News tagged with intelligent systems
Statistical road safety: 18th century math, 21st century road safety
Mar 27, 2009 |
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What possible connection could there be between an eighteenth century British Presbyterian minister and preventing road traffic accidents in Hartford, Connecticut. Everything, according to a report in the International Jo ...
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'Distributed energy' has power to save billions
Mar 03, 2010 |
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Wide-scale adoption of low-emission distributed energy could reduce the cost of transitioning to a low-carbon future by as much a $130 billion by 2050, according to a new report released today by CSIRO.
Nanotube Thermocells Hold Promise For Converting Heat Waste To Energy
Mar 02, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A study published in the American Chemical Society's journal Nano Letters reveals that thermocells based on carbon nanotube electrodes might eventually be used for generating electrical energy from heat d ...
Bio-inspired computer networks self-organise and learn
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 26, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Powerful computers made up of physically separate modules, self-organising networks, and computing inspired by biological systems are three hot research topics coming together in one European ...
Nanotube Thermocells Hold Promise as Energy Source
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 26, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A study published in the American Chemical Society's journal Nano Letters reveals that thermocells based on carbon nanotube electrodes might eventually be used for generating electrical energy ...
CeBIT 2010: Intelligent energy management for the home
Feb 24, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In order to save energy, consumers need to be able to obtain up-to-date information at any time about the energy consumption of their appliances, and be able to control them while away from ...
Smart Grid could re-energize an aging system
Feb 18, 2010 |
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At 5 p.m. after a long day's work, you drive your plug-in electric car to your garage. The car's battery is fairly full because you drove little today. You plug your car into a charging station, but rather than recharge, ...
Electric avenue: Electric cars on a two-way street?
Feb 18, 2010 |
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Think of it as the end of cars' slacker days: No more sitting idle for hours in parking lots or garages racking up payments, but instead earning their keep by helping store power for the electricity grid.
New book examines the flawed human body
Feb 11, 2010 |
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Humanity's physical design flaws have long been apparent - we have a blind spot in our vision, for instance, and insufficient room for wisdom teeth - but do the imperfections extend to the genetic level?
Soft intelligence for hard decisions
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 04, 2010 |
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An approach to decision making based on soft metrics could allow problems to be solved where no definitive "yes-no" answer is possible in fields as diverse as healthcare, defense, economics, engineering, public utilities ...
Learning from the brain: Computer scientists developing new generation of neuro-computer
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 02, 2010 |
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Intelligent machines that not only think for themselves but also actively learn are the vision of researchers of the Institute for Theoretical Science (IGI) at Graz University of Technology (Austria).
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