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Columbia niversity Licenses Strand Simulation Technology
Columbia University has licensed to Adobe Systems a computer-generated imagery and graphic design technology that can simulate the natural movement and flexibility...
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Speedy Scanner Re-Writes Book on Publishing Technology
A Japanese research group at Tokyo University has created new software that allows hundreds of pages of a book to be scanned within minutes.
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Tv Outside the Box
MIT researchers have developed Surround Vision, a system that works with Internet-connected handheld devices to enable TV viewers to see what is happening off screen...
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Entertainment Needs Drive Innovative Mobile Phone Uses in India
A new study on how people in India use mobile computing devices suggests that entertainment may be viewed as a necessity, not merely a desire, by the media-consuming...
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Math Goes to the Movies
The use of mathematics in cinematic special effects is described in the article "Crashing Waves, Awesome Explosions, Turbulent Smoke, and Beyond," which will appear...
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Augmented Reality Brings Movie Magic to City Visits
Many people's first encounter with a foreign country is in the cinema. Using a combination of location-based services and augmented reality, European researchers...
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Intel Guru Says 3-D Internet Will Arrive Within Five Years
Intel Labs technology evangelist Sean Koehl speculates that technological advances could make realistic three-dimensional Internet applications a reality in five...
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How Good Is Tiger? Mathematician Knows By Number
Just how much does Tiger Woods dominate professional golf? Mathematician Roland Minton can put a number on it.
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Augmented Reality Brings Dibidogs Alive in 3D
The VTT Technical Research Center of Finland has been developing augmented reality technology, which superimposes digital information in the user's view, and uses...
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Robot Pruner May Cut Vineyard Labor Costs
Vino Farms is one of several farms in California that have invested in the development of a new machine that uses vision systems to mechanically prune vine spurs...
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3-D Tabletop Display Gets Rid of the Glasses
University of British Columbia researchers have developed a device called pCubee that offers all the thrills of the three-dimensional (3-D) experience without the...
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Playing 'pong' with the Blink of an Eye
Imperial College London students have developed an open source computer game where a player moves a bat to hit a ball using only eye movements.
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James Bond Spies Fail Social Networking
The director-general of MI5 says he's concerned the Britain's spy agency is being held back by some James Bond-generation agents who don't understand the world...
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Spies Among Us?
Governments' practice of electronic surveillance—and the growing use of warrantless wiretapping—has observers deeply concerned.
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Robots Gear Up For Disaster Response
After 15 years of research, robots for search and rescue may be nearing prime time.
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Data Streaming 2.0
In today's real-time Web, data streaming applications no longer have the luxury of making multiple passes over a recorded data set.
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Funding For Wwii Code-Breaking Centre Bletchley Park
The U.K. government has provided a 250,000-pound grant to repair Bletchley Park, where British mathematicians, including Alan Turing, worked to break Germany's...
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Swarms of Helicopter Robots Could Create Huge 3-D Displays
The Flyfire project at MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory is creating tiny LED-equipped helicopters that will move in concert to create dramatic, free-form displays...
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Experience Hubble's niverse in 3-D
Supercomputers and 3-D models helped visualization specialists at the Space Telescope Science Institute transformed Hubble Telescope 2-D images into 3-D environments ...
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