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Researchers Build Artificial Immune System to Solve Computational Problems

Dec 03, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (11) | 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 | 4.9 / 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.

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

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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 ...

New software to simulate future financial crises

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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 ...

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 ...

'Digging into Data Challenge' grant awarded

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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 ...

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.

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 ...