Mimicking How the Brain Recognizes Street Scenes February 06, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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At last, neuroscience is having an impact on computer science and artificial intelligence (AI). For the first time, scientists in Tomaso Poggio’s laboratory at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT applied a computational ... | |
 First impressions: Computer model behaves like humans on visual categorization task April 02, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Computers can usually out-compute the human brain, but there are some tasks, such as visual object recognition, that the brain performs easily yet are very challenging for computers. The brain has a much more ... | |
 Monarch system-on-a-chip excels in early testing March 23, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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A revolutionary processor package that changes its architecture to adapt to the demands of different computing tasks more than met design expectations in recent trials. | |
 Scientists study how to make humanoid robots more graceful July 09, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Infants learn how to move by recognizing which movements and positions cause them physical discomfort and learning to avoid them. Computer science Professor Oussama Khatib and his research group at the Stanford ... | |
 Computer graphics spills from milk to medicine August 07, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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A new UC San Diego computer graphics model capable of generating realistic milk images based on the fat and protein content will likely push the field of computer graphics into the realms of diagnostic medicine, ... | |
 Images for 3D Video Games Without High Price Tags or Stretch Marks August 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The images of rocks, clouds, marble and other textures that serve as background images and details for 3D video games are often hand painted and thus costly to generate. A breakthrough from ... | |
Europe’s next-generation broadband July 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 13 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 ... | |
 New Algorithm Significantly Boosts Routing Efficiency of Networks August 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A time-and-money-saving question shared by commuters in their cars and networks sharing ever-changing Internet resources is: "What's the best way to get from here to there?" | |
Researchers demonstrate direct brain control of humanoid robot December 15, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 57 vote(s)
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A classic science-fiction scene shows a person wearing a metal skullcap with electrodes sticking out to detect the person’s thoughts. Another sci-fi movie standard depicts robots doing humans’ bidding. Now the two are combined, ... | |
CMU professor honored for computational complexity breakthrough May 21, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and the Russian Academy of Science will share the Association for Computing Machinery's 2007 Gödel Prize for their seminal work on what many consider the most important unresolved ... | |
Computer scientist forges new line of defense against malicious traffic November 05, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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Paul Barford has watched malicious traffic on the Internet evolve from childish pranks to a billion-dollar "shadow industry" in the last decade, and his profession has largely been one step behind the bad guys. | |
Virtual Reality for Virtual Eternity March 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Imagine having a discussion with Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein on the nature of the universe, where their 3-D, life-sized representations looked you in the eye, examined your body language, considered voice nuances and ... | |
 94 percent of spam-advertised online scams are hosted on individual Web servers August 06, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Computer scientists from UC San Diego have found striking differences between the infrastructure used to distribute spam and the infrastructure used to host the online scams advertised in these unwanted email ... | |
Using supercomputers to make safer nuclear reactors November 01, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is leading a $3 million research project that will pair two of the world’s most powerful supercomputers to boost the safety and reliability of next-generation nuclear power reactors. | |
 Virtual world is sign of future for scientists, engineers July 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Purdue University is operating a virtual environment that enables scientists and engineers to interpret raw data collected with powerful instruments called dynamic atomic force microscopes. | |
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