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Conceptualizing A Cyborg: New Ideas On Developing Thought-Controlled Artificial Limbs (January 22, 2007) -- Investigators at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine describe the basis for developing a biological interface that could link a patient's nervous system to a thought-driven artificial ... > full story

Countries Share Good Times Using GPS And The Internet (January 22, 2007) -- International time coordination is improving thanks to a low-cost system relying on Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites and the Internet, which enables much faster time comparisons and gives ... > full story

MIT Develops Measures To Predict Performance Of Complex Systems (January 22, 2007) -- Taking a cue from the financial world, MIT researchers along with experts in industry and government have developed a list of 13 measures that engineers can use to predict how well a system -- or ... > full story

Finding Patterns Of Importance In A Deluge Of Data (January 10, 2007) -- Two Dartmouth engineers think that PQS, or process query systems, are the way to go to make sense of the huge volume of data we collect each day from computer network monitors, video surveillance ... > full story

Researchers Use Wikipedia To Make Computers Smarter (January 8, 2007) -- Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have found a way to give computers encyclopedic knowledge of the world to help them "think smarter," making common sense and broad-based ... > full story

New Computer Program Prevents Crashes And Hacker Attacks (January 3, 2007) -- Today's computers have more than 2,000 times as much memory as the machines of yesteryear, yet programmers are still writing code as if memory is in short supply. Not only does this make programs ... > full story

Whoosh! New Molecules Fastest Ever For Optical Technologies (January 3, 2007) -- The internet could soon shift into overdrive thanks to a new generation of optical molecules developed and tested by a team of researchers from Washington State University, the University of Leuven ... > full story

A Reason Why Video Games Are Hard To Give Up (December 28, 2006) -- Kids and adults will stay glued to video games this holiday season because the fun of playing actually is rooted in fulfilling their basic psychological needs. Psychologists at the University of ... > full story

Sensor Networks Protect Containers, Navigate Robots (December 28, 2006) -- Agent 007 is a mighty versatile fellow, but he would have to take backseat to agents being trained at Washington University in St. Louis. Researchers here are using wireless sensor networks that ... > full story

Physicists Set New Record For Network Data Transfer (December 27, 2006) -- An international team of physicists, computer scientists, and network engineers has joined forces to set new records for sustained data transfer between storage systems during the SuperComputing 2006 ... > full story

Snake-like Robot And Steady-hand System Could Assist Surgeons (December 25, 2006) -- Engineers are designing new high-tech medical tools to equip the operating room of the future, in an effort to help doctors treat patients more safely and effectively and allow them to perform ... > full story

Cyberspace May Overcome Ethical Constraints In Experiments (December 25, 2006) -- Psychological experiments that stopped 40 years ago because of ethical concerns could instead be conducted in cyberspace in the ... > full story

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