In a word, mainly a headache. “Anyone who has a digital camera has the problem that they have more photos than they can possibly navigate,” says Steve Seitz,…
The computer system – Blue Gene – is the first of its kind in the Nordic region and will be installed in the Parallel Computer Centre at the Royal Institute of…
The three-year project, which starts next month, will collect data for lip-reading and use it to create machines that automatically convert videos of…
As enabling technologies such as Grid, Web Services, Semantic Web, and Peer-to-peer computing etc. are rapidly becoming mature, the Internet and the Web have…
During the past twelve months Genedata Screener has provided computational support throughout a complete screening cycle at Chugai. Beginning with assay…
“In the last Grand Challenge, it didn't really matter whether an obstacle was a rock or a bush, because either way you'd just drive around it,” says Sebastian…
At the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Symposium, Assistant Professor Hossein Hashemi of the USC Ming Hsieh department of electrical engineering will…
The creation of the one-stop shop for Irish Studies has been made possible as a result of a £620,000 grant from the UK’s Joint Information Services Committee…
As a result it will be possible not only to gain a thorough understanding of the processes that occur with microscopic water droplets in the zone of the fire,…
At last, neuroscience is having an impact on computer science and artificial intelligence (AI). For the first time, scientists in Tomaso Poggio's laboratory at…
Cyber crime is a fast growing industry, with 'phishing' emails alone rising 8000 times between 2005 and 2006.** In 2004 it cost European business £14.7 billion…
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a stereo picture application for 3D games. The new plug-in, registered as “StereoGames”, transforms the…
In work that could lead to completely new devices, systems and applications in computing and telecommunications, MIT researchers are bringing the long-sought…
A pilot test of the system, which uses radio frequency technology to tag and identify people and equipment, was so successful at the National Geospatial…
As a first step in this process, NIST is looking for comments on its recently published draft minimum acceptability requirements, submission requirements and…
Dr Guoying Zhao and Prof. Matti Pietikäinen from the Machine Vision Group of the University of Oulu have produced significant results in their research…