Articles in the Category: Computer Science
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Engineering, Inventions, Video on 02 16th, 2011 | No Comments
Machine Beats Man in Game Show Battle
Hundreds were put in jeopardy tonight at the Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute campus in upstate New York. But there was no danger. They were there to watch two humans take on a super computer named Watson on the TV game show Jeopardy!
Spoiler alert. The computer wins.
Bested by the super smart machine,...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Computer Science, Engineering, Space, Video on 02 8th, 2011 | No Comments
CubeSats to Fill the Sky
What weighs less than three pounds, fits into a shoe box and can fly around the Earth? The answer is, a CubeSat. These are the newest generation of satellites that will help NASA conduct educational and science missions in low-Earth orbit.
NASA has selected 20 of these nanosatellites to fly as auxiliary...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biofuels, Biotechnology, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Environment, Geology, Greenovation, Health and Medicine, Inventions, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Politics, Science Policy, Solar, Space, Video on 01 26th, 2011 | 2 Comments
Science Underpins Innovation in State of the Union
The 2011 State of the Union address, delivered by President Barack Obama, painted a solid picture of the future. Not surprisingly the President finds a secure and prosperous future filled with scientific and technological innovation. To create more jobs, he stresses better education including concentration...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Diseases, Engineering, Health and Medicine, Scientainment, Video on 01 14th, 2011 | No Comments
IBM Computer v. Jeopardy Champs
In Jeopardy’s! 47 year history, there has NEVER been a contestant like Watson. And who knew the first public face-off between man and machine would be a TV game show.
Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter represented humanity in a demonstration of intellectual prowess against a new...
Some People Can’t Get Enough Pi
An Ankeny, Iowa sixth grader surprised his teacher and his classmates when he took a classroom challenge to the extreme. During the annual memorization of pi — the non-repeating number that represents the circumference of a circle divided by its diameter — one student just kept going. The...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Computer Science, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 11 24th, 2010 | No Comments
How NASA Takes Earth’s Temperature
The Goddard Spaceflight Center is NASA’s research center for studying climate change. There, scientists like Dr. James Hansen, use computer models to learn about how Earth’s complex system is changing over time.
The upcoming Glory mission will help NASA fill in more missing pieces of the...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Biology, Climate, Computer Science, Engineering, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Science Policy, The Brain, Video on 11 18th, 2010 | No Comments
Obama Awards National Science Medals
President Obama bestowed medals on researchers and scientists in a ceremony in the East Room on Wednesday. The President presented the National Medal of Science to ten eminent researchers and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to three individuals and a three-person team for a wide range...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 11 11th, 2010 | No Comments
Holographic TV is Dimensions Away from Reality
Scientists say they have taken a big step toward displaying live video in three dimensions — a technology far beyond 3-D movies and more like the Star Wars movie scene where a ghostly Princess Leia image pleads, “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi.”
Researchers at Arizona State University and...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Citizen science, Computer Science, Discoveries, Space, Video on 08 13th, 2010 | No Comments
Citizen Scis Make Big Astronomical Discovery Using Computer Down Time
Citizen scientists Chris and Helen Colvin from Ames, Iowa, and Daniel Gebhardt from Mainz, Germany participate in Einstein@Home, a distributed computing program that involves a quarter of a million volunteers worldwide.
They donated their idle computer time to analyze data gathered by the world’s...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Engineering, Environment, Greenovation, Health and Medicine, Video on 07 19th, 2010 | 1 Comment
Microsoft Imagine Cup Rewards Students Who Solve Global Problems
The Imagine Cup, now in its eighth year, encourages high school and university students around the world to develop software aiming to solve global problems.
Team Skeek from Thailand took home the top prize for software design for creating a program that translates text into sign language using speech...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Climate Change, Computer Science, Engineering, Geology, Greenovation, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Politics, SciClips, Science Policy on 02 3rd, 2010 | No Comments
Science on Track for Big Budget Gains in 2011
The federal agencies submitted their budget requests to Congress this week, marking a big moment for all things science. According to preliminary reports about $148 billion of the Presidents full $3.8 trillion budget is heading for scientific research programs.
Photo courtesy of Brookhaven National...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biochemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Diseases, Ecology, Environment, Geology, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, SciClips, Space on 10 13th, 2009 | No Comments
Science Sticks its Head in the Cloud
Visualization of a river bed created using VisTrails, a system developed by University of Utah computer scientists Photo by: Juliana Freire and Claudio Silva, University of Utah
A two-year experiment to build a framework to analyze the massive amount of data scientists are collecting will push research...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Computer Science, SciClips on 10 2nd, 2009 | No Comments
Ant Security
When the ants go marching two by two, pay attention to what they are doing. Scientists are. And they are discovering clever ways to improve cyber security just by mimicking the behavior of ants.
The foraging insects use something called swarm intelligence to efficiently locate and gather food. Computer...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Podcast, Politics, SciClips on 08 28th, 2009 | No Comments
Confounded by Conficker
Just as we have to monitor our own health, now we have to be more aware of our computer’s health. While high cholesterol and blood pressure aren’t issues for our machines, keeping them free of viruses and worms are.
A new piece of malware, known as the Conficker worm, that has been worming...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Backyard Science, Computer Science, Featured Articles, Space, Video on 08 19th, 2009 | No Comments
40 Years Later, Google Puts Us All on the Moon
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, Google Earth users can now search the moon.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Backyard Science, Biology, Climate Change, Computer Science, Discoveries, Engineering, Environment, Featured Articles, Geology, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Plants, SciClips, Space, Video on 08 11th, 2009 | No Comments
Turning the iPhone into the SciPhone
Just over a year old, the Apple iTunes App Store is churning out–or rather independent developers are–applications to calculate tips, find restaurants and even play countless games. But there is little for the science-interested smart phone users.
Oh sure, among the tens of thousands of...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Computer Science, Featured Articles, Plants, Video on 08 5th, 2009 | No Comments
Science and Smart Phones
Watch the video Smart Phones and Science: Spot the Weed.
Scientists at the University of California are developing a way for the public to contribute data to research projects using a ubiquitous sensing device – the smart phone. This is a great way to collect data in weeks that would otherwise...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Featured Articles, Math, SciClips on 08 4th, 2009 | No Comments
Puzzling Math
For 35 years, the Rubik’s Cube has been puzzling people and teaching science. Starting with its inventor, Erno Rubik, first used his “magic cube” to demonstrate three-dimensional design to his architecture students.
Now mathematicians across the world are employing the brightly-colored...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Featured Articles, Politics, SciClips on 06 26th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Fake Paper Flap
No one wants to hear that scientific journals fall prey to unscrupulous scientists who manufacture data or worse whole papers. And sometimes they even are the victims of hoaxes–even some conducted in the name of science.
Philip Davis and Kent Anderson pulled a fast one on an open access journal...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Backyard Science, Biology, Computer Science, Dinosaurs, Featured Articles, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 06 18th, 2009 | No Comments
Georgia Girls Shine as Stars of Science
Summer is no time for idle minds. About 70 Georgia girls are getting a crash course in crime scene investigation, astronomy, dinosaurs and chemistry, neuroscience, computer science and mathematics.
The goal of the Women in the Sciences summer camp is to interest young women in pursuing careers in science.
Other...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Environment, Featured Articles, Marine Science, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Space on 06 17th, 2009 | No Comments
Science Smorgasbord at WSF
The four-day World Science Festival sated the minds of New Yorkers (or anyone in the vicinity) who attended the forty-plus events sponsored by the organization trying to examine the intersection of art and science.
REALscience correspondent Richard Romano tasted all the festival had to offer (minus...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Computer Science, Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Space on 06 10th, 2009 | No Comments
Tides Turn the Hunt for Habitable Planets
Astronomers are looking for life on planets orbiting red dwarf stars because they are the most common in our neck of the universal woods. But new research from University of Washington is defining what is habitable using a new line of thinking.
In order to sustain life a planet must have liquid water....
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Backyard Science, Biology, Climate Change, Computer Science, Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Math, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Plants, RawAudio, SciClips, Space, The Brain on 06 8th, 2009 | No Comments
Science For All
In a move to take science from the lab and place it in the public square, the World Science Festival is about to start its second year of inciting curiosity.
REALscience talked with organizer and physicist Brian Greene to hear what we can expect at this year’s festival.
Photo: Physicist and Co-Founder...
