Asian-Americans Are the Best Educated

Asian-Americans are the highest-earning, best-educated, and fastest-growing ethnic group in the US, according to a nationwide survey just released by the Pew Research Center in Washington. They are more satisfied with their lives, finances, and the direction of the country than the general public. They place more value on marriage, parenthood, hard work, and career success than other Americans. While nearly 500,000 people living in the US identify themselves as Taiwanese, they were not considered a separate group for the purposes of the survey.

A century ago, most Asian-Americans were low-skilled, low-wage laborers crowded into ethnic enclaves and targets of official discrimination. Today, they are the most likely of any major ethnic group in the US to live in mixed neighborhoods and to marry across racial lines.

亚裔美国人是教育程度最佳的一群

根据一项刚由华盛顿皮尤研究中心发布的全国性调查显示，亚裔美国人是全美收入最高、教育程度最佳及成长最快速的族群。他们比一般大众更满意他们的生活、财务及国家的方向。他们比其他美国人更重视婚姻、为人父母、努力工作和事业成功。虽然有将近 50 万住在美国的人认为自己是台湾人，但他们并没有因为该调查而被视为独立的群体。

一世纪前，大部分的亚裔美国人都是挤在少数民族群居地的低技术及低工资劳工，也是被官方歧视的对象。时至今日，他们是美国所有主要族群中最有可能居住在混合小区及跨越种族界线通婚的一群。

亚裔美国人（Asian-Americans）指的是具有亚洲血统的美国公民，包括了华裔美人、菲律宾裔美人、越裔美人、韩裔美人、日裔美人或其他血缘来自于亚洲的美国人。

目前在美国常常会将来自东亚、南亚、东南亚的人都视为亚洲人。在美国的人口普查中，起缘于远东、东南亚、及印度次大陆的民众都被介定为亚裔族群。（数据源：维基百科）

Supercameras Could Capture Never-Before-Seen Detail

A supercamera that can take gigapixel pictures, which is 1,000 megapixels, was recently unveiled. Researchers say these supercameras could have military, commercial, and civilian applications and that handheld gigapixel cameras may one day be possible.

The gigapixel camera uses 98 identical microcameras in unison, each armed with its own set of optics and a 14-megapixel sensor. These microcameras, in turn, all peer through a single large spherical lens to see the scene the system aims to capture collectively. Since the optics of the microcameras are small, they are relatively easy and cheap to fabricate. A specially designed electronic processing unit stitches together all the partial images each microcamera takes into a giant, one-gigapixel image.

超级相机可以捕捉前所未见的细微影像

一台可以拍出 10 亿画素相片，也就是 1 千倍于百万画素的超级相机即将于近日公诸于世。研究人员指出，这些超级相机可以运用在军事、商业及一般民众的用途，而且有朝一日手提的 10 亿画素相机有可能会出现。

这台 10亿画素相机同时使用了 98 台完全相同的微型相机，每一台微型相机都独自配备光学设备及 1千 4 百万画素的传感器。这些微型相机依序透过一个大型球形镜头来共同捕捉系统想要呈现的场景。由于微型相机的光学装置很小，要组装制造这些产品相当容易且便宜。一个特别设计的电子处理装置会将所有微型相机所拍到的部份影像结合成一个巨大的 10 亿画素影像。

美国工程师制作出 1 台床头柜大小的 10 亿画素相机 AWARE-2，单张照片分辨率是目前百万画素相机的 1000 倍。

开发人员表示，AWARE-2不是世界第 1 台 10 亿画素相机，但却是同类相机中最小、最快速的。它为改善机场安全、军事监视甚至网络运动赛事报导开拓新局。计划成员布雷迪表示：「我们的相机不到零点一秒就可记录1张10亿画素照片。」

10亿画素照相技术可捕捉人类肉眼无法看见的细节，拍完再放大观察也依旧清晰。（数据源：联合新闻网）