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Toward a Useful Quantum Computer: Researchers Design and Test Microfabricated Planar Ion Traps
May 26, 2010 — Researchers are designing, fabricating and testing planar ion traps that can be more readily combined into large, interconnected trap arrays. In the future, these arrays may be used to create a ... > full story -
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Gesture-Based Computing on the Cheap: Multicolored Gloves Making Minority Report-Style Interfaces More Accessible
May 21, 2010 — Ever since Steven Spielberg's 2002 sci-fi movie Minority Report, in which a black-clad Tom Cruise stands in front of a transparent screen manipulating a host of video images simply by waving his ... > full story -
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Software Tool Helps Tap Into the Power of Graphics Processing
May 17, 2010 — Today's computers rely on powerful graphics processing units (GPUs) to create the spectacular graphics in video games. In fact, these GPUs are now more powerful than the traditional central ... > full story -
3D Skin Cancer Diagnosis
May 14, 2010 — Scientists have developed a 3D test for malignant melanoma that can identify problems not easily spotted in a standard two-dimensional view of the pattern on the ... > full story -
Game Theoretic Machine Learning Methods Can Help Explain Long Periods of Conflict
May 13, 2010 — Researchers have developed new machine learning methods to study conflict. The new method, which they call Inductive Game Theory, has been applied to a time series of fights gathered from detailed ... > full story -
Spiders at the Nanoscale: Molecules That Behave Like Robots
May 12, 2010 — A team of scientists has programmed an autonomous molecular "robot" made out of DNA to start, move, turn, and stop while following a DNA track. The development could ultimately lead to molecular ... > full story -
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Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Object Recognition Systems That Break Images Into Ever Smaller Parts Should Be Much More Efficient
May 11, 2010 — Object recognition is one of the core topics in computer vision research: After all, a computer that can see isn't much use if it has no idea what it's looking at. Researchers have developed new ... > full story -
Here Comes the 3-D Camera: Revolutionary Prototype Films World in Three Dimensions
May 10, 2010 — It's no pun: we are truly entering a new dimension in technology with a 3-D digital camera developed by researchers in Italy. The revolutionary prototype for filming the world in three dimensions ... > full story -
If Only a Robot Could Be More Like a Cockroach: Insect's Brain Fires out Commands to Walk and Run, Scientists Find
May 6, 2010 — Studies have indicated that insects rely on their brains to respond to what they feel and see. But for the first time, researchers have shown a direct link between neurons at the center of an insect ... > full story -
Researchers Create Software for Robot to Improve Rescue Missions
May 6, 2010 — In disaster emergencies, such as the recent West Virginia mine explosion or the earthquake in Haiti, it is often unsafe for responders to enter the scene, prolonging the rescue of potential ... > full story
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