Teng Li's blog
iMechanica now has over 3000 registered users
The number of registered users of iMechanica exceeded 3000 today, three months after iMechanica welcomed its 2000th user. The number of posts has exceeded 1700, and the number of comments, 3800. The growth of iMechanica has been stable and amazing, leading to a natural question: why do people register at iMechanica? iMechanica is open: evevryone can read everything without registration. You can post anything of interest to mechanicians once you register for a free account.
Minutes of iMechanica get-together at McMat 2007
On 6 June 2007, about 50 mechanicians attended a special session at the McMat 2007, "iMechanica.org get together". The attendees of this special session came from various job sectors, such as academia, industry as well as government agencies. The session was chaired by K. Ravi-Chander and Rui Huang, who also served in the organizing committee of McMat 2007.
Flexible Macroelectronics (a video for middle/high school students)
This is a winning entry in the Sci/Terp Video Competition at University of Maryland (UMD).
IBM Airgap Microprocessors enabled by self assembly (Video)
An earlier post by Xiaohu Liu reported IBM's latest progress in microprocessors. IBM has figured out how to control and perfect the self assembly process to create trillions of tiny, nano-sized holes across a chip, which speed electrons that flow across wires inside the chip and reduce the power consumed by 15 percent.The following short video may help us understand a little bit more about the new technology. More videos, audio and images on this are available here (free, but registration needed)
Enjoy.
-Teng
iMechanica now has 2000+ registered users
iMechanica was lunched on 9 September 2006. It took about five months for iMechanica to see its 1000th registered user. Today we are welcoming the 2000th registered user after only another two and half months.
Online meeting scheduling
Scheduling a meeting with more than 3 participants can be a headache. The organizer often needs to email or call the group, and wait for feedbacks. Quite often both the organizer and the participants need to go through such a process several rounds to finalize the schedule.
The future role of iMechanica
Since iMechanica went official on 9 September 2006, its growth has always been accelerating. As of 22 February 2007, the total number of hits on iMechanica reaches 1,000,000+, iMechanica has 1252 registered users, 908 posts and 1308 comments.