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Article | 11/08/2011 Brazilian digital forensics lab fights faked evidence
The question whether a photo showing you pulling off a mask after robbing a bank is real or fake may decide if you go to jail or not. For his research...
Article | 11/08/2011 Work on home sensors targets energy efficiency
Homeowners who want to know which electrical device in their house consumes the most energy will soon be able to find out due to the research of Shwet...
Article | 11/08/2011 Research in game theory tackles IT complexity
As IT systems are getting more complex, designing them correctly is getting more difficult, too, says computer scientist Krishnendu Chatterjee. For hi...
Article | 11/08/2011 Award-winning researcher will test stroke-detection devices
With a US$100,000 cash award from Microsoft, the University of Sydney's Alistair McEwan will set up trials of electronic devices that can diagnose hea...
Article | 11/08/2011 Microsoft awards fellowships to eight researchers
Microsoft has awarded this year's Research Faculty Fellowship to eight researchers who will receive grants up to US$200,000 each.
Article | 11/08/2011 Encrypting data in the cloud brings win for Texas
For his work on the foundations of a new way of encrypting data, Brent Waters from the University of Texas in Austin has been elected as one of this y...
Article | 11/08/2011 Researcher teaches computers to detect spam more accurately
Without spam detection many of us would spend hours managing the daily load of e-mails. Nina Balcan develops machine learning methods that could be us...
Article | 11/08/2011 Computer scientist predicts your next Facebook friends
Half of the friends you will add on Facebook in the future can be predicted, said Stanford University's Jure Leskovec. He has been elected as one of t...
Article | 9/08/2011 SETI to turn telescopes back on in coming days
The Allen Telescope Array, funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and used by the SETI Institute to search for extraterrestrial life, should be bac...
Article | 8/08/2011 Build your own camera, launch it like a grenade
Meet the Firefly.
Article | 6/08/2011 CalTech, UCSD bring photonics to silicon
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology and the University of California, San Diego have developed a silicon-based optical waveguide tha...
Article | 5/08/2011 Microsoft debuts software for homebrew gadget builds
Hardware hackers building their own gadgets may want to take a look at a new offering from Microsoft that promises to save time in prototyping new dev...
Article | 2/08/2011 Nissan eyes powering your house from your car
In a twist on conventional charging for electric cars, Nissan has developed a system that allows a vehicle to supply electricity to power a house.
Article | 2/08/2011 Nissan eyes powering your house from your car
In a twist on conventional charging for electric cars, Nissan has developed a system that allows a vehicle to supply electricity to power a house.
Article | 30/06/2011 Researchers propose 'skinning' bridges for fault detection
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Potsdam in Germany have pioneered a new way to continually monitor the phys...