Technology

Emoticons Aren't Ruining Language, They're Revolutionizing It

txt msgs r running language *ruining ^lol, jk!!:) In many casual discussions of language and the internet, it’s not uncommon to hear about how such “textspeak ruins language” – how technology has made everybody lazy with their speech and writing. Major me ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 12 2015 - 8:38am

IMPEx: A Universal Translator For Space Science

Space science missions are a lot like smartphones. News apps and operating systems may not be compatible with older hardware and vice-versa. Different data processing protocols of individual space missions has limited comparison of data from numerous space ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2015 - 8:00am

Ultra-Realistic Robot Fish Can Scare A Real One

The predatory red tiger oscar may be scary to zebrafish but it will run from a robot predator.  ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2015 - 9:00am

Is Google Search Biased Against Female CEOs?

The percentage U.S. CEOs who are women is 27 but you wouldn't know that by searching among Google images. Of the top 100 Google image search results for CEOs women are only 11 percent.  Obviously Google is not in the social engineering business, they ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2015 - 3:30pm

New High-throughput Screening Method For Chronic Kidney Disease

A newly developed assay may help investigators identify novel drug candidates to protect kidney cells and prevent or treat chronic kidney disease (CKD). CKD affects more than 13% of adults in the United States, with diabetes, hypertension and atherosclero ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2015 - 7:30am

Memristor Tech Mimics Function Of The Brain

Since we have been hearing about quantum computing for decades with no real applied breakthroughs, it may be necessary to use technology available now to edge close to computers that act like brains. A team wants to create the functionality of a network of ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 12 2015 - 11:00am

Killer Robots: Debating The Future Of Autonomous Weapons

The roles played by autonomous weapons will be discussed at a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, this week which could have far reaching ramifications for the future of war. The second Expert Meeting on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) will discuss i ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 13 2015 - 7:30am

Singular Value Decomposition Method Increases Accuracy Of Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis

Nearly anyone touched by ovarian cancer will tell you that almost 80 percent of patients reach advanced stages before diagnosis and that most patients are expected to die within five years. One quarter of women diagnosed have no warning that they are resi ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2015 - 8:30am

No Batteries Required- New Camera Runs Forever

A research team has created a prototype video camera that is fully self-powered. Solar panels and digital cameras obviously have different purposes- one converts light to power while the other simply measures it- but both are constructed from essentially ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2015 - 4:12pm

Spinning Objects: A Process for Controlling Self-modifying Systems

I used to work with a programming language called Business Basic.  It was descended through several generations from the original Dartmouth BASIC.  Like all primitive 3rd generation languages early Business Basic languished in the era of line numbered sou ...

Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Apr 16 2015 - 12:46am