News tagged with computer science
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Study: Surge in obesity correlates with increased automobile usage
Junk food, video games and a lack of exercise all have received their fair share of blame for the spiraling epidemic of obesity in the U.S. But according to a University of Illinois researcher, public health ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 11, 2011 |
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U.S. team creates diamond aerogel in lab by emulating Mother Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers working out of Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, have devised a process whereby an ordinary carbon aerogel is used as a base to create a new type ...
May 10, 2011 |
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Kindle so-so for students, UW study concludes
Researchers at the University of Washington are about to present a report on a pilot project that had computer science students use a Kindle DX for their course reading.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 09, 2011 |
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Robot engages novice computer scientists (w/ video)
Learning how to program a computer to display the words "Hello World" once may have excited students, but that hoary chestnut of a lesson doesn't cut it in a world of videogames, smartphones and Twitter. One ...
May 05, 2011 |
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New software to support interest in extreme science
(PhysOrg.com) -- Today the University of Chicago's Flash Center for Computational Science will release a major new version of supercomputer code, called FLASH 4-alpha. Based on previous software for simulating ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 29, 2011 |
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Google grew from Stanford engineering, and the relationship continues to provide answers to tough problems
Visitors to the new Huang Engineering Center, home of the Stanford School of Engineering, may see a whimsical structure built of brightly colored Lego blocks, translucent plastic and packaging tape. Tucked ...
Apr 29, 2011 |
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Understanding how glasses 'relax' provides some relief for manufacturers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Wesleyan University have used computer simulations to gain basic insights into a fundamental problem in material science ...
Apr 27, 2011 |
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Predicting learning using brain analysis
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists has developed a way to predict how much a person can learn, based on studies at UC Santa Barbara's Brain Imaging Center.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 19, 2011 |
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Researchers create privacy mode to help secure Android smartphones
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed software that helps Android smartphone users prevent their personal information from being stolen by hackers.
Apr 13, 2011 |
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Programming regret for Google: Scientists give computers 'hindsight' to anticipate the future
Human beings are well aware that hindsight is 20/20 -- and the product of this awareness is often what we call "regret." Could this hindsight be programmed into a computer to more accurately predict the future? Tel Aviv University ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 13, 2011 |
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Rainbow-trapping scientist now strives to slow light waves even further
An electrical engineer at the University at Buffalo, who previously demonstrated experimentally the "rainbow trapping effect" -- a phenomenon that could boost optical data storage and communications -- is ...
Apr 12, 2011 |
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Computer vision tools to aid medical research
(PhysOrg.com) -- Boris Babenko believes there are huge opportunities for integrating computer science, and in particular computer vision, into health care and medical research, making life easier for researchers, ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 07, 2011 |
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More-efficient computation: Finding local solutions to overwhelmingly complex problems
At a time when the Internet puts an untold amount of information at anyone’s fingertips, and automated scientific experiments churn out data faster than researchers can keep up with it, and communications ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 31, 2011 |
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Scientists reach beyond the clouds with mobile phone app to explore the outer atmosphere
Engineering scientists at the University of Southampton have reached above the clouds in a first-of-its-kind experiment to develop new technologies that probe the stratosphere using an unmanned vehicle.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2011 |
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Georgia Tech to pursue 'transparent Internet'
What if Internet users could click a button and determine whether their service was being artificially slowed down? Or if the government were censoring their content? In the name of Internet transparency, a team of Georgia ...
Mar 22, 2011 |
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