Applied Physics

Brightcove Accelerates Expansion In Europe With Launch Of German Office

HAMBURG, Germany, October 14 /PRNewswire/--- New Office Opened in Hamburg, Germany; VP of EMEA Appointed to Manage Region Brightcove Inc., the leading online video platform, today announced the expansion of its operations in Europe with the appointment of ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 13 2008 - 11:30pm

Machine Almost Passes The Turing Test, Comes Close To Human Communication

At a major Artificial Intelligence competition at the University of Reading on 12 October, machines have come close to imitating human communication. As part of the 18th Loebner Prize, all of the artificial conversational entities (ACEs) competing to pass ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 13 2008 - 11:41pm

Ferrari Takes Microsoft's New High-Performance Computing For A Spin

MARANELLO, Italy, October 15 /PRNewswire/--- Desk-side supercomputing is poised to revolutionise automotive design and engineering. Two of the most dynamic, high-performance companies in the world joined forces today when Ferrari SpA decided to use Micros ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 14 2008 - 11:30pm

/C O R R E C T I O N-- Microsoft/

MARANELLO, Italy, October 15 /PRNewswire/-- In the news release, Ferrari Takes Microsoft's New High-Performance Computing for a Spin, issued earlier today by Microsoft over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the fourth paragraph, first s ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 15 2008 - 9:30am

Want To Find Dark Matter? Listen For WIMPS

A team of researchers in Canada say they have made a bold stride in the struggle to detect dark matter- and it involves listening and WIMPS. The PICASSO collaboration has documented the discovery of a significant difference between the acoustic signals in ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2008 - 12:32am

China Solar Photovoltaic SA Appointment Of A New Chief Technology And Operating Officer

DONGYING, Shandong, China, October 16 /PRNewswire/-- CNPV, a multi product solar company (ingots, wafers, solar cells & modules), with a strong presence in the Solar Photovoltaic space, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. B. Veerraju Chaudar ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 16 2008 - 2:34am

Why Did Lambeosaurs Have Crests On Their Heads? To Communicate, It Seems

Paleontologists have long debated the function of the strange, bony crests on the heads of the duck-billed dinosaurs known as lambeosaurs. The structures contain incredibly long, convoluted nasal passages that loop up over the tops of their skulls. Scienti ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2008 - 10:36am

Maybe We Should Stop Calling It Junk DNA?

Nothing drives biologists crazier than people who think the colloquial meaning of 'junk' means junk DNA is valueless. For about 15 years, scientists have known that certain junk DNA, repetitive DNA segments previously thought to have no function, ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2008 - 9:17pm

'Plug-and-Play' Synthetic RNA Device

Engineers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a "plug-and-play" synthetic RNA device--a sort of eminently customizable biological computer--that is capable of taking in and responding to more than one biological or ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 18 2008 - 1:18am

Bloodhound SSC- A Car Moving At One Thousand Miles Per Hour

What does it take to build a car capable of going 1,000 MPH, 30% faster than any car that has gone before?  Richard Noble of Swansea University and lead of the aerodynamics team for the BLOODHOUND SSC (super sonic car) Project, intends to find out by 2011 ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 23 2008 - 9:30am