FCC Looks at Ways to Assert Authority Over Web Access
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering aggressive moves to claim its authority over consumer access to the Internet as part of the Obama administration’s plan to treat...
View ArticleReading Your Mind to Tag Images (and Work With Computers)
Studies done at Microsoft Research are using electroencephalograph (EEG) measurements to read users’ minds in order to help tag online images. The researchers say the mind-reading technique is the...
View ArticleNew Toolbar to Aid Web Accessibility
A team at the University of Southampton is working on a toolbar that promises to make the Web more accessible. The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) TechDis toolbar is designed to read text...
View ArticleChina Details Homemade Supercomputer Plan
Researchers at the Chinese Institute of Computing Technology (ICT) have built a supercomputer using only home-grown microprocessors. The supercomputer, known as the Dawning 6000, will run Linux and...
View ArticleU.S. Keeps Science Lead, But Other Countries Gain
The United States remains the world’s leader in science and technology, based on factors such as gross dollars spent, relative spending on research, research articles published, and patents granted,...
View ArticleU.S. Keeps Science Lead, But Other Countries Gain
The United States remains the world’s leader in science and technology, based on factors such as gross dollars spent, relative spending on research, research articles published, and patents granted,...
View ArticleIs Water the Key to Cheaper Nanoelectronics?
Kavli Institute of Nanoscience researchers have developed a way to use water to quickly transfer layers from one surface to another by exploiting the fact that different materials have different...
View ArticleToo Much Data, Too Few Drugs
Two hundred biologists and computer scientists gathered at the first-ever Sage Congress have proposed creating an open source model that standardizes and links together thousands of scientific...
View ArticleMaking Sense of Mountains of Data
Microsoft Live Labs researchers have developed Pivot, a tool designed to visually organize large data sets. Pivot presents data in the form of several images accompanied by textual data. Users can zoom...
View ArticleProfessors Find Ways to Keep Heads Above ‘Exaflood’ of Data
Researchers remain optimistic about the prospect of keeping track of the exaflood of data, from gene sequences and distant pulsar signals to YouTube videos and email. During the recent annual meeting...
View ArticleFeeling the Way
BlindAid, a new device developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT’s) Touch Lab, enables visually impaired users to “feel” their way around a virtual model of a room or building, making...
View ArticleStudy Backs Open Access to Broadband Networks
The majority of countries with the most successful broadband deployments have opened up the networks of their main carriers to competing service providers, according to a draft report issued by the...
View ArticleEffort to Widen U.S. Internet Access Sets Up Battle
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposes to offer a 10-year plan to implement broadband Internet as the reigning communications network in the United States. FCC officials say the...
View ArticleNew Toolbar to Aid Web Accessibility
A team at the University of Southampton is working on a toolbar that promises to make the Web more accessible. The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) TechDis toolbar is designed to read text...
View ArticleImmersive Exhibit Redefines Bird’s-Eye View
ACM’s SIGGRAPH 2009 conference in August featured an exhibit that enabled visitors to experience the various levels of vision and hearing of animals, such as the ultraviolet vision of birds or the...
View ArticleAll-in-One Computerised Scheduling Will Make Airports Greener and More Efficient
A project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and led by University of Nottingham researchers is developing a new computerized approach to scheduling airport operations...
View ArticleIntelligent Traffic Flow
Researchers at De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) and Leicester University (LU) are using artificial intelligence and satellite data to help manage traffic patterns. The researchers will use...
View ArticleNew Standard Lets Browsers Get a Grip on Files
The World Wide Web Consortium has published File API, an interface draft that Web browsers can use to better manipulate files and is part of a larger effort to provide a better foundation for...
View ArticleA Swiss Army Knife for Analyzing Three-Dimensional Images
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) computer scientists have developed V3D, a software suite that features tools for visualizing, analyzing, and measuring complex, three-dimensional (3D) biological...
View ArticlePlan to Teach Military Robots the Rules of War
Georgia Institute of Technology robotics engineer Ron Arkin is researching how military robots could be programmed to act ethically and obey the rules of engagement and has developed an “ethical...
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