Computer Sciences news

The Origin of Artificial Species: Creating Artificial Personalities

May 14, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (10) | 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Does your robot seem to be acting a bit neurotic? Maybe it's just their personality. Recently, a team of researchers has designed computer-coded genomes for artificial creatures in which a ...

Latest 3D TV Technology Offers Interactive Control

Technology / Computer Sciences

Mar 19, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (7) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Three-dimensional TV is now closer than ever to becoming a reality for consumers, and the latest research is investigating the full extent of 3D TV’s possibilities. In a recent study, researchers ...

Strategies for Retailers Fighting Price Wars

Technology / Computer Sciences

Feb 04, 2009 | 2.9 / 5 (10) | 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- All retail companies want to maximize their profits, while at the same time maintaining high market share compared with their competitors. One way to do this is by promising to offer the lowest ...

Improved Volumetric Displays May Lead to 3D Computer Monitors

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 22, 2008 | 4 / 5 (24) | 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Volumetric 3D displays have been around for nearly a century, but they face several challenges that have prevented their use in widespread applications. Recently, a team of researchers from ...

3D Graphics Can Geometrically Guide Your Attention

Technology / Computer Sciences

Jul 10, 2008 | 4.1 / 5 (27) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- When you gaze at a painting, the first thing that catches your eye is usually not an accident. Since the beginning of art, painters have used strategic techniques to guide a viewer’s attention ...

Intelligent Computers See Your Human Traits

Technology / Computer Sciences

May 29, 2008 | 3.7 / 5 (35) | 8

Today’s computers can do a lot as far as computation goes, but they tend to do it in an impersonal, stand-offish way, so to speak. However, computer engineers are busy changing that, as they try to give computers ...

Chain letters reveal surprising circulation patterns

Technology / Computer Sciences

Apr 10, 2008 | 3.9 / 5 (48) | 4

A chain letter hoax that fooled thousands of people may help computer scientists understand how information spreads on a global scale.

Hypercubes Could Be Building Blocks of Nanocomputers

Technology / Computer Sciences

Apr 01, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (82) | 4

Multi-dimensional structures called hypercubes may act as the building blocks for tomorrow’s nanocomputers – machines made of such tiny elements that they are dominated not by forces that we’re familiar with ...

Avatar Mimics You in Real Time

Technology / Computer Sciences

Mar 25, 2008 | 4 / 5 (35) | 2

It’s a little bit like looking in the mirror at your cartoon double, except that the “reflection” is an avatar on your computer screen. Wave your hand, nod your head, speak a sentence, and your avatar does ...

New Technology Combines GPS Benefits with Privacy Protection

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 11, 2007 | 4.5 / 5 (33) | 1

As GPS and other wireless location-based technologies are becoming prevalent on cell phones and other everyday devices, two researchers are thinking about the social reaction to constant surveillance. As George ...

Artists 'draw on air' to create 3D illustrations

Technology / Computer Sciences

Sep 19, 2007 | 4.2 / 5 (126) | 1

By putting on a virtual reality mask, holding a stylus in one hand and a tracking device in the other, an artist can draw 3D objects in the air with unprecedented precision. This new system is called “Drawing ...

Machines might talk with humans by putting themselves in our shoes

Technology / Computer Sciences

Sep 10, 2007 | 4.6 / 5 (31) | 0

While robots can do some remarkable things, they don't yet possess the gift of gab. Since the 1970s, researchers have been trying to develop a speech-based human-machine interface, but improvements are gradual, ...

Quantum existence testing gives extreme solutions to increase network speed

Technology / Computer Sciences

Mar 22, 2007 | 4.5 / 5 (45) | 0

Using a novel quantum computing algorithm, scientists have simplified the process for finding extreme values in a database compared with classical and earlier quantum computing methods. With its reduced time and minimal error ...

In 'forty jumps,' scientists model scales of quarks to quasars

Technology / Computer Sciences

Jan 18, 2007 | 4 / 5 (31) | 0

Comprehending the smallness of a quark or the hugeness of the observable universe is a challenge that most of us find difficult, yet captivating. Placing vastly different scales side by side to explore their ...

Humanoid avatar plays a competitive game of table tennis

Technology / Computer Sciences

Jan 04, 2007 | 3.9 / 5 (28) | 1

Recently, scientists have designed and built an immersive table tennis (or “ping-pong”) simulation that allows a human to compete against a computer. While most virtual reality environments support slow- or ...