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UMass Amherst Survey Shows Widespread Public Opposition to ‘Killer Robots,’ Support for New Ban Campaign

By Guest PostJune 22, 2013Technologyamericans, amherst, autonomous weaponry, bipartisan, charli carpenter, duck of minerva, forms of weapons, fully autonomous weapons, human rights, human rights watch, international affairs blog, killer robots, lethal military, machines, military family members, military technology, new ban campaign, pre emptive ban, protect the troops, public opposition, stop killer robots, university of massachusetts, yougov america

Active and former military among those most opposed to autonomous weaponry

AMHERST, Mass. – The results of a new survey by the University of Massachusetts Amherst show that a majority of Americans across the political spectrum oppose the outsourcing of lethal military and defense targeting decisions to machines. The opposition to autonomous weaponry is bipartisan, with the strongest opposition on the far left and far right, and among active and former members of the military.

A random sample of 1,000 Americans was asked how they felt about military technology that could take humans out of the loop altogether, dubbed “killer robots” by the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, an international coalition of non-governmental organizations launched in April that is working to ban-fully autonomous weapons. The survey was posted today at the website Duck of Minerva, an international affairs blog. (more…)

UCLA physicists’ technique for cooling molecules may be a stepping stone to quantum computing

By Guest PostApril 4, 2013Scienceabsolute zero, atomic cooling technologie, atomic energy states, atomic particles, barium chloride molecules, calcium atoms, charged, computers, cooling molecules, cooling process, eric hudson, faster processing speeds, kuang chen, machines, next generation, quantum computers, quantum computing, scott sullivan, silicon based, spinning molecule, stepping stone, steven schowalter, subatomic particles, super cooled molecules, svetlana kotochigova, technique, ucla physicists, ultracold cloud, wade rellergert

The next generation of computers promises far greater power and faster processing speeds than today’s silicon-based based machines. These “quantum computers” — so called because they would harness the unique quantum mechanical properties of atomic particles — could draw their computing power from a collection of super-cooled molecules.

But chilling molecules to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero, the temperature at which they can be manipulated to store and transmit data, has proven to be a difficult challenge for scientists. (more…)

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UMass Amherst Survey Shows Widespread Public Opposition to ‘Killer Robots,’ Support for New Ban Campaign

UCLA physicists’ technique for cooling molecules may be a stepping stone to quantum computing