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Computer Science - 20.05.2014

Researchers crack unassailable encryption algorithm in two hours
A protocol based on "discrete logarithms", deemed as one of the candidates for the Internet's future security systems, was decrypted by EPFL researchers. Allegedly tamper-proof, it could only stand up to the school machines' decryption attempts for two hours. Without cryptography, no one would dare to type their credit card number on the Internet.

Computer Science - Mathematics - 19.05.2014

New energy-saving facility boosts Stanford’s computing prowess
Green technology meets high-powered computing at the new Stanford Research Computing Center, which supports the growing computational needs of researchers on campus while saving energy.

Astronomy / Space Science - Computer Science - 12.05.2014

Satellites helping to modernise railways
12 May 2014 Satellites will soon make train travel safer by improving how the networks are controlled in remote areas where ground equipment is too costly.

Life Sciences - Computer Science - 12.05.2014

Neuroscientists join major European project to develop artificial brain systems

Health - Computer Science - 09.05.2014

Mobile apps may hold the key to effective cognitive assessment in the elderly
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Mobile applications developed by two undergraduate students from the Penn State Department of Computer Science and Engineering may influence the future of assessing mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

Mechanical Engineering - Computer Science - 08.05.2014

Are you sitting comfortably? The Smart Chair that will 'read' your mind
Subtle body language, a flicker of the eyes or a racing pulse — at any given moment we are giving off numerous covert signals that can silently betray exactly how we are feeling or what we are thinking without us even being aware of them ourselves.

Electroengineering - Computer Science - 02.05.2014

I, Robot: UK’s largest robotics network to be unveiled at Imperial Festival
With just a week to go until this year's Imperial Festival, final preparations are underway to launch the UK's largest robotics network at the event.

Computer Science - Administration - 02.05.2014

Forging links with cyber security firm
  An American cyber security company which has links with the University's School of Computer Science & Informatics is set to bring more than 100 jobs to South Wales.

Social Sciences - Computer Science - 30.04.2014

Social media users need help to adjust to interface changes
TORONTO - Social media companies that give users a greater sense of control can ease them into interface changes, as well as curb defections to competitors, according to researchers. "Several studies have looked into how social media companies have failed," said Pamela Wisniewski , a post-doctoral scholar in information sciences and technology , Penn State.

Computer Science - Electroengineering - 30.04.2014

Robots may need to include parental controls
Companion robots provide emotional support for users and interact with them as they, for example, play a game, or watch a movie.

Computer Science - Economics - 29.04.2014

Give Our Regards to Broadway: Carnegie Mellon Celebrates Six 2014 Tony Award Nominees
Search Engine Code Is Moving Target That Eludes Manual Audits : Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice [a] cs.cmu (p) edu PITTSBURGH—Web services companies, such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft, all make promises about how they will use personal information they gather.

Health - Computer Science - 29.04.2014

Real-time Information From Drug Monitoring Systems Improves Regimen Adherence, Carnegie Mellon Researchers Find
Press Release: Real-time Information From Drug Monitoring Systems Improves Regimen Adherence, Carnegie Mellon Researchers Find-Carnegie Mellon News - Carnegie Mellon University Feedback After Medication Taking Has Advantages Over Automated Nagging : Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice [a] cs.cmu (p) edu PITTSBURGH—Most people want to take medications as prescribed, even if they sometimes need a little help remembering.

Computer Science - Mechanical Engineering - 28.04.2014

Computer Science - 25.04.2014

Taste and smell are challenging our thinking about interactive system design
Taste and smell are challenging our thinking about interactive system design In the future, people will interact with technology not only through seeing, hearing and touching, but also through taste and smell. Dr Marianna Obrist (Lecturer in Informatics) is carrying out pioneering research into how multi-sensory experiences can be used in the design of interactive technology.

Economics - Computer Science - 24.04.2014

Profile: Dr Ling Ge
Dr Ling Ge is a scientist in Imperial's Department of Chemistry who sits at the interface between research, innovation and public engagement.

Administration - Computer Science - 24.04.2014

Stronger SUNet passwords to enhance account security at Stanford
New standards mean SUNet users can choose passwords that are short but complex, or longer and less complex.

