Groundbreaking research study to measure 'how much information?' is in the world June 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, today announced a new study to quantify the amounts and kinds of information being produced worldwide by businesses and consumers alike. The "How Much Information?" ... | |
Videogaming goes audio: New game lets visually impaired share the fun June 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A new computer game developed by MIT and Singaporean students has taken the video out of videogames, making it possible for visually impaired people to play the game on a level field with their sighted friends. | |
Taking computer chat to a whole new level May 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Natural spoken dialogue technology has long been a dream for many. Advances by European researchers are making this a reality. The results of their work could soon be used to allow us to verbally interact with technology ... | |
 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 ... | |
 Computer scientists devise a 'P4P' system for efficient Internet usage May 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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A Yale research team has engineered a system with the potential for making the Internet work more efficiently, in which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software providers can work ... | |
 Researchers develop new image-recognition software May 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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It takes surprisingly few pixels of information to be able to identify the subject of an image, a team led by an MIT researcher has found. The discovery could lead to great advances in the automated identification ... | |
Turning conventional video coding wisdom on its head May 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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A major drawback of the latest generation video products and applications has been the complex requirements for coding and decoding signals. An alternative put forward by European researchers turns the traditional video coding ... | |
NIST tool helps Internet master top-level domains May 16, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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At the request of a worldwide Internet organization, a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology developed an algorithm that may guide applicants in proposing new “top-level domains”—the last ... | |
Gaining Independence Through Video Games May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Today’s video games serve a multitude of functions ranging from entertainment to exercise and even education. Now, three graduates from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Class of 2008 have created a game with an even more ... | |
 Leveling the gaming field May 13, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A new computer game developed by MIT and Singaporean students makes it possible for visually impaired people to play the game on a level field with their sighted friends. | |
Braille converter bridges the information gap May 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A free, e-mail-based service that translates text into Braille and audio recordings is helping to bridge the information gap for blind and visually impaired people, giving them quick and easy access to books, news articles ... | |
Berkeley Lab researchers propose a new breed of supercomputers May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Three researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have proposed an innovative way to improve global climate change predictions by using a supercomputer with low-power ... | |
Researchers use cyberinfrastructure to standardize water data collections May 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Like the popular children’s song “There’s a Hole in My Bucket,” in which Liza and Henry try to patch a leaking pail, researchers with the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego are plugging a hole in the data management ... | |
 Piecing together the next generation of cognitive robots May 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Building robots with anything akin to human intelligence remains a far off vision, but European researchers are making progress on piecing together a new generation of machines that are more aware of their ... | |
New software allows ISPs and P2P users to get along without getting too cozy May 02, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services, which connect individual users for simultaneous uploads and downloads directly rather than through a central server, are reported to account for as much as 70 percent of Internet ... | |
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