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Video fingerprinting offers search solution

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16 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The explosive growth of video on the internet calls for new ways of sorting and searching audiovisual content. A team of European researchers has developed a groundbreaking solution that is ...

Computer scientists work to strengthen online security

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16 hours ago | not rated yet | 1

If you forget your password when logging into an e-mail or online shopping Web site, the site will likely ask you a security question: What is your mother's maiden name? Where were you born?

What computer science can teach economics

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22 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists have spent decades developing techniques for answering a single question: How long does a given calculation take to perform? Constantinos Daskalakis, an assistant professor ...

Research leads to improved human, object detection technology

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Nov 03, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

When searching for basketball videos online, a long list of websites appears, which may contain a picture or a word describing a basketball. But what if the computer could search inside videos for a basketball? ...

History in 3D

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Nov 02, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Three-dimensional computer graphics is moving into museums. Works of art are being digitally archived in 3D, simplifying research into related artifacts and providing the public with fascinating ...

The search -- computers dig deeper for meaning (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

Nov 02, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Search engine technology is in a state of flux as it digs ever deeper for new meaning. Europe is poised to reap the benefits of the new age of semantic search thanks to the work of European researchers.

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

Technology / Computer Sciences

Nov 01, 2009 | 3.9 / 5 (16) | 10

(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

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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

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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

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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

Technology / Computer Sciences

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 ...