New Technologies Improve Video Surveillance December 14, 2006 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Surveillance cameras are sprouting up in more and more places, forming an ever more powerful tool for solving crimes after they happen. But what about using them to prevent or stop criminal and terrorist acts? This requires ... | |
 Software transforms digital photos into old-fashioned paintings September 12, 2007 | User rating: 2.9 / 5 after 52 vote(s)
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While today’s most cutting-edge digital imaging technology strives for high-res and high focus, Stephen Brooks is interested in distorting photos and deliberately making them unfocused. His system can produce ... | |
 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. | |
 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 ... | |
 Next-generation, high-performance processor unveiled April 24, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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The prototype for a revolutionary new general-purpose computer processor, which has the potential of reaching trillions of calculations per second, has been designed and built by a team of computer scientists ... | |
 Machines might talk with humans by putting themselves in our shoes September 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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While robots can do some remarkable things, they don't yet possess the gift of gab. Since the 1970s, researchers have been trying to develop a speech-based human-machine interface, but improvements are gradual, ... | |
Researchers teach computers how to name images by 'thinking' November 01, 2006 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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Penn State researchers have "taught" computers how to interpret images using a vocabulary of up to 330 English words, so that a computer can describe a photograph of two polo players, for instance, as "sport," "people," "horse," ... | |
 Bee strategy helps servers run more sweetly November 16, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Honeybees somehow manage to efficiently collect a lot of nectar with limited resources and no central command — after all, the queen bee is too busy laying eggs to oversee something as mundane as where the ... | |
 3D Graphics Can Geometrically Guide Your Attention July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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(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 ... | |
 New Technology Combines GPS Benefits with Privacy Protection December 11, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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As GPS and other wireless location-based technologies are becoming prevalent on cell phones and other everyday devices, two researchers are thinking about the social reaction to constant surveillance. As George ... | |
 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 ... | |
 Digital Dandelions August 31, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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What looks like the head of a digital dandelion is a map of the Internet generated by new algorithms from computer scientists at UC San Diego. This map features Internet nodes – the red dots – and linkages ... | |
'Not so fast, supercomputers,' say software programmers May 22, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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The fastest of the fastest computers - supercomputers used at national research centers, research universities and major corporations - will soon gain even more performance by taking advantage of multicore computing. | |
 Need New Look? Online Makeover is fan-taaz-tic March 18, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Thanks to a Jacobs School startup company whose site, Taaz.com went live today, the cosmetics counter isn't the only place to try out the latest makeup trends. The new way is easier, faster, and much more ... | |
 Software allows amateurs to compose professional-looking music sports videos May 07, 2007 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Although currently the composition of music sports videos requires a tech-savvy professional with an artist’s touch, the future may enable any amateur to create their own personalized video using software ... | |
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