Mars

The EDL Team (Entry, Descent and Landing) at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in California along with the world awaited the, nuclear powered roving laboratory Curiosity’s August 2012 landing in the Gale Crater in Mt. Olympus on Mars. The purpose for this mission is to find carbon based life utilizing SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars). An eight month journey for this six-wheeled rover with mounted panoramic 360°camera, we currently anticipate the transmission of detailed images and data about soil samples.

For updates go to: www.nasa.gov

Mars Landing

I’ve been up all night with NASA TV. Curiosity landed at 1:31 ET; quite exciting. HICAP is awaiting the high resolution images to come in two days. And, we are looking forward to feedback from Curiosity’s rendezvous with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Odyssey utilizing HiRISE—High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment and relaying different types of data—basic radio frequency and Ultra High Frequency radio data. Data is received by NASA’s Deep Space Network antenna dishes in California, Spain and Australia; truly is a global education effort. Go world!

Quantum Computing Qubits

Bits are the intellectual life-blood of computing. A bit is either in the zero position or the one position. In Quantum Physics the Theory of Entanglement states that one particle can exist in two separate and distant places at the same time. The application in Quantum Computing is that when both the zero and the one are active at the same time, in separate and distant places, they are called qubits. Qubits would exponentially increase the power of computing. If possible, this translates to two to the nth power. It has, also, been stated that extremely large exponents is a theoretical and unattainable value.

There is a Neutrino detector called Minerva at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. From the University of Rochester, scientists have beamed a message through the ground using neutrinos in binary code; they then published a paper in the journal Modern Physics Letters A expressing their results.

Between Quantum Computing Qubits and Neutrinos traveling through matter faster than the speed of light, HICAP anxiously awaits our exciting future.

HICAP Summer Break

As I hoped, this has been one of the most exciting years ever at ISOC-NY Harlem Internet Computer Access Program. With the 'Breaking Barriers' video honorably featured in the Internet Hall of Fame, our journey this session has been informative and rewarding. In addition to studying the technical aspects of computing, we discussed:

• Tuskegee Airmen known as the Red Tail and their mutiny that was the model for the non-violent protests led by Dr. Martrin Luther King
• The Quakers' contribution to the Underground Rail Road
• Solar Storm Cycle resulting in Aurora Borealis and Neutrino particles
• Sun Spots and Solar Sound
• Large objects such as the Pyramids and Stonehenge  being as moved with sound
• Neutrinoes being produced in a lab to use in future computing
• Utilization and creation of QR Codes
• Unclaimed Funds (official site)
• Free local events with Internet Access

All students have my contact info and I will be available them during our Summer Break.
Graduation Celebration on Friday, June 22, 2012 at 5:30 p.m.

Video

The HICAP video, 'Breaking Barriers' commisioned by the Internet Society and produced by Guy Calaf & Ruben Collado featured last week with The Internet Hall of Fame awardees!

Black History Month at Manhattan Borough Presidents' Office

Artist Gerald Jones awarded presentation priviledge to display work for
Black History Month by Scott Stringer, Manhattn Borough President 2012

Mr. Wu &Gerald Jones both ISOC-NY HICAP Students at Artist Jones'
Reception Party at the Office of the Manhattan Borough President

ISOC-NY HICAP Chinese New Year Celebration

HICAP Students enjoying Conversation and Computers
at
Gen. Chauncey Hooper Towers in Harlem, USA