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- Haptic jacket lets you feel the movies
- Imagine watching Apocalypto and feeling the pounding heart of the escaping protagonist tribesman on your own chest? That's now possible with a haptic jacket lined with vibration motors that researchers demoed at last week’s IEEE-sponsored 2009 World Haptics Conference in Salt Lake City. The jacket, created by...
- Tags: Jacket, Actuator, Virtual Reality, Research & Development, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Advancing the prosthetic aesthetic
- Experimental prosthetic arms in labs across the country will soon pave the way for commercial versions to antiquate the last major upgrade that took place almost a hundred years ago. That was the cable-operated prosthetic hook (for above-the-elbow amputees). Thanks to the Defense Advanced Research Projects...
- Tags: Patient, DARPA, Chicago, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
- The many-core performance wall
- Many-core chips are the great hope for more performance but Sandia National Lab simulations show they are about to hit a memory wall. How bad is it? Some background Memory bandwidth is the limiting performance factor in CPUs. If you can't feed the beast it stops...
- Tags: DRAM, Performance, Memory Bandwidth, Microprocessor, Chip, Wall, Sandia National Lab, Memory Wall, Performance Management, Semiconductors, Processors, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-12-11
- Sixteen IT failures to remember
- Sixteen IT failures to rememberWinFS did not make the list???And don't forget Copland.Surprising.RE: Sixteen IT failures to rememberYou have got to bust your butt to make this stuff work. The parking lot is empty when you come in and empty when you go home. Thousands of people getting...
- Tags: Strategy, IT Failure, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-11-11
- The Business of WiMAX: Impact of Technology, Architecture & Spectrum on the WiMAX Business Case
- The advent of next generation, wireless broadband platforms pairing performance with favorable economics is ushering in a new age of unprecedented connectivity in communities across a diverse range of global markets. Mobile WiMAX, based on the IEEE 802.16e-2005 global standard, leads the evolution roadmap with market ready solutions leveraging the...
- Tags: Business Case, Broadband, Spectrum, Wireless, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking
- White papers 2008-11-11
- Inside Mobile WiMAX Technology
- This paper presents an overview of mobile WiMAX technology and discusses the key role of spectrum analysis for ensuring reliable systems' operation and deployment. Mobile WiMAX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access-IEEE-802.16e-2005 standard is a 'last mile' IP based broadband wireless solution that enables convergence of mobile and fixed broadband networks...
- Tags: Mobile, Broadband, Berkeley Varitronics Systems, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Broadband Internet, Advertising & Promotion, Telecommunications, Marketing
- White papers 2008-10-29
- UK CS graduates more likely to be unemployed
- UK CS graduates more likely to be unemployedIf you're any good, I wouldn't worry about itMy first question is whether that study takes into account whether people were employed in their actual field of study?Ie, does a job at McDonalds classify as being 'employed' or does every psychology major actually...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Development tools, C/C++, job, hardware
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Deploying Mobile WiMAX Networks
- WiMAX, the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is described by the WiMAX Forum as "A standards-based technology enabling the delivery of last mile wireless broadband access as an alternative to cable and DSL". WiMAX is designed to provide wireless service with higher data rate, longer range, more efficient use of...
- Tags: Mobile, OFDMA, Berkeley Varitronics Systems, BVS YellowFin WiMAX Analyzer, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility
- White papers 2008-06-13
- A robotic brain-computer interface
- California Institute of Technology Caltech engineers have developed a robotic device able to act as a brain-computer interface. This is the 'first robotic approach to establishing an interface between computers and the brain by positioning electrodes in neural tissue.' According to the researchers, their approach 'could enhance the performance and...
- Tags: Algorithm, Electrode, California Institute Of Technology, Positioning, Telecom & Utilities, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Brain waves used for faster image sorting
- Computers are fast for many tasks, but humans are faster for identifying objects or people in images. But is it possible to combine the speed of a computer with the sensitivity of the human brain? According to a IEEE Spectrum Online article, 'A Brainy Approach to Image Sorting,' several teams...
