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Computer Science - 23.07.2014

Carnegie Mellon Will Partner With Duolingo To Evaluate English Language Certification Test
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Will Partner With Duolingo To Evaluate English Language Certification Test-Carnegie Mellon News - Carnegie Mellon University Inexpensive Online Test Could Broaden Access for Prospective Students and Job Applicants : Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice [a] cs.cmu (p) edu PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University will partner with Duolingo , a CMU spinoff company that provides free online language education, to evaluate the company's new low-cost test for certifying the English skills of college and job applicants.

Computer Science - Mathematics - 23.07.2014

Essays in English yield information about other languages
Computer scientists at MIT and Israel's Technion have discovered an unexpected source of information about the world's languages: the habits of native speakers of those languages when writing in English.

Computer Science - Mathematics - 22.07.2014

Built for speed: Designing exascale computers
"Imagine a heart surgeon operating to repair a blocked coronary artery. Someday soon, the surgeon might run a detailed computer simulation of blood flowing through the patient's arteries, showing how millions of red blood cells jostle and tumble through the small vessels.

Computer Science - Electroengineering - 17.07.2014

Getting a grip on robotic grasp
Twisting a screwdriver, removing a bottle cap, and peeling a banana are just a few simple tasks that are tricky to pull off single-handedly.

Computer Science - 17.07.2014

Computer Science - 17.07.2014

Birdsongs automatically decoded by computer scientists
Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have found a successful way of identifying bird sounds from large audio collections, which could be useful for expert and amateur bird-watchers alike.

Health - Computer Science - 15.07.2014

Supercomputer to boost health research
A new supercomputer hosted at the University of Leeds is set to transform health research in the North of England.

Electroengineering - Computer Science - 15.07.2014

Crowd-source snaps of falling space debris
Crowd-source snaps of falling space debris 15 July 2014 Australian researchers who are designing robotic rovers capable of searching for fallen space debris are asking people to share images or videos that they may have captured during last Thursday evening 's skyfall. University of Sydney robotics researchers in conjunction with scientists at Curtin University believe the images or videos could help program a rover 's ability to track the why, when and where of a space junk movements.

Computer Science - Physics - 14.07.2014

New Computing Cluster at Carnegie Mellon Traces Lineage to Los Alamos’ Roadrunner Supercomputer
Press Release: New Computing Cluster at Carnegie Mellon Traces Lineage to Los Alamos' Roadrunner Supercomputer-Carnegie Mellon News - Carnegie Mellon University Salvaged Components Reconfigured To Bu

Computer Science - 10.07.2014

Mobile phone bling may be a personal, but also cultural thing
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Choosing mobile phone cases and customizing phones with charms and decorations may reveal a lot about a person's culture, as well as increase attachment to the devices, according to researchers.

Economics - Computer Science - 09.07.2014

Madison-based SWAMP, Secure Decisions partner to enhance software security
Secure Decisions, a leading provider of assessment tools to enhance software security, is partnering with the Software Assurance Marketplace (SWAMP) to build a powerful and publicly accessible resource to improve the software that drives everyday life.

Philosophy - Computer Science - 09.07.2014

Project to evaluate how farmers markets benefit communities
Alfonso Morales talks with a vendor at the Dane County Farmers' Market in October 2009. Morales has secured federal funding to develop tools to evaluate the impacts of farmers markets on communities.

Health - Computer Science - 09.07.2014

New supercomputer accelerates pace of health research across North of England
09 Jul 2014 The Health eResearch Centre (HeRC), a research partnership led by The University of Manchester, has advanced Northern England's computing power by financing a new computer system that can analyse bigger and more complex sets of information than was previously possible. With one thousand times more memory and over a hundred times more powerful than a standard desktop computer, the Health eResearch Centre will use the new system to speed up the pace of research by allowing scientists to process data in quicker and more efficient ways.

Economics - Computer Science - 09.07.2014

Probing Question: What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin was introduced in 2008 and is a digital payment network that allows users to engage in direct transactions without the oversight of a banking organization or government.

Mathematics - Computer Science - 07.07.2014

Effort to model Facebook yields key to famous math problem (and a prize)
Dan Spielman, a Yale computer scientist, wasn't looking for a new problem. He was already deeply immersed in a tricky effort to model complex online communities like Facebook, hoping to gain insight into how they form and interact.

Administration - Computer Science - 02.07.2014

Bristol’s High Performance Networks Group presents at key European conference
2 July 2014 The University of Bristol's High Performance Networks Group presented its recent achievements on data centre technologies and software defined networking at EuCNC 2014 in Bologna, Italy, last week.

