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Researchers develop next-generation computer antivirus system

August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 26 vote(s) | User comments: 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Antivirus software on your personal computer could become a thing of the past thanks to a new "cloud computing" approach to malicious software detection developed at the University of Michigan. ...


Researchers detect fake art from originals

July 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

As museums continue to digitize their art collections, it becomes increasingly easier for paintings to be forged. Two Penn State researchers are part of an international team working on a digital system to help detect original ...


3D Graphics Can Geometrically Guide Your Attention

July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 27 vote(s) | User comments: 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- When you gaze at a painting, the first thing that catches your eye is usually not an accident. Since the beginning of art, painters have used strategic techniques to guide a viewer’s attention ...


How Secure Is Your Network? NIST Model Knows

July 23, 2008 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 6 vote(s) | User comments: 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Data breaches are a recurring nightmare for IT managers responsible for securing not only their company’s confidential data, but possibly also sensitive information belonging to their clients, ...


New grant supports emerging field of massive data analysis and visual analytics

August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s) | User comments: 1

Enormous amounts of data are being generated in health care, computational biology, homeland security and other areas, but analyzing these massive and unstructured data sets has proven cumbersome and difficult. An emerging ...


Hybrid Human Faces Could Populate Google Street View

July 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 15 vote(s) | User comments: 6

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 ...