What if regular people had info about how their Internet connections were performing at their fingertips? A new study on Microsoft Research's Home Watcher system suggests that regular people, if given the right tools, can regulate their broadband connections.
Is that lunchbox under the park bench a bomb, or someone's leftovers? The Optical Dynamic Detection (ODD) solution provides a new and better way to detect explosives.
Two University of Illinois at Chicago computer scientists have won a $1.15 million National Science Foundation grant to develop a new kind of computer operating system that ratchets up security measures in ways not thought necessary when today's major OS such as Windows and Mac were developed.
When students enter college, they either have it or they don't. Which side of the digital divide they fall on can shape their identities and what route they take into careers. Research looked at technology knowledge of 500 undergraduate students and how skills they brought from high school impacted early college work.
Physicists at NIST have built and tested a device for trapping ions that potentially could process dozens at once with the most versatile control of any trap demonstrated to date, an advance towards the ultimate goal of building a practical quantum computer.
A multidisciplinary research team at NIST has found that an organic semiconductor may be a viable candidate for creating large-area electronics, such as solar cells and displays that can be sprayed onto a surface as easily as paint.
A new system makes it possible to add custom features to Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, Apple iTunes or any other program. Custom computing would particularly benefit people with disabilities.
Hiroshi Ishiguro is building androids to understand humans--starting with himself.
Virginia Lorenz, who recently joined the University of Delaware faculty as an assistant professor of physics and astronomy, is working on one of the hottest areas in physics -- quantum memories. These devices store information in a flash of light and may serve as the basis of future communications networks.
The Internet has had a profound effect on clinical practice by providing both physicians and patients with a wealth of information. But with those rewards come risks of incorrect or poorly interpreted information that require that a doctor “never be optional.”
A team of cardiologists, materials scientists, and bioengineers have created and tested a new type of implantable device for measuring the heart’s electrical output that they say is a vast improvement over current devices. The new device represents the first use of flexible silicon technology for a medical application. The technology may herald the next generation of active, flexible, implantable devices for applications in cardiology and neurology.
Sharon C. Ballard, President/CEO of EVI announced today that Baylor University has become a licensee for EVI’s Supercoach® Entrepreneurial Training curricula exclusive for Central Texas. Baylor University is ranked #4 in the Top 25 best undergraduate universities by Entrepreneur magazine in 2010.
Cyber-criminals are using fake e-mails to target Facebook users and deliver computer viruses that were being detected only by one-third of the 42 most common anti-virus products as of noon Thursday, March 18, says a leading cyber-crime researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
Experts on digital preservation are gathering at a workshop at NIST in Gaithersburg, Md., from March 29 to 31 to develop a standards roadmap for long-term preservation of the vast and growing amount of digital data.
PartTec, an Indiana-based manufacturer of radiation detection equipment, has signed an agreement to manufacture and market an advanced neutron detector system developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
A group of computer scientists have found a way to tame multiprocessor computers, which behave in wildly unpredictable ways even as they become widespread in the industry.
As schools gear up for statewide math testing this spring, some students will help to fine-tune a computer-based, emotionally perceptive math tutoring software that can help girls improve their standardized test scores. It has improved scores by 10 percent and helps girls stay interested in science.
The Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) will host two debates on controversial topics at the AUTM 2010 Annual Meeting, Building a Stronger Community, March 18 – 20, in New Orleans, LA.
The research group of Juan Hinestroza, assistant professor of Fiber Science at Cornell University, in collaboration with researchers at Italian universities has developed cotton threads that can conduct electric current like metal wire, yet remain light and comfortable enough to give a whole new meaning to multi-functional garments. This technology works so well that simple knots in this specially treated thread can complete a circuit.
Anak Agung Julius, assistant professor of electrical, computer, and systems engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has won a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Julius will use the five-year, $536,785 award to further his research into computational analysis of hybrid systems.
The more heterogeneous the community of an online chat channel, the more chances the channel has to survive over time. This has been concluded in a new joint study carried out by researchers of the University of Haifa and the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
University of Utah engineers developed a computer-controlled, motorized hand and arm support that will let doctors, artists and others precisely control scalpels, brushes and tools over a wider area than otherwise possible, and with less fatigue.
The most common digital security technique used to protect both media copyright and Internet communications has a major weakness, University of Michigan computer scientists have discovered.
High School Students design an assistive technology writing device to help a person with a disability in the workplace.
The most common digital security technique used to protect both media copyright and Internet communications has a major weakness, University of Michigan computer scientists have discovered.
Students at Virginia Tech’s Unmanned Systems Laboratory are perfecting an autonomous helicopter they hope will never be used for its intended purpose. Roughly six feet long and weighing 200 pounds, the re-engineered aircraft is designed to fly into American cities blasted by a nuclear weapon or dirty bomb.
