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THESEUS - tool for internet services

(PhysOrg.com) -- The improved use and exploitation of digital knowledge - that is the aim of the THESEUS Project. In the future semantic technologies will be able to recognise the meaning of information content. Fraunhofer ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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How childhood family income affects adulthood

A study from the University of Otago’s long-running Christchurch Health and Development Study (CHDS) throws new light on a current issue; links between family income and other outcomes later in life such as health and ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In a new book, an MIT urban planner rethinks the mundane, ubiquitous parking lot

Quick: Name a great parking lot.

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Literal Lucy to the rescue: A new way to distinguish between literal meaning and contextual meaning

A new linguistic study of how individuals interpret various types of utterances sheds more light on how literal and contextual meaning are distinguished. The study, "A novel empirical paradigm for distinguishing between What ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Applying enhanced virtuality to language learning

Merging the real world with its mirror in a virtual world so that students can be immersed in a hybrid learning environment that permits improved language teaching: that is the objective of scientists at the ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Consumers in the middle of battle over Internet privacy

Google and Facebook might have finally gotten the average consumer riled up about privacy.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Social robotics: Beyond the uncanny valley

(PhysOrg.com) -- From science fiction and academia through assembly lines and telemedicine, robots have become both conceptually and physically ubiquitous. Technologically, robotics technology has advanced ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature

Software to prevent abuse at the click of a mouse

Teaming up with investigators from the State Office of Criminal Investigation in Berlin, Fraunhofer researchers have come up with an automated assistance system for image and video evaluation that can detect ...

Technology / Software

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Preventing school bullying behavior

As sure as school bells begin to ring after Labor Day, so too do news stories appear of students in elementary, middle, and high school being bullied. This fall, some school districts have a new state “cyberbullying” ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Home-reared African Grey parrots vary 'speech,' nonword sounds, in a deliberate and socially relevant way

New research by scientists at the University of Georgia has shown, for the first time, that an African Grey parrot can develop a deeper understanding of the sounds—which we hear as words—than researchers ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Pittsburgh symposium answers: What is Watson?

(AP) -- Six university students attempted to match wits with IBM's "Jeopardy!"-playing computer Wednesday and lost badly in a mock game show. But the competition was hardly the point of a daylong symposium ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2


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