The multi-billion-dollar video-game industry has become increasingly keen to make use of developments in artificial intelligence (AI) research, and computer scientists--including those in the University of Alberta's GAMES research group--have taken notice of what might be AI's killer app.
The F700 concept vehicle offers luxury-car performance, comfort, and econo-car fuel efficiency.
A team led by Thomas Schulthess of the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory received the prestigious 2008 Association for Computing Machinery Gordon Bell Prize Thursday after attaining the fastest performance ever in a scientific supercomputing application.
With a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation, computer science professors at the University of Virginia have formulated a program to attract and keep students from diverse backgrounds. This is important because colleges aren't graduating enough computer science majors.
Five years ago, Virginia Tech burst onto the high-performance computing scene using Apple Power Mac G5 computers to build System X, one of the fastest supercomputers of its time. Now the university, Apple, and Mellanox have created System G "“ twice as fast and green.
University of Washington researchers are grabbing hold of the fleeting Web and storing historical Web sites that users can easily search using an intuitive application called Zoetrope.
Results could remove bottlenecks from the Internet and biological systems.
A Cray XT high-performance computing system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the world's fastest supercomputer for science. The Cray XT, called Jaguar, has a peak performance of 1.64 petaflops, (quadrillion floating point operations, or calculations) per second, incorporating 1.382 petaflops XT5 and 266 teraflops XT4 systems.
New computer tools have the potential to revolutionize the practice of mathematics by providing more-reliable proofs of mathematical results than have ever been possible in the history of humankind. These tools have been used to provide nearly infallible proofs of many important results. A ground-breaking collection of four articles by leading experts, published today in the AMS Notices, explores these new developments.
How important were YouTube, Facebook, blogs, wikis and Web sites in this election? Allan Louden, associate professor of communication at Wake Forest University, can explain how new advertising methods, mobilization, debates and the Internet contributed to the Barack Obama victory and changed forever the nature of campaigning for the presidency.
University of Utah scientists created a sensitive prototype device that could test for dozens or even hundreds of diseases simultaneously by acting like a credit card-swipe machine to scan a card loaded with microscopic blood, saliva or urine samples. The prototype works on the same principle that is used to read data on computer hard drives or listen to tunes on portable digital music players.
"You've got laundry!" Students at Salisbury University can now program the school's new washing machines and dryers to send them text messages when their laundry is done and check online to see which machines are free before lugging their dirty clothes to the laundry room--and best of all, the new equipment helps reduce the University's carbon footprint.
A research team, led by North Carolina State University's Dr. Mitzi M. Montoya, has developed a new way of measuring how "real" online virtual worlds are "“ an important advance for the emerging technology that can be used to foster development of new training and collaboration applications by companies around the world.
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have engineered a biologically inspired robot that mirrors the actions of sought-after service dogs. Users verbally command the robot to complete a task and the robot responds once a basic laser pointer illuminates the location of the desired action.
University of Iowa graduate student Alok Shah spends many hours in the lab studying the genetic causes of developmental defects and cystic fibrosis. In his free time, he takes part in what he calls a "wonderful nerd-fest" at "LabSpaces," a social-networking site aimed at individuals with a specific interest or career focus, such as biomedical research.
Researchers and educators at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston are examining the virtual world of Second Life for both its addictive and educational potential.
Research presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting describes an easier and more accurate method to predict the degradation and remaining useful life of mechanical and electronic equipment, while significantly improving maintenance operations and spare parts logistics.
Play, the Berkeley Digital Media Conference at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, brings together creative professionals, industry leaders, and students to discuss the emergence and implications of the digital lifestyle. The theme for the 2008 >play conference is Disruption: Changes in the Media Economy. The 2008 Expo will feature demonstrations of digital media innovations and new products.
Michigan State University's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory has earned an important international certification indicating that the service it renders to the world's nuclear scientists "“ namely rare isotope beams "“ meets rigorous international standards for quality.
In a study of the Los Angeles Dodgers team blog, Stephen W. Dittmore of the University of Arkansas found that the blog was a popular and effective way for fans to learn about the Dodgers and communicate commitment to their team.
Step aside, John McCain and Barack Obama. Meet Sen. Julian Polonius Foley Marcos DeWiki III, a true man of the people. DeWiki "“ in Internet fashion "“ is making an unprecedented run for president of the United States. You've never heard of him? He's not on your ballot? Click his Web site and learn all about his sordid past and political acumen "¦ or, if you wish, change history or add to it:
As computer processor chips grow faster and more complex, they are likely to make it to market with more design bugs. But that may be OK, according to University of Michigan researchers who have devised a system that lets chips work around all functional bugs, even those that haven't been detected.
"Laptops are very hot now, so hot that they are not 'lap' tops anymore," said Avik Ghosh, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia. "The prediction is that if we continue at our current pace of miniaturization, these devices will be as hot as the sun in 10 to 20 years." Ghosh is investigating ways to reduce the heat of smaller and faster computers.
