
Milling and Drilling in Cyberspace
Machinists, numerical
control programmers or
mechatronics engineers --
trainees in engineering jobs
often have to master complex
equipment. In the future,
trainees will practice and
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A Virtual Physician's Conference
Telemedicine facilitates
communication between family
physicians, hospitals and
nursing services -- yet
current solutions lack
flexibility and are
consequently very expensive.
... > full story

Simulated Car Crashes Involving Pregnant Women
Although states are not
required to report fetal
deaths in accident data,
between 300 and 1,000 unborn
babies die in car accidents
each year. This accident
... > full story

Building Real Security With Virtual Worlds
Advances in computerized
modeling and prediction of
group behavior, together
with improvements in video
game graphics, are making
possible virtual worlds in
which defense analysts can
... > full story
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Understanding Interaction in Virtual Worlds
December 23, 2009 Millions are immersed in virtual worlds and multiplayer online games. Now researchers are examining online behavior in virtual gaming ... > full story -
'Rational Drug Design' Identifies Fragments of FDA-Approved Drugs Relevant to Emerging Viruses
December 8, 2009 A massive, data-crunching computer search program that matches fragments of potential drug molecules to the known shapes of viral surface proteins has identified several FDA-approved drugs that could ... > full story -
Crime Scene Measurements Can Be Taken from a Single Image
December 2, 2009 Researchers in Spain have developed a procedure to enable forensic police to extract metric data from crime scenes using just a single photograph. Their proposal makes it possible to reconstruct a ... > full story -
Virtual Reality Offers Solution to Driving Phobias
November 30, 2009 Nervous drivers are being helped to overcome their road phobias by donning Cyclops-style goggles that transport them to a three-dimensional virtual world. Researchers have recruited volunteers with a ... > full story -
3-D Software Gives Doctors, Students a View Inside the Body
November 27, 2009 Researchers have developed technology that turns flat medical scans into vibrant 3-D images that can be shifted, adjusted, zoomed and replayed at ... > full story -
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Virtual Streams Created to Help Restore Real Ones
November 26, 2009 Researchers have developed a unique new computer model called the Virtual StreamLab, designed to help restore real streams to a healthier state. The Virtual StreamLab demonstrates the physics of ... > full story -
Trust Linux: Support Available
November 25, 2009 Computer scientists have implemented support for ‘trusted computing’ in a commercially available version of the open source operating system Linux, breaking new ground in the global drive ... > full story -
Building the Smart Home Wirelessly
November 19, 2009 Like the paperless office, the smart home has been a long time coming, but a new article suggests that radio tags coupled with mobile communications devices could soon provide seamless multimedia ... > full story -
Invisibility Visualized: New Software for Rendering Cloaked Objects
November 13, 2009 Scientists and curiosity seekers who want to know what a partially or completely cloaked object would look like in real life can now get their wish -- virtually. Scientists have created a new ... > full story -
Should eBay Sellers Be Trusted?
November 13, 2009 A new study suggests that unscrupulous vendors on the online marketplace eBay can easily buy a good reputation and so circumvent recent efforts by the company to prevent feedback ... > full story
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