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Maryland and Arkansas Teams Win ORNL Global Venture Challenge
Graduate students from the University of Arkansas and the University of Maryland received first place at the 2010 Global Venture Challenge that was hosted at Oak...
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3-D Haptics to Help Surgeons Feel the Cutting Edge
Deakin University robotics engineer James Mullins is leading a research effort to develop haptics technology with the goal of making a simulation as realistic as...
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Artists Mine Scientific Clues to Paint Intricate Portraits of the Past
Artists are still painting things they cannot see in real life. Rather than being separated from their subjects by thousands of miles, though, today’s artists are...
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A Swiss Army Knife For Analyzing Three-Dimensional Images
Howard Hughes Medical Institute computer scientists have developed V3D, a software suite that features tools for visualizing, analyzing, and measuring complex,...
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Mobile Learning with iPhone Now Possible
Peruvian and Belgian researchers have developed an open source mobile learning application that enables health-care workers to connect to the free learning platform...
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Creating Apps Just For Cars
Ford Motor Co. is working with the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Microsoft to offer a computer science and engineering course in which Michigan students...
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UIC Researcher Looks Toward a Communication Revolution
Andy Johnson, a professor in the University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Laboratory, is developing ultra-high-speed connections paired with...
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Nist, Partners Develop Testing Infrastructure For Health It Systems
NIST has released the first of four installments of a new health IT test method and related software, developed in collaboration with a broad array of public and...
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Software's Take on the Light Bulb Joke
How many men does it take to change a light bulb? Putting the punchline aside a moment, consider that it takes even more to pack a shipping crate. Now a European...
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Toyota Applies the Brakes
In the wake of a massive public-relations nightmare involving brake problems in its cars, Toyota is investigating two more reports this week of unintended acceleration...
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Predicting the Fate of Stem Cells
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor Badri Roysam and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee professor Andrew Cohen are using computer vision technology to predict...
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New 'hearing' Maps Are Real Conversation Starters
Cardiff University researchers have developed software that creates audibility maps of proposed room designs that show hotspots where conversations would be inaudible...
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Japan Baby-Robot Teaches Parenting Skills
Tsukuba University engineering students have developed Yotaro, a baby humanoid robot designed to teach young people about parenting.
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Silicon-on-Silk Electronics Developed For Potential Biomedical Applications
University of Illinois researcher John Rogers has collaborated with a team at Tufts University to develop silicon-on-silk electronics, which could one day function...
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Project Peppher Announced
The European PErformance Portability and Programmability of Heterogeneous many-core aRchitectures (PEPPHER) project is developing a methodology and architecture...
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One Sensor to Do the Work of Many
U.S. Pentagon scientists have developed the Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System (ARGUS-IS), a sensor system that can spot and track...
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Putting the Web in a Spreadsheet
IBM researchers have developed BigSheets, a data analysis tool based on Hadoop designed to help users analyze large Web data sets. BigSheets uses Hadoop to comb...
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Coming Ssoon: Emotion Detector For Babies
Parents-to-be can take a breather: It may soon be possible to translate infant cries, all thanks to Japanese scientists who have come up with a statistical computer...
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Tracking Garbage
Researchers are focusing on the so-called "removal chain" in an attempt to save landfill space, improve recycling rates, and trim the flow of toxic materials into...
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