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New Software Enhances Colonoscopy Video Analysis for Better Exams

The researchers' software and related hardware, for example, could analyze videos of colonoscopy procedures — a tiny video camera at the tip of a flexible…

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ESA and JAXA satellites ‘talk’ to each other

With more than 50 environmental satellites orbiting in space, interoperability and cross-support are important topics among space agencies because…

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IT Industry Turns to Behavioral Experts for Enhanced Security

By learning how other unrelated sectors and domains successfully build trust and communicate risk it is hoped that the IT industry can encourage computer users…

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Oulu Pilots NFC Technology in SmartTouch Project for Elderly Care

The City's elderly care department, its catering service Oulun Ateria and logistics firm Oulun Logistiikka have been engaged in a pilot project involving…

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Open Source Software to Trace Data Origins Released by Researchers

Researchers at the University of Southampton’s School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS) are releasing open source software which will make it possible…

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Leicester’s Breakthrough Fingerprint Tech for Identifying the Dead

The University of Leicester, working with Leicestershire Constabulary and the Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Hamburg, recorded the first ever use…

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Improving Crisis Management with Distributed Information Systems

The MEDSI project, which ended in October 2005, resulted in the creation of a prototype crisis management system, which uses web services to automatically…

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Siberian Research: Unveiling Innovations from the Cold War Era

During or after World War Two, Russian factories and research centres moved en masse to Siberia. Many were involved in secret military research, and it was not…

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International Science Grid Launches Weekly Global News

At SC'06 last week, the worldwide science grid community launched International Science Grid This Week, a weekly publication reporting news and information…

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First Space Switchboard AmerHis: Successful Milestone Achieved

The document was signed by Giuseppe Viriglio, ESA’s Director of Telecommunications and Navigation Programmes, Maurici Lucena, Director General of CDTI, and…

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T-Online and ESA enable world's first web video chat from space

In a unique media tie-up, Germany's leading Internet service provider, T-Online, and ESA will conduct a live space video chat via the Internet on 28 November…

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Networks May Self-Organize Sooner Than Expected

“In 2003, anyone searching for the term ‘autonomic communication’ on Google would have found two references. As of November this year, there are almost twenty…

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BluScreen: Targeted Ads For Event Information Display

BluScreen, a 58 centimetre-wide screen displaying information about upcoming seminars, lectures and events has been installed in the reception area of the…

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Unlocking Insights: Storing Semantics in Digital 3D Shapes

Digital 3D shapes, whether modelling a human kidney or the door-handle on a concept car, are crucial to modern science and industrial practice. Currently in…

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Enhancing Multimedia: The Rise of Metadata Labeling

With affordable digital cameras, camcorders and camera phones becoming ubiquitous, consumers are increasingly finding themselves facing mountains of…

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Transforming Learning: A New Method for Teaching Algorithms

The level simulated by the machine is limited by the intelligence we can communicate by means of algorithms. An algorithm is a finite whole of instructions or…

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