NIST and the Federal Information Systems Security Educators' Association are co-hosting FISSEA's 23rd annual conference March 23-25 at the Natcher Conference Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
By accurately re-creating the jumbled wireless signal environment of a city business district in a special indoor test facility, researchers at NIST have shown how the wireless industry could lop hours off the process of testing the capabilities of new cellular phones.
The first two laboratories have recently completed accreditation to provide testing services for the USGv6 Program, the basis for expressing U.S. government requirements for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) technologies and for testing that commercial products meet those requirements.
Mayo Clinic is launching two research-based consumer applications (apps) for iPhone and iPod Touch this quarter, supporting the goal of making Mayo’s expertise available to anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Exerting delicate control over a pair of atoms within a mere seven-millionths-of-a-second window of opportunity, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison created an atomic circuit that may help quantum computing become a reality.
Research at the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine suggests a novel route to improving the symptoms of subsyndromal depression (SSD) in seniors through the regular use of “exergames” – entertaining video games that combine game play with exercise. In a pilot study, the researchers found that use of exergames significantly improved mood and mental health-related quality of life in older adults with SSD.
The Internet may seem like a pervasive presence in much of the world, yet in many countries -- including some developed ones -- going online is a far from universal experience, according to findings by the World Internet Project (WIP).
In a technological advance that its developers are likening to the cell phone and wireless Internet access, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists and engineers have devised an undersea optical communications system that—complemented by acoustics—enables a virtual revolution in high-speed undersea data collection and transmission.
The vision transformed into a concept from atop a hill. More precisely a mountain, as Hans-Werner Braun, a research scientist with the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, looked off into the distance from Mount Woodson 10 years ago this month and imagined a network of wireless Internet connections crisscrossing this boulder-strewn landscape that's well known as a mountain climber's paradise, despite being less than 20 miles northeast of San Diego's smooth and sandy beaches.
A class of molecules whose size, structure and chemical composition have been optimized for photonic use could provide the demanding combination of properties needed to serve as the foundation for low-power, high-speed all-optical signal processing.
A holistic approach to data centers could result in millions of dollars of savings and a far smaller carbon footprint for the ever-expanding universe of information technology.
We have lasers in almost every color of the rainbow but green, a hue needed to reproduce full-color video in any pixelated display.
Rutgers oceanographers successfully send a remotely controlled sub-sea probe across the Atlantic.
Which of six different technologies emerging from the laboratories will be the e-reader screen of the future?
Soldiers and first responders may soon have a better way to evaluate the interior of dangerous structures, thanks to a joint project between Missouri University of Science and Technology and the University of Missouri-Columbia.
By taking advantage of a phenomenon that until now has been a virtual showstopper for electronics designers, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Panos Datskos is developing a chemical and biological sensor with unprecedented sensitivity.
Two of The Florida State University’s most accomplished scientists recently joined forces on a collaborative research project that has yielded groundbreaking results involving an unusual family of crystalline minerals. Their findings could lay the groundwork for future researchers seeking to develop a new generation of computer chips and other information-storage devices that can hold vast amounts of data and be strongly encrypted for security purposes.
A simple one-step process that produces both n-type and p-type doping of large-area graphene surfaces could facilitate use of the promising material for future electronic devices. The doping technique can also be used to increase conductivity in graphene nanoribbons used for interconnects.
Students can learn some science concepts just as well from computers simulations as they do from direct observation, new research suggests.
RTI International has developed a revolutionary lighting technology that is more energy efficient than the common incandescent light bulb and does not contain mercury, making it environmentally safer than the compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb.
Mammograms could save more lives with a technology being developed by ORNL and the University of Chicago. Intrusion detection systems preventing cyber attacks could soon be turbocharged with a tool being developed at ORNL. A fan will save ORNL's computing complex $150,000 a year in energy costs. Researchers from ORNL and the University of Tennessee has discovered a novel type of receptors in bacteria that sense changes in oxygen concentration and other redox parameters.
Ready to give up on that new year’s resolution to get in shape? If so, don’t sell your Wii Fit on eBay just yet. Dr. Ming Leu might have a use for it – or for the remote, anyway.
An innovative computational technique that draws on statistics, imaging, and other disciplines has the capability to detect errors in sensitive technological systems ranging from satellites to weather instruments. The patented technique, known as the Intelligent Outlier Detection Algorithm, or IODA, is described this month in the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.
MiserWare Inc. of Blacksburg, Va., founded by Kirk Cameron and Joseph Turner in 2007 to commercialize energy-saving technologies developed at Virginia Tech for PCs, laptops, and servers, is giving away software for PC Windows users.
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