For the first time ever, an Israeli team won the International Mathematics Competition, held this year in Bulgaria. The four Tel Aviv University and two Technion students received 355 points — 38 more than the second-place group. http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=370237

(Thanks to Atid-EDI) Israeli-Arab start-up SolidRun has developed another tiny computer. The credit-card-size Hummingboard HB-i1 has 512MB RAM, two USB ports, a Fast Ethernet network port, Freescale’s i.MX6 system on chip, 1GHz ARM A9 core and costs from $45. http://www.solid-run.com/products/hummingboard/ … Continue reading →

(Thanks to Atid-EDI) Israel’s Mellanox has launched the world’s first 100Gb/s EDR InfiniBand switch. Switch-IB is the world’s fastest computer switch with 36-ports of 100Gb/s to provide 7.2Tb/s of switching capacity – 250 percent higher than any alternative and ideal … Continue reading →

Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yeshiva University of New York will together study colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals – tiny synthetic particles containing metal impurities with intriguing implications for the electronics, solar energy and biological fields. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183303#.U9JlEqOc7DM

Israel’s energy cyber security firm Nation-E plans to launch its energy cyber security center in Hadera on September 15. Companies worldwide can evaluate microgrids, smart meters, and all grid-connected devices, and determine how and why attackers are able to infringe … Continue reading →

You would expect that engineers at Israel’s Technion could build quickly, but time-lapse photography reduces the construction time for the new D. Dan and Betty Kahn Mechanical Engineering building down to just sixty seconds! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_Q9PLBtdE&feature=youtu.be

Da Vinci defined the mechanics that drive earthquakes over 500 years ago, but he wasn’t accurate. New research by scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has demonstrated that friction can only occur when the connections between the surfaces are … Continue reading →