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Digital Zebrafish Embryo Provides First Complete Developmental Blueprint Of A Vertebrate

Researchers in Europe have generated a digital zebrafish embryo -- the first complete developmental blueprint of a vertebrate. ...  > full story

From Xbox To T-cells: Borrowing Video Game Technology To Model Human Biology

Researchers are harnessing the computing muscle behind the leading video games to understand the most intricate of real-life ...  > full story

Watch And Learn: Time Teaches Us How To Recognize Visual Objects

In work that could aid efforts to develop more brain-like computer vision systems, MIT neuroscientists have tricked the visual ...  > full story

'Can You See Me Now?' Sign Language Over Cell Phones Comes To United States

A group has demonstrated software that for the first time enables deaf and hard of hearing Americans to use sign language over a mobile ...  > full story

• Mobile Computing
  Virtual Reality
  Virtual Environment
  Technology
  Computer Modeling
  Information Technology
   

  Reality To Go: 3-D Virtual Reality On Mobile Devices

  October 11, 2008 — If mere texting, talking, e-mailing and snapping pictures on mobile devices aren't enough to satisfy your data cravings, now there's the prospect of accessing and displaying 3-D virtual reality ... > full story
• Virtual Reality
  Language Acquisition
  Video Games
  Educational Psychology
  Child Development
  Communications
   

  Virtual Reality Breathes Second Life Into Language Teaching

  October 9, 2008 — An international team has developed a wireless virtual reality environment that can help promote language learning and let students practice. The researchers have demonstrated their Collaborative ... > full story
• Internet
  Mobile Computing
  Communications
  Computer Science
  Information Technology
  Software
   

  Peer-to-peer Networking Takes Internet Out Of The Equation

  October 6, 2008 — When people working on a project get together with their laptops and PDAs, they share information via the internet and a client server. But new software developed by European researchers allows ... > full story
• Communications
  Computer Programming
  Language Acquisition
  Artificial Intelligence
  Information Technology
  Internet
   

  See What I See – Machines With Mental Muscle

  October 3, 2008 — The way we use and interact with machines is undergoing a profound change as computers are programmed to learn from experience and see more how we see. European research into machine learning is ... > full story
• Computer Science
  Information Technology
  Perception
  Artificial Intelligence
  Computer Programming
  Hacking
   

  Catching Smugglers With Technology To Detect Guilt

  October 2, 2008 — Researchers are looking to increase security at border controls by developing a computer system that can detect ... > full story
• Video Games
  Virtual Reality
  Communications
  Computer Science
  Computer Modeling
  Computer Graphics
   

  Virtual World Offers New Locale For Problem Solving

  September 30, 2008 — Second Life, a virtual world created in 2003, currently boasts more than 12 million users worldwide who go there for everything from college recruiting to shopping. Now, Penn State researchers are ... > full story
• Information Technology
  Hacking
  Encryption
  Statistics
  Photography
  Mobile Computing
   

  Putting Pictures Into Words

  September 20, 2008 — Visual images can contain a wealth of information, but they are difficult to catalogue in a searchable way. European researchers are generating and combining scraps of information to create a ... > full story
• Video Games
  Technology
  Computer Graphics
  Photography
  Mobile Computing
  Communications
   

  Mobile Video Communication From A Mountain Top

  September 20, 2008 — Imagine being able to communicate with video images anywhere in the world. Regardless of the connection you still have a good image of the person you are communicating with. Ulrik ... > full story
• Microarrays
  Computer Science
  Mobile Computing
  Information Technology
  Technology
  Biometric
   

  3-D Computer Processor: 'Rochester Cube' Points Way To More Powerful Chip Designs

  September 17, 2008 — The next major advance in computer processors will likely be the move from today's two-dimensional chips to three-dimensional circuits, and the first three-dimensional synchronization circuitry is ... > full story
• Information Technology
  Hacking
  Encryption
  Video Games
  Computer Graphics
  Computer Modeling
   

  Disruption-free Videos

  September 6, 2008 — Standardized video coding techniques still have their snags – digitally transmitted images are not always disruption-free. An extension of the H.264/AVC coding format allows to protect the most ... > full story

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