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Facebook (and Systems Biologists) Take Note: Network Analysis Reveals True Connections

Dec 07, 2009 | 4 / 5 (9) | 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Facebook figures out that you know Holly, although you haven't seen her in 10 years, because you have four mutual friends -- a good predictor of direct friendship. But sometimes Facebook gets ...

Rethinking artificial intelligence: Researchers hope to produce 'co-processors' for the human mind

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 07, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (16) | 8

The field of artificial-intelligence research (AI), founded more than 50 years ago, seems to many researchers to have spent much of that time wandering in the wilderness, swapping hugely ambitious goals for ...

Cyber hacking could be a thing of the past

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 07, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- High-profile websites are constantly under threat from hackers attempting to paralyse their websites but new research could make such attacks computationally impossible. This research will ...

Eureqa, the robot scientist (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 07, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (12) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new program, Eureqa, takes raw data and formulates scientific laws to suit, and it is available by free download to all scientists.

Researchers Build Artificial Immune System to Solve Computational Problems

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 03, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (13) | 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 ...

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

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 02, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (16) | 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.

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

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 04, 2009 | 1 / 5 (2) | 0

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 ...

IBM Researchers Lower Language Barrier With Text Translator

Technology / Computer Sciences

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 ...

New software to simulate future financial crises

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 03, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(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 ...

Computer Based on Insights From The Brain Moves Closer to Reality

Technology / Computer Sciences

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, ...

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 / 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 ...

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

Technology / Computer Sciences

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 ...

'Digging into Data Challenge' grant awarded

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 04, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

A professor at Tufts University will lead a team of international researchers to explore how humanities scholars can use data analysis to track topics about the Greco-Roman world as they appear in a million documents, spanning ...

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 ...