News tagged with signal processing

Human-computer music performances use system that links music and musical gestures (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Every musical sound comes from a specific way that an instrument is played. With modern technology such as sensors, signal processing, and sometimes machine learning algorithms, researchers ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 09, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Physicists demonstrate 100-fold speed increase in optical quantum memory

(PhysOrg.com) -- As with today's computers, future quantum computers will require more than just quantum information processing; they will also require methods to store and retrieve the quantum information. ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 01, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (31) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

NVIDIA dresses up CUDA parallel computing platform

(PhysOrg.com) -- This week’s NVIDIA announcement of a dressed up version of its CUDA parallel computing platform is targeted as a good news message for engineers, biologists, chemists, physicists, geophysicists, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 28, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (17) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

New device could bring optical information processing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have created a new type of optical device small enough to fit millions on a computer chip that could lead to faster, more powerful information processing and supercomputers.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Microfabrication breakthrough could set piezoelectric material applications in motion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Integrating a complex, single-crystal material with "giant" piezoelectric properties onto silicon, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and physicists can fabricate low-voltage, near-nanoscale ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Simple genetic circuit forms stripes: Synthetic biology helps scientists sort out pattern formation

Many living things have stripes, but the developmental processes that create these and other patterns are complex and difficult to untangle. Now a team of scientists has designed a simple genetic circuit that creates a striped ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Evolutionary bestseller in image processing

The eye is not just a lens that takes pictures and converts them into electrical signals. As with all vertebrates, nerve cells in the human eye separate an image into different image channels once it has been ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cat brain: A step toward the electronic equivalent

A cat can recognize a face faster and more efficiently than a supercomputer. That's one reason a feline brain is the model for a biologically-inspired computer project involving the University of Michigan.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Bell Labs breaks optical transmission record, 100 Petabit per second kilometer barrier

Alcatel-Lucent today announced that scientists in Bell Labs, the company’s research arm, have set a new optical transmission record of more than 100 Petabits per second.kilometer (equivalent to 100 million Gigabits per second.kilometer). ...

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (32) | comments 0

New 167-processor chip is super-fast, ultra energy-efficient

A new, extremely energy-efficient processor chip that provides breakthrough speeds for a variety of computing tasks has been designed by a group at the University of California, Davis. The chip, dubbed AsAP, is ultra-small, ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 4

Researchers devise new means for creating elastic conductors

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new method for creating elastic conductors made of carbon nanotubes, which will contribute to large-scale production of the material for use ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

High-speed CMOS sensors provide better images

Conventional CMOS image sensors are not suitable for low-light applications such as fluorescence, since large pixels arranged in a matrix do not support high readout speeds. A new optoelectronic component ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists elevate little-studied cellular mechanism to potential drug target

For years, science has generally considered the phosphorylation of proteins -- the insertion of a phosphorous group into a protein that turns it on or off -- as perhaps the factor regulating a range of cellular processes ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers uncover new role for mitochondria during RNA processing

Michael Frohman, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Pharmacological Sciences at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, and colleagues, have discovered a new role for mitochondria during ribonucleic acid (RNA) processing. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find new light-sensing mechanism in neurons

A UC Irvine research team led by Todd C. Holmes has discovered a second form of phototransduction light sensing in cells that is derived from vitamin B2. This discovery may reveal new information about cellular ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast