News tagged with data compression

Singapore scientists design novel genome sequencing data compression method

Hitachi and Data Storage Institute (DSI), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) are devising a data compression technique to tackle the increasing volume of genome sequencing data ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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Physicists to develop new way of electronic computing

The University of California, Riverside has received a $1.85 million grant to develop a new way of computing that is beyond the scope of conventional silicon electronics.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Minimizing communication between cores

In the mid-1990s, Matteo Frigo, a graduate student in the research group of computer-science professor Charles Leiserson (whose work was profiled in the previous installment in this series), developed a parallel version of a fast Fou ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Linking geometric problems to physics could open door to new solutions

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Princeton scientist with an interdisciplinary bent has taken two well-known problems in mathematics and reformulated them as a physics question, offering new tools to solve challenges relevant to a host ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Nov 16, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New technology reduces storage needs and costs for genomic data

A new computer data compression technique called Genomic SQueeZ (G-SQZ), developed by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), will allow genetic researchers and others to store, analyze and share massive volumes ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Court rules against inventors in patent case

(AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday refused to weigh in on whether software, online-shopping techniques and medical diagnostic tests can be patented, saying only that inventors' request for protection of a method of hedging ...

Technology / Business

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Putting the squeeze on data

(PhysOrg.com) -- Data compression is one of the fundamental research areas in computer science, letting information systems do more with less. It’s the reason the iPod nano can hold thousands of songs instead ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Seeing things: Researchers teach computers to recognize objects

(PhysOrg.com) -- If computers could recognize objects, they could automatically search through hours of video footage for a particular two-minute scene. A tourist strolling down a street in a strange city ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Program does impressive file size reductions

We intuitively understand the value of being able to make things smaller without sacrificing performance. The endeavor produces smaller speakers with bigger sound and a host of portable electronic devices such as digital ...

Technology / Software

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 1.6 / 5 (14) | comments 3