university of warwick

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Collaborative Adaptation Authoring and Social Annotation in MOT

The Web is constantly evolving, in fundamental and innovative ways. Social annotation and collaborative authoring facilitate and change the process of creating and sharing information. This paper proposes a new design of the authoring system MOT My Online Teacher, focusing on collaborative authoring and social annotation. The goal behind this...

Tags: Annotation, University Of Warwick, Channel Management, Marketing

White papers 2008-04-15

Single-Layer Cuts for Multi-Layer Network Design Problems

The paper studies a planning problem arising in SDH/WDM multi-layer telecommunication net-work design. The goal is to find a minimum cost installation of link and node hardware of both network layers such that traffic demands can be realized via grooming and a survivable routing. The paper presents a mixed-integer programming...

Tags: Network, Network Design, Programming, University Of Warwick, Optical Networking, Development Tools, Fiber Optics, Networking, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Telecommunications

White papers 2007-08-01

Robots to help farmers

Robots designed to help farmers have been built before (check 'Agrobots' Go to the Farm for earlier examples). But this time, engineers from the University of Warwick have chosen to develop robots that will reduce farm labor costs. In recent months, they've built a robotic mushroom picker, an inflatable conveyor...

Tags: robot, University of Warwick

Blog posts 2006-03-08

Additional Resources

A brain-computer interface that communicates thoughts between people

New research from the University of Southampton has demonstrated that it is possible for communication from person to person through the power of thought alone. Looking to take brain-computer interfaces BCI to the next level, Dr. Christopher James from the University’s Institute of Sound and Vibration Research,...

Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Person, Engineering, Internet, B2B, Telecom & Utilities, E-business/E-Commerce, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-10-06

£10bn national ID card scheme vs. £65m cuts in higher education

Two very controversial topics met in the middle today, when one potentially pointless national identity card scheme which would cost the UK taxpayer between £10-20bn according to the London School of Economics, and a cut of £65m in higher education at university level would cut a further 1,500 full time...

Tags: Education, Card, National ID Card, U.K., Identity Card, Government, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Exclusive: A robot with a biological brain

Exclusive: A robot with a biological brainThe begining of the Cylon race? nt:(probably meant "you're" funnyDoesnt' change my opinion at all.Well, if this isn't the most immoral thing ever...it's gotta be kinda close.Cool but. could open a can of worms later...Did anyone else get a chill up the back of...

Tags: Robots, biological brain, robot

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

Exclusive: A robot with a biological brain

University of Reading scientists have developed a robot controlled by a biological brain formed from cultured neurons. And this is a world's premiere. Other research teams have tried to control robots with 'brains,' but there was always a computer in the loop. This new project is the first one to...

Tags: Project, Brain, Multi Electrode Array, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-08-13

Ingres brings OpenROAD tool for rapid DB apps development to GPL

Ingres Corp. is hoping for strong community involvement with its Open ROAD rapid application development RAD tool by taking it to GPL v2 release. The Redwood City, Calif., open source database management company has made the new release available on its Web site and said it...

Tags: GPL, Tool, Ingres, 4GL OpenROAD, OpenROAD Application, Databases, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Identifying fingerprints in seconds

Researchers at the University of Warwick, UK, say they have developed a technology to identify damaged fingerprints in just a few seconds. Their approach neglects surface marks and focuses on underlying patterns. The researchers claim that their technique is fast and 100% accurate -- at least it was on 500...

Tags: Researcher, Print, Technology, Social Security, Biometrics, Productivity, Authentication/Encryption, Identity Theft, Operational Accounting, Security, Government, Finance, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-10-02

Watching the world like our ancestors

This is the promise of UK computer scientists who are reconstructing antique worlds in 3-D for all of our senses, including smell. They say that we could experience what the past really looked like. The goal of these researchers is to build the 'Mother of All Virtual Environments'. The technologies...

Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Computers &, Internet

Blog posts 2007-05-20

$100 laptops for kids in developing world

Speaking at MIT's Emerging Technologies conference Nicholas Negroponte announced detailed specs for his $100 computer, and said that his nonprofit One Laptop per Child is in negotiations with five developing countries - Brazil, China, Thailand, Egypt and South Africa - to provide the machines. ...

Tags: Nicholas Negroponte, Developing

Blog posts 2005-09-28

Computer viruses could infect humans?

Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at Reading University in England, warns that computer viruses could infect humans... "We're looking at software viruses and biological viruses becoming one and the same....The security problems will be much, much greater....For those of you that want to stay human...you'll be a subspecies in the...

Tags: Robots, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, computer, Kevin Warwick, computer virus

Blog posts 2004-11-13