Roy Williams Previews 2009-10 Tar Heels Oct 12, 2009
With the 2009-10 North Carolina basketball season set to begin on Friday, read head coach Roy Williams' preseason analysis of each scholarship player on the roster. SENIORS. (InsideCarolina.com)
Solid State Drives Preparing to Dominate Jul 23, 2009
Accessing a given piece of data on a spinning hard disk involves moving a read head to a particular location and waiting for the right part of the disk to spin under the read head. These mechanical maneuvers take time, and the exact amount of time depends on the relative locations of the read heads and the data on the disk when a read request comes in. (Datamation)
Physics Of Bumpy Roads: What Makes Roads Ripple Like A Washboard? Jul 9, 2009
Washboard can also cause tiny bumps on steel railway tracks and even the read head in a hard disk can sometimes hop along the surface of the disk to make a washboard pattern. In addition to Morris, the research collaboration includes lead author Anne-Florence Bitbol and Nicolas Taberlet of Ecole Normale Superieure in Lyon and Jim McElwaine of the University of Cambridge. (Science Daily)
Unexpectedly long-range effects in advanced magnetic devices Jul 2, 2009
The data read heads on modern high-density disk drives usually exploit a version of the giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect, which uses such layered structures for extremely sensitive magnetic field detectors ... In a magnetoresistance read head, for example, this pinned layer serves as a reference direction that the sensor uses in detecting changing field directions on the disk that it is "reading.". (EurekAlert!)
Getting a warm and fuzzy feeling all over Mar 7, 2009
Tuesday, March 03, 2009. Published: Tuesday, March 3, 2009 1:06 AM CST Federal dollars always become political dollars. (Boerne Star, TX)
