Players of a new online game called Foldit will help design three-dimensional protein structures for HIV vaccines, and enzymes for repairing DNA in diseased tissues. David Baker, a leading protein scientist at the University of Washington, teamed up with computer scientists to create the game.
The world's climate modellers are drawing up plans for a global supercomputing center with computing power of 100 petaflops that would provide detailed local forecasts of future climate change, with the intent of generating useful forecasts of water supply, droughts, health, and future food supply.
US academics and researchers have worked out how to make energy savings of around 50%, by delaying data flowing into a network by just a few milliseconds.
Earthquake researchers in California hope to take advantage of the motion sensors in laptops to create an earthquake-sensing network. By putting computers in homes and businesses to work as seismic monitors, the researchers hope to pull together a wealth of information on major quakes, and perhaps even offer early warnings, giving a few seconds' notice of a potentially devastating quake.
Dark Web, a giant, searchable database at the University of Arizona's Artificial Intelligence Lab, is an attempt to uncover, cross-reference, catalogue and analyze all online terrorist-generated content on the at least 7000 to 8000 terrorist sites.
A team of computational scientists have created a new technology they are calling the "Dark Web" which aims to systematically collect and analyze all terrorist-generated content on the Web.
It's taken 27 years to reach 1 billion PCs in use, and market researchers say it will take only five to reach the next billion.
Researchers are developing systems to augment artificial intelligence by using humans for recognizing patterns or meanings in images, language or concepts.
The U.S. military is working on computers than can scan your mind and adapt to what you're thinking.
A new company founded by a longtime technologist is setting out to create a vast public database intended to be read by computers rather than people, paving the way for a more automated Internet in which machines will routinely share information.