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Sign language over cell phones in the U.S.

Thanks to University of Washington UW computer scientists, hearing-impaired users might soon be able to use sign language over a mobile phone, like in Japan or Sweden. The research team received a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to start a 20-person field project next year in Seattle. Of...

Tags: Team, Professor, Phone, Cell Phone, Video, UW, MobileASL, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-08-26

A camera in a pill to detect cancer

This is not the first time that the idea of swallowing a pill with a camera inside to detect early signs of cancer has been tried read this article for example. But now, researchers at the University of Washington UW have developed a device specifically designed to detect esophageal cancer,...

Tags: Device, University Of Washington, Resolution, Pill, Image, Camera, Cancer, Fiber, UW, Casing, Endoscope, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-25

Recreating cities using online photos

The billion of images available from a site like Flickr has stimulated the imagination of many researchers. After designing tools using Flickr to edit your photos, another team at the University of Washington UW is using our vacation photos to create 3D models of world landmarks. But recreating original scenes...

Tags: 3D, Researcher, Online Photo, Flickr, Photograph, Computer, UW, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-11-04

Additional Resources

ACDR 4.2 (Windows)

ACDR Audio Compact Disc Reader is a tool that lets you read audio tracks from standard audio CD's and write them to a variety of different file formats.The software works through a 3-step procedure that makes the conversion both quick and easy. It's a fast single pass operation that also...

Tags: Software, CD, Microsoft Windows, FMJ-Software, Consumer Electronics, Tools & Techniques, Digital Music, Personal Technology, Management

Software downloads 2009-11-07

SoundConverter 20090925 (Mac)

SoundConverter is application for batch converting sound files between formats. Just set the options and drag in files or folders to convert. Free for files under 500K and $14 for a license to unlock advanced formats and batch conversion. Advanced formats are available for 14 day trial period. Tags are...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, OGG, WAV, MP3, GSM, Steve Dekorte, SoundConverter, Tags, Digital Media, Digital Music, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-28

An electrical circuit that runs entirely off power in trees

You've probably already heard of the idea of harvesting electricity from body heat to power small devices, such as those in the far-flung idea of a body area network. Now, a similar idea has been applied to trees. There's enough power in trees for University of Washington researchers to run...

Tags: Tree, Team Management, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-09-08

Automation 2.0

Yesterday the AMR team met with Rockwell Automation's senior leadership group including CEO Keith Nosbusch to spend an entire day digging into the trends and challenges in today's manufacturing automation market.  Nosbusch is a graduate of University of Wisconsin's electrical and computer engineering program, and a 35 year veteran of...

Tags: Automation, Nosbusch, Manufacturing, Kevin O'Marah

Blog posts 2009-05-16

SoundConverter 20090427 (Mac)

SoundConverter is application for batch converting sound files between formats. Just set the options and drag in files or folders to convert. Free for files under 500K and $14 for a license to unlock advanced formats and batch conversion. Advanced formats are available for 14 day trial period. Tags are...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, OGG, WAV, MP3, GSM, Steve Dekorte, SoundConverter, Tags, Digital Media, Digital Music, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-04-28

Follow all the March Madness action on your mobile phone

In a couple more hours that yearly tradition that we fondly call March Madness tips off with in office brackets and rabid fans cheering on their teams (go UW Huskies!). I thought it would be helpful to pull together a quick list of how you can follow your favorite teams...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Bracket, Cell Phone, S60, iMadness 09, GetSportz, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-03-19

Use Dovecot for POP3 / IMAP services

Traditionally, if you wanted to set up POP3 or IMAP services on your Linux system, you would use Courier-IMAP, uw-imap, or cyrus-imapd. Vincent Danen introduces a lesser-known but increasingly popular IMAP/POP3 server called Dovecot.

Tags: POP3, Vincent Danen, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software

Download resources 2008-11-18

Using your voice to pilot your computer

According to The Seattle Times, an interdisciplinary team of scientists of the University of Washington UW has developed Vocal Joystick, a software which enables people with disabilities to control their computers using the sound of their voice and without the need to use a mouse. Their virtual computer mouse driven...

Tags: Software, Pattern Recognition, Mouse, Voice Recognition, Voice, Signal Processing, Computer, Application Driver, Productivity, Mice, Telephony, Telecommunications, Hardware, Peripherals, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Robofish teams of underwater robots

Many of today's underwater robots need to periodically come up to the surface to communicate with their human supervisors. But researchers at the University of Washington UW have developed a new kind of underwater vehicle. The Robofish can work cooperatively with each other. 'The Robofish, which are roughly the size...

Tags: Team, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-07

Growing nano pine trees in Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin-Madison chemists have accidentally created nano pine trees with trunks and branches. As said the lead researcher, 'At the beginning we saw just a couple of trees, and we said, 'What the heck is going on here?' They were so curious.' In fact, this could lead to an...

Tags: Dislocation, Trunk, Productivity, Team Management, Leadership, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-02

Every move you make tracked by RFID tags

We've been told for several years that RFID tags would appear everywhere. This is not the case yet, but researchers at the University of Washington would like to know if the future of social networking could be affected by these tags and check the balance between privacy and utility. They've...

Tags: Researcher, RFID Tag, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-05

Will diatoms lead to faster computer chips?

Diatoms are unicellular algae and one of the most common types of phytoplankton. One of their main characteristics is they encase themselves in shells made of silica. According to a team of U.S. researchers who successfully decoded the genome of a particular diatom named Thalassiosira pseudonana, these very small algae...

Tags: Computer Chip, Carbon Dioxide, Shell, University Of Washington, Gene, Ocean, Carbon, Computer, Chip, Semiconductors, Productivity, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-24

Treating Leopard's Finder not-fully-loading bug

Treating Leopard's Finder not-fully-loading bugButtonsIf a computer is completely locked up, you can hold down the power button for about five seconds, and it will shut down. (You'll lose all unsaved data.)When you restart, you should hold down Command plus S keys to bring up single user mode (command line...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Treating Leopard, Finder, Apple Macintosh, OS-9, operating system

Discussion threads 2007-12-18

Stop the botnets!

This is the intention of Paul Barford, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He wants to build a new line of defense against malicious traffic which has become today a billion-dollar 'shadow industry.' As one of 'the most menacing aspects of botnets is that they can go largely...

Tags: Network, Network Intrusion, Nemean, Achilles, Botnet Evaluation Environment, Networking, Security, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-11-09

Apple says to Archive and Install Leopard

Apple says to Archive and Install LeopardIs it Application Enhancer, or Tiger's RAID, or DivX? ...I guess the iPhone DOES have full OSX!Right down to the inability to run third party applications![i]The company blamed “third-party ‘enhancement’ software[/i]Hmm, I guess the Apple zealots were lying when they said that one of...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Unsanity, Apple Macintosh, APE 2.0.3, Mac OS X 10.5, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X

Discussion threads 2007-10-29

Apple says to Archive and Install Leopard

After reports of problem installations of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard over the weekend, Apple posted a technical note with a fix and advising customers to reinstall the software using the Archive and Install option. According to the document, some users found that after completing an...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Leopard, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2007-10-29

The world's biodiesel potential

Two researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M) have ranked 226 countries according to their potential to make large volumes of biodiesel at low cost. Their evaluation of the world's potential to produce biodiesel shows that Malaysia, Thailand, Colombia, Uruguay and Ghana are the developing nations most likely to attract...

Tags: Researcher, Biodiesel, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-10-19