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(PhysOrg.com) -- Flying robot fairies are joining human actors in Texas A&M University?s production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which runs through Sunday (Nov. 15) in the Rudder Forum. http://www.physorg.com/news177347142.html Other Sciences Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:06:11 EST news177347142 (PhysOrg.com) -- Last Thursday, the day after the New York Yankees won their first World Series of the 21st century, MIT Institute Professor Barbara Liskov, the 2008 recipient of the Turing Award - frequently called the Nobel Prize for computer science - delivered the first lecture of the 2009 Dertouzos Lecture Series. http://www.physorg.com/news177097345.html Technology Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:20:04 EST news177097345 (PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists have spent decades developing techniques for answering a single question: How long does a given calculation take to perform? Constantinos Daskalakis, an assistant professor in MIT`s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, has exported those techniques to game theory, a branch of mathematics with applications in economics, traffic management -- on both the Internet and the interstate -- and biology, among other things. By showing that some common game-theoretical problems are so hard that they`d take the lifetime of the universe to solve, Daskalakis is suggesting that they can`t accurately represent what happens in the real world. http://www.physorg.com/news176978473.html Technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:20:01 EST news176978473 The spread of malicious software, also known as malware or computer viruses, is a growing problem that can lead to crashed computer systems, stolen personal information, and billions of dollars in lost productivity every year. One of the most insidious types of malware is a "rootkit," which can effectively hide the presence of other spyware or viruses from the user - allowing third parties to steal information from your computer without your knowledge. But now researchers from North Carolina State University have devised a new way to block rootkits and prevent them from taking over your computer systems. http://www.physorg.com/news176452213.html Technology Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:30:44 EST news176452213 (PhysOrg.com) -- During the last several years, researchers have been building micro air vehicles (MAVs) that can autonomously fly through different environments by relying on GPS for navigation. Recently, a team of researchers has designed an MAV that can navigate unknown environments without GPS, which could enable it to overcome several limitations of GPS-dependent vehicles. http://www.physorg.com/news176390156.html Technology Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:16:45 EST news176390156 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers headed by Martin Rinard, a professor of computer science at MIT, have developed new software that automatically patches errors in deployed software in a matter of minutes. http://www.physorg.com/news176040735.html Technology Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:12:53 EST news176040735 In the 1995 Halloween episode of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson finds a portal to the mysterious Third Dimension behind a bookcase, and desperate to escape his in-laws, he plunges through. He finds himself wandering across a dark surface etched with green gridlines and strewn with geometric shapes, above which hover strange equations. One of these is the deceptively simple assertion that P = NP. http://www.physorg.com/news176037013.html Technology Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:10:40 EST news176037013 (PhysOrg.com) -- Software that tracks shoppers' eye movements as they browse supermarket shelves may seem a bit Big Brother, but the latest technology in 'eye-tracking', which monitors what grabs a person's attention, could have far-reaching implications for consumers and result in services being tailored towards their specific interests in the future. http://www.physorg.com/news175356808.html Technology Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:30:04 EST news175356808 Millions of Internet users have been enjoying the fun -- and free -- services provided by advertiser-supported online social networks like Facebook. But Landon Cox, a Duke University assistant professor of computer science, worries about the possible down side -- privacy problems. http://www.physorg.com/news174665011.html Technology Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:04:05 EST news174665011 People are increasingly using household robots for chores, communication, entertainment and companionship. But safety and privacy risks of information-gathering objects that move around our homes are not yet adequately addressed, according to a new University of Washington study. http://www.physorg.com/news174242334.html Electronics Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:39:26 EST news174242334 (PhysOrg.com) -- How dependent have we become on mobile phones, and are social networking sites changing the nature of our relationships with other people? A three-year Oxford University study is to address these issues. http://www.physorg.com/news174222554.html Technology Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:30:01 EST news174222554 (PhysOrg.com) -- University of Texas at Austin scientists have shown that they can break "Vanish," a program that promised to self-destruct computer data, such as emails and photographs, and thereby protect a person's privacy. http://www.physorg.com/news173450942.html Technology Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:49:34 EST news173450942 (PhysOrg.com) -- The ancient city of Rome was not built in a day. It took nearly a decade to build the Colosseum, and almost a century to construct St. Peter's Basilica. But now the city, including these landmarks, can be digitized in just a matter of hours. http://www.physorg.com/news172241228.html Technology Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:47:50 EST news172241228 Walk into almost any household that includes teenage boys and you'll find one or more video game consoles. Walk into that household past 10PM and you`re likely to find one or more teenage boys playing those video games. Walk into the parents` bedroom, wake them up and then ask them what they think of their sons playing video games, and most likely they'll tell you it`s a waste of time - before they kick you