Managing increasingly dispersed energy resources – from far-flung wind farms on remote mountaintops to racks of solar panels on suburban homes – is crucial if…
With its Future Mobile Navigation Toolkit, Fraunhofer FIRST shows from February 16th until 19th 2009 components for a new generation of navigation devices at…
In the past, researchers needed either supercomputers or large computer clusters to run simulations. Or they had to be content to run only a tiny fraction of…
This would give support to scientific missions equipped with GPS receivers, and make its due contribution to the future oceanographic, climatic and remote…
2—Sliced light is how we communicate now. Millions of phone calls and cable television shows per second are dispatched through fibers in the form of digital…
Commercial games such as Doom 3 and Half Life 2 can be used to build virtual worlds to train people in fire evacuation procedures by applying the games'…
Nothing kills innovation like having to reinvent the wheel. Imagine how dull your diet would be if you had to build a new stove and hammer out a few cooking…
Two years ago, the European research programme UNITE took on the challenge of creating a virtual testbed that IT developers across Europe could use easily and…
The contract gives Fraunhofer SCAI access to use all of Ceetrons software tools for 3D visualization with new versions of CAE software from Fraunhofer SCAI. As…
The European Grid Initiative (EGI) aims at establishing a sustainable grid infrastructure in Europe, and at moving from a structure based upon short-term…
Its ISO 15693 functionality makes the RF300 system also suitable for use in applications which only need simple types of transponders with little memory, such…
This way the transition to the new rules of data traffic on the Internet will take place in an efficient manner and on a large scale. The German IPv6 Council,…
The Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has produced a CMOS chip capable of transmitting 60 GHz digital RF signals….
European researchers have developed the most advanced spontaneous language understanding (SLU) systems for both the Polish and Italian languages. It is the…
Jon Chamberlain, from Essex's School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, explains: ‘Human language is not an unconnected series of words, phrases…
Automated speech recognition has revolutionised customer relations for banks, allowing them to respond quickly and with less staff to more low-level queries….