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Vibrating Touch Screen Puts Braille at the Fingertips
Jussi Rantala of Finland's University of Tampere is working on a project that would allow the visually impaired to use touch-screen devices such as iPhones. Rantala's...
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Connections Do Count
University of Pennsylvania computer scientist Michael Kearns is exploring the connections between social networks and human behavior. Such research could revolutionize...
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Recent Research Tackles the Complexity of Self-Awareness
Researchers at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid's School of Computing are using modular neural networks to model cognitive functions related to awareness and...
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Honda Develops Brain Interface For Robot Control
Honda Motor's Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) and Shimadzu have co-developed a brain-machine interface system that enables people...
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The Future of Computer-Human Interaction: Conference to Explore the New World of Digital Life
ACM's annual conference on Computer-Human Interaction, CHI 2009, gets underway at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston on April 4. Sponsored by ACM's Special...
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Wattbot Residential Monitoring System Generates Energy Savings
Graduate students at the Indiana University School of Informatics have developed WattBot, a residential electricity monitoring and feedback system that will be...
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Cloud Computing Meets Star Production Demands
The advantages of cloud computing were dramatically illustrated last week by researchers working on the STAR nuclear physics experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory's...
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University Creates Robot to Build Red Cabin on the Moon
Students at Sweden's Malardalen University will build a smart robot to construct a little red cabin on the moon. The team has been charged with taking the House...
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Handsets Avert Radio Spectrum Saturation, Opportunistically
Mobile users want better video calls, streaming television and faster downloads, placing more demands on the limited radio spectrum available to operators. Could...
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Hp, Ibm Labs Straddle Present and Future Technologies
Both IBM's Almaden Research Center and Hewlett-Packard Labs are focused on promoting their companies' core businesses and investigating emerging technologies....
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Researchers Seek to Assist the Elderly
Washington State University professors Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe and Diane Cook have created a smart home laboratory to assess how technology can help senior...
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Nasa and Microsoft to Make niverse of Data Available to the Public
NASA and Microsoft recently announced plans to make planetary images and data accessible over the Internet as part of the Space Act Agreement. NASA and Microsoft...
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Architects Compose Symphony of Computing Services
Web services are finding homes in a growing number of applications, from e-learning to manufacturing. But the IT industry's rush to meet demand for services has...
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Computer Science Field Needs a Few (more) Good Women
When ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) awarded Barbara Liskov the prestigious A.M. Turing Award earlier this month, its decision and timing were perfect...
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Multicores Seen Driving Next-Generation Mobile Phones
York University professor Neil Audsley is part of the pan-European Embedded Multi-Core Processing for Mobile Communications project, an effort to make the multi...
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'Smart Dew' Motes Serve as Invisible Security Guards
Tel Aviv University researchers have developed Smart Dew, tiny sensors as small as dewdrops that can be arranged in a network. The inexpensive sensors are equipped...
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Experts See Early Activity From the Conficker Worm
An informal group of computer security experts said they have observed early attempts by the Conficker virus to communicate with a control server, but they are...
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Innovation Waning, U.S. Leaders Worry
Is America losing its innovative edge? That's the fear of a growing number of tech-industry leaders, who say that U.S. companies are focusing on short-term gains...
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Fewer Applications For H-1b Visas Expected This Year
With unemployment skyrocketing across the nation, tech and other companies this year are expected to request fewer H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers...
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