http://www.physorg.com/technology-news/computer-sciences/ en-us PhysOrg.com provides the latest news on computer science, computer science technology, computer science technologies and technology science. For the first time, you can now download an album of digital music written exclusively for Twitter. http://www.physorg.com/news177853921.html Technology - Computer Sciences Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:52:55 EST news177853921 (PhysOrg.com) -- Current methods of searching audiovisual content can be a hit-and-miss affair. Manually tagging online media content is time consuming, and costly. But new 'query by example' methods, built on peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures, could provide the way forward for such data-intensive content searches, say European researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news177780052.html Technology - Computer Sciences Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:30:01 EST news177780052 Vast amounts of information that could hold the key to breakthroughs in environmental research will be made readily available through a network created by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and partners. http://www.physorg.com/news177765736.html Technology - Computer Sciences Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:50:01 EST news177765736 (PhysOrg.com) -- Today at SC 09, the supercomputing conference, IBM announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition, while rivaling the brain's low power and energy consumption and compact size. http://www.physorg.com/news177744958.html Technology - Computer Sciences Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:37:37 EST news177744958 Technological advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing have opened up the possibility of determining how living things are related by analyzing the ways in which their genes have been rearranged on chromosomes. However, inferring such evolutionary relationships from rearrangement events is computationally intensive on even the most advanced computing systems available today. http://www.physorg.com/news177690411.html Technology - Computer Sciences Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:27:37 EST news177690411 (PhysOrg.com) -- Over the next few months, a consortium that includes the University of Chicago will establish FutureGrid, a collaborative next-generation system for experimental scientific supercomputing. http://www.physorg.com/news177674549.html Technology - Computer Sciences Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:03:28 EST news177674549 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have embraced the Grid, but businesses have held back, concerned about complexity and security. Now a European research team has built a platform opening the Grid's vast resources to business users. http://www.physorg.com/news177671538.html Technology - Computer Sciences Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:30:01 EST news177671538 (PhysOrg.com) -- Last week, in Takoma Park, Md., a new cryptographic voting system that could ensure accurate vote counts was used for the first time in a real election. MIT`s Ron Rivest, the Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, helped develop the system and says he`s quite pleased with how the technology worked. Takoma Park`s city clerk, Jessie Carpenter, agrees that the trial "went very well." http://www.physorg.com/news177324972.html Technology - Computer Sciences Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:10:01 EST news177324972 (PhysOrg.com) -- Constructing virtual 3D models usually requires heavy and expensive equipment, or takes lengthy amounts of time. A group of researchers at the University of Cambridge, Qi Pan, Dr Gerhard Reitmayr and Dr Tom Drummond have created a program able to build 3D models of textured objects in real-time, using only a standard computer and webcam. This allows 3D modeling to become accessible to everybody. http://www.physorg.com/news177180374.html Technology - Computer Sciences Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:47:17 EST news177180374 (PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a powerful new approach to a fundamental problem in computer vision: how to program a computer to recognize or categorize what it "sees" in an image or video. Their software could change the way people search the Web for photos and videos, and it may have applications in many other areas as well, such as video surveillance and security systems. http://www.physorg.com/news177095786.html Technology - Computer Sciences Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:17:31 EST news177095786 A number of U.S. states now use facial recognition technology when issuing drivers licenses. Similar methods are also used to grant access to buildings and to verify the identities of international travelers. Historically, obtaining accurate results with this type of technology has been a time intensive activity. Now, a researcher from the University of Miami College of Engineering and his collaborators have developed ways to make the technology more efficient while improving accuracy. http://www.physorg.com/news177075934.html Technology - Computer Sciences Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:30:01 EST news177075934 If you forget your password when logging into an e-mail or online shopping Web site, the site will likely ask you a security question: What is your mother's maiden name? Where were you born? http://www.physorg.com/news177000797.html Technology - Computer Sciences Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:20:03 EST news177000797 (PhysOrg.com) -- The explosive growth of video on the internet calls for new ways of sorting and searching audiovisual content. A team of European researchers has developed a groundbreaking solution that is finding commercial applications. http://www.physorg.com/news177001844.html Technology - Computer Sciences Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:11:44 EST news177001844 (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 - Computer Sciences Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:20:01 EST news176978473 A researcher of the University of Granada, Spain, has designed a new system for the mobility of military troops within a battlefield based on the mechanisms used by ant colonies to move using a commercial videogame. http://www.physorg.com/news176726947.html Technology - Computer Sciences Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:00:02 EST news176726947 (PhysOrg.com) -- Dartmouth Computer Scientist Hany Farid has new evidence regarding a photograph of accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Farid, a pioneer in the field of digital forensics, digitally analyzed an iconic image of Oswald pictured in a backyard setting holding a rifle in one hand and Marxist newspapers in the other. http://www.physorg.com/news176643721.html Technology - Computer Sciences Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:42:36 EST news176643721 (PhysOrg.com) -- Sharing small snippets of information about your daily life is a key feature of the online social networking revolution. Soon status updates and other social information could be generated automatically. http://www.physorg.com/news176578652.html Technology - Computer Sciences Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:50:02 EST news176578652 The eyes may be the mirror to the soul, but the iris reveals a person's true identity -its intricate structure constitutes a powerful biometric. A new report by computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology demonstrates that iris recognition algorithms can maintain their accuracy and interoperability with compact images, affirming their potential for large-scale identity management applications such as the federal Personal Identity Verification program, cyber security and counterterrorism. http://www.physorg.com/news176550111.html Technology - Computer Sciences Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:43:00 EST news176550111 When searching for basketball videos online, a long list of websites appears, which may contain a picture or a word describing a basketball. But what if the computer could search inside videos for a basketball? Researchers at the University of Missouri are developing software that would enable computers to search inside videos, detect humans and specific objects, and perform other video analysis tasks. http://www.physorg.com/news176470310.html Technology - Computer Sciences Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:50:02 EST news176470310 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 - Computer Sciences Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:30:44 EST news176452213 (PhysOrg.com) -- Three-dimensional computer graphics is moving into museums. Works of art are being digitally archived in 3D, simplifying research into related artifacts and providing the public with fascinating three-dimensional displays. http://www.physorg.com/news176405883.html Technology - Computer Sciences Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:50:10 EST news176405883 (PhysOrg.com) -- Search engine technology is in a state of flux as it digs ever deeper for new meaning. Europe is poised to reap the benefits of the new age of semantic search thanks to the work of European researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news176373795.html Technology - Computer Sciences Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:44:09 EST news176373795 (PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers and designers are developing the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) - a new in-car personal robot that aims to change the way we interact with our car. The project is a collaboration between the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, MIT`s SENSEable City Lab and the Volkswagen Group of America`s Electronics Research Lab. http://www.physorg.com/news176294342.html Technology - Computer Sciences Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:39:40 EST news176294342 (PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft researches have teamed up with the University of Washington and the University of Toronto to develop a muscle-controlled interface that allows for hands-free, gesture-driven interaction with computers. http://www.physorg.com/news176132966.html Technology - Computer Sciences Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:50:09 EST news176132966 (PhysOrg.com) -- Even well-defended computers can leak shocking amounts of private data. MIT researchers seek out exotic attacks in order to shut them down. http://www.physorg.com/news176107396.html Technology - Computer Sciences Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:10:01 EST news176107396 (PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created the first integrated semantic search platform that integrates text, video and audio. The system can 'watch' films, 'listen' to audio and 'read' text to find relevant responses to semantic search terms. At last, computers are able to look for meaning in our multimedia searches. http://www.physorg.com/news176106806.html Technology - Computer Sciences Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:50:02 EST news176106806 Mobile phones are on the verge of becoming powerful tools to collect data on many issues, ranging from global health to the environment. http://www.physorg.com/news176044262.html Technology - Computer Sciences Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:40:03 EST news176044262 (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 - Computer Sciences 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 - Computer Sciences Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:10:40 EST news176037013 (PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists have developed a method to synthesize the sounds of cymbals, falling garbage cans and lids, and plastic water-cooler bottles and recycling bins. http://www.physorg.com/news175889668.html Technology - Computer Sciences Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:15:37 EST news175889668