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New surveillance camera system provides text feed

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a prototype surveillance camera and computer system to analyze the camera images and deliver a text feed describing ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Spiral, barred, elliptical and irregular: Computers automatically classify galaxy shapes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at University College London and the University of Cambridge have developed machine-learning codes modelled on the human brain that can be used to classify galaxies accurately and ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 02, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Scaling Goes eXtreme: Researchers reach 34K CPUs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, researchers have demonstrated the scalability of high-level excited-state coupled-cluster approaches and parallel-in-time algorithms, reaching a staggering 34,000 Core Processing ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 25, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Mapping Tumor Heterogeneity With Quantum Dots

(PhysOrg.com) -- One important discovery made about cancer over the past decade is that as a tumor develops, the molecular identity of its cells begins to diverge. As a result, any given tumor is likely to contain groups ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Engineer to create 3D puzzle to mend broken bones

(PhysOrg.com) -- An engineer at the University of the West of England is working with an orthopaedic surgeon from the Bristol Royal Infirmary and a specialized software company to enhance the management of ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Machines that learn better

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the last 20 years or so, many of the key advances in artificial-intelligence research have come courtesy of machine learning, in which computers learn how to make predictions by looking ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 18, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Freelance site using software to recruit and pay workers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Freelancer.com, a freelance site based in Sydney, Australia, has come up with the idea of using software to recruit and pay professionals to carry out work. The site enables software developers ...

Technology / Software

created May 12, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Algorithms provide a model of railway efficiency

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you've noticed that Dutch trains experience less delays or that waiting times are shorter on the Berlin underground you can thank a team of European researchers whose advanced algorithms ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 03, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 3

An artificial eye on your driving

With just a half second's notice, a driver can swerve to avoid a fatal accident or slam on the brakes to miss hitting a child running after a ball. But first, the driver must perceive the danger.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 20, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Random, but not by chance: A quantum random-number generator for encryption, security

Researchers have devised a new kind of random number generator, for encrypted communications and other uses, that is cryptographically secure, inherently private and - most importantly - certified random by ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Drug discovery, Netflix style?

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the last 10 years, the growth of the Internet has made ranking algorithms one of the hottest topics in computer science. The most famous ranking algorithm is Google's, which determines ...

Chemistry / Other

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop a robot that folds towels (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team from Berkeley's Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department has figured out how to get a robot to fold previously unseen towels of different sizes. Their approach solves a key problem in ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 05, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Traces of the past: Computer algorithm able to 'read' memories

Computer programs have been able to predict which of three short films a person is thinking about, just by looking at their brain activity. The research, conducted by scientists at the Wellcome Trust Centre ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 11, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research streamlines data processing to solve problems more efficiently

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new analytical method that opens the door to faster processing of large amounts of information, with applications in fields as diverse as the military, medical ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 10, 2010 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mathematical innovation turns blood draw into information gold mine

Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a software algorithm that could enable a common laboratory device to virtually separate a whole-blood sample into its different cell types and detect medically ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 07, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast