December 16, 2020 / Last updated : December 16, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Scientific American: Light-Based Quantum Computer Exceeds Fastest Classical Supercomputers

Scientific American: Light-Based Quantum Computer Exceeds Fastest Classical Supercomputers. “For the first time, a quantum computer made from photons—particles of light—has outperformed even the fastest classical supercomputers. Physicists led by Chao-Yang Lu and Jian-Wei Pan of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Shanghai performed a technique called Gaussian boson sampling with […]

November 22, 2020 / Last updated : November 22, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

EurekAlert: SPIE announces partnership with global open-knowledge platform The Lens

EurekAlert: SPIE announces partnership with global open-knowledge platform The Lens. “Under the agreement, all scholarly citation and patent citation data for SPIE publications curated by The Lens will be integrated into the SPIE Digital Library and available to readers. The SPIE Digital Library, the world’s largest collection of optics and photonics applied research, comprises more […]

August 27, 2020 / Last updated : August 27, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Optics .org: SPIE Optics + Photonics Digital Forum opens with free access to 2,000 talks

Optics .org: SPIE Optics + Photonics Digital Forum opens with free access to 2,000 talks. “The online conference, which runs through Friday, 28 August, after which presentations will continue to be accessible via the website, includes over 1,200 on-demand technical presentations, 300 posters, and 900 manuscripts across three tracks: Nanoscience and Engineering Applications, Organic Photonics […]

July 2, 2020 / Last updated : July 2, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Cornell Chronicle: Research reflects how AI sees through the looking glass

Cornell Chronicle: Research reflects how AI sees through the looking glass. “Things are different on the other side of the mirror. Text is backward. Clocks run counterclockwise. Cars drive on the wrong side of the road. Right hands become left hands. Intrigued by how reflection changes images in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, a team of […]

March 8, 2019 / Last updated : March 8, 2019 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

PR Newswire: SPIE Digital Library Hits Half-a-Million Milestone (PRESS RELEASE)

PR Newswire: SPIE Digital Library Hits Half-a-Million Milestone (PRESS RELEASE). “The SPIE Digital Library, the online publishing platform of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has reached the remarkable milestone of 500,000 publications.”

January 3, 2019 / Last updated : January 3, 2019 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Tarsier Goggles: a virtual reality tool for experiencing the optics of a dark-adapted primate visual system (Dartmouth Digital Commons)

Dartmouth Digital Commons: Tarsier Goggles: a virtual reality tool for experiencing the optics of a dark-adapted primate visual system . “Tarsier Goggles is a virtual reality (VR) project that allows everyone to experience how a tarsier might see. It serves as a tool to engage in hands-on scientific concepts in optics, perceptual science, and evolutionary […]

December 16, 2017 / Last updated : December 16, 2017 ResearchBuzz New Resources

PR Newswire: Journal of Biomedical Optics and Neurophotonics to become fully open access journals (PRESS RELEASE)

PR Newswire: Journal of Biomedical Optics and Neurophotonics to become fully open access journals (PRESS RELEASE). “SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced that its Journal of Biomedical Optics and Neurophotonics will become fully open access journals in January 2019. The Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO) has been published since 1996 and […]