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Immersive Game System Allows Physical Interaction Between Players

Dec 22, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (22) | 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- With a new immersive multiplayer game system, researchers are further blurring the line between gaming and the real world. Using a mouse and keyboard sounds kind of quaint compared to the ...

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

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 02, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (17) | 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.

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

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 07, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (18) | 9

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 ...

Sign language puzzle solved

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 15, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (16) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have known for 40 years that even though it takes longer to use sign language to sign individual words, sentences can be signed, on average, in the same time it takes to say them, ...

Eureqa, the robot scientist (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 07, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (15) | 3

(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 (14) | 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 ...

Glasgow's joking computer

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 11, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (11) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Glasgow Science Centre in Scotland is exhibiting a computer that makes up jokes using its database of simple language rules and a large vocabulary.

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

Technology / Computer Sciences

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 ...

Hardware-accelerated global illumination by image space photon mapping

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 22, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (7) | 0

Research presented in a paper by Morgan McGuire, assistant professor of computer science at Williams College, and co-author Dr. David Luebke of NVIDIA, introduces a new algorithm to improve computer graphics for video games.

Understanding interaction in virtual worlds

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 23, 2009 | 3 / 5 (10) | 0

New cinema blockbuster, Avatar, leapt to the top of box office charts as soon as it came out — a stunning 3D realisation of an alien world. Our fascination with themes of escape to other fantastic places and the thrill of ...

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 ...

Putting the squeeze on data

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 21, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Data compression is one of the fundamental research areas in computer science, letting information systems do more with less. It’s the reason the iPod nano can hold thousands of songs instead ...

'Fighting' IED attacks with SCARE technology

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 10, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Maryland researchers have developed and successfully tested new computer software and computational techniques to analyze patterns of improvised explosive device (IED) attacks ...

Internet-based customized newscast has been cooking in the InfoLab at a US university for over three years

US university coding future of news

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 16, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 0

Personalized newscasts culled from the Web and presented by digital avatars. Baseball stories written by computers using raw data.

New Algorithm Ranks Sports Teams like Google's PageRank

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 15, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sports fans may be interested in a new system that ranks NFL and college football teams in a simple, straightforward way, similar to how Google PageRank ranks webpages. The new sports algorithm, ...