 Yale Professor wins Godel Prize for showing how computer algorithms solve problems August 13, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Daniel A. Spielman, professor of applied mathematics and computer science at Yale, has been awarded the prestigious Gödel Prize for developing a technique, known as Smoothed Analysis, that helps predict the ... | |
 Images for 3D Video Games Without High Price Tags or Stretch Marks August 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 17 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 ... | |
'Virtuality' gets real August 12, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Up to now virtual reality has proved cumbersome as a design tool, but European researchers are finalising a system that brings ‘virtuality’ to the wider world. | |
Computer scientist aims for a better-networked military August 07, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Patrick Crowley, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering at
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 Researchers develop next-generation computer antivirus system August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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(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. ... | |
New grant supports emerging field of massive data analysis and visual analytics August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
Visualizing Open Source Software Development July 30, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A UC Davis graduate student has created short, colorful movies that show the development of open source software. With dancing points of light, rings of color and a soundtrack, the Code_swarm animations show ... | |
 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 ... | |
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 ... | |
 How Secure Is Your Network? NIST Model Knows July 23, 2008 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(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, ... | |
Security flaws in online banking sites found to be widespread July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- More than 75 percent of the bank Web sites surveyed in a University of Michigan study had at least one design flaw that could make customers vulnerable to cyber thieves after their money or even their identity. | |
Keeping up with your peers, securely July 21, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Mobile peer-to-peer (P2P) applications allow a team or group to create new levels of ad hoc co-operation and collaboration around a specific, real-time goal. But developing compelling and secure applications is a challenge. ... | |
 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. | |
 Semantics gives the web meaning -- for machines July 16, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Where would we be without the web? It is such an immense and rich source of information; we feel that every answer is out there. All it takes is a bit of searching... | |
 Goodbye to faulty software? July 15, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Will it ever be possible to buy software guaranteed to be free from bugs? A team of European researchers think so. Their work on the mathematical foundations of programming could one day revolutionise the ... | |
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