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Sharing Computational Perspectives
Computer scientists are now making intellectual contributions to a wide range of other disciplines, including evolutionary theory, physics, and economics.
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Liquid Crystals Light Way to Better Data Storage
As cell phones and computers continue to shrink, many companies are seeking better ways to store hundreds of gigabytes of data in small, low-power devices. A...
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Flexible Touch Screen Made With Printed Graphene
Researchers at Samsung and Sungkyunkwan University have developed a graphene-based flexible touch screen that eventually could lead to transparent electronics.
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Clouds Add Depth to Computer Landscapes
Nathan Jacobs and colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis have used a single camera to create a depth map, which records the geography of a three-dimensional...
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Microsoft's Kinect Isn't Just For Games
Microsoft's long-awaited body-sensing technology, Project Natal, got a new name last week at the E3 expo in Los Angeles. Kinect, as it is now called, is a set-top...
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Algorithm Ranks World's Top Soccer Talent
These days, in pretty much every sport, there is no hiding from statistics. Coaches, team owners, fantasy leaguers, and fans are tracking and analyzing a player's...
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Computer Intelligence Assists Study of Human Visual Attention
A computer-based model has advanced the study of change blindness, the failure of humans to detect seemingly obvious changes to scenes around them.
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Rock Stars Take a Look at Researcher's 3-D Technology
Producers have been contacting Iowa State University's Song Zhang to learn about his unique 3-D imaging technology, which uses simple hardware and powerful software...
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Flickr Photos Yield Tourist Trails
Yahoo! researchers have developed a tool that draws on the database of millions of Flickr photos to generate detailed itineraries of what tourist sites to visit...
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Nanospheres Stretch Limits of Hard Disk Storage
A new magnetic recording medium made up of tiny nanospheres has been devised by European researchers. The technology may lead to hard disks able to store more than...
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Imec Ramps Resistive Ram Research
Increasingly diverse applications that influence specifications and device requirements will prevent resistive RAMs from leading to a single "universal" memory,...
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Protecting Privacy: Make the Data 'fade Away'
Personal information can be protected by having it gradually fade away over time, says the University of Twente's Harold van Heerde, whose dissertation shows that...
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Walls Falling Faster for Solid-State Memory
Researchers have found that flaws in the structure of magnetic nanoscale wires play an important role in determining the operating speed of novel devices using...
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Virtual Privacy
Northeastern University professor Alan Mislove, whose research focuses on how people interact in the virtual world, says that many patterns of human interaction...
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Augmented Reality Edges Closer to Mainstream
To an unenlightened observer, Ron Haidenger's demonstration of playing a video game by tilting a piece of cardboard back and forth looks more than a little bit...
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The Humanities Go Google
Stanford University's Literature Lab attempts to probe the evolution of literary style by using computer algorithms to sort, interrogate, and interpret some 1,000...
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Touch Is Not Enough, Say Display Experts
Experts in touch technologies recently gathered at the Society for Information Display conference to explore the future of touch and interactivity for computer...
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Ocean Currents Likely to Carry Oil Along Atlantic Coast
A detailed computer modeling study released today indicates that oil from the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico might soon extend along thousands of miles of...
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The Coming Data Explosion
The Internet is facing an explosion of data as more and more devices are connected to the Internet. Already, the growth rate of data on the Web is outpacing Moore's...
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