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Managing Your Identity: Innovations in Privacy Protection

Privacy is a huge concern to many citizens, customers, patients, internet users and telephone subscribers especially as the lines are being blurred between…

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Creating Virtual Faces: Emotions, Moods, and Personality Unveiled

“The aim of this work has been to design a model that reveals a person's moods and displays them on a virtual face”, SINC was informed by one of the authors of…

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New Tool for Auditing Private Data Usage Unveiled

Recent and recurrent leaks of highly confidential information, prompted Professor Luc Moreau and Rocio Aldeco-Perez at the University's School of Electronics…

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UPM Researchers Enhance Moodle for Third World Education

Moodle is an open software courses management system. The system helps educators to set up on-line learning communities. Moodle is now a popular on-line…

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Durham University Joins UK National Grid Service for Data Analysis

Durham University is a Tier 2 site within EGEE, which means it is playing an important role in processing and analysing the data produced from the LHC, as well…

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Robust Watermarking: A New Defense Against Digital Piracy

With millions of illegally copied songs and videos winging their way across file-sharing networks, artists and producers have been sent scrambling for ways to…

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Enhancing Mobile Internet Access: Key Innovations Unveiled

Researchers in the Department of Electronics have overcome two of the major technological challenges which severely limit the services currently provided on…

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SmoothIT – Incentive-based Models for Peer-to-peer Networks

The EU project SmoothIT under the leadership of Burkhard Stiller from the University of Zurich now aims to develop economic incentive schemes with which…

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Mobile Alert System Enhances Accessibility for the Visually Impaired

• Although 90 percent of participants who are blind or have low vision found the alert attention signal to be loud enough and long enough to get their…

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Granular Flow Innovations: Predicting Sand Movement Accurately

By solving large sets of differential equations, researchers can predict how sand or other granular material will move. Assistant Professor Dan Negrut and his…

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Empowering Learning Through Blogging: iCAMP Innovations

The researchers of iCAMP (Intercultural learning campus), a three-year project funded by the European Union, wanted to create software tools that would let…

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Safer, better, faster: addressing cryptography’s big challenges

Once shrouded in secrecy, cryptography (using mathematical algorithms to secure, hide and authenticate data) has come out into the light in the current digital…

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Enhancing Degree Modules with Online Game Techniques

Findings from this are being presented at a groundbreaking conference on December 5 bringing together cutting edge research and practice in the genre from…

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New Method Prevents Software Deadlocks with Control Theory

University of Michigan researchers developed a new way around this problem with a controller that can anticipate and prevent situations that might cause…

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Siemens Unveils Open Modbus/TCP Solution for Seamless Integration

The Open Modbus/TCP software solution developed by Siemens enables easy integration of the entire Simatic automation family in heterogeneous or third-party…

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Exploring Granular Computing: A Human Approach to Processing

Researchers in the School of Computer Science at the University’s Malaysia Campus are exploring ‘granular computing’ — a computer paradigm that looks at groups…

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