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Californians -- and their cell phones -- will help computer scientists monitor air pollution

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You want to go for a run, but you don't want to run in polluted air that might aggravate your asthma. University of California, San Diego computer scientists are creating a network of environmental sensors ...

Researchers Build Artificial Immune System to Solve Computational Problems

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Dec 03, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (9) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By mimicking the way that a living body acquires immunity to disease through vaccination, researchers have designed an artificial immune system to solve optimization problems more effectively ...

New software to simulate future financial crises

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Can economics better predict how banks will react to future credit crunches and their impact on the wider economy? Breakthrough simulation software by European researchers could hold the answers ...

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

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Dec 02, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (15) | 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.

CSIRO researchers create giant waves -- virtually

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Dec 03, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO scientists have created 'rogue waves' more than 20 metres high and smashed them into virtual oil and gas production platforms to compare different mooring designs.

Crime scene measurements can be taken from a single image

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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 ...

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 ...

Semantic research sets world standards

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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

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Nov 26, 2009 | 4 / 5 (5) | 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 ...

Computer Based on Insights From The Brain Moves Closer to Reality

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Nov 18, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (24) | 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, ...

Creating 3D models with a simple webcam (w/ Video)

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Nov 11, 2009 | 5 / 5 (25) | 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Constructing virtual 3D models usually requires heavy and expensive equipment, or takes lengthy amounts of time. A group of researchers at the University of Cambridge, Qi Pan, Dr Gerhard Reitmayr ...

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 ...

New search technique for images and videos has broad applications

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Nov 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (9) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a powerful new approach to a fundamental problem in computer vision: how to program a computer to recognize or categorize ...

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 ...

Cryptographic voting debuts

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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 ...