Instead of a house embedded with sensors, smart homes of the future may track a homeowner’s movements by monitoring the electrical noise made by different devices throughout the house as they are turned on and off. “The problem I see with a lot of ubiquitous computing research is that it requires the creation of new [...]
University of Maryland researchers have built a prototype of a desktop supercomputer, and now plan to shrink the license-plate-size board running at 75 MHz to a version that is about the size of a fingernail and runs between 1 GHz and 2 GHz. The Explicit Multi-Threading (XMT) computer makes use of parallel computing algorithms and [...]
Hewlett-Packard’s Trusted Systems Lab director Martin Sadler predicts that by 2057 there could be at least 1 million devices for every resident in the United Kingdom, and that a person’s entire life could be recorded on a network of intelligent sensors. However, Sadler warns that such massive amounts of collectable personal data could lead to [...]
IBM and the Beacon Institute will work with several other research institutions to develop an environmental-monitoring system for all 315 miles of the Hudson River. The project entails deploying a network of sensors that will collect biological, physical, and chemical information and transmitting it to a central location. Some sensors will be suspended from buoys [...]