summer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developing a new type of computer network security software modeled after ants. Computer security mimics nature Unlike traditional security devices, which are static, these “digital ants” wander through computer networks looking for threats, such as “computer worms” — self-replicating programs designed to steal information or facilitate unauthorized use of machines. When a digital ant detects a threat, it doesn’t take long for an army of ants to converge at that location, drawing the attention of human operators who step in to investigate. The concept, called “swarm intelligence,” promises to transform cyber security because it adapts readily to changing threats.

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Viruses Are Building Micro Batteries

MIT engineers have developed a way to create micro batteries which could power a range of miniature devices, from labs-on-a-chip to implantable medical sensors. These next-generation batteries may be half the size of a human cell and are built with viruses.

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Viruses Are Building Batteries!
	Have you ever 'seen' a battery as small as half the size of human cell, and built with viruses?

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MIT Team Use Viruses to Build Nex-Gen Batteries

If you think AAAs batteries are small, then consider this: Next-generation batteries may be half the size of a human cell and built with viruses. Now that’s small. MIT says this is the way of the future when it comes to powering tomorrow’s miniature electronic devices.

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MIT engineers work toward cell-sized batteries

Forget 9-volts, AAs, AAAs, or D batteries: The energy for tomorrow's miniature electronic devices could come from tiny microbatteries about half the size of a human cell and built with viruses. MIT engineers have developed a way to at once create and install such microbatteries by stamping them onto a variety of surfaces. In the image above, tweezers hold the device used to test MIT's new components for the microbatteries. The batteries themselves are too small to be seen.

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MIT engineers work toward cell-sized batteries

Microbatteries could power tomorrow's miniature devices

From left, MIT professors Yet-Ming Chiang, Angela Belcher and Paula Hammond. The three have authored a paper detailing their virus-based method of creating and installing microbatteries by stamping them onto a variety of surfaces. Photo / Donna Coveney

Tweezers hold the device used to test MIT's new components for microbatteries (batteries themselves are invisible in this image). Photo courtesy / Belcher Laboratory, MIT

An array of microbattery electrodes, each only about four micrometers, or millionths of a meter, in diameter. Image courtesy / Belcher Laboratory, MIT

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The Virobuster Steritube -- Air Sterilization

Many hospital patient become infected by bacteria or viruses unrelated to the primary reason for their visit. Recently, however, a Dutch company launched the Virobuster Steritube, an innovative system for sterilizing air, designed to avoid such infections.

clipped from www.virobuster.com ELECTRONIC AIR STERILISATION The Virobuster Steritube is an innovative system for sterilizing air. Micro biological contamination is eliminated up to 100% with a one pass-through. Thus effectively protecting against the spread of moulds, bacteria and viruses like Aspergillus, Anthrax, TBC, MRSA, Legionella, Influenza (SARS, H5N1), EV71, Noro, etc. Virobuster continues where air purification ends Virobuster steritent Medical technology, now also available for industrial use clipped from www.virobuster.com The unique advantages of the intelligent inside and simple outside concept of modularity can be summarized as: No need for (setting) changes to existing HVAC systems No need for(bio)medical or (electro)technical knowledge for installation No need for pre-engineering or custom design (plug & play) The only UVGI solution available with (patented) modularity Pyrogene and toxins(e.g. ozone) free and HACCP accepted Remote (internet) process and service control All air capacities possible (300m3/h – >100.000m3/h)