'Immersidata' improves interactive game development user-testing June 07, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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USC engineers are perfecting a games user testing tool that captures and analyzes play experience to automatically detect weakness and flaws - and it may soon gauge player emotional involvement. | |
Random twist for storytelling June 16, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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UQ software engineer Chooi Guan Lim has created a computer storytelling program that gives children a random, educational experience. | |
 Computer game's high score could earn the Nobel Prize in medicine May 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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Gamers have devoted countless years of collective brainpower to rescuing princesses or protecting the planet against alien invasions. This week researchers at the University of Washington will try to harness ... | |
 Computer-based tool aids research, helps thwart questionable publication practices January 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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A new computer-based text-searching tool developed by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers automatically – and quickly – compares multiple documents in a database for similarities, providing a more efficient ... | |
'Combinatorial' approach squashes software bugs faster, cheaper December 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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A team of computer scientists and mathematicians from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Texas, Arlington is developing an open-source tool that catches programming errors by using an ... | |
 Researchers teach computers to perceive three dimensions in 2-D images June 13, 2006 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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We live in a three-dimensional world but, for the most part, we see it in two dimensions. Discerning how objects and surfaces are juxtaposed in an image is second nature for people, but it's something that ... | |
Software Circumvents Internet Censorship November 28, 2006 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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With the Dec. 1 release of psiphon software, developed by University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, people around the world will have access to a free tool enabling them to circumvent Internet censorship. | |
Researcher: JavaScript Attacks Get Slicker April 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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An Arbor Networks researcher at CanSecWest details JavaScript exploits' increasingly sophisticated means of attack and what tools to use to fight them. | |
Team-based e-learning turns a new page February 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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How do students, who may be located across the globe, collaborate together on team-based project work? European researchers have developed the first online platform that integrates elements of e-learning, social networking ... | |
Tool Turns Any JavaScript-Enabled Browser into a Malicious Drone March 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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A new tool too dangerous to give away can turn any PC - Windows, Mac, Linux - or any device with a browser into a site attacker. | |
UCI Innovation for Developers: Cut to the Action CodeGenie November 06, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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A brilliant innovation by graduate students of the University of California, Irvine. The CodeGenie will cut down on hours of painstaking search and filter. It is an Eclipse plugin that searches Open Source code and its results ... | |
 Nomadic devices, the freedom to compute February 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Today's mobile phones and other nomadic devices have the computing power to offer users many more applications than currently available. However, security concerns and costs are holding back developments in ... | |
 Searching for the soul in the machine May 18, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 78 vote(s)
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If computers could create a society, what kind of world would they make? Thanks to the work of an ambitious project that adds a whole new meaning to the phrase, ‘computer society’, in which millions of software ... | |
Digital frame virus traced to China February 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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A powerful virus recently discovered in digital photo frames has been identified as a Chinese Trojan Horse that gathers personal information. | |
Bringing down the language barrier... automatically May 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Progress being made by European researchers on automatic speech-to-speech translation technology could help the EU tackle one of the biggest remaining boundaries to internal trade, mobility and the free exchange of information ... | |
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