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Multi-teraflop computer system targets large-scale discovery projects
Feb 05, 2009 |
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Penn State's Institute for CyberScience will target large-scale modeling, simulation and data analysis with a terascale advanced computing system, funded by the National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation ...
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When virtual reality feels real (w/Video)
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 11, 2009 |
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Despite advances in computer graphics, few people would think virtual characters or objects are real. Yet placed in a virtual reality environment most people will interact with them as if they are really there. ...
Research shows avatars can negatively affect users
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Although often seen as an inconsequential feature of digital technologies, one's self-representation, or avatar, in a virtual environment can affect the user's thoughts, according to research by a University ...
Visit Pompeii with the Victorians in Second Life
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A 3D recreation of a Roman house in Pompeii has been built in the virtual world Second Life by Dr Shelley Hales and Dr Nic Earle from the University of Bristol.
Argonne cloud computing helps scientists run high energy physics experiments
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel system is enabling high energy physicists at CERN in Switzerland, to make production runs that integrate their existing pool of distributed computers with dynamic resources in "science clouds." The ...
Tuning in to the virtues of virtual labs
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The grids huge communication and computation capacities could let scientists gather data and run remote experiments anywhere in the world. European researchers have now mapped out how that can be done.
Understanding interaction in virtual worlds
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 23, 2009 |
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New cinema blockbuster, Avatar, leapt to the top of box office charts as soon as it came out a stunning 3D realisation of an alien world. Our fascination with themes of escape to other fantastic places and the thrill of ...
Physicist demonstrates how light can be used to remotely operate micromachines
Jun 18, 2007 |
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A research team led by Umar Mohideen, a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has demonstrated in the laboratory that the Casimir force the small attractive force that acts between two close parallel uncharged ...
Physicist demonstrates how light can be used to remotely operate micromachines
May 31, 2007 |
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A research team led by Umar Mohideen, a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has demonstrated in the laboratory that the Casimir force the small attractive force that acts between two close parallel uncharged ...
A nimbus rises in the world of cloud computing
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 08, 2009 |
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Cloud computing is a hot topic in the technology world these days. Even if you're not a tech-phile, chances are if you've watched a lot of television or skimmed a business magazine, you've heard someone talking ...
Cyberspace may overcome ethical constraints in experiments
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 21, 2006 |
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By repeating the Stanley Milgram's classic experiment from the 1960s on obedience to authority that found people would administer apparently lethal electrical shocks to a stranger at the behest of an authority figure ...
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