Stanford’s Video Processing in the Cloud Allows Interactive Streaming of Online Lectures

Stanford Report (CA) (06/28/11) Melissae Fellet Stanford University researchers recently released the program code for ClassX, software that converts static videos of class lectures into interactive online video streams.  The researchers simplified the recording equipment to a tripod, a wireless microphone, and a high-definition camcorder.  The software enables the viewer to zoom and pan around [...]

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New Software Improves the Maintenance and Management of Forests

RUVID (06/15/11) Forests could receive better maintenance and management using new software developed by a team at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV).  The software is designed to generate maps of forest areas with information on timber volume, biomass, or the height of trees.  UPV researchers designed the software to integrate the Light Detection And [...]

Protecting Medical Implants From Attack

MIT News (06/13/11) Larry Hardesty Although millions of people worldwide have implantable medical devices, recent research has shown that these devices are vulnerable to attack, such as an attacker instructing a device to deliver lethal doses of medicine or electricity.  Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst have developed a [...]

Chinese Super Breaks World Record in Application Performance

HPC Wire (06/09/11) Michael Feldman Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Process Engineering recently claimed to have run a molecular simulation code at 1.87 petaflops, which represents the highest floating point performance ever achieved by a real-world application code, on the graphics processing unit (GPU)-powered Tianhe-1A supercomputer.  The three-hour simulation modeled the [...]

OpenStudy to Forge Partnership With NPTEL

The Hindu (India) (05/30/11) T. Ramachandran OpenStudy, a Web-based platform that seeks to become a kind of Facebook for learning, has partnered with the National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL).  OpenStudy brings together people who have questions with those who may have answers.  Learners, including those who are not part of a formal education [...]

Google Uses New Tool to Track Dengue Fever Hubs

BBC News (05/31/11) Google is developing an early warning system for dengue fever outbreaks by monitoring dengue fever-related search terms by users in at-risk countries such as Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Singapore.  ”Using the dengue case count data provided by the Ministries of Health and the World Health Organization, we’re able to build a [...]

Web Interface Defines New Paradigm for Life Science Data Sharing

Riken (05/31/11) Tetsuro Toyoda The Japanese research institute RIKEN has developed the Scientists’ Networking System (SciNetS), a lightweight Web service interface for accessing large amounts of life science research data across several public and private domains.  SciNetS provides a secure and flexible interface for millions of data records and brings together nearly 200 public database [...]