Computer Sciences news

It's semantic -- easier solution to annotate and search images

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Aug 27, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Innovative software developed in Europe that makes it easier to organise, search and navigate collections of digital images will soon be available to media agencies, photographers and, potentially, ...

Making global science networking more user-friendly

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Aug 27, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1

Scientists working collaboratively, at the same time, but in different locations around the world, can now do so thanks to ultra-high-speed, broadband networks and special software developed as part of a National Science ...

An intelligent system avoids forgetting things

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Aug 27, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 1

A team of researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) has created a system with Artificial Intelligence techniques which notifies elderly people or people with special needs of the forgetting of certain everyday tasks. ...

From Terabytes to Petabytes: Computer Scientists Develop New Hybrid Database System

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Aug 26, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (11) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the amounts of data being stored by databases around the world enters the realm of the petabyte (the amount of data stored in a mile-high stack of CD-ROM disks), efficient data management is becoming more ...

Strictly ballroom analysis: Computers get to know their rumba from their cha-cha-cha

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Aug 26, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

Computer scientists in Taiwan have devised a neural network program that can successfully classify a computerized music file based on its beat and tempo. The system could be a boon for music archivists with large numbers ...

Inventor Demonstrates Humanoid Robot's Latest AI Abilities (w/ Video)

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Aug 25, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (30) | 26

(PhysOrg.com) -- In August 2007, Le Trung invented Aiko, a Yumecom, or "Dream Computer Robot." Although it took only a month and a half to build Aiko's exterior, the artificial intelligence software has been ...

Grid computing, the new commodity

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Aug 24, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a platform for trading computing resources that allows the selling and buying of standardised computing resources. In the process, they could make computing a utility like ...

Online social networks leak personal information to tracking sites, new study shows

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Aug 24, 2009 | 5 / 5 (7) | 4

More than a half billion people use online social networks, posting vast amounts of information about themselves to share with online friends and colleagues. A new study co-authored by a researcher at Worcester Polytechnic ...

Millionths of a second can cost millions of dollars: A new way to track network delays

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Aug 20, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists have developed an inexpensive solution for diagnosing networking delays in data center networks as short as tens of millionths of seconds—delays that can lead to multi-million ...

'Rich interaction' may make computers a partner, not a product

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Aug 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 2

In the movie "2010," while trying to salvage the mission to Jupiter, the Hal 9000 computer noted, "I enjoy working with human beings, and have stimulating relationships with them."

New initiative to develop modeling tools for disease and complex systems

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Aug 19, 2009 | 2 / 5 (1) | 0

A multidisciplinary team led by Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist Edmund M. Clarke has received a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation's Expeditions in Computing program to create ...

Modified HDTV screens used for 3-D technology (w/ Video)

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Aug 18, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (12) | 0

Surround 3-D TV is poised to take over your living room. For the first time, a team of researchers at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at the University of ...

Computer scientists scale 'layer 2' data center networks to 100,000 ports and beyond

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Aug 17, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 0

University of California, San Diego computer scientists have created software that they hope will lead to data centers that logically function as single, plug-and-play networks that will scale to the massive ...

New computer techniques to analyze historic Hebrew, Arabic documents under development

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Aug 14, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) will combine the scientific and scholarly expertise of their humanities and computer science experts in a new project to analyze degraded Hebrew documents.

Computer scientists take over electronic voting machine with new programming technique (w/ Video)

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Aug 10, 2009 | 4 / 5 (8) | 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists demonstrated that criminals could hack an electronic voting machine and steal votes using a malicious programming approach that had not been invented when the voting machine ...