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Cloud Computing: Changing the Way We Work
Cloud computing has the potential to create irreversible changes in how computers are used around the world, says David Carrera, director of the Cloud Computing...
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Companion Robots Will Improve Elderly People's Quality of Life in Smart Homes
The Companionable project is working to improve the quality of life of elderly and disabled people through robots designed to operate in intelligent homes. The...
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Researchers Use Brain Interface to Post to Twitter
In early April, Adam Wilson posted a status update on the social networking Web site Twitter — just by thinking about it. Just 23 characters long, his message,...
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Semantic Design Promises To Save Time, Raise Productivity
A pioneering semantic engineering environment developed by European researchers offers a more flexible, scalable and user-orientated means of managing design data...
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Funding Supports Diamond-Based Quantum Information Processing and Communication
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) scientists say that diamonds could revolutionize quantum mechanics in computing by enabling ultra-secure communications...
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Netbook Chips Create a Low-Power Cloud
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have successfully used a cluster of the same low-power processors that are used in netbooks and mobile devices to create...
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Student Innovations Honored at Chi Conference
ACM's recent Computer-Human Interaction (CHI 2009) conference gave computing students an opportunity to show off the technology they are developing and how it could...
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Harnessing Spammers to Solve AI Problems
Some Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHAs) security systems are already being solved by spammers, but CAPTCHA co...
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Upgraded Scientific Research Web Site Gets Nih Grant
SciVee, a Web 2.0 resource dedicated to the dissemination of scientific research and science-specific research networking, has completed a number of significant...
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Researcher Leads Quest For Robots That Take Orders From the Brain
University of Washington (UW) researcher and MacArthur Foundation Fellow recipient Yoky Matsuoka specializes in the field of neurobotics, which focuses on the development...
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Simpler Language Allows Non-Experts to Program Wireless Sensor Networks
Researchers at the University of Michigan and Northwestern University have developed a programming language for wireless sensor networks that will enable non-computer...
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Tools Enhance Real-World Apps: Call in the Tele-Shrink
European researchers have developed a suite of tools to add non-verbal cues to email, phone calls, chats and other channels of electronic communication. Intriguing...
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Innovative Asia-Pacific Projects Awarded Isif Funding
Eleven communities in eight Asia-Pacific countries stand to benefit from work backed by a new funding program of the Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF)....
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Sensoring the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Semantic Sensor Network incubator group will lay the foundation for enabling sensors and sensor networks to share information...
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Engineering Professor Explores Underwater Wireless Communications
Northeastern University professor Milica Stojanovic says the discovery of the Titanic in 1985 underscored the need for underwater wireless communications technology...
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Smartphone Apps Capture 40% of ser Face Time
Up to 90 percent of smartphone users say they want computer-like functions, and close to 40 percent of aggregate face time is based on mobile Internet, games, multimedia...
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Wearable Sensors Monitor Gait, May Help Prevent Falls
When an older person is injured in a fall, the cost is significant, both in quality of life and medical expense. being developed by Researchers at the University...
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A Twitter-Based Graphing Tool
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Human-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D. student Ian Li (pictured) has developed Grafitter, a Twitter-based program that lets...
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W3C Investigates Possible e-Gov Standards
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has initiated the process for developing standards that governments could employ to tap Web 2.0 and social networking technologies...
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