Tag: Technology/Engineering/Computer Science

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2020 -- Over the last century, the compound ammonium nitrate has been ...

Researchers examine impact of digital information on COVID-19 decisions and behavior

Credit: Virginia Tech With the COVID-19 pandemic now a regular part of daily life, are people changing their COVID-related risk ...

University of Liverpool spin out company uses AI to take the pain out of potholes

Credit: Robotiz3d Ltd The University of Liverpool has formed a new spin out company - Robotiz3d Ltd - to take ...

A wearable sensor to help ALS patients communicate

Researchers have designed a skin-like device that can measure small facial movements in patients who have lost the ability to ...

Hazumi datasets for dialogue systems that recognize human sentiment released

Credit: Osaka University A group of researchers from Osaka University has released multimodal human-system dialogue corpora Hazumi on the Informatics ...

Prof. Emeritus Hirofumi Akagi receives Gaston Maggetto Medal from EPE

First person in the world to win a double award with the IEEE Medal (2018)Credit: Emeritus Professor Hirofumi Akagi On ...

Optical wiring for large quantum computers

Credit: K. Metha / ETH Zurich Hitting a specific point on a screen with a laser pointer during a presentation ...

FAU awarded U.S. AFOSR grant to improve learning and operation of AI systems

FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science Researchers Receive $653,393 U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research Grant for Better ...

University of Miami joins Global Cyberinfrastucture Network as a scientific partner

Collaboration with Brazilian researchers will focus on sharing datasets in real time for improved weather and climate change predictionsCredit: Diana ...

Pufferfish-inspired robot could improve drone safety

Credit: Hooman Hedayati If you get too close to a pufferfish, this undersea creature will blow up like a balloon ...

MonoEye: A human motion capture system using a single wearable camera

Credit: ACM, UIST Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and Carnegie Mellon University have together developed a new ...

3D hand pose estimation using a wrist-worn camera

Credit: ACM, UIST Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) working in collaboration with colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, ...

New research projects to explore use of drones for medical delivery purposes

Credit: Skyfarer Cranfield University is participating in two new research projects that focus on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles ...

National Academy of Medicine selects Fujita Health University President as its member

Credit: Fujita Health University The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) announced new members at its annual meeting on October 19, ...

OPD optical sensors that reproduce any color

Credit: POSTECH Photodiodes are optical sensors that convert the energy of light into electrical energy. Organic photodiodes (OPDs) respond quickly ...

Seeing no longer believing: the manipulation of online images

Online images are not always what they seem, especially on social mediaCredit: Dr T.J. Thomson, QUT's Digital Media Research Centre ...

Virtual Reality health appointments can help patients address eating disorders

Research has revealed that Virtual Reality (VR) technology can have significant impact on the validity of remote health appointments for ...

AI and photonics join forces to make it easier to find ‘new Earths’

Australian scientists' invention will decipher the 'twinkle' of starsCredit: NASA. Australian scientists have developed a new type of sensor to ...

Good vibrations for new energy

Nanogenerator 'scavenges' power from their surroundingsCredit: Flinders University Imagine a mobile phone charger that doesn't need a wireless or mains ...

Robots and humans collaborate to revolutionize architecture