Jakarta, Kompas - The development of nanotechnology for the manufacturing industry in the country is still stagnant. Nanotechnology Society Indonesia nanotechnology applications are now transferred to the field of food or agriculture.
"It is defined approximately 10 fields of nanotechnology development for food or agricultural industry," said Chairman of the Indonesian Society Nanotechnology (MNI) Nurul Taufiqu Rochman, Tuesday (13 / 4) in Jakarta.
According to Nurul, the field of developmentfor the food industry includes the processing of food enriched with vitamins and nutritional content of nanotechnology. Development of nanotechnology, among others, to sensors and sensor food preservation packaging food materials from the content of other undesirable materials.
In the field of agricultural production, Nurul said the application could nanotechnology to improve the efficiency of fertilizers. Other applications for precision agriculture production sensors, for example, to detect the contents of agricultural soil acidity levels.
"Many of our foods lack nutritional content. Role of nanotechnology in the field of food has a higher chance than in the manufacturing industry or material, "said Nurul.
Currently there are an estimated 200 doctorates in the field of nanotechnology. However, said Nurul, mostly going out for the material and still rare to pursue the development of nanotechnology for food.
"It was not too difficult to shift the expertise from the fields of nanotechnology materials to the field of food," said Nurul.
Head of Innovation Center for Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) said Bambang Subiyanto, LIPI-makers already have the technology nano size, which is one tenth rank nine yards. Application can be for various fields, such as for the field or the field of food material.
"The results of research from LIPI bionanomaterial are using bamboo fibers for interior car," said Bambang.
According to him, bionanomaterial was essentially the process of making a lightweight and strong materials. Bionanomaterial from bamboo fiber for automobile interior materials was undertaken through encouraging the application of the Japanese automotive industry. "Application of nano size maker of technology is also able to support the food industry," said Bambang.
Nurul said, nanotechnology applications to the manufacturing industry need huge capital. In fact, the manufacturing industry in the country is much to rely on labor intensive industries.
"The transfer of nanotechnology to the food industry or own farm just starting now. If it can be executed, would have a big impact, "said Nurul. (Cetak.kompas.com / humasristek)
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Nanotechnology, Applications Addressed to the Food Industry
Elephant Museum Indonesia
National Museum of the Republic of Indonesia is the site of the Dutch heritage that still exists and stands firmly until now in the city of Jakarta (Batavia). Beginning of the establishment of this building is when the Dutch government established an association of intellectuals and institutions that exist in the Dutch scientist by the name Bataviaasch Batavia Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen 24 April 1778 on dates M. The institute aims to promote research in the field of arts and sciences-particularly in the fields of history, archeology, ethnography, and publish the findings in the areas concerned. To support the activities of the institution, the Dutch Government to build a library to .accommodate a collection of books and cultural objects that were donated by the founders and members
The increasing number of collections, a new building was constructed. New building is named Literary Society. Literary Society, used by the Dutch government as a place to accommodate and care for the collection of books and objects of archaeological findings, and also used as a library. But slowly, precisely in the year 1862 AD, the Dutch government finally set up another new building that not only functions as a library or office, but also as a museum to care for and exhibit collections that exists. This new building, which is the forerunner to the National Museum of the Republic of Indonesia.
After Indonesian independence, precisely on February 29, 1950, the Dutch heritage of the building was later turned into the function of the Cultural Institute of Indonesia (Indonesian Culture Council). These institutions do not survive long. Since September 17, 1962, the Government of Indonesia took over the management of the institution and make it as the Museum Center. Based on the Decree of the Minister of Education and Culture No.0092/0/1979, on May 28, 1979, the museum's name was officially transferred from the Central Museum of the National Museum of the Republic of Indonesia.
Although officially named the National Museum of the Republic of Indonesia, but this museum by the general public better known as the Elephant Museum. This is because in this museum there is a statue made of bronze elephant in his front yard. This elephant statue, reputedly, is the King of Siam (Thailand) in March 1871 AD In addition, the museum is also often referred to as the Museum Arca, because in it there are various types and forms of statues / sculptures from different periods in the history of the archipelago.
National Museum of the Republic of Indonesia have a building representative and comfortable. The museum consists of two building units, namely the National Museum Building (Unit A) and Arca Building (Unit B), which was built since 1996. For the old building (Unit A), the arrangement of the exhibition is based on the types of collections, both based on the scientific, material, or regionalism, such as Space prehistory, the Bronze Room, and others. While the arrangement in Building Arca (Unit B), no longer based on the type of collection, but leads to a theme based on the cultural aspects which are divided into four floors. The first floor is themed humans and the environment, science and technology-themed second floor, third floor themed social organizations and settlement patterns, while the fourth floor of themed treasures of gold and ceramics. The entire arrangement is summarized in the theme "Cultural diversity in unity".
