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Immersive Game System Allows Physical Interaction Between Players

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Dec 22, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (13) | 5

(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 ...

Hardware-accelerated global illumination by image space photon mapping

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Dec 22, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (6) | 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.

Putting the squeeze on data

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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 ...

US university coding future of news

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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.

Visit Pompeii with the Victorians in Second Life

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Dec 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A 3D recreation of a Roman house in Pompeii has been built in the virtual world Second Life by Dr Shelley Hales and Dr Nic Earle from the University of Bristol.

Privacy concerns could limit benefits from real-time data analysis, researcher says

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Dec 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Society will be unable to take full advantage of real-time data analysis technologies that might improve health, reduce traffic congestion and give scientists new insights into human behavior until it resolves questions about ...

IU informaticists show new levels of refinement in predicting human mobility, epidemic spread

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Dec 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The interplay of human mobility patterns like those between local metropolitan commuters and long-range airline travelers during a global epidemic can be modeled in such detail so as to offer ...

How do you improve mammogram accuracy? Add noise

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22 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Members of a Syracuse University research team have shown that an obscure phenomenon called stochastic resonance (SR) can improve the clarity of signals in systems such as radar, sonar and even radiography, used in medical ...

Computer identifies authentic Van Gogh

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Dec 21, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dutch researcher Igor Berezhnoy has developed computer algorithms to support art historians and other art experts in their visual assessment of paintings. His digital technology is capable ...

Understanding interaction in virtual worlds

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59 minutes ago | 3 / 5 (1) | 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 ...

HP researchers try to tell you who your friends are

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Dec 17, 2009 | 1 / 5 (1) | 0

Most people have scores of contacts, scattered around their mobile phone, e-mail address book and multiple social networking sites. Scientists at Hewlett-Packard can tell you which of those contacts are your closest friends.

Computer scientists develop technique to improve helpfulness of user-generated online reviews

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Dec 18, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Irish computer scientists have developed a system to improve the helpfulness of online customer reviews. In recognition of the quality of their work, the group received a distinguished paper award at the ...

How could Santa know if you've been good or bad?

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Dec 21, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By using technology to detect guilty expressions, of course. CSIRO is using automated expression recognition technology to tell whether someone is in pain and, according to computer scientist, ...

Do computers understand art?

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2 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

A team of researchers from the University of Girona and the Max Planck Institute in Germany has shown that some mathematical algorithms provide clues about the artistic style of a painting. The composition ...