Oct/093
Nobel Prize (The real one)
The other day I was writing about the Ig Nobel Prizes and today the traditional ones have been unveiled. Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith were hailed by the Nobel jury as "the masters of light" for setting the foundations of today's networked society.
One of the prizes goes for fibre-optic cable, which enables us to transmit digital signals at tremendous speeds and volumes using a fraction of the energy used by the traditional copper wires.
The other prize went to the base of the "Electronic Eye" of today's digital cameras, the CCD sensor. CCD devices are not the ones capturing the light in a digital camera, which is done usually by and photoelectric cell. Instead they manage the transfer between the signal coming out of this light sensor and the processing unit in the camera. In very simple terms a CCD is a device able to transfer electrical charge from any place on it's surface to an output pin where it can be processed by another device.
October 9th, 2009
And now it turns out they gave the peace Nobel prize to Obama… Oh. My. God.
October 10th, 2009
Oh!, I didn’t see your precognitive comment before publishing my post about it :)
October 12th, 2009
Hehehe, no worries, mate ^_^