Event - Computer Science - 24.04.2014

Computer Science - 24.04.2014

It’s a bubble, but not as we know it
Press release issued: 24 April 2014 Multi-sensory technology that creates soap bubbles, which can have images projected onto them or when the bubbles are burst release a scent, will be unveiled at an international conference later this month.

Physics - Computer Science - 24.04.2014

Probing the sound of a quantum dot
24 April 2014 Physicists at the University of Sydney have discovered a method of using microwaves to probe the sounds of a quantum dot, a promising platform for building a quantum computer. A quantum dot consists of a small number of electrons trapped in zero dimensions inside a solid. The quantum mechanical properties of these electrons can be used to store and manipulate quantum data for revolutionary applications in computing, communication, sensing and bio-medical diagnostic applications.

Health - Computer Science - 23.04.2014

UHealth: Leader in Breakthrough Technology
Becomes the first academic medical center in the world to use the new da Vinci Xi(TM) Surgical System MIAMI, Fla.

Computer Science - 23.04.2014

A Key To Enjoying Massive Online Photo Files May Be Giving Up Some Control, Researchers Say
Press Release: A Key To Enjoying Massive Online Photo Files May Be Giving Up Some Control, Researchers Say-Carnegie Mellon News - Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft Research Explore Slow Technology : Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice [a] cs.cmu (p) edu PITTSBURGH—The ability of individuals to store and instantly access thousands of their photos online has become a commonplace luxury, but the sheer size of these archives can be intimidating.

Life Sciences - Computer Science - 22.04.2014

Penn Bioinformatics Profiling Identifies a New Mammalian Clock Gene
Over the last few decades researchers have characterized a set of clock genes that drive daily rhythms of physiology and behavior in all types of species, from flies to humans. Over 15 mammalian clock proteins have been identified, but researchers surmise there are more. A team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania wondered if big-data approaches could find them.

Computer Science - 22.04.2014

Carnegie Mellon System Lets iPad Users Explore Data with Their Fingers
: Sherry Stokes / 412-268-5976 / stokes [a] cmu (p) edu PITTSBURGH—Software developers are at the front line of cyber defense.

Mathematics - Computer Science - 18.04.2014

Hyperbolic Homogeneous Polynomials, Oh My!
Cutting-edge mathematics today, at least to the uninitiated, often sounds as if it bears no relation to the arithmetic we all learned in grade school. What do topology and combinatorics and n -dimensional space have to do with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division? Yet there remains within mathematics one vibrant field of study that makes constant reference to basic arithmetic: number theory.

Electroengineering - Computer Science - 17.04.2014

Cybersecurity science aims to disarm digital threats
Patrick McDaniel, professor of computer science and engineering at Penn State, is program manager for the Cyber Security Collaborative Research Alliance.

History / Archeology - Computer Science - 16.04.2014

Crowd-sourcing Britain’s Bronze Age: call for public to help catalogue and model prehistoric artefacts
A new joint project by the British Museum and the UCL Institute of Archaeology is seeking online contributions from members of the public to enhance a major British Bronze Age archive and artefact collection.

Computer Science - Electroengineering - 15.04.2014

Simplicity is key to co-operative robots
Research has discovered way of getting thousands of robots to cluster together and carry out tasks Until now, robotic swarms have required complex programming. These robots would be simple and cheap Robot swarms could be used to monitor pollution levels or carry out hazardous tasks A way of making hundreds - or even thousands - of tiny robots cluster to carry out tasks without using any memory or processing power has been developed by engineers at the University of Sheffield.

Electroengineering - Computer Science - 14.04.2014

New design for mobile phone masts could cut carbon emissions
Press release issued: 14 April 2014 A breakthrough in the design of signal amplifiers for mobile phone masts could deliver a massive 200MW cut in the load on UK power stations, reducing CO2 emissions by around 0.5 million tonnes a year.

Computer Science - Administration - 14.04.2014

The Heartbleed bug: What you should know
An Internet security flaw called "Heartbleed" has been featured in the news recently.

Computer Science - 11.04.2014

Sneak a peek through the mist to technology of the future
Press release issued: 11 April 2014 A tabletop display with personal screens made from a curtain of mist that allow users to move images around and push through the fog-screens and onto the display, will be unveiled at an international conference later this month.

