Computers With Human-Like Vision Could Strengthen Security And Surveillance, UCLA Researchers Say (November 7, 2001) -- Unmanned military vehicles could distinguish cave entrances from shadows and locate other hazards if they had a sense of vision similar to humans, say researchers at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of ... > full story

Animated 3-D Boosts Deaf Education; "Andy" The Avatar Interprets By Signing (March 13, 2001) -- "Andy" the avatar talks with his hands. He is a 3D animation, displaying a distinct personality and natural facial expressions that help him interpret words and phrases for hearing-disabled viewers ... > full story

Software Advance Helps Computers Act Logically (June 18, 2005) -- Computers just respond to commands, never "thinking" about the consequences. A new software language, however, promises to enable computers to reason much more precisely and thus better reflect ... > full story

UF Psychologists: Computer Anxiety New Illness Of High-Tech Age (July 31, 1998) -- To the fear of math, flying and other stressful problems of modern high-tech life add 'computerphobia,' say University of Florida psychologists.Just as a single bad experience can discourage people ... > full story

Teaching Computers To Replace Lost Sounds (March 25, 2002) -- Mike Savic can't recapture the 18 missing minutes of the Watergate tapes, but he can teach computers to deliver sounds that have been damaged in transmission. His research will aid military ... > full story

Visonary Computers May Put Hockey On Cell Phones (May 21, 2004) -- They may never appreciate the poetry of a sprawling glove save, or the thrill of an overtime winner, but computers are a step closer to 'seeing' the sport of ice hockey, thanks to research at the ... > full story

Using Computers To Sort Out Facts From Opinions (September 26, 2006) -- In "information extraction," computers scan text for words and phrases that identify subjects, objects and specific types of information in order to understand the highly variable ways in which human ... > full story

Technology Helps Disabled Kids Find Their Voice (February 20, 2006) -- Laptop computers that combine features from popular toys with innovative technology have rapidly accelerated the learning and communication ability of disabled children, Penn State researchers say. ... > full story

The Mathematics Of A Lampshade (June 7, 2001) -- Try to solve the following maths problem: does x^3+y^2+1 produce the same form as x^3+3y^2+xy^2? For cubic equations, it's possible to solve this problem, but mathematicians found things more ... > full story

Quantum Computer Could Solve Problems In A Few Months That Would Take Conventional Computers Millions Of Years (September 13, 2001) -- How to build a super fast computer that uses the bizarre properties of quantum physics is the aim of a project by computer scientists Fred Chong of the University of California, Davis, Isaac Chuang ... > full story

Webcam -- A web camera (or webcam) is a real time camera whose images can be accessed using the World Wide Web, instant messaging, or a PC video calling ... > full article

Speech recognition -- Speech recognition technologies allow computers equipped with a source of sound input, such as a microphone, to interpret human speech. The challenge for developers of Automatic Speech ... > full article

Streaming media -- Streaming media is media that is consumed (read, heard, viewed) while it is being delivered. Streaming is more a property of the delivery system than the media ... > full article

Application software -- Application software is a loosely defined subclass of computer software that employs the capabilities of a computer directly to a task that the user wishes to ... > full article

Computing -- Originally, the word computing was synonymous with counting and calculating, and a science that deals with the original sense of computing mathematical ... > full article

Malware -- Malware ("malicious software") is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system, without the owner's consent. The term describes the intent of the creator, rather than any particular ... > full article

HTTP cookie -- An HTTP cookie is a packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser and then sent back by the browser each time it accesses that server. Cookies have been of concern for Internet ... > full article

Computer software -- Computer software (or simply software) is that part of a computer system that consists of encoded information (or computer instructions), as opposed to the physical computer equipment (hardware) ... > full article

Cyber-bullying -- Cyber-bullying (cyberbullying, online bullying) is the use of electronic information and communication devices such as e-mail, instant messaging, text messages, mobile phones, pagers and defamatory ... > full article

Computer-generated imagery -- Computer-generated imagery is the application of the field of computer graphics to special effects. CGI is used in movies, television programs and commercials, and in printed ... > full article

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