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Taming the vast -- and growing -- digital data-sphere

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created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers are making an impressive effort to link up digital repositories to create a vast network of easy to search online data. The DRIVER project work - one of the largest efforts of its kind ...


A new language could improve home computer security

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created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Korean computer scientists have developed a security policy specification for home networks that could make us more secure from cyber attack in our homes. They report details in the International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ub ...


Is it e-government's saviour? An automatic knowledge filter

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created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An innovative new knowledge management concept has the potential to revolutionise the way government administrators work.


Rome was built in a day, with hundreds of thousands of digital photos

Rome was built in a day, with hundreds of thousands of digital photos

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created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (11) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ancient city of Rome was not built in a day. It took nearly a decade to build the Colosseum, and almost a century to construct St. Peter's Basilica. But now the city, including these landmarks, ...


On the road to secure car-to-car communications

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created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A European research project works out how to keep car-to-car data transmissions private and secure from malicious hackers.


Surveillance software solves security snag

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created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sophisticated network surveillance technology developed at the University of Adelaide will help solve a security dilemma currently facing airports, casinos, CBDs, shopping malls and large sporting and entertainment venues ...


Researchers using parallel processing computing could save thousands by using an Xbox

Researchers using parallel processing computing could save thousands by using an Xbox

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created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (23) | comments 21

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by a University of Warwick researcher has demonstrated that researchers trying to model a range of processes could use the power and capabilities of a particular XBox chip as a ...


NRL artificial intelligence team win prestigious video awards

NRL artificial intelligence team win 2 video awards (w/ Video)

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created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Researchers at NRL's Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence, within the laboratory's Information Technology Division (ITD), received two top awards at the 21st International Joint Conference ...


Machines can't replicate human image recognition, yet

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created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

While computers can replicate many aspects of human behavior, they do not possess our ability to recognize distorted images, according to a team of Penn State researchers.


Belief, how European e-Infrastructure makes a difference (w/ Video)

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created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Europe has turned its early belief and investment in the potential of e-Infrastructures and virtual research into a position of great strength, especially in e-Science and grid technology, such as the GÉANT network ...


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The right honourable computer, barrister-at-law

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created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a legal analysis query engine that combines artificial intelligence, game theory and semantics to offer advice, conflict prevention and dispute settlement ...


No frontiers: ushering in a new era of conferencing technology

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created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Poor image and sound quality is encountered all too frequently in the world of video and telephone conferencing, but powerful compression technologies are set to consign these problems to the past - even ...


Stanford open-source camera could revolutionize photography

Open-source camera could revolutionize photography (w/ Video)

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created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (24) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford photo scientists are out to reinvent digital photography with the introduction of an "open-source" digital camera, which will give programmers around the world the chance to create ...


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Faster searches key to a greener web

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created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Faster internet search engine processors could be the key to reducing the environmental impact of the worldwide web, according to scientists at the University of Glasgow.


New grant to enhance world's largest open computing network

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created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A $30 million National Science Foundation grant will enable the University of Chicago to expand and extend until 2011 the operation of TeraGrid, a national system of interconnected supercomputers devoted to leading-edge scientific ...




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