(PhysOrg.com) -- A whopping 58,000, [the number keeps climbing; this is a conservative total] people have signed up for a single free online course at Stanford. People from around the world—of high school ...
Aug 18, 2011 | 4.9 / 5 (10) | 3 | Football analysis leads to advance in artificial intelligence
Computer scientists in the field of artificial intelligence have made an important advance that blends computer vision, machine learning and automated planning, and created a new system that may improve everything ...
Aug 18, 2011 | 3.7 / 5 (6) | 1 | Disordered networks synchronise faster than small world networks
Synchronization occurs when individual elements in a complex network behave in line with each other. This applies to real-life examples such as the way neurons fire during an epileptic seizure or the phenomenon of crickets ...
Aug 18, 2011 | not rated yet | 0Computers will be able to tell social traits from the face
Researchers have developed new computational tools that help computers determine whether faces fall into categories like attractive or threatening, according to a recent paper published in the journal PLoS ONE. Mario Rojas ...
Aug 17, 2011 | 2.9 / 5 (9) | 0 | electronicAsia 2011 - 13-16 Oct. Components, Electronics Production, Solar Technology & more -www.hktdc.com/electronicasia
Research team develops face-mapping app for global smartphone searching
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Rice University have developed a smartphone app that appears both clever and interesting, but may never actually be used by anyone anyway. It’s an app that when combined ...
Aug 16, 2011 | 5 / 5 (2) | 5 | How the Internet architecture got its hourglass shape and what that means for the future
In the natural world, species that share the same ecosystem often compete for resources, resulting in the extinction of weaker competitors. A new computer model that describes the evolution of the Internet's ...
Aug 15, 2011 | 3.8 / 5 (6) | 14 | The economics of database searching
(PhysOrg.com) -- Searching the internet might seem simple, but applying a little bit of economic theory to information retrieval can shed some light on the best search strategies to adopt, according to researchers.
Aug 11, 2011 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 | New anti-censorship scheme could make it impossible to block individual sites
A radical new approach to thwarting Internet censorship would essentially turn the whole web into a proxy server, making it virtually impossible for a censoring government to block individual sites.
Aug 10, 2011 | 5 / 5 (8) | 14 | Portable, super-high-resolution 3-D imaging (w/ Video)
By combining a clever physical interface with computer-vision algorithms, researchers in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences have created a simple, portable imaging system that can achieve resolutions previously ...
Aug 09, 2011 | 4.8 / 5 (6) | 2 | Disney, CMU researchers build face models that give animators intuitive control of expressions
Flashing a wink and a smirk might be second nature for some people, but computer animators can be hard-pressed to depict such an expression realistically. Now scientists at Disney Research, Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon ...
Aug 09, 2011 | not rated yet | 0Tracking crime in real time
Almost everything we do leaves a digital trace, whether we send an email to a friend or make a purchase online. That includes law-abiding citizens — and criminals. And with digital information multiplying by the second, ...
Aug 08, 2011 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0Perfect communication with imperfect chips
One of the triumphs of the information age is the idea of error-correcting codes, which ensure that data carried by electromagnetic signals — traveling through the air, or through cables or optical fibers ...
Aug 05, 2011 | 3.3 / 5 (3) | 0 | Defibrillator for stalled software
It’s happened to everyone: You’re using a familiar piece of software to do something you’ve done a thousand times before — say, find a particular word in a document — and all of a ...
Aug 03, 2011 | 4.2 / 5 (9) | 4 | Digital photos can animate a face so it ages and moves before your eyes
Personal photos occupy an ever-expanding amount of hard drive space. Baby, family and vacation photos can now number in the thousands. While some poke fun at the digital glut, others see a unique opportunity.
