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Virtual Reality Breathes Second Life Into Language Teaching
October 9, 2008 — An international team has developed a wireless virtual reality environment that can help promote language learning and let students practice. The researchers have demonstrated their Collaborative ... > full story -
Counterterrorism Programs That Collect And Mine Data Should Be Evaluated For Effectiveness, Report Recommends
October 8, 2008 — All US agencies with counterterrorism programs that collect or "mine" personal data -- such as phone, medical and travel records or Web sites visited -- should be required to systematically evaluate ... > full story -
Hack-a-vote: Students Learn How Vulnerable Electronic Voting Really Is
October 8, 2008 — This week undergraduate and graduate students in an advanced computer security course at Rice University in Houston are learning hands-on just how easy it is to wreak havoc on computer software used ... > full story -
Peer-to-peer Networking Takes Internet Out Of The Equation
October 6, 2008 — When people working on a project get together with their laptops and PDAs, they share information via the internet and a client server. But new software developed by European researchers allows ... > full story -
Bullying Of Teenagers Online Is Common, UCLA Psychologists Report
October 3, 2008 — Seventy-two percent of 12-17-year-olds reported receiving at least one online incident of bullying in the last year, and 90 percent report not telling their parents or any other adult about being ... > full story -
Step Right Up, Let The Computer Look At Your Face And Tell You Your Age
October 3, 2008 — Like an age-guesser at a carnival, new computer software can fairly accurately estimate a person's age. But, unlike age-guessers, who can view a person's body, the software works by examining only ... > full story -
Just In Time For School: Free Adeona Service Tracks Stolen Laptops
September 30, 2008 — Researchers have created the first free laptop theft-protection tool. The open-source software not only provides a virtual watchdog on your precious machine -- reporting the laptop's location when it ... > full story -
Zeroing In On Wi-Fi 'Dead Zones' To Inexpensively Fill Gaps In Wireless Networks
September 30, 2008 — Rooting out Wi-Fi "dead zones" in citywide wireless networks is an expensive proposition. The paucity of techniques for mapping areas that lack coverage is an impediment, both for pre-deployment and ... > full story -
Doctors Bone Up On Orthopaedics Through Wiki Project
September 29, 2008 — Web-based academic discussions could well be the way forward for cost-effective and tailored continuing education for health professionals. China's interactive Orthochina.org wiki project for ... > full story -
Workers More Prone To Lie In E-mail, And Feel Justified In Lying
September 28, 2008 — A pair of recent studies suggest that E-mail is the most deceptive form of communications in the workplace -- even more so than more traditional kinds of written communications, like pen-and-paper. ... > full story -
Fake Popup Warnings Fool Internet Users Even After Repeated Mistakes
September 23, 2008 — Most Internet users are unable to distinguish genuine popup warnings messages from false ones -- even after repeated mistakes. The fake ones were designed to trick users into downloading harmful ... > full story -
New Bluetooth System Orients Blind And Sighted Pedestrians
September 23, 2008 — A new Bluetooth system designed primarily for blind people places a layer of information technology over the real world to tell pedestrians about points of interest along their path as they pass ... > full story
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