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Surveillance Software Knows What a Camera Sees
UCLA researchers have developed Image to Text (I2T), a computer vision system that can generate a real-time text description of what is happening in a surveillance...
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New Automated Tool 'debugs' Nuclear Weapon Simulations
Purdue University researchers, working with high-performance computing experts at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, have created an automated program to "debug"...
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Defence Lab Reveals ltimate CCTV
The United Kingdom's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory is developing high-resolution imaging technology for a surveillance systems that can recognize and...
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Rise of the Robot Astronomer
A Hubble Space Telescope picture of the Abell Cluster reveals a wide range of galactic diversity. A giant elliptical galaxy dominates the center of the image, but...
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The Ipad Pulse Reader Scales the Charts
Much has been made of the opportunity presented by Apple’s iPad to big media companies. But surprisingly, it is a $3.99 application created by two Stanford graduate...
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Video Game Accessibility Project to Help Blind Children Exercise
University of Nevada, Reno researchers have developed motion sensing-based tennis and bowling video games that use physical activity as input and might help visually...
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House Allocates $84 Billion for Technology R&D
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the America Competes Reauthorization Act of 2010, which provides $85 billion in science and technology research and...
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What Motivates Volunteer Computing Contributors? It Depends
Contributors to "volunteer computing" projects such as Wikipedia and Galaxy Zoo are motivated by enjoyment, the desire to 'do good,' to gain knowledge, or by the...
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Team Produces Procedure-Based Training Software For Robot-Assisted Surgery
Two scientists have paired up to develop procedure-based, hands-on surgical training software, which has the potential to revolutionize surgical training worldwide...
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Developer Preview of the Kamra Ar Browser at Are2010
The Georgia Institute of Technology will release the developer preview of Kamra, the first mobile augmented reality browser for the KHARMA development platform,...
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Steve Jobs Predicts Tablets to Replace Personal Computers
The era of the personal computer is coming to an end and the tablet will take its place, Steve Jobs predicted at the All Things D Conference on Tuesday (June 1)...
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Watch the Oil Spill As It Changes
Some of the most reliable witnesses to the changes in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have been satellites in orbit.
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Willow Garage Gets Robots Into Researchers' Hands
Willow Garage has given 11 teams from around the world the right to use its PR2 open source robots and operating system to develop new uses for the technology and...
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What Sites Such as Facebook and Google Know and Whom They Tell
When Disa Powell's husband and brother were badly burned in an electrical explosion while conducting maintenance at a Wal-Mart store and the family sued, the defense...
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Scaling Goes Extreme
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers are developing software that is capable of describing the behavior of molecules in excited states, as well as...
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Google Ditches Windows on Security Concerns
Google is phasing out the internal use of Microsoft’s ubiquitous Windows operating system because of security concerns, according to several Google employees.
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Cellphone in New Role: Loyalty Card
Loyalty cards--those little paper cards that promise a free sandwich or coffee after 10 purchases, but instead get lost or forgotten--are going mobile.
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Researchers Work to Help Mobile Devices Keep Going and Going . . .
Three researchers have been awarded a $1.2 million, four-year grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop a more energy-efficient processor for mobile...
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Oak Ridge National Lab to Lead Reactor Simulation Innovation Hub
Oak Ridge National Laboratory was awarded $122 million to establish and operate a new Nuclear Energy Modeling and Simulation Energy Innovation Hub, which will...
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