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Second Life data offers window into how trends spread

Jul 02, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Do friends wear the same style of shoe or see the same movies because they have similar tastes, which is why they became friends in the first place? Or once a friendship is established, do ...

Zooming in to catch the bad guys

Technology / Computer Sciences

Jun 30, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (6) | 4

It's a frequent scene in television crime dramas: Clever police technicians zoom in on a security camera video to read a license plate or capture the face of a hold-up artist. But in real life, enhancing this low-quality ...

Dutch researchers develop self-learning security system for computer networks

Technology / Computer Sciences

Jun 30, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cyber attacks on computer networks are becoming increasingly commonplace. To counter the threat, they are protected by so-called network intrusion detection systems. But these fail to identify some attacks, ...

Group comes close to winning $1M Netflix prize

Technology / Computer Sciences

Jun 29, 2009 | 2 / 5 (1) | 0

(AP) -- A multinational group of researchers, scientists and engineers are close to winning a $1 million prize from Netflix.

One-stop shop for grid computing (w/ Video)

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

From searching for cures for disease to monitoring the Earth’s atmosphere, grid computing has become essential to data-intensive research. But accessing limited grid resources is not always a simple task. ...

3D printing for new tissues and organs

Technology / Computer Sciences

Jun 18, 2009 | 5 / 5 (6) | 0

A more effective way to build plastic scaffolds on which new tissues and even whole organs might be grown in the laboratory is being developed by an international collaboration between teams in Portugal and the UK.

Human eye inspires advance in computer vision (w/Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

Jun 18, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (7) | 1

Inspired by the behavior of the human eye, Boston College computer scientists have developed a technique that lets computers see objects as fleeting as a butterfly or tropical fish with nearly double the accuracy and 10 times ...

Computer Idle? Now You Can Donate Its Time to Find a Cure for Major Diseases

Technology / Computer Sciences

Jun 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Not using your computer at the moment? You can now donate your computer's idle time to cutting-edge biomedical research aimed at finding a cure for HIV, Parkinson's, arthritis, and breast cancer.

If at first you don't succeed, let the search engine try

Technology / Computer Sciences

Jun 05, 2009 | 2.9 / 5 (9) | 1

No matter how good a search engine is, it is sometimes necessary to change the search terms to get the information you need. But what if you did not have to change the search terms yourself? What if the search engine could ...

Traffic jams follow explosive pattern, says researcher (w/Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

Jun 05, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Picture this next time you're stuck in traffic: Thousands of wildebeests loping across the Serengeti Plain when suddenly a few spooked animals turn the orderly migration into a sea of locked ...

Computer modeling shows strategies to rein in epidemics need to be retooled for rural populations

Technology / Computer Sciences

Jun 02, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

An infectious disease striking a large city may seem like a disastrous scenario -- millions of people sharing apartment buildings, crammed on buses and trains and brushing past one another on crowded sidewalks.

Making realistic sounds for computer animation (w/Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

Jun 01, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Splash, splatter, babble, sploosh, drip, drop, bloop and ploop!

Teaching computers to recognise

Technology / Computer Sciences

Jun 01, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recognising objects and groups of objects is something we humans take for granted. For computers, this is far from straightforward. A European project has come up with novel solutions to this conundrum.

Endless original, copyright-free music

Technology / Computer Sciences

Jun 01, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (10) | 8

A group of researchers from the University of Granada has developed Inmamusys, a software program that can create music in response to emotions that arise in the listener. By using Artificial Intelligence techniques, the ...

First live 'cloning' of faces challenges assumptions about human behavior

Technology / Computer Sciences

Jun 01, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (6) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have developed a new way of cloning facial expressions during live conversations to help us better understand what influences our behaviour when ...