Feature
National Museum of the Republic of Indonesia has a collection of historic objects very much, which is about 109 342 units in 2001. In the year 2006 the number of collections have exceeded 140 000 units. Nevertheless, only a third of that could be exhibited to the public. Until now, the year 2008, the number of museum collections has reached 141 899 units. Because such a large number of collections, the museum is noted as the largest museum in Indonesia and even in Southeast Asia.
Tourists who visit this museum can see the collection of heritage objects from the entire archipelago, including statues, inscriptions, sculptures, artifacts, traditional weapons, traditional art tools, and many others are classified in seven groups, namely a collection of prehistoric, archaeological, ceramic, numismatic (related to currency) and heraldry (associated with the royal emblem), history, ethnography, and geography. These collections can be seen in nine different rooms, namely: Ethnographic Space, Space Bronze, Pre-History Room, Pottery Room, Room Textiles, Room Numismatic & heraldry, Historical Relics Room, Stone Sculpture Space, and Space Khazanah.
In these rooms guests can select and view museum collections in accordance with the interests and preferences. For example, for visitors who wanted to see the collection of historic objects made of gold and precious relics of the rocks of the kingdoms that ever existed in the archipelago, can enter the stakes in the Gold Room. Gold Khazanah space is divided into two rooms, namely Space Space Archaeology and Ethnography. In this room visitors can see the fruit of more than 200 historic objects made of gold and silver. Especially in the Ethnographic Space are objects made from 14-24 karat gold and decorated with many precious stones. The objects in this room, according to history, many are discovered accidentally, is not found through archaeological excavation. As for the end of which has other interests can reach spaces that have been divided according to the classifications that space.
In general, this museum has a large collection of cultural objects and prehistoric objects from all over the archipelago, as well as the civilization heritage objects other nations, such as Southeast Asia and Europe. Sources in the museum's collection came from archaeological excavations, grants collector, and purchase.
Location
National Museum of the Republic of Indonesia is located on Independence Square to the west, precisely located at Jalan Merdeka Barat No.12, Central Jakarta, Jakarta Province, Indonesia.
D. Access
The museum is located in the heart of Jakarta. Access to visiting this museum is not too difficult. From the Blok M area, visitors can use the bus to the city Transjakarta, then get off at Stop the National Monument (Monas). After that, because this museum is situated opposite the bus stop, visitors can walk toward the location.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Innovation: Google may know your desires before you do
Google attempts to return relevant search results in the blink of an eye. But in future it could go one better, delivering search results to its users even before they know that they want the information.
Amit Singhal, one of Google's veteran search algorithm engineers, wants to develop a search engine that second-guesses users' needs well ahead of time.
"I call it searching without searching," he said at a briefing at Google's London headquarters yesterday.
In future, your Google account may be allowed, under some as-yet-unidentified privacy policy, to know a whole lot about your life and the lives of those close to you. It will know birthdays and anniversaries, consumer gadget preferences, preferred hobbies and pastimes, even favourite foods. It will also know where you are, and be able to get in touch with your local stores via their websites.
No more present panic
Singhal says that could make life a lot easier. For instance, he imagines his wife's birthday is coming up. If he has signed up to the searching-without-searching algorithm (I'll call it "SWS" for now), it sees the event on the horizon and alerts him – as a calendar function can now. But the software then reads his wife's consumer preferences file and checks the real-time Twitter and Facebook feeds that Google now indexes for the latest buzz products that are likely to appeal to her.
"It might suggest I buy her an iPad and point me to some relevant product reviews," he says. But SWS might also discover, again from fishing in recent social media, that the local gadget store has a three-week waiting list for iPads. "So it would bring forward its alert to give me time to order it."
At other times, SWS could give its users a personalised and frequently updated news service by gathering information from social media sites. Singhal points out that Twitter can beat newscasters to warn you of events that might affect you: an earthquake that hit San Francisco in January sent ripples through Twitter 10 minutes before a news alert from the US Geological Survey alerted the professional news media.
More mundanely, real-time updates could highlight a major traffic jam on the way to a meeting that's marked in your calendar and warn you to delay your trip, or suggest the best alternative route.
Getting to know you
Singhal's idea taps into a growing research trend that is exploring ways to personalise search. For instance, Yahoo Research in Barcelona, Spain, has demonstrated that basic demographic information can help to reduce the ambiguity of some search terms by weighting search results towards what a particular user is likely to want to know.
