News tagged with software model

Futuristic 48-Core Intel Chip Could Reshape How Computers are Built (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or "single-chip cloud computer," that rethinks many of the approaches used in today's designs for laptops, ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (32) | comments 19

Supercomputing on a cell phone

Many engineering disciplines rely on supercomputers to simulate complicated physical phenomena — how cracks form in building materials, for instance, or fluids flow through irregular channels. Now, researchers ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Mastering multicore

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers have developed software that makes computer simulations of physical systems run much more efficiently on so-called multicore chips. In experiments involving chips with 24 separate ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 26, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Innovative 3-D designs can more than double solar power generated from a given area

(PhysOrg.com) -- Intensive research around the world has focused on improving the performance of solar photovoltaic cells and bringing down their cost. But very little attention has been paid to the best ways ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

See your photos in 3D on new website

(PhysOrg.com) -- You could turn your holiday snaps or favourite figurines into three-dimensional images with new free software developed by a researcher from Queensland University of Technology and the Australasian ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 7

Computer software sets new record for solving jigsaw puzzle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Completing jigsaw puzzles is a challenging and popular hobby, but now scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the U.S. and Tel Aviv University in Israel have for ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 24, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Microsoft shows off 3D and NUI technology (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Craig Mundie, the number two man over at Microsoft gave journalists a sneak peek at the newest bit of technology to come out of Microsoft Labs.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast weblog

OpenSim open-source software from Stanford accurately models human motion

There are 640 muscles in the human body, or maybe it is 639. Or maybe it is 850. Or 656. It all depends on whom you ask. In any case, it is a lot. Stanford bioengineer Scott Delp knows; he has programmed almost every one ...

Technology / Software

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

To sleep or not to sleep? Math software to help plan astronaut, shift worker schedules

(April 14, 2010) - Shifting work schedules can wreak havoc on a person's ability to get enough sleep, resulting in poor performance on the job.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

'Cyber footballers' cloned

A team of IT scientists from the Carlos III University in Madrid (UC3M) has managed to programme clones that imitate the actions of humans playing football on a computer, according to the online version of ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Developers of machines receive help from PC game technology

Siemens has used computer games technology in a development software that makes it quicker and easier to design new machines and to simulate their complex functions at an early stage.

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 11, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

New model shows how often to review material for flashcard programs

(PhysOrg.com) -- A challenge for students and teachers -- and today, for designers of educational software: How often should material be reviewed for best learning? Wait too long to review and it fades away; review too soon ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Adobe to launch new software suite for designers

(AP) -- Adobe is launching the latest version of its software package for designers and Web developers.

Technology / Software

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Virtual clay software developed in UB lab 'jumpstarts' design process

A 3-D virtual clay sculpting software package that came on the market this week was developed out of research conducted by University at Buffalo mechanical engineers who wanted to speed up computational design of complex, ...

Technology / Software

created Jan 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research advances voice security technology

Most people are familiar with security technology that scans a person's handprint or eye for identification purposes. Now, thanks in part to research from North Carolina State University, we are closer to practical technology ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 08, 2010 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast