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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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To Pack a Stadium, Provide Video Better Than Tv
How do you keep football fans as regular visitors to stadiums when the television coverage of every play is so good?
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Defcon Ninja Party Badge
A hacker group known as the Ninjas has created what may be the best DefCon badge ever. The badge allows wireless ninja battle between badge holders. Unlike the...
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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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Cut-and-Paste Simplicity For Computer Animation
Tools developed by European researchers bring cut-and-paste simplicity to gaming and animation. Users will be able to cut-and-paste complex elements like emotion...
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Celebrating the Legacy of Plato
The PLATO@50 Conference marked the semicentennial of the computer system that was the forerunner of today's social media and interactive education.
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Making Sense of Real-Time Behavior
Data captured by sensors worn on the human body and analyzed in near real-time could transform our understanding of human behavior, health, and society.
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Looking Beyond Stereoscopic 3D's Revival
Researchers working in vision and graphics are attempting to develop new techniques and technologies to overcome the current limitations in stereoscopic 3D.
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Stanford 'frankencamera' Platform Available on Nokia N900 Smartphone
Stanford University has released Frankencamera, an open source digital photography software platform that enables users to create imaging applications for use on...
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Researchers Create Sounds of Animated Things Breaking
A delicate wine glass shatters on the floor. A rock is thrown through a window. A child smashes his piggy bank. Dramatic moments like these in an animated movie...
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Did a Speeding Car Just Jump Out of My Cellphone?
Smartphones are getting smarter. Now some new models even offer games or television broadcasts in three dimensions—and you don’t need special glasses to see the...
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This Is the City, 2.0
Augmented reality tours of real monuments, instant visualization of virtual objects on living cityscapes, and user-generated, digital story telling around famous...
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Taking Computer Games Into the Future
Computing experts from the University of Essex, Imperial College, and the University of Bradford are working to make artificial intelligence smarter, which will...
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Artificial Intelligence For Improving Team Sports
Carlos III University of Madrid researchers are developing a system for evaluating sport performance by using artificial intelligence to automatically analyze a...
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Soccer Stars Ranked sing Statistics
Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a computer program that objectively measures player performance; the research method also could be used...
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A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Lines of C++ Code
The final of the Rendering Algorithms class at the University of California, San Diego, has become a friendly competition among students, who apply what they've...
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Building the Lego niverse Online
Lego Universe, the online computer game scheduled for release in October, marks the legendary company's first foray into massively multiplayer gaming, and for...
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A Decade Later, Internet Appliance Dream Is Realized
Ten years ago, the next big thing in tech was supposed to be the Internet appliance: a device that offered tech newbies a simpler and cheaper way to get onto the...
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Study Explains the Aerodynamics of Soccer
With the attention of sports fans worldwide focused on South Africa and the 2010 FIFA World Cup, U.S. scientist John Eric Goff has made the aerodynamics of the...
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Quantifying Human Behavior With Motion-Capture Technology
The University of Southern California is using improvisation and motion-capture technology to study expressive human behavior "to be able to build technologies...
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