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Emotional Robots: Will We Love Them or Hate Them?
Scientists have theorized that many technologies would function better if they were aware of their users' emotional states, and progress in this field includes...
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Linked Data System Provides More Effective Research
Experts at the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) have developed the Resilience Knowledge Base Explorer, a new infrastructure...
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People Avoiding Automatic Location Information in Mobile Services
Providers of fully automatic Web and mobile location information services will need to allow users to edit the information to get more people to use the features...
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Siggraph Announces Stereoscopic 3d Cinema and Home Theater Trends
ACM's SIGGRAPH 2009 conference will take a comprehensive look at how stereoscopic 3D will impact the movie industry as well as the home theater in the years to...
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Building a Crash-Proof Internet
The Internet's susceptibility to earthquakes, accidents, and other disruptions appears to be greater than people originally assumed, and a great deal of the Net's...
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Darpa's Smart, Flat Camera Is Packed With Beady Eyes
Southern Methodist University professor Marc Christensen, backed by funding from the U.S. Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has developed...
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Video Tool to Zoom in on Criminals
Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) have developed software that enhances the resolution of raw video images and improves the quality of the images. TAU professor...
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Nasa Tests 'space Internet' Protocols on International Space Station
The University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder) is collaborating with NASA on the development of a new Interplanetary Internet currently undergoing testing on...
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How Computing Is Changing Journalism
Computing has influenced many fields in a big way, and journalism is one of them. There’s an ongoing trend away from print media and toward digital, and this is...
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Physicists Find Way to Control Individual Bits in Quantum Computers
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have overcome a hurdle in quantum computer development, having devised a viable way to manipulate...
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Computer Recognizes Archaeological Material and Fake Van Goghs
Dutch researcher Laurens van der Maaten has developed an analytical technique that enables computers to better interpret and recognize the content of photos, images...
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CMU Researchers Accurately Predict Social Security Numbers
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have shown that public information readily gleaned from governmental sources, commercial databases, or online social networks...
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Big Brother Untangles Baby Babble
Deb Roy, an artificial intelligence researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, is exploring children's development of communication skills...
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Translate This: 'cognition-Strength Interfaces'
A highly ambitious European project used basic cognitive function, eye-tracking and keystroke logging as the starting point for the study of human-computer interaction...
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Second Life Data Offers Window Into How Trends Spread
University of Michigan researchers are using information available through the Second Life virtual world to study how "gestures," or pieces of code that users must...
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DARPA Investigates Extreme Supercomputing
Future network-tethered sensor systems will be capable of unleashing an enormous amount of data, so a new breed of supercomputers will be needed to make sense of...
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Semantic Solution, A Patent Commercial Success
Information services company Matrixware has teamed up with a consortium of European researchers to enhance access to its database of patents. The commercial deal...
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Emc Aims to Tap the Best Brains in Computer Science
Even though EMC Corp. makes some of the world's most advanced data-storage gear, the Hopkinton, Mass. company is going back to school. Late last month, EMC unveiled...
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Sound Imaging: Clever Acoustics Help Blind People See the World
The European Union-funded CASBLiP project has developed a portable system to help visually-impaired users navigate outdoors. The system analyzes video from portable...
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