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Computers capable of responding to users’ emotional states could be facilitated by methods developed by Tufts University researchers through the novel application of non-invasive and easily portable imaging technology. “Measuring mental workload, frustration and distraction is typically limited to qualitatively observing computer users or to administering surveys after completion of a task, potentially missing valuable [...]

MIT researchers are developing technology that could be used to make paper embedded with wires, sensors, and computer chips, creating “pulp-based” computing. MIT researchers, working with colleagues at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, are blending traditional paper-making techniques with electronic components. MIT researcher Marcelo Coelho says paper-making is an ancient process, but the ability to [...]

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 [...]

 
What is Second Life? 
Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its Residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 9,351,619 Residents from around the globe.

From the moment you enter the World you’ll discover a vast digital continent, teeming [...]

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 [...]