Researchers use cyberinfrastructure to standardize water data collections May 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Like the popular children’s song “There’s a Hole in My Bucket,” in which Liza and Henry try to patch a leaking pail, researchers with the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego are plugging a hole in the data management ... | |
 Piecing together the next generation of cognitive robots May 05, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Building robots with anything akin to human intelligence remains a far off vision, but European researchers are making progress on piecing together a new generation of machines that are more aware of their ... | |
New software allows ISPs and P2P users to get along without getting too cozy May 02, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services, which connect individual users for simultaneous uploads and downloads directly rather than through a central server, are reported to account for as much as 70 percent of Internet ... | |
Bringing down the language barrier... automatically May 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Progress being made by European researchers on automatic speech-to-speech translation technology could help the EU tackle one of the biggest remaining boundaries to internal trade, mobility and the free exchange of information ... | |
 Strap-On Helicopter Could Offer Solo Flying Experience May 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 76 vote(s)
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Ever since the first human saw a bird soaring through the clouds, our species has harbored a great envy for the freedom that flying gives. | |
Stanford, tech giants team up to enable software for parallel computers May 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Stanford and many of the biggest companies in computing will announce Friday, May 2, a joint effort to address a major missed opportunity in information technology: the dearth of software that can harness the parallelism ... | |
 Probing Question: What is Net neutrality? May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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"Internet Freedom, under attack. What do we do? Stand up, talk back," shouted a group calling themselves the Raging Grannies, outside the Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford University. Inside, the Federal ... | |
UM gets only US lab for WiMAX next generation wireless apps May 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The University of Maryland will be the home to North America's first, and the world's second, laboratory endorsed by the WiMAX Forum and dedicated to creating applications for WiMAX, a next generation technology for Web and ... | |
The technology to make 'Speed Racer' cars May 01, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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The opening of the new “Speed Racer” movie coming out nationally on May 9 has meant weeks of fast-paced fun for 8 juniors in the University of Cincinnati’s internationally recognized School of Design, part of UC’s top-ranked ... | |
 Research Could Cut Aircraft Development Costs, Improve Safety April 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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A distressing fact for aeronautical engineers: Scale model airplanes don't fly anything like their full-sized counterparts. And that makes aircraft design a lot more difficult. | |
 RFID Chips Make Luggage Transport Reliable April 29, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Transporting passenger baggage between the world’s airports is expected to become far more reliable in the future — with RFID technology. Siemens has developed a system that relies on a radio chip to replace ... | |
High-definition television to go April 29, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
New video compression technology and transmission/reception equipment means Europe is ready for commercially deploying multi-channel HDTV over terrestrial, satellite, cable or IPTV digital links. | |
 'Electronic ears' to guide mining drills April 29, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
CSIRO scientists with the Minerals Down Under National Research Flagship have successfully used an electronic listening post to track and control a drill operating more than 300 metres below the Earth’s surface. | |
 Micro-origami: Researchers fold up micrometer-scale 'voxels' for drug delivery April 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Researchers at the USC Information Sciences Institute have demonstrated a way to manufacture miniscule closed containers that might be used to deliver precise micro- or even nano-quantities of drugs. | |
 Inexpensive roof vent could prevent billions of dollars in wind damage April 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Hurricanes often lift the roofs off buildings and expose them to havoc and damaging conditions, even after the worst of the wind has passed. A local roofer, Virginia Tech faculty members from architecture ... | |
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