- Tags: Team, Analyst, DARPA, Image, Computer, Productivity, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- Why business users should grab a copy of Microsoft's new robotics toolkit
- Why business users should grab a copy of Microsoft's new robotics toolkitI guess there is a Tie inMary Jo, I wrote about this on my Microsoft Dynamics AX blog back in 07/2007: http://dynamics-ax.blogspot.com/2007/07/welcome-to-microsoft-robotics-studio-15.htmlAnyway when I wrote this I said: "Now I know this Microsoft Robotics Toolkit does not have a...
- Tags: Robots, robotics toolkit, Microsoft Corp., robotics
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- Fixing the unfairness of TCP congestion control
- Bob Briscoe Chief researcher at the BT Network Research Centre is on a mission to tackle one of the biggest problems facing the Internet. He wants the world to know that TCP Transmission Control Protocol congestion control is fundamentally broken and he has a proposal for the IETF to fix...
- Tags: Algorithm, Application, Bandwidth, Network, P2P, TCP, Bob Briscoe, Van Jacobson, Jacobson, AIMD, ECN, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Google Earth for the body
- This is the expression used by an IBM researcher to describe the software he developed for visualizing electronic health records eHRs in 3-D. In a long article, IEEE Spectrum describes the IBM's Anatomic and Symbolic Mapper Engine ASME, which maps the information in a patient's eHR to a 3-D image...
- Tags: Software, 3D, Google Inc., Patient, Electronic Health Record, Doctor, Google Earth, Image, IBM Corp., E-health, Healthcare, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-12
- IEEE survey cites AT&T, Microsoft and Cisco as top tech innovators
- Although debates will never be completely settled about which technology companies research and introduce the most innovations, IEEE Spectrum has attempted to quantify this information. The monthly publication of the IEEE (formerly known as the Institute ...
- Tags: Patent, AT&T Corp., Microsoft Corp., IEEE, Survey, Cisco Systems Inc., IEEE Survey, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-21
- System-Level Time-Domain Behavioral Modeling for a Mobile WiMax Transceiver
- The time-domain baseband equivalent model for a mobile WiMax, IEEE 802.16e RF transceiver has been addressed in this paper. The baseband equivalent model is built up based on complex signals and spectrum. Nonlinearity up to the fifth order harmonics is considered, and noise characteristics are modeled in time domain for...
- Tags: Transceiver, Mobile, IEEE, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility
- White papers 2007-09-15
- Solar powered Wi-Fi? Solis Energy says 'why not?'
- Solar powered Wi-Fi? Solis Energy says 'why not?'WiMax - It is our democracy and well being, Solis EnergyLets get real, prior to and after a hurricane the towers for connectivity will be down, at least temporarily. Plus unregulated WiFi will not be available to the common man as it gets...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Internet service providers (ISPs), WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Solis Energy, spectrum
- Discussion threads 2007-08-27
- Can owning a Wi-Fi Skype phone land you in jail?
- Can owning a Wi-Fi Skype phone land you in jail?It should befairly straight forward. If you attempt [i]any[/i] sort of security on your wi-fi router even WEP, then you are saying that you don't want someone to connect without authorization. Therefore any connection made without permission is illegal.So...
- Tags: Routers & switches, Wireless LANs, Network technology, NETWORKING, WIRELESS, phone, router, Wi-Fi, security, Skype phone
- Discussion threads 2007-08-23
- Nanotechnology boosts solar cells performance
- Physicists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC have improved the performance of solar cells by 60 percent. And they obtained this spectacular result by using a very simple trick. They've coated the solar cells with a film of 1-nanometer thick silicon fluorescing nanoparticles. The researchers also said that...
- Tags: Silicon, Performance, Nanoparticle, Particle, Nanotechnology, Cell, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- High Efficient Mobile WiMAX With MIMO and Multihop Relay
- MIMO and relay technology is currently being promoted within the IEEE to enhance performance of broadband wireless standards such as WiMAX. However, due to licensed spectrum, it is necessary to implement highly efficient radio resource management. For optimal system design, it is beneficial to achieve higher system data throughput with...
- Tags: Mobile, Radio, MIMO, Academy Publisher, WiMAX, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Telecommunications, Marketing
- White papers 2007-08-01
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