This involves using wireless ad-hoc sensor networks to create logistical information systems that allow them to be tracked along the entire distribution chain….
The United States is a vital partner in the development and operation of the WLCG. Fifteen universities and three U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national…
Firms such as Intel find functional bugs by simulating different scenarios, commands and configurations that their processor might encounter. Bugs only show…
Dr Hassan Ugail, Head of Visual Computing Research at the University of Bradford’s School of Informatics, is part of a team working on a £500,000 project to…
The power and reach of the internet in today’s world is such that people have, in a short space of time, become over-reliant on it for many tasks both in…
Computers do not see things the way we do. Sure, they can manipulate recorded images, for example, but they currently understand very little about what is…
By letting disabled people know in advance which bus routes, subway lines or rail links are disabled friendly, people with disabilities can plan journeys that…
At full capacity, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator, is expected to produce more than 15 million Gigabytes of data each…
“One of the biggest lessons we learned from the tsunami was how lacking Sri Lanka was in terms of an emergency warning system. The most tragic aspect of the…
With a $338,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and an award from the American Council of Learned Societies, Jesse Casana and Jackson…
In Europe, as the rest of the world, there is a surge in robotics development, reflected in part by the European Network of Robotic Research (EURON), an…
With increasing demand from business for higher efficiency, business agility, and lower cost, for several years information communication technologies have…
When a packet of pills is scanned at the pharmacy checkout today, information is simultaneously transferred to the wholesaler about the remaining stocks on the…
The website is known as Proyecto Aprender (Learn Project) and is part of the Internet en el Aula (Internet in the Classroom) project set up by the Ministry of…
A project at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak is focusing on developing hand gesture modeling techniques for sign language recognition and presentation. It aims for…
Early in 2006, an EU-funded research group called SIMS, for Semantic Interfaces for Mobile Services, took on the challenge of how to envision, design and…