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Company’s Software Speeds Patent Database Search

Jason Martin, Brad Chassee and Tony Rainoldi, the founders of ArchPatent and graduates of The University of Alabama in Huntsville, have found an easy, low-cost…

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New tool gives structural strength to 3-D printed works

“I have an entire zoo of broken 3-D printed objects in my office,” said Bedrich Benes, an associate professor of computer graphics at Purdue University. The…

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Children Assess Educational Games: Insights from Research

Wolmet Barendregt, from The University of Gothenburg, conducts research on children's game playing, how we can support learning with design and include the…

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Optomechanics: Swift light switching at the microscale

A system that has only two possible stable states, such as a light switch, is called bistable by scientists and engineers. Bistability in microscale devices…

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'Nanoresonators' might improve cell phone performance

“There is not enough radio spectrum to account for everybody's handheld portable device,” said Jeffrey Rhoads, an associate professor of mechanical engineering…

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New Land Management Tool Boosts Sustainable Practices

The Circular Flow Land Use Management (CircUse) project in which the Difu is involved has created a land management data tool to be used by city…

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Building Ultra-Low Power Wireless Networks

Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have received funding from the National Science Foundation to create distortion-tolerant communications…

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A*STAR’S IME Develops Smallest Antenna That Can Increase Wi-Fi Speed By 200 Times

A*Star IME develops high performance silicon-based 135 GHz integrative antenna technology for advanced wireless communicationsResearchers from A*STAR’s…

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Real-Time Movement Capture for Actors and Athletes

In the computer graphics (CG) animated comedy “Ted,” which is running now in the cinemas, Ted is a teddy bear who came to life as the result of a childhood…

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Webinos Empowers Cross-Screen Apps for Seamless Connectivity

Using a smart phone to zap through the television channels or using a tablet PC to configure the car system – the webinos technology allows for cross-screen…

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Virtual 3-D ‘Knitting’ Adds New Stitch for Graphic Artists

But that doesn’t work for knit sweaters. To make the image realistic, the computer has to simulate the surface right down to the intricate intertwining of yarn.

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Sparse microwave imaging: A new concept in microwave imaging technology

Under the support of the 973 program “Study of theory, system and methodology of sparse microwave imaging”, Chinese scientists have conducted considerable…

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With Microchip Real Estate at a Premium, Drexel Engineers Look For a Wireless Solution

But with space on the tiny silicon chips at a premium, as demand for faster, smaller technology increases, engineers at Drexel University could be adding…

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Data storage: Memory that does it all

Computers often do not run as fast as they should because they are constantly transferring information between two kinds of memory: a fast, volatile memory…

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German Scientists Enhance 3D Graphics for the Web

Now, computer scientists from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research are joining forces…

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Streamlined Graphics Software: Transforming Image Processing

Image-processing software is a hot commodity: Just look at Instagram, a company built around image processing that Facebook is trying to buy for a billion…

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