News tagged with software model

New model shows how often to review material for flashcard programs

(PhysOrg.com) -- A challenge for students and teachers -- and today, for designers of educational software: How often should material be reviewed for best learning? Wait too long to review and it fades away; review too soon ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

University of Utah, Google seek answers for autism

These days, we hear a lot about the disorder of autism, but researchers at the University of Utah have created a program that helps kids with autism focus on building their skills and utilizing an aptitude ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

OpenSim open-source software from Stanford accurately models human motion

There are 640 muscles in the human body, or maybe it is 639. Or maybe it is 850. Or 656. It all depends on whom you ask. In any case, it is a lot. Stanford bioengineer Scott Delp knows; he has programmed almost every one ...

Technology / Software

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Software predicted risk in California West Nile virus epidemic

A computerized epidemiological model of the spread of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus in 17 counties of California in 2005 successfully predicted where 81.6 percent of human cases of the disease would arise and defined ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Your smartphone: a new frontier for hackers

(AP) -- Hackers are out to stymie your smartphone. Last week, security researchers uncovered yet another strain of malicious software aimed at smartphones that run Google's popular Android operating system. ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 8

Intel creates AppUp small business service on Hybrid Cloud

Intel Corporation today launched the Intel AppUp Small Business Service, an innovative service running on the Intel Hybrid Cloud platform that enables server manufacturers, software vendors, and service providers to offer ...

Technology / Software

created May 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Former BEA Systems CEO back in business software

(AP) -- BEA Systems co-founder Alfred Chuang got rich licensing business software applications to companies that installed the programs on their own computers.

Technology / Business

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hunting for gaps

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a new model for the behavior of pedestrians and crowds. It can help to understand and prevent tragic crowd disasters, to develop better architectural designs and ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 19, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Microsoft shows off 3D and NUI technology (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Craig Mundie, the number two man over at Microsoft gave journalists a sneak peek at the newest bit of technology to come out of Microsoft Labs.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast weblog

Computer science researchers provide insight into how we understand social networking

The rise of social media has allowed people to connect and re-connect with friends, colleagues and family from across the world. A new paper by University of Minnesota computer scientists in the College of Science and Engineering ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 28, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New software that configures access policy automatically developed by NEC

NEC Corporation announced today the development of technology that collectively distributes and configures access policy to a variety of computing resources in a cloud computing environment. The newly developed technology ...

Technology / Software

created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Developers of machines receive help from PC game technology

Siemens has used computer games technology in a development software that makes it quicker and easier to design new machines and to simulate their complex functions at an early stage.

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 11, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

GetJar out to make mobile phone applications free

The world's second largest online shop for mobile phone applications is out to change the economics of the booming industry by making the popular mini-programs available for free.

Technology / Software

created Oct 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Digital music pioneer looks for new frontiers

As the buzz surrounding Google Inc.'s efforts to jump into the digital music market rose to a roar late August, one name kept surfacing about the person who might lead it -- Ian Rogers.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 17, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Supercomputing on a cell phone

Many engineering disciplines rely on supercomputers to simulate complicated physical phenomena — how cracks form in building materials, for instance, or fluids flow through irregular channels. Now, researchers ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast