Researchers from the Georgia Tech College of Computing, working in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), have developed a digital data tracking system to assist low-resource clinical laboratories in developing countries.
As the first stage in the rollout of a comprehensive Partner Program, Globus Online launched Globus Connect Multi-User (GCMU), a tool that makes it simple for system administrators to connect shared resources, such as file servers or HPC clusters, to Globus Online for fast, reliable file transfer.
Three of the nation’s leading universities have joined with 15 US companies to launch a first-of-its-kind collaborative research center whose holistic approach to energy efficiency development could mean savings of millions of dollars and a much ‘greener’ electronics industry.
Researchers studying the nature of crowds playing Foldit called some strategies “shocking” in how well they mimicked methods already used by protein scientists. In a paper published online at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of Washington researchers reveal the creative power of Foldit players’ strategies.
A new partnership between the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the Watermen's Museum in historic Yorktown Virginia lets schoolchildren use robotic subs to study shipwrecks from last major battle of the American Revolution.
People can glean a large amount of information, including the identification of familiar songs or phrases, from just the higher frequencies.
Your smartphone knows where you go and how fast, while its microphone hears your voice. Soon, your phone may measure your stress … and help you to deal with it.
Georgia Tech researchers have developed a prototype wireless sensor capable of detecting trace amounts of a key ingredient found in many explosives. The device, which employs carbon nanotubes, is printed on paper or paper-like material.
The latest breakthrough in cotton fiber research has scientists envisioning hospital gowns that monitor medical patients and jerseys that test athletic performance, according to Cornell University fiber scientist Juan Hinestroza, co-author of a new study that reveals how everyday cotton can be turned into high-tech fabric.
Tests show new kid on block – diode lasers – eventually could challenge LEDs for home and industrial lighting supremacy.
Rival architectures face off in a bid to keep Moore's Law alive.
Designed to tell time for 10 millennia, the monumental clock moves from thought experiment to actual timepiece.
Cornell scientists have surpassed two major milestones toward a novel, exceedingly powerful X-ray source: A record-breaking electron gun emittance and a successfully tested prototype of a superconducting linac cavity.
A new electronics manufacturing technology developed at North Dakota State University, Fargo, eliminates challenges facing conventional packaging techniques and shows promise to significantly reduce the size and unit cost of microelectronic devices. The technology, called Laser-Enabled Advanced Packaging (LEAP™), has the potential to enable high-volume handling, placement and interconnection of microelectronic components smaller than ever before possible.
Georgia Tech has opened a new compact range that will be used for radar cross section measurements and antenna testing. The new facility is shielded against electromagnetic interference and can be used as an anechoic chamber.
A research team led by Patrick Traynor (Computer Science) has discovered how to program a smartphone to sense nearby keyboard vibrations and decipher complete sentences with up to 80 percent accuracy.
A team of scientists has taken a major step toward developing robot biologists. They have shown that their system, the Automated Biology Explorer, can solve a complicated biology problem from scratch.
To avoid the congestion of the public internet, scientists, the military and the managers of huge “cloud computing” data centers have created private information superhighways – dedicated fiber-optic systems known as lambda networks. As it turns out, these private internet highways are riddled with potholes.
Plans to develop the “smart” grid – a system that uses intelligent computer networks to manage electric power – cannot succeed without the creation of new “thinking machines” that can learn and adapt to new situations, from power outages along the grid to fluctuations in the power supply. So says Dr. Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy, a power engineering expert at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
A University at Buffalo-led research team has established the presence of a dynamic Jahn-Teller effect in defective diamonds, a finding that will help advance development of diamond-based systems in applications such as quantum information processing.
A new study reveals how the delay computer users sometimes experience when making video calls over the internet can actually help communication in some circumstances, while it is frustrating in many others.
Software created by Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech to model inflammatory bowel disease can now be used to model immune response to a range of pathogens that can invade the gut.
WPI researchers turn a smart phone into a medical monitor.
Interactive video games, already known to improve motor function in recovering stroke patients, appear to safely enhance physical therapy for patients in intensive care units (ICU), new research from Johns Hopkins suggests.
