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Predict an Oscar Winner By Crunching the Numbers
Several organizations are using predictive algorithms to try to identify who will take home an Oscar from the upcoming Academy Awards.
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Computers Identify What Makes Abstract Art Move US
University of Trento researchers have developed a machine-vision system that can measure how color and shapes are distributed in abstract art. The system also...
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Mimicry Beats Consciousness in Gaming's Turing Test
The Turing test might still be too hard for software to crack—but two programs have already aced video gaming's answer to this famous evaluation of machine intelligence...
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Jazz-Singing Robot Could Shed Light on Consciousness
The University of Palermo's Antonio Chella is working to teach a singing robot how to improvise jazz duets with a human with hopes of learning more about the nature...
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Better Living Through Video Gaming
From AI-designed games to realistic virtual worlds and social physics, gaming is changing our world view.
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AI Designs Its Own Video Game
It is never going to compete with the latest iteration of Call of Duty, but then Space Station Invaders is not your typical blockbuster video game. While modern...
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Augmented Monoliths: Stonehenge Goes Digital
Ever wanted to stand at the centre of Stonehenge at summer solstice and appreciate the site’s beauty without the accompaniment of tourists or druids?
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Amusement Park Rides that Know When You're Scared
What would it feel like to ride on a roller-coaster that reacts to your emotional state? Visitors to amusement parks may soon be able to find out.
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Will Goal-Line Technology Bring Justice to Soccer?
A sporting miscarriage of justice that occurred last summer triggered a series of experiments that could this weekend see soccer (that's football to the rest...
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Computer Beats Human at Shogi, Japanese Chess, For First Time
A computer has beaten a human at shogi, otherwise known as Japanese chess, for the first time. Shogi is more complex than western chess, offering about 10224...
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You Too Can Have a Dream Body
If you dislike the way you look on video, a new kind of image-manipulation software could make you feel better about yourself.
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Online Games Are a Gold Mine for Design Ideas
Gone are the days when video gaming was a private pursuit. Gaming services such as Microsoft's Xbox Live not only connect players in living rooms the world over...
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'god Couldn't Do Faster': Rubik's Cube Mystery Solved
It has taken 15 years to get to this point, but it is now clear that every possible scrambled arrangement of the Rubik's cube can be solved in a maximum of 20...
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Perfecting Synthetic Sounds For Animated Worlds
If computers can generate the imagery in animated movies like Toy Story 3 and Despicable Me, why can't they also generate the sound effects to go with them?
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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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18th-Century Painters Give Photography New Perspective
Software engineer Thomas Sharpless and colleagues have developed Panini, software that can make wide-angled digital photos with perfect perspective using a technique...
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Computerized Critics Could Find the Music You'll Like
University of California, San Diego artificial intelligence researcher Luke Barrington is developing software that can analyze a piece of music and compile information...
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Thumbs Up For Gesture-Based Computing
Fashion crime it may be, but a multicoloured dayglo glove could bring Minority Report-style computing to your home PC.
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Why Labs Love Gaming Hardware
Blasting zombies may seem to have little to do with serious research, but video game hardware is helping scientists in a variety of ways including helping them...
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