Hardware hackers are creating fantastical machines from a Victorian age that never was.
A high-tech form of bomb disposal has evolved in the streets of Iraq and Afghanistan, and may be coming to a city near you.
After discovering a flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System, computer-security expert Dan Kaminsky helped to coordinate an industry-wide effort to patch the relevant software and prevent unwary users from being redirected to fake Websites.
A UMDNJ case study focused on use of the Nintendo Wii for rehabilitation of a teen with cerebral palsy is believed to be the first published research showing the physical therapy benefits resulting from use of the wildly popular gaming system. Researchers say the gaming system complements traditional techniques.
The UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Spam Data Mine reports that CareerBuilder.com, a reputable job search and employment company, has joined the list of brands targeted by a criminal who is stealing login credentials to their site by claiming to have a new Digital Certificate said to protect customers.
Virginia Tech researchers have developed an efficient compact ultra-wideband antenna (CUA) for a range of home, automotive, medical, and military applications. The antenna has achieved a near optimal performance for size and bandwidth.
Understanding exposures is critical for the protection of human health, but for years scientists and health officials have struggled in their attempts to collect accurate data regarding the exposure of children, emergency responders and military personnel to a wide range of environmental contaminants.
Balancing public and private interests for nighttime lighting has been a difficult undertaking, as too little lighting may increase safety and security issues, while too much lighting may cause problems for the environment and for human well being. Scientists in the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed the first ever comprehensive method for predicting and measuring various aspects of light pollution.
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Spam Data Mine urge the public to use caution when considering a "work at home" job, especially those offered by e-mail. UAB's Spam Data Mine collects millions of e-mail messages used to provide investigators with spam intelligence and determine new attack methods.
To date, more than 280 Internet domain names have been registered relating to Hurricane Gustav, some of them using words like "charity," "relief," and "support." The UAB computer forensic team is watching these domains to detect any signs of fraudulent use.
Great strides are being made toward the long-sought goal of constructing MOSFETs that are suitable for large-scale digital ICs using GaAs or similar III-V semiconductors.
Will Wright, creator of The Sims, has given life to an evolutionary--and revolutionary--new game.
Billions of dollars spent on defeating improvised explosive devices are beginning to show what technology can and cannot do for the evolving struggle.
The Russian government stands accused of being the source of the attacks flooding Georgian government Web sites with traffic, making them inaccessible to users. Is it true? University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Director of Research in Computer Forensics Gary Warner has been investigating the situation and has found some answers.
University of Utah physicists successfully controlled an electrical current using the "spin" within electrons "“ a step toward building an organic "spin transistor": a plastic semiconductor switch for future ultrafast computers. The study also suggests it will be more difficult than thought to make highly efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) using organic materials.
The UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Spam Data Mine is seeing new escalations in the so-called "Russian-Georgian Cyber War". More than 500 e-mails were received in a 90 minutes period this morning at UAB claiming to be a BBC story revealing that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is homosexual.
The UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Spam Data Mine reports that a new spam trend using MSNBC began shortly after 3 a.m. this morning. Because the new spam attack is based on the actual emails sent to MSNBC Alert subscribers, it will be nearly impossible to block to the spam without also blocking legitimate MSNBC mail, said Gary Warner, director of Computer Forensics.
Technological advancements in specific fields of neuroscience have implications for U.S. national security, and the intelligence community should monitor them closely, according to a new report from the National Research Council.
Antivirus software on your personal computer could become a thing of the past thanks to a new "cloud computing" approach to malicious software detection developed at the University of Michigan.
Researchers at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School have selected a high performance IBM computer to perform research they hope will one day lead to more effective treatment of medical conditions like infertility and thyroid problems.
Texas Hold'em poker has exploded in popularity over the past few years. Its popularity has extended to academic researchers. Now, poker-playing artificial intelligence systems, developed by a researcher at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have been released for free use by the public.
Throughout the month of July, spam messages using fake news headlines have been luring visitors to virus-laden Web sites that will infect the unwary Websurfer with a simple clink on any of the links.
Smaller and faster are two goals in today's electronics market and an article in an international trade publication shows how North Dakota State University researchers, Fargo, design and build such electronics packages.
Researchers at UMass Amherst are using software engineering techniques to develop safer ways to administer blood transfusions and chemotherapy with the goal of improving patient safety. The team is also analyzing the flow of patients in emergency rooms to reduce patient waiting times.
A new computer language for modeling biological phenomenon can "think" like cells and molecular mechanisms think, thereby simulating the dynamics of biological phenomenon. Through incorporating basic principles of engineering, the new language, called Little b, surpasses current biological modeling software in that it goes beyond simply representing biological information. It allows biologists to create programs that can reason about biological knowledge and thereby help overcome the barrier of complexity.
Four Brazilian geeks dream of creating the next big hit in massive online games--with creativity, a bit of luck, and an IBM mainframe.
A novel form of data compression effectively doubles the memory in embedded systems while barely slowing them down.
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