Georgia Tech researchers have created a machine-learning model that enables the sites, like WebMD, to “learn” dialect and other medical vernacular, thereby improving their performance for users who use such language themselves.
A How-To Primer from Rensselaer Polytechnic institute on "mashing-up" the treasure trove of government web data.
In a move that holds great significance for the semiconductor industry, a team of researchers in Arizona has created an alternative to conventional logic gates, demonstrated them in silicon, and dubbed them "chaogates," which are described in the journal CHAOS.
Chemists at the University of South Carolina have developed a camera with the ability to see the invisible and more.
A new supercomputer rating system will be released at Supercomputing Conference 2010 on Nov. 17 by an international team led by Sandia National Laboratories. The rating system, Graph500, tests supercomputer ability to analyze large, graph-based structures that link the huge number of data points present in biological, social and security problems. The intent is to influence computer makers to build computers with the architecture to deal with these increasingly complex problems.
Inside a non-descript, soundproof building on the south side of town, researchers from Missouri University of Science of Technology are building an audio battlefield, complete with the sounds of tanks, ordinance, gunfire, shouting and helicopters.
More accurate simulations could lead to “break-even” fusion in foreseeable future
Using a neutron beam as a probe, researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have begun to reveal the crystal structure of a compound essential to technologies ranging from sonar to computer memory.
NIST researchers have developed new certified reference materials for measuring amounts of organic acids in dietary supplements formulated with Vaccinium berries—cranberries, blueberries and bilberries. Manufacturers and researchers can use this new suite of standard reference materials (SRMs) as quality assurance tools.
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have released an updated version of a computer system testing tool that can cut costs by more efficiently finding flaws.
To keep soldiers in the battlefield healthy, the U.S. Army is exploring new ways to detect harmful bacteria in water.
Paul Montgomery, a graduate student at Pennsylvania State University, is helping design a better cook stove for people in developing countries.
Researchers in Japan have developed a new technique for monitoring the heart rate and other vital signs by using microwaves. The work, which could lead to the development of non-invasive, real-time stress sensing in a variety of environments, is described in a recent issue of the journal Review of Scientific Instruments.
Physicians, nurses and other health care providers can have some of the most up-to-date information on the growing diabetes epidemic at their fingertips, thanks to the release of a new Johns Hopkins guide to the disease now available on all smart phone devices.
Georgia Tech researchers are participating in a $100 million DARPA program to fit a high performance petaflop computer into a single rack just 24 inches wide and powered by a fraction of the electricity consumed by comparable current machines.
Mobile Health Expert and mHealth Summit Panelist, Dr. Richard Migliori of UnitedHealth Group, Available for Interview.
New research suggests that the addition of ultraviolet light to the brushing and suction of a vacuum cleaner can almost double the removal of potentially infectious microorganisms from a carpet’s surface when compared to vacuuming alone.
The highest-quality research data available suggests that long-term exposure to microwaves from cellular phones may lead to an increased risk of brain tumors, reports a paper in the November/December issue of Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography.
One of the serious threats to a user’s computer is a software program that might cause unwanted keystroke sequences to occur in order to hack someone’s identity. An authentication framework called “Telling Human and Bot Apart” has been developed to combat such attacks.
What makes semiconductor company Marvell, and its founder, Sehat Sutardja, tick?
University of Utah computer scientists developed software that quickly edits huge photographs. Until now, it took hours to process these “gigapixel” images. The new software needs only seconds to produce preview images useful to doctors, intelligence analysts, photographers, engineers and others.
The products are highlighted in short vignettes on Cotton Incorporated’s Cotton Today website.
Opting for simple elegance, researchers from Cornell University, University of Chicago and iRobot have bypassed traditional designs based around the human hand and fingers, and created a versatile gripper using everyday ground coffee and a latex party balloon. (PNAS, Oct. 25, 2010.)
This fall, graduate students in a nanomedicine course at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) are logging into an online virtual world known as Second Life, activating their computer-generated avatars and heading off to class. This is one of several Second Life projects underway at UTHealth.
The University of Chicago Computation Institute at Argonne National Laboratory announces the introduction of Beagle, a 150 teraflops, 18,000-core Cray XE6 supercomputer that will support computation, simulation and data analysis for the biomedical research community.
