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Tartalo: The Robot Bringing Innovation to Your Doorstep

We are accustomed to seeing robots programmed to carry out a concrete task such as the robotic arms well known in industry. What is surprising is to see a…

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Chill out, your computer knows what’s best for you

The researchers are from companies and organisations around Europe who are harvesting the work done by CHIL, an ambitious EU-funded project that officially…

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New Electron Holography Technique Boosts Computer Speed

Until now, this strain remained difficult to observe. Now, thanks to a new electron holography technique (1) invented by researchers at the Centre…

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JUGENE Supercomputer Retains Title as Europe’s Fastest System

In the TOP500 list of the world's fastest computers published today, Jülich's JUGENE computer was able to defend its position as Europe's fastest computer….

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European Grid Initiative at ISC’08: Supercomputers and Grids – The Future European Ecosystem

The EGI_DS Project Director Dieter Kranzlmüller states that “Science and research today requires that the best computing tools and services are available at…

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Harmonised Data Exchange: SEMIC.EU Boosts EU Cooperation

SEMIC.EU offers a platform for European cooperation. The Centre enables users to exchange solutions for pan-European data interchange in eGovernment. This way,…

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New Gesture Interface Device by Ben-Gurion University

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel have developed a new hand gesture recognition system, tested at a Washington, D.C. hospital,…

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It's Email . . . but at a Snail's Pace

BU Research Fellows Vicky Isley and Paul Smith are using live snails as a means of sending emails as part of the ‘RealSnailMail’ (RSM) project. Over the coming…

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Roadrunner Supercomputer Sets New Data-Processing Records

Less than a week after Los Alamos National Laboratory's Roadrunner supercomputer began operating at world-record petaflop/s data-processing speeds, Los Alamos…

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'Saucy' Software Update Finds Symmetries Dramatically Faster

Finding symmetries is a way to highlight shortcuts to answers that, for example, verify the safety of train schedules, identify bugs in software and hardware…

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‘Chatter Box’ computer will unravel the science of language

Psychologists at The University of Manchester have teamed up with colleagues in the School of Computer Science to develop the speech and language model using a…

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Between Grid and Cloud Computing – Successful Grid Sessions for Business in Barcelona for BEinGRID

More than 500 participants attended this major Grid event, ranging from Grid experts to representatives from SMEs and large companies interested in learning…

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World’s First Demonstration Experiment on Using Brainwaves to Chat and Stroll Through Second Life

On 7th June 2008, Keio University succeeded in the World’s First Demonstration Experiment with the Help of a Disabled Person To Use Brainwave to Chat and…

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Vision Sensors Enhance Visitor Tracking at Euro 2008

Keeping track of visitors at major sporting events is never easy but at this month’s Euro 2008 championship people in the subways will be counted and the…

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Whole Networks: Unifying Research and Education Innovations

Nearly all countries have research and education networks, which are separate from commercial telecommunications networks. But most are based on a mishmash of…

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Machine translation for the most part targets Internet and technical texts

At the invitation of the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Mike Dillinger has been giving a course on paraphrasing and text mining at the School of…

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