Researchers at the EU-funded DECOS project say they have created tools to allow such embedded systems to operate more smoothly together, a benefit to industry…
This development will benefit people with asthma, whose airways (breathing passages) are sensitive to pollen, dust, animal fur and viruses which cause them to…
The phenomenon of “fast and slow” light arises from the dispersion of electromagnetic waves when they interact with, and travel through, a physical medium such…
“This kind of transistor should be able to reduce energy consumption in mobile phones and computers, for example, so they wouldn’t have to be recharged so…
Tesaurvai can extract, annotate and organize specialized terms taken from a collection of digitalized texts. Tesaurvai complies with the ISO thesaurus building…
Each year surgeons across Europe perform a staggering 900,000 hip, knee and spinal implant operations. Implant surgery is one of the most remarkable advances…
An optimisation problem describes a situation in which an optimal solution is sought from among all possible solutions. Mathematicians study an optimisation…
“The problem is how to build a large-scale data storage system to last 50 to 100 years,” said Ethan Miller, associate professor of computer science in the…
Mobile media has potential to ‘capture the everyday’ which can be used to enhance museum knowledge.The Everyday Museum is the title of the Doctoral Inaugural…
The team behind the iCub robot believes it, like children, will learn best from its own experiences.The technologies developed on the iCub platform – such as…
But there is another radically different approach available that European researchers have applied to the study of robotics and AI. The MACS project does not…
By cutting the computing cost for creating highly realistic imagery from scratch, the UCSD computer scientists are helping to pull cutting edge graphics…
Known as SEMAINE, the project will build a Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL) system, which will perceive a human user’s facial expression, gaze, and voice…
The risk of illegal accessing of information, for example in money transactions, is necessitating more and more advanced cryptographic techniques.When you send…
In 1750, Denis Diderot convinced his publisher to support a vast enterprise, the publication of the Encyclopédie gathering all knowledge into one location.Dozens of writers worked on thousands of articles for more than 15 years to produce the first summary of all human knowledge and, despite the labour and pains of its birth, its entire contents would barely fill one volume of a contemporary encyclopaedia….
University of Utah engineers took an early step toward building superfast computers that run on far-infrared light instead of electricity: They made the…
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