out of their house. But is it truly a waste of time? http://www.physorg.com/news171724441.html Other Sciences Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:40:07 EST news171724441 A new mathematical tool from Dr. Eran Halperin of TAU's Blavatnik School of Computer Science aims to protect genetic privacy while giving genomic data to researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news170937537.html Medicine & Health Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:39:30 EST news170937537 Scientists working collaboratively, at the same time, but in different locations around the world, can now do so thanks to ultra-high-speed, broadband networks and special software developed as part of a National Science Foundation-funded program called the "OptIPuter." http://www.physorg.com/news170599723.html Technology Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:49:20 EST news170599723 (PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists have developed an inexpensive solution for diagnosing networking delays in data center networks as short as tens of millionths of seconds -delays that can lead to multi-million dollar losses for investment banks running automatic stock trading systems. Similar delays can delay parallel processing in high performance cluster computing applications run by Fortune 500 companies and universities. http://www.physorg.com/news169997201.html Technology Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:40:01 EST news169997201 In the movie "2010," while trying to salvage the mission to Jupiter, the Hal 9000 computer noted, "I enjoy working with human beings, and have stimulating relationships with them." http://www.physorg.com/news169914116.html Technology Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:10:03 EST news169914116 A multidisciplinary team led by Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist Edmund M. Clarke has received a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation's Expeditions in Computing program to create revolutionary computational tools that will advance science on a broad array of fronts, from discovering new cancer treatments to designing safer aircraft. http://www.physorg.com/news169890411.html Technology Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:00:04 EST news169890411 Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) will combine the scientific and scholarly expertise of their humanities and computer science experts in a new project to analyze degraded Hebrew documents. http://www.physorg.com/news169478552.html Technology Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:40:02 EST news169478552 (PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists demonstrated that criminals could hack an electronic voting machine and steal votes using a malicious programming approach that had not been invented when the voting machine was designed. The team of scientists from University of California, San Diego, the University of Michigan, and Princeton University employed `return-oriented programming` to force a Sequoia AVC Advantage electronic voting machine to turn against itself and steal votes. http://www.physorg.com/news169133727.html Technology Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:36:09 EST news169133727 (PhysOrg.com) -- Aliens are stealing your beloved sheep and you`ve got to stop them. That`s the premise for TowerMadness, a new 3D iPhone game that is one of the most cheat-resistant iPhone games available, according to its three developers, all with ties to the University of California, San Diego. http://www.physorg.com/news167928930.html Technology Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:30:01 EST news167928930 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new computer game prototype combines work and play to help solve a fundamental problem underlying many computer hardware design tasks. http://www.physorg.com/news167928385.html Technology Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:46:56 EST news167928385 (PhysOrg.com) -- By observing the global flow of news online, Cornell computer scientists have managed to track and analyze the "news cycle" - the way stories rise and fall in popularity. http://www.physorg.com/news166724163.html Technology Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:17:18 EST news166724163 (PhysOrg.com) -- A hyper-realistic Einstein robot at the University of California, San Diego has learned to smile and make facial expressions through a process of self-guided learning. The UC San Diego researchers used machine learning to `empower` their robot to learn to make realistic facial expressions. http://www.physorg.com/news166289677.html Technology Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:35:37 EST news166289677 (PhysOrg.com) -- Beautify your world. Leave an inspirational message in a public place. Connect with a family member. Those are just a few of the proposed acts of kindness pushed out to users of a new smartphone application developed by University of Michigan students. http://www.physorg.com/news165162781.html Technology Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:33:35 EST news165162781 (PhysOrg.com) -- Duke University computer scientist Susan Rodger is hoping ice skaters, cute animals and fearsome dragons will bring new talent to her field. http://www.physorg.com/news164907547.html Technology Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:39:42 EST news164907547 My 4-year-old daughter Kalian has become fascinated about printing on the -- "'puter," as she calls it. My wife or I will open a Word file on our family PC, and she'll plop down in the chair, peck away on the keyboard and then hit the print key. She'll then run to grab her handiwork and proudly show it off to us. http://www.physorg.com/news164511553.html Other Sciences Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:40:01 EST news164511553 Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have developed two new tools to help computer programmers select from among thousands of options within the application programming interfaces (APIs) that are used to write applications in Java, today's most popular programming language. http://www.physorg.com/news164453362.html Technology Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:29:52 EST news164453362 (PhysOrg.com) -- An academic from Queen Mary, University of London has launched a series of videos featuring magic tricks that are conjured from a mathematical perspective. http://www.physorg.com/news163261772.html Other Sciences Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:30:15 EST news163261772