New York Times

Researchers at Rice University and Hewlett-Packard (HP) have developed technologies that promise to continue the rapid miniaturization of computer chips. The Rice scientists have developed a way to build reliable small digital switches, a vital part of computer memory, which could shrink to a significantly...

Wall Street Journal

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is close to passing a proposal that would free up the vacant spectrum between TV channels, known as white space, which would allow technology and telecommunications companies to introduce new wireless devices and services. Technology companies want to use...

Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)

Four humanoid robots recently danced in Australia with the Melbourne dance troupe Wickid Force. A team of Sydney scientists spent several months fine-tuning motor control algorithms that enabled them to program the robots for the highly controlled, fluid dance movements. The robots' dance...

CNet

The World Wide Web Consortium's Multimodal Interaction Working Group is developing the Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML), a new specification aimed at formalizing emotional states in a way that computers can understand. EmotionML also is being developed to improve communication between people and computers. "Today's computers force...

Mercury News

The latest study from the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) found that 10-year returns on venture capital investments turned negative at the end of last year and plummeted in the first quarter of this year, while 90 percent of surveyed venture capitalists expect industry contraction through 2015....

New York Times

Scientists including Microsoft Research's Eric Horvitz say natural user interfaces, such as touch screens, have seeped into people's daily existence more quickly and completely than other technological behaviors because the act of touching a screen is so natural, intimate, and intuitive He predicts that the future...

ICT Results

The European Union-funded Novel Advanced Transparent Conductive Oxides (NATCO) project has developed novel transparent conductive oxides (TCOs) through a combination of computer modeling of quantum mechanics and precision fabrication processes. The resulting materials have a broad range of potential applications in sensors, solar cells, smart windows,...

Daily Beacon (TN)

Researchers at the University of Tennessee (UT) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are part of a seven-institution project that is developing methods for predicting climate change more accurately. The project is using data mining to "discover hidden patterns among model-simulated variables that are relatively...

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light have developed a way to remotely control the photon detectors in quantum cryptography systems. "Unlike previously published attempts,...

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) professor Tarek Abdelzaher and his team are working with researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles and other institutions to develop a new Internet architecture called Named Data Networking (NDN). The researchers say that NDN will...