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A new computer simulator allows to design military strategies based on ants' movements

Technology / Computer Sciences

Nov 06, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 4

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 ...

Professor finds that iconic Oswald photo was not faked (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

Nov 05, 2009 | 3.6 / 5 (8) | 11

(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 ...

Social networking meets ambient intelligence (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

Nov 04, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(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.

AIDA Robot Aims To Change The Way We Interact With Our Car (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

Nov 01, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (15) | 6

(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 ...

Microsoft Researchers Developing Muscle-Based PC Interface (w/ Video)

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Oct 30, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (10) | 2

(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 ...

Secure computers aren't so secure

Technology / Computer Sciences

Oct 30, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (13) | 3

(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.

Listen, watch, read -- computers search for meaning

Technology / Computer Sciences

Oct 30, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 1

(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 ...

P vs. NP -- The most notorious problem in theoretical computer science remains open

Technology / Computer Sciences

Oct 29, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (22) | 4

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 wander ...

Software That's Resilient Against Hacker Attack

Technology / Computer Sciences

Oct 29, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (6) | 7

(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.

Cell phones become handheld tools for global development

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Oct 29, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Mobile phones are on the verge of becoming powerful tools to collect data on many issues, ranging from global health to the environment.

Researchers bring noise to virtual worlds

Technology / Computer Sciences

Oct 27, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 1

(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.

Engineers use song-annotating algorithms to study music playlists (w/ Video)

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Oct 27, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (3) | 0

Electrical engineers recently pitted Genius - the music recommendation system in Apple's iTunes - against two experimental music recommender systems. Genius appears to capture acoustic similarities among songs ...

Facebook for scientists: Map your expertise

Technology / Computer Sciences

Oct 27, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Indiana University has received more than $1.8 million from the National Institutes of Health to collaborate on a $12.2 million, seven-university project designed to network researchers around ...

Study Shows Thousands of Consumer Internet Connectivity Devices Are Vulnerable to Attack

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Oct 26, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Following news reports that 65,000 modems and wireless routers used by Time Warner Cable customers are vulnerable to attack by hackers, a Columbia University expert on computer security and ...

Robotic perception, on purpose

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Oct 26, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers developed technology that enables a robot to combine data from both sound and vision to create combined, purposeful perception. In the process, they have taken the field ...

Parallel course: Researchers help ease transition to parallel programming

Technology / Computer Sciences

Oct 23, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (16) | 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1995, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about 100 megahertz. Seven years later, in 2002, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about three gigahertz -- a 30-fold increase. And ...

How white is a paper?

Technology / Computer Sciences

Oct 22, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 0

Whiter paper and better color reproduction are examples of important competitive advantages on an international market. But how white is a paper? And why do vacation photos turn out so dark if you don't buy ...

Georgia Tech wins NSF award for next-gen supercomputing

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Oct 21, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

The Georgia Institute of Technology today announced its receipt of a five-year, $12 million Track 2 award from the National Science Foundation's Office of Cyberinfrastructure to lead a partnership of academic, industry and ...