Computer Science - Event - 02.07.2014

The First Olympic Games of Logic
The Vienna University of Technology is the first venue of the Olympic Games of Logic. Teams from all over the world have developed computer programs which will compete during the 'Vienna Summer of Logic'.

Computer Science - 01.07.2014

Computer Science - 30.06.2014

Comment: Will workplace robots cost more jobs than they create?
Noel Sharkey is professor of artificial intelligence and robots, and professor of public engagement, at the University of Sheffield.

Electroengineering - Computer Science - 26.06.2014

Ask the crowd: Robots learn faster, better with online helpers
University of Washington Sometimes it takes a village to teach a robot. University of Washington computer scientists have shown that crowdsourcing can be a quick and effective way to teach a robot how to complete tasks.

Computer Science - Electroengineering - 26.06.2014

Clever copters developed at Sheffield can learn as they fly
Flying robots that can show true autonomy - and even a bit of politeness - in working together and venturing into hostile environments are being developed by engineers at the University of Sheffield. The research paves the way for robots to work intelligently alongside humans in ways that are currently familiar only through science fiction films.

Computer Science - 25.06.2014

Carnegie Mellon Machine Learning Method Automatically Cuts Boring Parts From Long Consumer and Security Videos
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Machine Learning Method Automatically Cuts Boring Parts From Long Consumer and Security Videos-Carnegie Mellon News - Carnegie Mellon University LiveLight Creates Inter

Computer Science - Life Sciences - 24.06.2014

4-H leaders learn geospatial technology
Small teams of educators designed strategies to fit foam gliders with keychain cameras to replicate video fly-bys as part of the 2014 Geospatial In-Service workshop, attended by 11 4-H educators and leaders on campus June 10-12.

Computer Science - Electroengineering - 24.06.2014

Robots learn from (even bad) human language
Robots are getting smarter, but they still need step-by-step instructions for tasks they haven't performed before.

Computer Science - 24.06.2014

Google Sponsors Carnegie Mellon Research To Improve Effectiveness of Online Education
Press Release: Google Sponsors Carnegie Mellon Research To Improve Effectiveness of Online Education-Carnegie Mellon News - Carnegie Mellon University Paying Attention To How People Learn Promises To

Computer Science - Economics - 24.06.2014

UW-Madison becomes newest Intel Parallel Computing Center
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been selected to join the Intel Parallel Computing Centers program. The program promotes public-private partnerships to modernize technical computing applications in areas important to society, from the development of personalized medical treatments to the delivery of better weather forecasts.

Computer Science - 24.06.2014

Marking 25 years of the internet in Australia
In late 1980's Australia, BuzzFeed was a distant dream, Facebook sounded like a non sequitur and 'the cloud' resided only in the sky.

Life Sciences - Computer Science - 23.06.2014

Computer-aided diagnosis of rare genetic disorders from family snaps
Computer analysis of photographs could help doctors diagnose which condition a child with a rare genetic disorder has, say Oxford University researchers. Oxford University researchers have come up with a computer programme that recognises facial features in photographs; looks for similarities with facial structures for various conditions, such as Down's syndrome, Angelman syndrome, or Progeria; and returns possible matches ranked by likelihood.

Computer Science - Linguistics / Literature - 23.06.2014

Carnegie Mellon Creates Programming Library for Developing Interactive Web Pages in JavaScript
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Creates Programming Library for Developing Interactive Web Pages in JavaScript-Carnegie Mellon News - Carnegie Mellon University Constraint Programming Reduces Coding N

Health - Computer Science - 19.06.2014

Peer feedback through social media helps residents improve robotic surgery skills
Because the identities of those posting and commenting are protected, the process gives surgeons an 'egoless' opportunity to refine techniques Kim Irwin Surgical residents who received anonymous feedback from their peers through a social networking site showed greater improvement in their robotic surgery skills than those who received no such feedback, a UCLA study shows.

Computer Science - Mathematics - 19.06.2014

Microsoft fellow David Steurer seeks ultimate algorithm
David Steurer, assistant professor of computer science, has been awarded a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship to support research to find the "laws of efficient computation," which might settle a

Electroengineering - Computer Science - 18.06.2014

Carnegie Mellon’s Leadership and Negotiation Academy for Women Hosts Networking Reception and Preview, Thursday, June 26
The following is the text of an article on the future of robotics, written by Carnegie Mellon University Professor of Robotics Illah Nourbakhsh (right), director of the CREATE Lab in the Robotics Institute and author of "Robot Futures.