When cancer patients are given the choice, they are significantly more likely to use Web-based technology to answer questions about their quality of life six months after treatment, compared to a paper survey, according to a unique study presented at a scientific session, October 5, 2011, at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).
Reports that a variety of issues including reform mandates is creating a transformation of health care by placing greater emphasis on data collection and analysis.
With radar, even the humblest compact car will see through fog, brake on its own, and track other vehicles hundreds of meters ahead.
University of Utah engineers who built wireless networks that see through walls now are aiming the technology at a new goal: noninvasively measuring the breathing of surgery patients, adults with sleep apnea and babies at risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
A new "subconscious mode" for smartphones and other WiFi-enabled mobile devices could extend battery life by as much as 54 percent for users on the busiest networks.
Heart specialists at Johns Hopkins have figured out how a widely used pacemaker for heart failure, which makes both sides of the heart beat together to pump effectively, works at the biological level. Their findings, published in the September 14 issue of Science Translational Medicine, may open the door to drugs or genetic therapies that mimic the effect of the pacemaker and to new ways to use pacemakers for a wider range of heart failure patients.
An ORNL invention able to quickly predict three-dimensional structure of protein could have huge implications for drug discovery and human health.
Undergrads at the Technion have created a computer app that scours Wikipedia to "write" books (in a matter of minutes) on any subject specified by the user. They say the app works especially well for creating trip or museum tour books.
New U-M C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital to add integration platform to distribute data, enhance communications and patient experience.
For robots, picking up objects is easy, but putting them down – in proper context – is not so simple. (Cornell’s Personal Robotics Laboratory research results.)
LifeBridge Health centers in Baltimore, Md., have begun using a new device that makes drawing blood and inserting IVs an easier experience for patients.
Dr. Philip Payne, associate professor and Chair in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at The Ohio State University, is an internationally recognized leader in the fields of clinical research informatics and translational bioinformatics. In addition to his duties as Chair he is also Director of Data Management Services within the Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Biomedical Informatics Shared Resource and Co-Executive Director for the Ohio State Center for IT Innovation in Healthcare (CITIH). The author of over 90 publications, Payne’s research has served to define a new sub-domain of biomedical informatics theory and practice focused on clinical research applications.
A digital dumping ground lies inside most computers, a wasteland where old, rarely used and unneeded files pile up. Such data can deplete precious storage space, bog down the system’s efficiency and sap its energy. What;s the best approach to cleaning up the mess?
In two articles in Nano Letters, Penn State materials scientists describe advances that could make graphene a viable technology for use in radio frequency applications.
New integrated circuit devices could finally open up the electromagnetic spectrum's notoriously inaccessible terahertz band.
Make headway, Max Headroom! Meant to be Cornell classroom demonstration, a robot avatar conversation quickly turned into the spat chat heard around the world.
Helping solve cross layer network incompatibility issues will speed Internet access, and open room for more wireless traffic, without a lull in service.
This fall, more than 4,000 University of Michigan students in nearly 20 classes will be utilizing LectureTools, an interactive presentation tool that harnesses the potential of laptops and cell phones to serve as learning aids rather than distracting devices.
Thanks to the power and connectivity of today's mobile devices, video telephony will soon be everywhere.
Intel's latest random-number generator taps into thermal noise and churns out secure numbers that a wide range of applications can use.
In an attempt to increase safety in general aviation aircraft, the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University is making it possible for type clubs to create their own service information sharing systems to catch and correct service and maintenance issues before they begin to impact safety.
In a new paper, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers describe a new energy-harvesting technology that promises to dramatically reduce our dependence on batteries and instead capture the energy of human motion to power portable electronics.
The next generation of communications systems could be built with a sewing machine. To make communications devices more reliable, Ohio State University researchers are finding ways to incorporate radio antennas directly into clothing, using plastic film and metallic thread.
MTSU and the Army signed a memorandum of understanding that will create a relationship between the university's Umanned Aircraft System research efforts and the Army UAS Program Office.
Innovative new design is modeled on nervous systems, creating computers that can learn through experience, find correlations, create hypotheses and remember outcomes.
Researchers who are working to fix global positioning system (GPS) errors have devised software to take a more accurate measurement of altitude – particularly in mountainous areas.
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