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 ... | |
Braille converter bridges the information gap May 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A free, e-mail-based service that translates text into Braille and audio recordings is helping to bridge the information gap for blind and visually impaired people, giving them quick and easy access to books, news articles ... | |
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 ... | |
Berkeley Lab researchers propose a new breed of supercomputers May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Three researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have proposed an innovative way to improve global climate change predictions by using a supercomputer with low-power ... | |
Chain letters reveal surprising circulation patterns April 10, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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A chain letter hoax that fooled thousands of people may help computer scientists understand how information spreads on a global scale. | |
 Hypercubes Could Be Building Blocks of Nanocomputers April 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 80 vote(s)
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Multi-dimensional structures called hypercubes may act as the building blocks for tomorrow’s nanocomputers – machines made of such tiny elements that they are dominated not by forces that we’re familiar with ... | |
 Avatar Mimics You in Real Time March 25, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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It’s a little bit like looking in the mirror at your cartoon double, except that the “reflection” is an avatar on your computer screen. Wave your hand, nod your head, speak a sentence, and your avatar does ... | |
Stanford, tech giants team up to enable software for parallel computers May 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 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 ... | |
Scientists teach a computer to recognize attractiveness in women April 04, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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“Beauty,” goes the old saying, “is in the eye of the beholder.” But does the beholder have to be human? Not necessarily, say scientists at Tel Aviv University. Amit Kagian, an M.Sc. graduate from the TAU School of Computer ... | |
Computer scientists develop solutions for long-term storage of digital data April 21, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Although the digital age is well under way, one crucial detail remains to be worked out--how to store vast amounts of digital information in a way that allows future generations to recover it. | |
 'What can I, Robot, do with that?' April 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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A new approach to robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) could lead to a revolution in the field by shifting the focus from what a thing is to how it can be used. | |
Researchers devise new method for protecting private data April 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Companies and organizations that keep sensitive personal information on millions of Americans have become attractive targets for hackers in recent years, resulting in billions of dollars in losses for U.S. businesses and ... | |
 Computer Science Fog Machine Improves Computer Graphics April 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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UC San Diego computer scientists have created a fog and smoke machine for computer graphics that cuts the computational cost of making realistic smoky and foggy 3-D images, such as beams of light from a lighthouse ... | |
 Location spoofing possible with WiFi devices April 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Apple iPhone and iPod (touch) support a new self-localization feature that uses known locations of wireless access points as well as the device's own ability to detect access points. Now ETH Zurich researchers ... | |
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