Computer Science - Astronomy / Space Science - 18.06.2014

UK’s COSMOS supercomputing research facility becomes an Intel Parallel Computing Centre
Cambridge's COSMOS supercomputer, the largest shared-memory computer in Europe, has been named by computer giant Intel as one of its Parallel Computing Centres, building on a long-standing collaboration between Intel and the University of Cambridge. These are exciting times for cosmology as we use COSMOS to directly test our mathematical theories against the latest observational data Stephen Hawking The COSMOS facility, which is located in the Stephen Hawking Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (CTC) at the University, is dedicated to research in cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics.

Electroengineering - Computer Science - 18.06.2014

Robot footballers prepare for global glory at Robocup 2014 in Brazil
Move over Rooney and Sturridge – these are the pint-sized potential superstars hoping to hit the back of the net in Brazil later this summer.

Computer Science - 17.06.2014

High-performance computer system installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory
"This machine modernizes our mid-tier resources available to Laboratory scientists," said Bob Tomlinson, of the Laboratory's High Performance Computing group.

Computer Science - Life Sciences - 16.06.2014

The games genes play: Algorithm helps explain sex in evolution
What do you get when you mix theorists in computer science with evolutionary biologists? You get an algorithm to explain sex. It turns out that 155 years after Charles Darwin first published "On the Origin of Species,” vexing questions remain about key aspects of evolution, such as how sexual recombination and natural selection produced the teeming diversity of life that exists today.

Computer Science - Electroengineering - 16.06.2014

Imperial robots helping humans in the home, clinic and over land, sea and air
Imperial has one of the largest robotics research clusters in the UK and a new network will help leverage that technology for the benefit of humanity.

Computer Science - 16.06.2014

G4S takes on a new recruit
G4S, the security solutions group, have enrolled a new recruit this month when a robot from the University of Birmingham joined its workforce as a trainee security officer on a three week trial.

Computer Science - 12.06.2014

Carnegie Mellon’s "Let’s Go" Automated Phone Line Offers Alternative Source of Information for Pittsburgh Transit
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's "Let's Go" Automated Phone Line Offers Alternative Source of Information for Pittsburgh Transit-Carnegie Mellon News - Carnegie Mellon University Automated Phone Line

Computer Science - Electroengineering - 12.06.2014

New computer program aims to teach itself everything about anything
University of Washington In today's digitally driven world, access to information appears limitless.

Computer Science - Electroengineering - 12.06.2014

Carnegie Mellon Names Anind Dey Director of Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Names Anind Dey Director of Human-Computer Interaction Institute-Carnegie Mellon News - Carnegie Mellon University : Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice [a] cs.c

Law - Computer Science - 05.06.2014

Stanford opens state-of-the-art facility for collaborative scientific visualization
Jonathan Mayer's education path is unusual: He has earned a Stanford law degree while working on his PhD in computer science.

Administration - Computer Science - 03.06.2014

Making a covert channel on the Internet
To test the covert channel method, researchers sent signals on a round-robin tour of the Internet, starting and ending at the Corrnell campus in Ithaca. Tests showed the method could deliver a hidden message with high bandwidth despite distortion enroute. The best way to keep a message secret is not just to encrypt it, but to hide the fact that the message is even there.

Computer Science - 03.06.2014

Sport - Computer Science - 28.05.2014

Statistics that Help Win a Match
A tracking system for athletes, currently used by the Montreux Volley Masters, provides real-time statistics during the game on players and the ball.

Computer Science - Economics - 27.05.2014

Cornell Tech grads solve problems large and small
Have you ever had a wonderfully delicious meal, perfect atmosphere and magnificent server, only to wait what seems like an endless amount of time to get your check?

Computer Science - Life Sciences - 27.05.2014

Solving big questions requires big computation
Understanding the origins of our solar system, the future of our planet or humanity requires complex calculations run on high-power computers.

Computer Science - Mathematics - 27.05.2014

Logic in Computer Science
Logic and computer science are closely related. Basic research in logic is crucial for computer and software engineering.

Computer Science - 26.05.2014

High-Performance Computing at Los Alamos announces milestone for key/value middleware
"This milestone was achieved by a combination of good software design and refined algorithms.

Computer Science - Microtechnics - 21.05.2014

Robots transform into furniture at EPFL
EPFL scientists are creating futuristic furniture that can move around and autonomously change its shape.