The signs in front of Doster Hall on the University of Alabama campus are not a misprint. It's part of one college's journey into Quick Response Codes.
Researchers at Shanxi University in China have announced progress in understanding the single-molecule magnet, which combines the classical macroscale properties of a magnet with the quantum properties of a nanoscale entity -- as described in the Journal of Applied Physics.
Chinese researchers, reporting in the Journal of Applied Physics, have described a new breakthrough in understanding the way electrons travel around quantum dots. This might lead to promising new fabrication methods of novel quantum devices.
A group of researchers at Korea's Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology has demonstrated an optimal combination of materials and processing for a resistive memory circuit design -- described in the journal Applied Physics Letters.
Understanding conditions that cause oscillators to fall in or out of synchronization is necessary to achieve the optimal functioning of oscillator networks that underlie many technologies. The transition from synchronization to desynchronization is the subject of a new investigation by a team of Japanese scientists that appears in the journal CHAOS.
Researchers from NIST and the German national metrology institute have used NIST's miniature atom-based magnetic sensor to successfully track a human heartbeat, confirming the device's potential for biomedical applications.
Scientists at JILA have demonstrated an improved laser-based "molecular fingerprinting" technique that picks out traces of key molecules from a billion other particles in a gas in just 30 seconds or less.
Buy something online, enter your credit card number and mailing address. Simple. Then you come to the box with the captcha. You dutifully copy down the warped, watery-looking letters. Incorrect. Another captcha appears. You try again. Also incorrect.
Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) are poised to show the U.S. Army an advanced approach to enabling autonomous collaboration among dissimilar robotic vehicles.
A Georgia Tech study has shown that playing health-related video games on a mobile device can help adults learn to live more healthfully by making smart diet choices. The finding is published in the paper, “Let’s Play! Mobile Health Games for Adults,” recently presented at Ubicomp 2010 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
New technologies and surgical techniques promise to “personalize” hip and knee replacement, according to research to be presented at an educational program at Hospital for Special Surgery October 15 and 16.
Researchers have developed a new tool that eliminates drive-by download threats. BLADE is browser-independent and when tested, it blocked all drive-by malware installation attempts from more than 1,900 malicious websites, produced no false positives and required minimal resources from the computer.
Chemists at Vanderbilt University have created a new class of liquid crystals with unique electrical properties that could improve the performance of digital displays used on everything from digital watches to flat panel televisions.
Phishing scams are making the leap from email to the world’s voice systems, and a team of researchers in the Georgia Tech College of Computing has found a way to tag fraudulent calls with a digital “fingerprint” that will help separate legitimate calls from phone scams.
Supercomputer simulations at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping scientists unravel how nucleic acids could have contributed to the origins of life.
The National Lighting Product Information Program (NLPIP) released its latest Specifier Report, designed to provide objective performance information on existing street lighting technologies -- including light-emitting diode (LED), induction, and high pressure sodium (HPS) streetlights. This report comes at a critical time when many municipalities, some with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, are in the process of replacing HPS streetlights with LED and induction models.
An unusual new industrial testing product from NIST -- a cigarette deliberately designed to burn stronger than others -- will be used by manufacturers of home furnishings to test the fire resistance of their products.
Scientists have long known that time passes faster at higher elevations, an effect of relativity that has been measured by comparing clocks on the Earth's surface and a high-flying rocket. Now, physicists at NIST have measured this effect at a more down-to-earth scale of about 1 foot, demonstrating for instance that you age faster when you stand a couple of steps higher on a staircase.
Applied scientists at the University of Arkansas as Little Rock are developing a "smart" cane to give the blind a better tool to navigate their environments.
Computers might one day recycle part of their own waste heat, using a material being studied by researchers at Ohio State University.
If drivers yak on cell phones and don’t hear instructions to turn left or right, they still can get directions from devices that are mounted on the steering wheel and pull the driver’s fingertips left or right, a University of Utah study found.
A team of University of Iowa researchers has developed a new tool that detects potential vandalism on Wikipedia and can help improve the accuracy of the online encyclopedia's entries.
“Just like people buy a car, I envision that in five to 10 years, people will buy an assistive robot that will be cheaper or about the same cost as a car."
A paternity test for source code detects illegally copied software.
Although the range of frequencies available for mobile broadband is limited, freeing more of these airwaves is tricky--but possible.
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