Computer Science - 09.04.2014

See what a child will look like using automated age-progression software
University of Washington It's a guessing game parents like to ponder: What will my child look like when she grows up? A computer could now answer the question in less than a minute. University of Washington researchers have developed software that automatically generates images of a young child's face as it ages through a lifetime.

Electroengineering - Computer Science - 07.04.2014

UW startup creates underwater robotics with a human touch
University of Washington It should be just as easy to use a robotic arm as it is to use your own hand.

Computer Science - Mechanical Engineering - 07.04.2014

Down to the details, a giant in computing history
Down to the details, a giant in computing history Harvard Mark I exhibit gets an upgrade S eventy years ago, the first programmable computer in the United States began humming away in a basement lab where the Maxwell-Dworkin building stands today.

Physics - Computer Science - 03.04.2014

Quantum cryptography for mobile phones
Press release issued: 3 April 2014 An ultra-high security scheme that could one day get quantum cryptography using Quantum Key Distribution into mobile devices has been developed and demonstrated by researchers from the University of Bristol's Centre for Quantum Photonics (CQP) in collaboration with Nokia.

Computer Science - 03.04.2014

Stanford computer scientists learn to predict which photos will go viral
Researchers can forecast the ultimate popularity of a Facebook photo by watching how fast it is shared.

Health - Computer Science - 03.04.2014

Event - Computer Science - 28.03.2014

Mathematics - Computer Science - 27.03.2014

Three Cornell faculty named Sloan Research Fellows
Two Cornell faculty members and one new hire who will join the faculty this summer have been named 2014 Sloan Research Fellows by the Sloan Foundation.

Administration - Computer Science - 20.03.2014

UCL Entrepreneurs get thumbs up from Airbnb co-founder
A start-up founded by four UCL students has won the backing of a panel of judges led by Airbnb co-founder, Nathan Blecharczyk.

Administration - Computer Science - 20.03.2014

Keeping our secrets
This year's Oxford London Lecture, entitled 'Keeping Our Secrets', explored how far societies can shape the development of computing and technologies.

Health - Computer Science - 19.03.2014

Pocket diagnosis
A new app which turns any smartphone into a portable medical diagnostic device could help in the fight against diseases including HIV, tuberculosis and malaria in the developing world. By quickly getting medical data from the field to doctors or centralised laboratories, it may help slow or limit the spread of pandemics.

Health - Computer Science - 13.03.2014

Surgeons train on new robotic course combining simulation and soft tissue
An Imperial College team was the first in the UK to run a robotic surgery course combining practice on soft tissue with computer simulations.

Electroengineering - Computer Science - 13.03.2014

Soft robotic fish moves like the real thing
A new robotic fish can change direction almost as rapidly as a real fish. Soft robots - which don't just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels - have become a sufficiently popular research topic that they now have their own journal, Soft Robotics .

Physics - Computer Science - 12.03.2014

Quantum physics secures new cryptography scheme
The way we secure digital transactions could soon change.

Life Sciences - Computer Science - 10.03.2014

Artificial intelligence lie detector developed by Imperial alumnus
Technology that uses artificial intelligence to detect lies via tiny changes in facial expressions has been developed by an Imperial alumnus.

Social Sciences - Computer Science - 10.03.2014

Stanford lab yields new privacy-based social network
With rising public interest in what developers refer to as the "privacy economy," a new app allows users to control their personal data.

Computer Science - Economics - 07.03.2014

Industry honour for computing professor

Electroengineering - Computer Science - 06.03.2014

Berkeley teams take energy innovation to ARPA-E Summit and Capitol Hill
A research team from Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley appeared on Capitol Hill Thursday (Feb. 27) to show off their innovation in energy efficiency: a backpack-mounted system for quickly mapping energy use throughout a building and identifying ways to reduce it.

Computer Science - Social Sciences - 06.03.2014

Countries most at risk from Ukraine-style revolt indentified
06 Mar 2014 A teaching tool developed to investigate the relationship between digital technology and political upheaval has correctly identified Ukraine as the country most-likely to undergo a revolution.

Computer Science - Electroengineering - 05.03.2014

Designing robots that can keep secrets
Humanoid robots are not just the stuff of science fiction: these computing devices are likely to be walking around our streets in the next decade.