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- illumin8-ing improvements for knowledge workers?
- The printing press was a pretty pivotal invention, challenging artificial limitations on the dissemination of ideas maintained by scriptoria and opening flood gates to the vibrant philosophical, social and technological innovations of the Renaissance, Reformation, and beyond. From those early innovations, we entered a long period in...
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Vendor praised for XQuery documentation tool
- "How many times as a reporter or analyst have i heard the bull---- answer that a company won't talk about its technology programs because of 'competitive advantage' " RedMonk: James Governor hands out props to Elsevier, a scientific publisher he credits as understanding the value of making open source contributions....
- Blog posts 2005-03-07
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- Arm yourself with the knowledge to fight cybercrime
- Criminal activity involving computers continues to grow, making it critical for law enforcement personnel, legislators, and IT pros to develop the knowledge to prevent, detect, report, and prosecute cybercrime. In this chapter from Scene of the Cybercrime, 2nd Edition, Deb Shinder and coauthor Michael Cross discuss cybercrime definitions and categories,...
- Book chapters 2008-07-10
- Have you tried the IHOP diet?
- Have you tried the IHOP diet?Where this diet challenges...I do agree that W.H. Kellogg is spinning in his grave. His call for lighter breakfasts a century ago has been the basis of diet kant ever since.But my own life agrees with this diet's premise. A good breakfast keeps the snack...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-22
- Roasting biomass to produce more energy
- According to engineers at the University of Leeds, UK, it is possible to use torrefaction, a process usually associated with coffee production, to increase the energy content of some of some crops by up to 20 per cent. Not only torrefaction would lead to an increase of the energy extracted...
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- A 13th century social network
- According to Nature News, a team of French researchers has used medieval documents to create the oldest detailed social network ever constructed. The mathematicians and computer scientists looked through thousands of records of land transactions dating back as far as 1260 in a Southwest part of France. The result of...
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- The physics of flocking in 3-D
- You might think that bird watchers are only amateurs armed with binoculars. But biologists have also been studying flocks of birds for a long time. And now, they're helped by physicists, according to this New Scientist article about how European researchers are capturing flocks in 3-D. With a couple of...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Women's attractiveness judged by software
- According to Haaretz, an Israeli team of computer scientists has developed a software that ranks facial attractiveness of women. Instead of identifying basic facial characteristics, this software has been designed to make aesthetic judgments -- after training. The lead researcher said this program 'constitutes a substantial advance in the development...
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- A microscope that emails medical images
- A team of Chinese and U.S. researchers has successfully applied for a patent for a virtual telemicroscope. It is the only one of its kind capable of emailing electronic slides. It has been specifically designed to allow 'off-site pathologists to diagnose cancer or other diseases in patients living in remote...
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- Diamonds are jet engines' best friends
- You certainly know that birds are enemies of jet engine turbine blades. But these jet engines have another nasty foe: sand. Even if the turbine blades are protected with thin layers of thermal barrier coatings TBCs, they operate at very high temperatures. When a sand storm hits a blade, grains...
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Fastest-growing UK sites in January 2008
- Property December 2007 January 2008 Growth, % Total Internet 32,981 33,254 1% First Choice Holidays PLC 1,612 3,874 140% Arcandor AG 1,877 4,396 134% TUI Group 2,065 4,577 122% British Airways 1,963 3,564 82% Moneysupermarket.com...
- Blog posts 2008-03-01
- Taking images of individual atoms in color
- Researchers at Cornell University are using a new kind of scanning transmission electron microscope STEM to take pictures of individual atoms in color for the first time. It seems odd, but 'the current generation of electron microscopes can be thought of as expensive black and white cameras where different atoms...
- Blog posts 2008-02-22
- A web blanket for weak hearts
- Researchers at the University of Leeds in the UK have developed a new device which could put the beat back into weak hearts and free patients from a lifetime of anti-rejection drugs. Current implanted heart assistive devices 'function by sucking blood from the ventricles and then expelling it into downstream...
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Hydrogen-powered cars with zero-carbon-emission?
- Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have a bright idea -- at least at first sight. They want to create a sustainable transportation system by using hydrogen-powered cars. They would like to create an infrastructure where people could use a liquid fuel for driving while the carbon emission in...
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- T-rays used to reveal old hidden art
- U.S. engineers are collaborating with the Center for Research and Restoration at The Louvre Museum in France to use a terahertz device to find murals hidden behind plaster or paint for centuries. T-rays, or pulses of terahertz radiation, can 'illuminate penciled sketches under paintings on canvas without harming the artwork,'...
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- Autonomous virtual crowds
- It has always been difficult to generate computer-generated crowd scenes in movies and video games. Until recently, an animated character moved almost like his its neighbors. But according to Technology Review, a computer scientist working at UCLA has designed software which gives personal behaviors to animated characters. For example, he...
- Blog posts 2007-12-26
- Yahoo notches ad win with Adobe PDF ad deal
- Yahoo garnered a contextual advertising win by forging a partnership with Adobe to deliver ads inside PDFs. Under the partnership with Adobe, Yahoo will deliver keyword text ads inside PDFs. The free beta program, announced late Wednesday statement and Techmeme, will line up text ads to the...
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- Eve, the virtual math teacher
- New Zealand computer scientists have developed Eve, an affective tutoring system ATS which can adapt its response to the emotional state of children by interaction through a computer system. The researchers say their teaching system, dubbed 'Easy with Eve,' is the first of its type and add they 'wanted to...
- Blog posts 2007-11-22
- FASTMedia Network takes on Google, Yahoo
- FAST is known for its industrial strength enterprise search solutions. Now the company is taking on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft GYM on their own consumer turf with FASTMedia, a new search and ad delivery platform developed in partnership with major media companies. The basic message from FAST is that ...
- Blog posts 2007-04-29
- Replace smileys with your face
- According to Technology Review in "The New Face of Emoticons," computer scientists from U.S. and Taiwan have found a new way to personalize your messages. You just need a picture of you -- preferably with a neutral expression -- and their software will show your mood to your correspondent and...
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
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