Technology

The End Of The Stakeout? Single Sensor Has Autonomous Multi-target, Multi-user Tracking Capability

In the modern world, even residents of London generate more i ntelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) data than human operators can collate and that can severely limit the ability of an analyst to generate intelligence reports in operationally r ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2011 - 9:50am

Open Science In Science 2.0- Who Does It?

Five years into the Science 2.0 experiment I can tell you down to the eyeball how many people are involved in the communication pillar of it- but in the collaboration realm, it's not so easy. Science 2.0 fave Heather A. Piwowar from the Department of ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 17 2011 - 6:05pm

National Geographic Ends Anonymous Accounts At Scienceblogs.com

National Geographic, which nows runs Scienceblogs.com, has put the hammer down on anonymous blogs. Really, that whole thing was always a little sketchy.  Supposedly the rationale was that these people were going to be edgy insiders revealing things too exp ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 18 2011 - 6:29pm

Magic Goggles And Enchanted Maps- Kind Of A Science 2.0 For Museums

At Science 2.0 we are not big fans of being clever just for the sake of being clever- we were smart kids and there are smart kids today and the belief by government funding agencies that STEM outreach needs to be cartoons and video games and mascots is a l ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2011 - 1:34pm

MABEL- World's Fastest Bipedal Robot (With Knees)

A robot named MABEL was created in a University of Michigan lab but 'she' can run like a human, up to 6.8 miles per hour. Unless HYDRA and SHIELD exist in secret underground lairs, MABEL is the world's fastest bipedal robot- with knees, that ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 22 2011 - 6:01pm

How Webometrics Become A Liability In Webometry

Webometrics faces many challenges, not the least of which is a dearth of tools capable of measuring the Web with any degree of accuracy.  Most academic and professional Webometrics analysts alike have had to rely on a mix of search engine downloads and que ...

Article - Michael Martinez - Aug 23 2011 - 11:21am

Smooth Like A Robot? An Algebraic Approach To Better Movement

A research project aims to improve the control of robot movements with the help of new mathematical approaches.  New developments in the areas of motion planning, computer-aided design and algebraic geometry aim to help in   the identification of situation ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2011 - 10:10am

Blog On Weekly Blogging

To celebrate a half year of effort, this is a blog on weekly blogging. Three tangibles are created by the process: the Science20 blog, a YouTube videoblog, and a chapter in a book of blogs (still under development). I will go through my technical suite use ...

Article - Doug Sweetser - Sep 5 2011 - 10:10am

Gazing at the Web from the Back Porch

The universe I see when I sit on my porch and look up into the sky is very different from the universe a professional astronomer sees with all of today's available advanced technology.  On a clear night I may be able to see a few galaxies.  On any nig ...

Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Sep 9 2011 - 1:23am

On The Path Toward A "Star Trek"-Style Sick Bay

A non-invasive disease detection facility has been unveiled  for use in Leicester Royal Infirmary's A&E department.  It will detect the "sight, smell and feel" of disease without the use of invasive probes, blood tests, or other time-con ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 31 2011 - 8:16pm