Technical sessions will focus on topics including micro implanted devices, micro-instrumentation, biocompatibility and biosurface engineering, and porous silicon as biomaterial. With advent of e-signatures, no ink necessary The Electronic Signatures in Global Commerce Act, which gives electronic signatures the same legal standing as those made with ink, went into effect on 1 October. The law is expected to speed the completion of contracts and lower the cost of processing them because it will eliminate the need for businesses to draft a paper document, mail it, and wait for it to be returned with a signature affixed. The act, which was made law in June, came after 40 states officially recognized the validity of e-signatures. Because the law does not stipulate a method for capturing electronic signatures, it is likely to usher in a host of new technologies.
Consumers still have the option of sealing contracts by putting pen to paper.
The Grid Physics Network, or GriPhyN, will bring to bear the combined processing resources of universities, national labs, and supercomputers. Just as someone plugging in an appliance is unconcerned with where the electricity was generated, scientists submitting a processing job to the GriPhyN network will be more concerned that the task gets completed quickly than which group of computers did the work. The two CERN experiments, dubbed Atlas and CMS, will accelerate sub-atomic particles to the highest energies ever produced in a laboratory. The hope is to explain mysteries such as why particles have mass and why protons weigh 2000 times more than electrons. Delivery of Playstation 2 in slow motion Sony Corp., Tokyo, confirmed on 27 September that because of a shortage of electronic components, it will not meet the projected production schedule for the Playstation 2 home videogame system that called for a million such units to be ready for sale on 26 October.