 Stanford's 'autonomous' helicopters teach themselves to fly September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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Stanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching other helicopters perform the same maneuvers. ... | |
 Virtual Eve: first in human computer interaction November 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 87 vote(s)
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The near-human performance of a virtual teacher called Eve created by Massey researchers has drawn the attention of scientists across the computing world. | |
 GPS receivers can be 'spoofed,' say researchers September 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Just like flat-screen televisions, cell phones and computers, global positioning system (GPS) technology is becoming something people can't imagine living without. So if such a ubiquitous ... | |
First 3-D processor runs at 1.4 Ghz on new architecture September 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 74 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The next major advance in computer processors will likely be the move from today's two-dimensional chips to three-dimensional circuits, and the first three-dimensional synchronization circuitry is now running ... | |
 Intelligent Computers See Your Human Traits May 29, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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Today’s computers can do a lot as far as computation goes, but they tend to do it in an impersonal, stand-offish way, so to speak. However, computer engineers are busy changing that, as they try to give computers ... | |
 Attack on computer memory reveals vulnerability of widely-used security systems February 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 62 vote(s)
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A team of academic, industry and independent researchers has demonstrated a new class of computer attacks that compromise the contents of “secure” memory systems, particularly in laptops. | |
 Bringing Second Life To Life: Researchers Create Character With Reasoning Abilities of a Child March 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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Troy, N.Y. – Today’s video games and online virtual worlds give users the freedom to create characters in the digital domain that look and seem more human than ever before. But despite having your hair, your ... | |
Europe’s next-generation broadband July 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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An enormous research effort by Europe’s leading broadband players has helped accelerate dramatically the rollout of next-generation broadband services reaching speeds in the 10s of Mbit/s in many European countries. That ... | |
 Hybrid Human Faces Could Populate Google Street View July 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Due to privacy concerns, Google has been blurring the faces of people caught on Google Street View cameras. But rather than blurring people's faces and diminishing the reality of the scene, researchers have ... | |
 Researchers Give Computers Common Sense October 17, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Using a little-known Google Labs widget, computer scientists from UC San Diego and UCLA have brought common sense to an automated image labeling system. The common sense comes as the ability to use context ... | |
Software That Grades Handwritten Essays May Boost Comprehension, Too January 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Computer scientists in the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have been working with their colleagues in UB's Graduate School of Education to develop a computational tool that not only dramatically ... | |
 Stanford site advances science of turning 2-D images into 3-D models January 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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An artist might spend weeks fretting over questions of depth, scale and perspective in a landscape painting, but once it is done, what's left is a two-dimensional image with a fixed point of view. But the ... | |
Chain letters reveal surprising circulation patterns April 10, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 48 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 82 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 ... | |
Computer scientists develop solutions for long-term storage of digital data April 21, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 15 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. | |
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