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Six community groups in Hampshire have been awarded the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest honour in the UK for volunteers. The International Cookery Exchange (ICE) from Southampton was one winner. It brings women from different cultures together to cook new national dishes. Hampshire Search and Rescue, Ocean Youth Trust, AFC Portchester Football Club, [...]
The telephone (from the Greek: τῆλε, tēle, “far” and φωνή, phōnē, “voice”), often colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunicationsdevice that transmits and receives sound, most commonly the human voice. Telephones are a point-to-point communication system whose most basic function is to allow two people separated by large distances to talk to each other. It is one of the most common appliances in thedeveloped world, and [...]
For other uses, see Computer (disambiguation). “Computer technology” redirects here. For the company, see Computer Technology Limited. Computer A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem. Conventionally [...]
“TV” redirects here. For other uses, see TV (disambiguation). American family watching TV, 1958 Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochromatic (shades of grey) or multicolored. Images are usually accompanied by sound. “Television” may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming, television transmission. The etymology of the word is derived from mixed Latin and Greek [...]
Nuclear technology is technology that involves the reactions of atomic nuclei. It has found applications from smoke detectors to nuclear reactors, and fromgun sights to nuclear weapons. Discovery Main article: Nuclear physics The vast majority of common, natural phenomena on Earth only involve gravity and electromagnetism, and not nuclear reactions. This is because atomic nuclei are generally kept apart because they contain positive [...]
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical [...]
The Dennis Gabor Award is presented annually in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in diffractive wavefront technologies, especially those which further the development of holography and metrology applications. Honorarium $2,000. Wolfgang Osten, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, is the 2011 winner of the Dennis Gabor award in recognition of his outstanding …
The Harold E. Edgerton Award is presented annually for outstanding contributions to optical or photonic techniques in the application and understanding of high speed physical phenomena. The development of new technologies and the new application of existing technologies shall be considered in the determination of the award. Honorarium $2,000. Daniel James …
The A. E. Conrady Award is given annually in recognition of exceptional contributions in design, construction, and testing of optical systems and instrumentation. The recognition of this award is based on developments of new equipment, techniques, and applications for designing, testing, analyzing, and/or evaluating optical systems, components, and theories. …
The Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award is presented annually in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of biomedical optics through the development of innovative, high impact technologies. The award particularly honors pioneering contributions to optical methods and devices that have significant promise to accelerate or have already facilitated new …