Soft 3D Printing via NIST

 All the examples I have seen up front are 'hard', seems a considerable update.

NIST Scientists Get Soft on 3D Printing  By U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology  in ACM

Standards and Technology researchers have developed a new method of three-dimensionally printing gels and other soft materials.

Researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology  have developed a new technique for three-dimensional printing of gels and other soft materials.The researchers used beams of electrons or X-rays, which can be more tightly focused and produce gels with finer structural detail. Because scanning electron microscopes and X-ray microscopes can operate only in a vacuum, the researchers addressed the issue of evaporation by placing an ultrathin barrier of silicon nitride between the vacuum and the liquid chamber.This approach could be used to produce flexible electrodes, biosensors, and soft micro robots for medical and biological applications.

From U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology View Full Article:  https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2020/09/nist-scientists-get-soft-3d-printing

ACM Bytecast: Donald Knuth on Computing

From my earliest days doing coding, I was reading Donald Knuth's legendary texts.  Now here is a free and open podcast interview with him.  Will be following.

" ... In the latest episode of ACM ByteCast, a new podcast series at the intersection of computing research and practice, host Rashmi Mohan interviews legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth. Knuth is the 1974 ACM A.M. Turing Laureate and author of the hugely popular textbook series, "The Art of Computer Programming." They discuss what led him to discover his love of computing as well as writing about computer programming, his outlook on how people learn technical skills, how his mentorship has helped him write “human oriented” programs, how his dissatisfaction with early digital typesetting led him to develop TeX, and the problems he is still working to solve.

The podcast is available in the ACM Learning Center https://learning.acm.org/bytecast , where you can also subscribe to an RSS feed as well as download a full transcript of each episode, and on popular podcast platforms including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.  ... 

ACM ByteCast Announced

ACM announces its podcast, free and open to the public. I will be following and reporting on.  Access information at the link.  Join ACM, it is essential for computing practitioners.

See below, also transcripts of the podcasts.

ACM ByteCast
ACM ByteCast is a podcast series from ACM’s Practitioners Board in which hosts Rashmi Mohan and Jessica Bell interview researchers, practitioners and innovators who are at the intersection of computing research and practice. In each monthly episode, guests will share their experiences, the lessons they’ve learned, and their own visions for the future of computing.

Listen to the latest episode below, or wherever you get your podcasts.

John Hennessy & David Patterson

In this inaugural episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan is joined by 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Laureates John Hennessy and David Patterson. Their conversation touches on the paths that led these two luminaries to pursue computing careers and the "aha moment" that inspired their breakthrough work on RISC microprocessor architecture. They also discuss how they see the future of computing architecture unfolding in the coming years, the need for new memory technologies and better security, the importance of collaboration in innovation, and the promise of the open source community to develop both   ... "