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Semantic Web: Enhancing the Smart Electricity Grid

Managing increasingly dispersed energy resources – from far-flung wind farms on remote mountaintops to racks of solar panels on suburban homes – is crucial if…

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Future Mobile Navigation Toolkit: Enhancing Brain Training Systems

With its Future Mobile Navigation Toolkit, Fraunhofer FIRST shows from February 16th until 19th 2009 components for a new generation of navigation devices at…

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Open-Source Software Accelerates Molecular Motion Simulations

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…

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Jason-1 Satellite Achieves Centimeter-Level Orbit Accuracy

This would give support to scientific missions equipped with GPS receivers, and make its due contribution to the future oceanographic, climatic and remote…

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Unlocking 640 Gbps: The Future of De-Multiplexing Innovation

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…

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Using Violent Games to Enhance Fire Safety Training

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'…

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Unlocking Wireless Innovation at WARP Speed: A New Era

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…

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UNITE Creates Virtual Testbeds for Next-Gen IT Systems

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…

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Ceetron Partners with Fraunhofer SCAI for 3D Visualization Tools

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…

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EGI Blueprint Approved: Building Europe’s Sustainable Grid

The European Grid Initiative (EGI) aims at establishing a sustainable grid infrastructure in Europe, and at moving from a structure based upon short-term…

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RFID Read/Write Devices: Harnessing ISO 15693 Functionality

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…

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IPv6 Contest: Seeking Innovative Ideas for Internet Transition

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,…

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New Wireless Standard Boosts Ultra-Fast Media Applications

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….

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Advanced Language Recognition System for Polish and Italian

European researchers have developed the most advanced spontaneous language understanding (SLU) systems for both the Polish and Italian languages. It is the…

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Networked Human Computation: Enhancing Language Comprehension

Jon Chamberlain, from Essex's School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, explains: ‘Human language is not an unconnected series of words, phrases…

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It’s like software understands, um, language

Automated speech recognition has revolutionised customer relations for banks, allowing them to respond quickly and with less staff to more low-level queries….

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