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Researchers demonstrate a better way for computers to 'see' (w/ Video)

Dec 02, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (17) | 4

Taking inspiration from genetic screening techniques, researchers from Harvard and MIT have demonstrated a way to build better artificial visual systems with the help of low-cost, high-performance gaming hardware.

Crime scene measurements can be taken from a single image

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 01, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

Two researchers from the University of Salamanca have developed a procedure to enable forensic police to extract metric data from crime scenes using just a single photograph. Their proposal, published this ...

Quantitative approach to forensic fingerprint comparison studied

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Nov 30, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has awarded researchers at Virginia Tech a two-year, $854,907 grant to develop a quantitative approach to measuring and establishing a standard for "sufficiency" of information available ...

Semantic research sets world standards

Technology / Computer Sciences

Nov 27, 2009 | 3.4 / 5 (5) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created new tools for semantic technology development which are helping to set the next generation of official standards. The tools also unblock some key bottlenecks ...

Building real security with virtual worlds

Technology / Computer Sciences

Nov 26, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (6) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Advances in computerized modeling and prediction of group behavior, together with improvements in video game graphics, are making possible virtual worlds in which defense analysts can explore ...

New computer cluster gets its grunt from games

Technology / Computer Sciences

Nov 25, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Technology designed to blast aliens in computer games is part of a new GPU (Graphics Processing Units) computer cluster that will process CSIRO research data thousands of times faster and more efficiently ...

IBM Researchers Lower Language Barrier With Text Translator

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Nov 23, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 0

IBM Researchers are helping to break the language barrier with the advent of technology dubbed "n.Fluent" -- smart software that translates text between English and 11 other languages. IBM employees use it to instantaneously ...

World's first album of Twitter music available now

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Nov 19, 2009 | 1 / 5 (3) | 0

For the first time, you can now download an album of digital music written exclusively for Twitter.

P2P comes to the aid of audiovisual search (w/ Video)

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Nov 18, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Current methods of searching audiovisual content can be a hit-and-miss affair. Manually tagging online media content is time consuming, and costly. But new 'query by example' methods, built on peer-to-peer ...

DataONE helping scientists deal with data deluge

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Nov 18, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Vast amounts of information that could hold the key to breakthroughs in environmental research will be made readily available through a network created by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and partners.

Computer Based on Insights From The Brain Moves Closer to Reality

Technology / Computer Sciences

Nov 18, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (26) | 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today at SC 09, the supercomputing conference, IBM announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, ...

Petascale computing tools could provide deeper insight into genomic evolution

Technology / Computer Sciences

Nov 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

Technological advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing have opened up the possibility of determining how living things are related by analyzing the ways in which their genes have been rearranged on chromosomes. ...

FutureGrid to provide platform for experimental computation

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the next few months, a consortium that includes the University of Chicago will establish FutureGrid, a collaborative next-generation system for experimental scientific supercomputing.

There's no business like Grid business (w/ Video)

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Nov 17, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have embraced the Grid, but businesses have held back, concerned about complexity and security. Now a European research team has built a platform opening the Grid's vast resources ...

Cryptographic voting debuts

Technology / Computer Sciences

Nov 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week, in Takoma Park, Md., a new cryptographic voting system that could ensure accurate vote counts was used for the first time in a real election. MIT’s Ron Rivest, the Viterbi Professor ...