Neuromorphic Microchips
Personal Data for the Taking
Dozens of Johns Hopkins University students enrolled in a computer security course last semester learned how painfully cheap and easy it is to acquire personal data online when they were grouped into teams assigned to aggregate, clean, and link entire databases of dossiers on Baltimore ...
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EU Plans for Software Patents Hit Fresh Obstacle
The latest proposal from the European Parliament to amend the European Union's software patents directive has provoked complaints from software and technology groups claiming the revisions would violate the essentials of existing European patent law. The proposal contains 40 suggested ...
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Conference System Makes Shared Space
Videoconferencing technology has made considerable strides, but cost and quality issues have hindered its mainstream penetration. University of California at Berkeley researchers have developed the MultiView videoconferencing system, a tool that creates a "shared space" feeling ...
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'Real ID' Faces Reality
The Real ID Act is causing serious concern among state technology officials, who are unsure about what is required and their ability to implement necessary changes. Delaware CIO and NASCIO President Thomas Jarrett says that while exact technical requirements are unclear, Real ID ...
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Researchers Speed, Optimize Code With New Open Source Tools
Open-source SPIRAL software tools developed by U.S. university researchers with funding from the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency could radically change the writing of computer code, especially when measured against the latest breakthroughs in ...
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The New Curriculum: Getting a Diploma in 'Mortal Kombat'
Computer and video games are gaining credence in academic institutions as an area of study, despite skepticism from university administrators and traditional computer scientists. Seattle's DigiPen University was the first U.S. school to offer a four-year game development degree, while a few ...
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Berkeley Lab Technology Dramatically Speeds Up Searches of Large Databases
Sifting through large volumes of data produced by high-energy physics experiments and other research projects for specific information just became easier thanks to the Word-Aligned Hybrid (WAH) compression technique developed and patented by researchers at the Energy Department's Lawrence ...
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'Programmable Matter' One Day Could Transform Itself Into All Kinds of Look-Alikes
Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists Seth Goldstein and Todd Mowry have conceived of shape-changing robots that can assemble themselves into replicas of human beings or other objects that can sense, change color, and move in three dimensions. Each individual unit or claytronic ...
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Designs on Less Complex Mobiles
Mobile phones risk becoming increasingly difficult to use as manufacturers and carriers promote devices with more and more functions, said mobile industry design consultant Scott Jenson at a Microsoft Research conference held in Cambridge, United Kingdom discussing simplifying computing. The ...
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Tele-Petting
The Touchy Internet system developed by researchers at the University of Singapore's Mixed Reality Lab enables users to feel a chicken remotely by stroking a chicken-shaped doll that moves in concert with a real chicken monitored by a webcam. Tactile data captured by the replica's touch ...
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Is It Finally Time for 3D Online?
Despite a number of false starts over the last decade, 3D interfaces for the Web are ready for widespread use, says Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) co-creator Tony Parisi. VRML was first deployed commercially 10 years ago, but for different reasons Web 3D technology ...
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Nation Failure Warning System
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is committing approximately $500,000 to BAE and three MIT professors to create software that could model the conditions under which a nation state fails and slips into chaos. Washington's interest in such a tool partly stems from ...
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Scientists Developing 'Nurturing' Computers
University of Houston computer science professor Ioannis Pavlidis, with the help of his Infrared Imaging Group at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, has developed the Automatic THErmal Monitoring System (ATHEMOS) that can physiologically monitor human users without touch. ...
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DoD Awards $246,000 Grant for Advanced Wireless Networks Research
Researchers in Virginia Tech's Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering will explore ways to meld mobile ad hoc networks and wireless sensor networks by developing a testbed platform with a $246,000 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) grant from the ...
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Developers' Growing Challenge
As network and general infrastructure security improves, hackers will increasingly target line-of-business applications. Enterprise applications are increasingly vulnerable for three reasons: Growing demands for application integration between systems that were never designed to work ...
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Budget Cuts at NSF May Signal a Crisis in Computing
The National Science Foundation's decision to withdraw funding for its three supercomputer centers is breeding uncertainty about the future of academic supercomputing in the United States. NSF supercomputers are critical to academic efforts because other federal supercomputing ...
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Join the Evolution
The integration of relational database technologies with an iterative software development process is a critical element in many software projects, and achieving this task requires cooperation between developers and data professionals. "Agile Database Techniques" author Scott Ambler ...
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Neuromorphic Microchips
The human brain is superior to the computer in terms of operational efficiency and functions such as vision, hearing, pattern recognition, and learning; the key to this superiority appears to lie in the organization of the brain's neural system, which engineers are attempting to duplicate ...
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