39 month ago
kayodeok : Computer Modeling Reveals Hidden Conversations Within Cells - UCSD biochemists have developed a computer program that helps explain a long-standing mystery: how the same proteins can play different roles in a wide range of cellular processes, including those leading to immune responses and cancer
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39 month ago
kayodeok : Imperial College London - New microchip design could be the key to expanding mobile phone memory - Mobile phones could one day have the memory capacity of a desktop computer thanks to a microchip that mimics the functioning of the brain, scientists report today (9 September) in the journal Science
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39 month ago
kayodeok : New techniques study the brain's chemistry, neuron by neuron - Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed tools for studying the chemistry of the brain, neuron by neuron
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40 month ago
kayodeok : How the Brain Understands Pictures - It does so in a fraction of a second via special nerve circuits in the brain's visual center that automatically organize information into a "whole" even as an individual's gaze and attention are focused on only one part
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40 month ago
kayodeok : Optoelectronics to increase the broadband flow - Consumers are soon going to want data streams of 100 megabits per second in their homes and eventually 1 gigabit per second. There are two ways to do this: lay more cable, which involves public works and is expensive and disruptive, or create technologies
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40 month ago
kayodeok : HumanML: The Vision - The ability to leverage open standards to improve communications human-to-human, human-to-machine and machine-to-machine is becoming crucial to both the public and private sectors
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41 month ago
kayodeok : Hoax?: Cell Phone Radiation may cause visual damage - In a recent scientific study conducted by a team of researchers from the Technion, a possible link between microwave radiation, similar to the type found in cellular phones, and different kinds of damage to the visual system was found
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41 month ago
kayodeok : Text entry software spells relief for weary BlackBerry thumbs - To write a word, you put the stylus on the first letter of the word and then drag the stylus to draw a line through the alphabet cluster, touching every letter in the word. When you lift up the stylus after hitting the last letter, SHARK figures out what
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41 month ago
kayodeok : Syrian-Lebanese hospital to perform first surgery to implant robotic arm - A chip implanted into the patient's brain will make it possible to control the prosthetics
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41 month ago
kayodeok : Our Brains do not work like Computers - New Cornell study suggests that mental processing is continuous, not like a computer
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42 month ago
kayodeok : Scientists create artificial cricket hair - "this research will help scientists understand the complex physics that crickets use to perceive their surroundings and could lead to a new generation of cochlear implants, for people with severe hearing problems, in the far future"
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43 month ago
kayodeok : Huge radio telescope boasts supercomputer brain - One of the world's most powerful supercomputers is to be the brain of a revolutionary new radio telescope called LOFAR. The telescope will look back to the time of the very first stars, map our galaxy's magnetic field and perhaps discover the mysterious s
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44 month ago
kayodeok : Dialogue system juggles topics: Making speech interfaces better by finding ways for computers to recognize the context of a conversation - Researchers have built a dialogue management system that promises to improve verbal communication with computers by giving the machine a sense of the type of phrase a person is likely to say next
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44 month ago
kayodeok : Engineers study whether plasmonics, 'light on a wire,' is circuitry wave of future - "A problem holding back the progress of computing is that with mismatched capacities and sizes, the two technologies (Photonics and Electronics) are hard to combine in a circuit. Researchers can cobble them together, but a single technology that has the c
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45 month ago
kayodeok : English as a Programming Language? Tool turns English to code - Researchers have written an English-to-code visualizer named Metafor; your input in English goes in one panel, outputs of the parser and debugger shows in two panels while the fourth panel shows your input rendered as code.
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