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Caltech scientists create robot surrogate for blind persons in testing visual prostheses

Oct 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a remote-controlled robot that is able to simulate the "visual" experience of a blind person who has been implanted with a visual ...

DOE to explore scientific cloud computing at Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories

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Oct 14, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Cloud computing is gaining traction in the commercial world, but can such an approach also meet the computing and data storage demands of the nation's scientific community? A new program funded by the American Recovery and ...

Increased success a 'virtual' certainty for rugby players (w/ Video)

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Oct 14, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Rugby players worldwide could benefit from a new virtual reality training programme created at Queen's University Belfast. Team members from Ulster Rugby have been working with researchers in the School of Psychology at Queen's ...

In search of machines that play at being human

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Oct 14, 2009 | 2 / 5 (3) | 0

Researchers at Carlos III University (Spain) have taken part in an international contest whose objective is to improve artificial intelligence utilized in virtual worlds. The challenge for the participants ...

Researchers to model the life cycles of successful virtual teams

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Oct 13, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Each year, hundreds of scientists from all over the world come to the Florida State University campus to conduct research at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Starting in January, the researchers themselves will ...

Seeing things: Researchers teach computers to recognize objects

Technology / Computer Sciences

Oct 13, 2009 | 3.2 / 5 (5) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- If computers could recognize objects, they could automatically search through hours of video footage for a particular two-minute scene. A tourist strolling down a street in a strange city ...

Computing project combats Blackjack card counting

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Oct 11, 2009 | 2.5 / 5 (6) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Dundee graduate has created a computer system with the potential to make the game of Blackjack fairer by detecting card counters and dealer errors.

CSI in a virtual world: New grant furthers NC State's work in forensic science

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Oct 08, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Imagine using the same process that goes into building video games to help investigators solve real-world crimes. Through a new grant, that's what researchers at North Carolina State University plan to do. ...

e-Infrastructures give real boost to virtual observatories

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Oct 08, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New tools and systems developed by European researchers are helping astronomers access data centres from anywhere in the world. From charting new stars to finding new meaning in old stellar objects, the result ...

Securing the web: New tool would automatically plug holes that hackers exploit

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Oct 08, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- More and more, malicious hackers are exploiting web site security holes to attack their victims' computers. Programmers try to identify those holes in advance and plug them with code that ...

UIC Researchers Probe Computer 'Commonsense Knowledge'

Technology / Computer Sciences

Oct 06, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Challenge a simple pocket calculator at arithmetic and you may be left in the dust. But even the most sophisticated computer cannot match the reasoning of a youngster who looks outside, sees a fresh snowfall, ...

Machine Learning by Watching and Listening

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Oct 05, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (7) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- To expand the boundaries of machine intelligence, Ben Taskar is using television shows with large fan bases like CSI, Alias, and Lost to teach computers how to be smarter about what they see, hear and read.

Self-managing internet applications flex their muscles

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Oct 02, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A European research project that incubates self-managing internet applications is paying off. It has inspired a Wikipedia that?s better than the original and super-efficient streaming video, with more to ...

The eScience revolution: Creating semantic Web platforms for massive scientific collaboration

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Oct 01, 2009 | not rated yet | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Web scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will use the World Wide Web to compile and share scientific data on an unprecedented scale. Their goal is to hasten scientific discovery ...