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New Anti-Phishing Tool by Carnegie Mellon CyLab Researchers

Carnegie Mellon University CyLab researchers have developed a new anti-phishing tool to protect users from online transactions at fraudulent Web sites. A…

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MIT’s Real-Time Rome Project Unveiled at Venice Biennale

The MIT project utilizes data gathered, in real time and at an unprecedented scale, from cell phones and other wireless technologies, to better understand the…

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UU Science Project Aims to Reduce Animal Testing

The university’s Systems Biology Research Group is partnering eight other universities, institutes and companies in a €2.8 million European Commission…

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New Innovation Enhances Life in Animated Characters

The development, lead by Bournemouth researcher Prof Jian Zhang and his colleague Dr Xiaosong Yang, allows animators to ‘flesh out’ their characters from the…

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Why can we see what our cameras can't?

The bane of all wedding videos; that picture of the bride in front of the window where her face is so dark that you can't see the features may soon be a thing…

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3D Design Platform Bridges Multi-User Applications Seamlessly

This IST-funded project has created the first open internet-based platform for multi-user, distributed 3D graphics design, one that allows both proprietary and…

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New Computer Model Enhances Weather Forecast Accuracy

The high-resolution Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) is the first model to serve as both the backbone of the nation's public weather forecasts and…

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EU Research Fuels Seismic Shift in Web Services Innovation

Web services provide a standard means of interlinking two or more discrete software applications, each of which could be hosted on quite different platforms…

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Matching E-Learning Products to Educational Needs: TELCERT Insights

The IST-funded TELCERT project has developed software tools and other resources to help authors, suppliers and standards organisations improve the…

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New Lightweight Grid Ensures Complete Security for Users

A computational grid essentially provides a mechanism whereby a collection of computers with processing capability is made available to users with…

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Enhancing Smartcard Security Against Code-Crackers

Some two million new smartcards are rolled out every month, so the encrypted personal data that people store on these cards must be safe. Yet the security…

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Joke-making software helps non-speaking children to beat language barriers "I want to tell you a joke. Are you ready?&quot

Research shows that computerised speech aids, although very helpful, can restrict the development of a child's language skills, as his or her speech tends to…

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Introducing CERTISERV: A New Era for E-Government Services

Developed by ‘bremen online services’ (bos) and showcased at recent trials in Germany, Italy and the UK, the CERTISERV platform is designed to handle a wide…

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How Jewish Heritage Will Transform Web Searching

At the core of the €2.5m MOSAICA project is a new type of search engine that understands semantics and the meaning of whole phrases, rather than just looking…

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CERN Adopts New Document System from UGR Researcher

By way of example: every week, more than one thousand new papers reach the database of the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN in French), in…

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Dare to Be Digital Awards 2006: Winners Announced

Dare to be Digital, hailed as the best ‘proving ground for the interactive entertainment sector’, held its 2006 Awards Ceremony at the University of Abertay…

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