Quantum existence testing gives extreme solutions to increase network speed March 22, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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Using a novel quantum computing algorithm, scientists have simplified the process for finding extreme values in a database compared with classical and earlier quantum computing methods. With its reduced time and minimal error ... | |
 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 ... | |
 Poker match pits man vs. machine in world first match June 11, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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A poker-playing computer program developed at the University of Alberta will battle against a pair of poker kings in a $50,000 contest this summer. | |
Game theory AI research moves from Ph.D. thesis to experimental police tool October 01, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Security officials at Los Angeles Airport are experimenting with a system developed by USC Viterbi School of Engineering computer scientists to make their operations harder for the bad guys to predict and defeat. | |
 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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
New system makes any digital camera take multibillion-pixel shots September 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 70 vote(s)
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center, have built a low-cost robotic device that enables any digital camera to produce breathtaking gigapixel (billions ... | |
 Many processors make light work of calculations July 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Solving complicated calculations has never been easy, but a new European computing grid means researchers can number crunch their data faster than ever before. | |
 'Virtual archaeologist' reconnects fragments of an ancient civilization August 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For several decades, archaeologists in Greece have been painstakingly attempting to reconstruct wall paintings that hold valuable clues to the ancient culture of Thera, an island civilization ... | |
 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 ... | |
 Computer Science Fog Machine Improves Computer Graphics April 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 17 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 ... | |
 Study: Hackers Attack Computers Every 39 Seconds February 08, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Are hackers trying to get into your computer right now? And what are they up to? A study by the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering is one of the first to quantify the near-constant ... | |
 Render smoke and fog without being a computation hog August 09, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Computer scientists from UC San Diego have developed a way to generate images like smoke-filled bars, foggy alleys and smog-choked cityscapes without the computational drag and slow speed of previous computer ... | |
 Stanford builds a better virtual world, one tree (or millions) at a time January 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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When Stanford computer scientist Vladlen Koltun decided to build a better virtual world, he began with 3-D trees—millions of them. Now he wants to give them away. | |
 Engineer Creates First Academic Playstation 3 Computing Cluster March 09, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 134 vote(s)
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The Sony Playstation 3, Xbox and Nintendo Wii have captivated a generation of computer gamers with bold graphics and rapid-fire animation. But these high-tech toys can do a lot more than just play games. At ... | |
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