News tagged with digital computer lab
Project Whirlwind comes home
May 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Project Whirlwind Computer collection -- a compilation of pioneering digital computing research conducted at MIT in the 1940s and 1950s -- has been transferred back to the Institute from ...
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New memory material may hold data for one billion years
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Packing more digital images, music, and other data onto silicon chips in USB drives and smart phones is like squeezing more strawberries into the same size supermarket carton. The denser you ...
US university coding future of news
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Personalized newscasts culled from the Web and presented by digital avatars. Baseball stories written by computers using raw data.
'Chameleon Guitar' blends old-world and high-tech
Feb 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Natural wood, with its unique grain patterns, is what gives traditional acoustic instruments warm and distinctive sounds, while the power of modern electronic processing provides an unlimited ...
Students Develop 'Mind-Control' Interface to Play Video Games Without a Controller
Aug 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Drexel University students have taken game controller innovation beyond motion control with a “hands-off” approach and developed an interface that allows players to execute actions using only ...
Seeing things: Researchers teach computers to recognize objects
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If computers could recognize objects, they could automatically search through hours of video footage for a particular two-minute scene. A tourist strolling down a street in a strange city ...
Stay focused: Researchers sharpen photographs by capturing multiple low-quality images
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For photographers, it's sometimes difficult to keep both the foreground and background of an image in focus. Focusing somewhere between the two can ensure that neither is blurry; but neither ...
Put on a happy face: Happy digital characters sell products better than sad ones
Mar 19, 2007 |
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Even in the digital world, people respond to the expression of a computerized face. New Ohio State University research suggests that the simulated emotions of digital characters on web sites might have a real impact on the ...
World's first album of Twitter music available now
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 19, 2009 |
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For the first time, you can now download an album of digital music written exclusively for Twitter.
Engineering professor creates mobile lab for testing bridges
Dec 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Civil engineering students at the University of Rhode Island will soon take to the roadways to apply what they have learned in the classroom in real-world analyses of bridges, buildings and ...
Tech and teens
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Digital media use is transforming the way young people learn, UCI researcher Mizuko "Mimi" Ito has found, and schools should take note.
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