Computing

  1. Computing

    Video Search à la Web

    Finding videos on the web can still be a hit-or-miss proposition.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Reading minds … or at least brain scans

    By analyzing brain activity, computers can tell what word is on your mind.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    BOOK LIST | Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs: The Question of Alien Minds

    The alien minds are of animals. The question: Can robots mimic them? Oxford Univ. Press, 2008, 252 p., $34.95. GUILTY ROBOTS, HAPPY DOGS: THE QUESTION OF ALIEN MINDS

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  4. Computing

    Scientists Get a 2nd Life

    The virtual world of Second Life offers new ways to do and learn about real science.

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  5. Tech

    Virtual Addicts

    Logging on may become more than a choice for some young people.

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  6. Computing

    Social Networking for Zebras

    Scientists are developing a new branch of network theory to understand zebra communities.

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  7. Computing

    Can You Face It?

    The University of St. Andrews, in Scotland, has developed some face-transforming software that allows people to change the age, sex, or ethnicity of the person in an image that you export from your computer. Or, blend features from a number of faces into one amalgam. If all that is too creepy, then just import art […]

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  8. Computing

    Squashing Worms

    Defeating computer worms that mutate will take some smart defense strategies.

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  9. Computing

    Cloudy Crystal Balls

    Computer programs that model climate may be so complex that global warming predictions will never settle on a single, definitive answer.

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  10. Computing

    Virtual Surgery

    Computer simulations of blood flow in the heart allow doctors to test surgical innovations before trying them on patients.

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  11. Computing

    Check on Checkers: In perfect game, there’s no winner

    Thanks to an immense calculation that worked out every possible game position, computers can now play a flawless game of checkers and force a draw every time.

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  12. Computing

    Mapping a Medusa: The Internet spreads its tentacles

    After tracking how digital information weaves around the world, researchers have concluded that, structurally speaking, the Internet looks like a medusa jellyfish.

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