But while the technology exists, it won't be brought to market until ways are be found to address the privacy concerns that highly personalised services will inevitably raise. Google knows this only too well: privacy-sensitive internet users are still feeling stung by Google's sniffing of private Wi-Fi addresses from its Street View cars.
"If searching-without-searching happens, it needs to be done in an incredibly privacy-preserving way, with full control by the users over what it knows," Singhal says. "That's going to take an awful lot of innovation."
While Google reckons such a system could save a user up to 15 minutes of conventional searching every day, Singhal stresses that SWS is not a product in development, but a "dream" he has.
However, it's worth noting that the other dreams he has had in his 10 years at the helm of Google's algorithmic development include ever-smarter context-sensitive text search, translation engines and location-sensitive search – all of which have come true.
Film about Facebook Advertising on Twitter
A Film about the social networking Facebook produced by director David Fincher, has just launched a trailer at the official website of the film.
Coinciding with this moment, Sony Pictures as a film maker, put adverts on micro-blogging network Twitter. On the front page of the site Twitter, Tweet promo film slipped in between the existing streaming Top Tweets.
"You do not get to 500 million friends without making a Few Enemies. Watch the trailer for The # SocialNetwork at http://500MillionFriends.com," the sound of Tweet promo.
Advertise on Twitter, advertising the film The Social Network just can not be found in the largest social network founded by Mark Elliot Zuckerberg's.
As quoted from the site AllThingsDigitall, this is not separated from service rules (terms of service) made by Facebook. The reason Facebook prohibits advertisements relating to Facebook.
"The rules do not allow advertising on the Facebook ads that relate to the company, except for Facebook to get involved in co-operation in the ad objects," said Steve Elzer, SVP of Media Relations, Sony (SNE) movie unit, Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, told AllThingsDigital. "So, we will not advertise on Facebook."
The Social Network itself will appear in U.S. theaters next October. The film is based on the book by Ben Mezrich, entitled "Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of the Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and betrayal".(VIVAnews.com)
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Heart of Borneo emerges as home of world’s unique endemic species
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei (22/04)-A frog with no lungs, a “ninja” slug firing love darts at its mate, and the world’s longest insect are among new species discovered in the three years since the Heart of Borneo conservation plan was drawn up by the three governments with jurisdiction over the world’s third largest island.
New WWF report Borneo’s New World: Newly Discovered Species in the Heart of Borneo details 123 new species discovered since the February 2007 agreement by Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and Malaysia to conserve 220,000 km2 of irreplaceable tropical rainforest, designated the Heart of Borneo (HoB).
“As the past three years of independent scientific discovery have proven, new forms of life are constantly being discovered in the Heart of Borneo,” said Adam Tomasek, leader of WWF’s HoB Initiative.
Explorers have been visiting the island of Borneo for centuries, but vast tracts of its interior are yet to be biologically explored, he said. “If this stretch of irreplaceable rainforest can be conserved for our children, the promise of more discoveries must be a tantalising one for the next generation of researchers to contemplate,” he added.
The HoB, an “island within an island” is home to ten species of primate, more than 350 birds, 150 reptiles and amphibians and a staggering 10,000 plants that are found nowhere else in the world, the report says.
The rate of discovery since the foundation of the HoB is more than three new species per month, providing ample justification for the decision to protect the region.
Speaking at the launch of the report during a meeting of the three Heart of Borneo governments, Brunei Darussalam’s Minister of Industry & Primary Resources, the Honourable Pehin Dato Yahya, paid tribute to the dedicated scientists who spent countless hours in challenging conditions to uncover the staggering bio-diversity.
“These amazing new findings highlight the importance of our efforts to implement the HoB Declaration’s bold vision,” he said of the region which also contains the pygmy elephant, orangutan, rhinoceros, and clouded leopard.
With so many new species discovered every month, WWF has made the region a global priority through its Heart of Borneo Initiative. WWF offices in Malaysia and Indonesia support tri-government efforts to conserve and sustainably manage the HoB.
Under the 2007 agreement, the three governments have committed to enhance protected area and trans-boundary management, develop eco-tourism and support sustainable resource management.
“Three years on, the Heart of Borneo Declaration is proving to be an irreplaceable foundation for conservation and sustainable development by establishing a framework for action to protect Borneo’s globally outstanding biodiversity, eco-system services and livelihoods,” WWF’s Tomasek said.
“The discovery of these new species in the Heart of Borneo underlines the incredible diversity of this remarkable area and emphasizes the importance of the commitments already made by Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and Malaysia to protect it,” he added.
The discoveries also highlight the need to increase financial and technical support to ensure their continued survival, he said. (WWF Indonesia)
