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Machines accurately infer user intent, remember experiences and allow users to call upon simulated experts

August 13, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new type of “smart” machine that could fundamentally change how people interact with computers is on the not-too-distant horizon at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories.

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New Mexico top cops get terrorist training

August 7, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Some members of New Mexico’s law enforcement community this week are attending a Sandia National Laboratories training course that will help them protect the state’s infrastructures from terrorist attacks.

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“Nobel Prizes of technology” demonstrate wide scope

July 23, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers won seven R&D 100 awards this year — the most the Labs has won since it garnered eight, its most ever, in 1997.

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Particles concentrated without muss or fuss for homeland defense or lab chromatography

July 22, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A microdevice whose business end looks like the gold-coated spine of a very tiny mouse, with each “vertebrae” line separated from the next by about a third the width of a human hair, has been demonstrated to easily collect and release proteins in aqueous...

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Sandia, Kansas State University developing rapid disease detection system for farm animals

July 22, 2003 • MANHATTAN, Kan. — As Mike Whitehair quietly moves through the pen of cattle, something captures his attention. The Abilene, Kan., veterinarian pauses, pulls out a cell phone and punches in a code — not to make a call — but to start through a series of questions on the tiny...

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Sandia researchers use quantum dots as a new approach to solid-state lighting

July 14, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a different approach to creating white light several researchers at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories have developed the first solid-state white light-emitting device using quantum dots. In the future, the use of quantum dots...

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Energy emissions far greater than predicted by Planck’s Law

July 7, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — You can‘t get something for nothing, physicists say, but sometimes a radical innovation can come close.

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Alameda County Public Health Department, Sandia researchers simulate anthrax attack on East Bay

July 2, 2003 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Locked in a “war room” for a day, representatives from Sandia National Laboratories and 24 other officials, mostly from the Alameda County Public Health Department (ACPHD), teamed up recently in a simulated bioterrorism event to evaluate Alameda County’s...

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Painless bone substitute could offer new era for surgeons

May 15, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In an operating room in Carle Hospital in Urbana, Ill., on May 7, as scientists from the University of Illinois (UI) and Sandia National Laboratories watched, surgeon Michael Goldwasser fitted a highly unusual ceramic prosthetic device into the mouth of an...

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Patented cantilever epitaxy growth process overcomes previous problems that have limited LEDs’ performance

April 8, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new process of growing gallium nitride on an etched sapphire substrate, called cantilever epitaxy, may help light up the world with brighter green, blue, and even white semiconductor light emitting diodes (LEDs) — solid-state lighting. The process was...

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Huge pulsed power machine enters fusion arena

April 7, 2003 • PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Throwing its hat into the ring of machines that offer the possibility of achieving controlled nuclear fusion, Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine has created a hot dense plasma that produces thermonuclear neutrons, Sandia researchers announced today at...

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“PROACT” system helps mitigate chemical/biological threats

April 2, 2003 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Building on the success of a program first employed at Washington, D.C.’s Metro subway system, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories in California are working with San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to test...

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Sandia helps return firefighting air tankers to service with improved inspection programs

March 27, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The United States Forest Service (USFS) this week re-activated the first two large firefighting tankers using an improved aircraft inspection and certification program designed at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories.

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Sandia director details serious concerns with lab security force, announces corrective measures

March 20, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories President C. Paul Robinson today announced that a recent lab self-assessment and an ongoing investigation have revealed serious concerns about the management of the lab’s security force. He specified actions Sandia has taken...

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Silicon and graphite: a materials match made in battery heaven

March 6, 2003 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., have developed a new class of composite anode materials composed of silicon and graphite that may double the energy storage capacities currently possessed by...

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Los Alamos, Sandia National Laboratories to host Homeland Security Workshop for state, local responders

February 18, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE/LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Center for Homeland Security, in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, is announcing a homeland security workshop for local, state and regional first responders.

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UNM/Sandia center to tackle policy and technology issues linked to international security, strife

February 18, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Officials of the University of New Mexico, Sandia National Laboratories, and Lockheed Martin Corporation on Wednesday will sign an agreement that formalizes a unique collaborative initiative to nurture scholarly thought and research on policy issues linked...

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Sandia, Bureau of Reclamation release research strategy for cost-effective water desalination

February 12, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories and the Bureau of Reclamation today announced the release of a research road map to guide future investments necessary to reduce the cost of water desalination.

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Ultralight device analyzes gases immediately

January 23, 2003 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A half-ounce ‘sniffer’ intended to ride on small aerial drones to detect possible gas attacks on cities and military bases has been created by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in partnership with Lockheed Martin Corporation.

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Huge data sets examined interactively yet remotely

December 16, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A surgeon in New York who wants the opinion quickly of a specialist in Los Angeles probably would send medical MRI [magnetic resonance imaging] files as e-mail attachments or make them accessible in Internet drop zones. Unfortunately for patients on operating

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DOE intends to extend Lockheed management contract for Sandia

December 13, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories President and Director C. Paul Robinson said today the Department of Energy’s intent to extend Lockheed Martin Corporation’s management contract for Sandia provides continuity for Sandia and will benefit the nation.

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‘Hot laps’ to become yesterday’s problem

December 4, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Laptops make laps hot, as users of mobile lightweight computers sometimes learn dramatically. And things could get worse: upcoming chips may produce 100 watts per square centimeter — the heat generated by a light bulb — creating the effect of an unpleasantly

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Sandia to host Strategic Indirect Warfare Conference

November 25, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An improved understanding of America’s war on terror both at home and abroad and its impact on our nation are among the goals of the Strategic Indirect Warfare 2002 Conference, Dec. 3-5 at the Albuquerque Marriott Hotel, 2101 Louisiana NE. Hosted by the Department of Energy’s Sandia...

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Sandia’s Salinas code shares Gordon Bell Award

November 25, 2002 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ supercomputer program Salinas, which tested out at 1.16 teraflops/sec, shared the prestigious Gordon Bell Award at the SC2002 conference last week in Baltimore.

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Sandia partners with University of New Haven to offer advanced degree program in national security

November 13, 2002 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — College students seeking academic instruction that could help the U.S. win the war on terrorism will soon have an opportunity to learn from the best and the brightest and earn a Masters of Science Degree in National Security and Public Safety to boot.

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