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Turning Conventional Video Coding Wisdom On Its Head
May 22, 2008 — A major drawback of the latest generation video products and applications has been the complex requirements for coding and decoding signals. An alternative put forward by European researchers turns ... > full story -
Tool Helps Internet Master Top-level Domains
May 20, 2008 — At the request of a worldwide Internet organization, a computer scientist at NIST developed an algorithm that may guide applicants in proposing new "top-level domains." The NIST algorithm checks ... > full story -
Broadband Access Opens Doors To Networking, Economic Development For Rural Areas
May 20, 2008 — Proactive policies are needed to facilitate broadband Internet access and adoption in rural areas so that rural hospitals, schools and businesses can drive social and economic development and better ... > full story -
New Insights Into The Dynamics Of The Brain's Cortex
May 15, 2008 — Using mathematics and a computer model of brain activity, scientists have shown a direct link between activity in the cortex and the microscopic structure of this neuronal network. Building on the ... > full story -
Designing Bug Perception Into Robots
May 13, 2008 — Insects have provided the inspiration for a team of European researchers seeking to improve the functionality of robots and robotic tools. The research furthers the development of more intelligent ... > full story -
There's A Hole In My -- And In The Data As Well!
May 6, 2008 — Like the popular children's song "There's a Hole in My Bucket," in which Liza and Henry try to patch a leaking pail, researchers with the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC-San Diego are plugging a ... > full story -
New Software Allows ISPs And P2P Users To Get Along Without Getting Too Cozy
May 5, 2008 — Engineeers have discovered a way for peer-to-peer (P2P) users to efficiently identify nearby P2P clients in order to reduce costly cross-network traffic without sacrificing performance for the ... > full story -
Scientists Develop Technique For Extracting Hierarchical Structure Of Networks
May 3, 2008 — Researchers show that many real-world networks can be understood as a hierarchy of modules, where nodes cluster together to form modules, which themselves cluster into larger modules -- arrangements ... > full story -
Users Of Yahoo Answers Seek Advice, Opinion, Expertise
April 25, 2008 — One of the first large-scale analyses of how people share knowledge on Yahoo Answers has found that participants use the site to exchange advice and opinions, in addition to technical expertise. In ... > full story -
'What Can I, Robot, Do With That?'
April 22, 2008 — A new approach to robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) could lead to a revolution in the field by shifting the focus from what a thing is to how it can be used. Identifying what a robot is ... > full story -
Airport Security From Chaos
April 21, 2008 — There's safety in numbers -- especially when those numbers are random. That's the lesson learned from new research that is already helping to beef up security at LAX airport in Los Angeles. Soon it ... > full story -
A Better Fog And Smoke Machine From Computer Scientists
April 20, 2008 — Computer scientists have created a fog and smoke machine for computer graphics that cuts the computational cost of making realistic smoky and foggy 3-D images, such as beams of light from a ... > full story
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