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Boost Retail Security with Smart Items and Sensor Networks

This involves using wireless ad-hoc sensor networks to create logistical information systems that allow them to be tracked along the entire distribution chain….

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World’s biggest computing grid launched

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…

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Computer Hardware 'Guardians' Protect Users from Undiscovered Bugs

Firms such as Intel find functional bugs by simulating different scenarios, commands and configurations that their processor might encounter. Bugs only show…

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Catching smugglers with ‘guilt’ technology

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…

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Peer-to-Peer Networking: Redefining Connectivity Without Internet

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…

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Machines With Mental Muscle: A New Era in Computer Vision

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…

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Empowering Disabled Travelers with Accessible Transport Info

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…

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CERN OpenLab Enhances LHC Computing Performance Efficiently

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…

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Improving Hazard Warnings for Safer Coastal Sleep

“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…

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3-D Atlas Unveils Landscape and Hidden Archeological Sites

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…

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Exploring Europe’s Surge in Robotics Innovation and Design

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…

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Better Business Efficiency With Grid Solutions Insights

With increasing demand from business for higher efficiency, business agility, and lower cost, for several years information communication technologies have…

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Run out of pain killers again?

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…

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A portal for children with learning difficulties

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…

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Computer Aided Sign Language: Advancing Gesture Recognition

A project at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak is focusing on developing hand gesture modeling techniques for sign language recognition and presentation. It aims for…

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Ensuring Compatibility in Computing: The SIMS Approach

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…

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