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22nd Mar 2009

Stripping down Computer Science


Chris Smith

Ben Valsler
A computer

This week, we'll strip computer science down to its components and find out what we should expect to see in the next 5 years. We find out about the thinking behind artificial intelligence, what the future holds for Second Life and how neuroscience can help us build truly intelligent computers. Plus, get your sunglasses out early this year for Kitchen Science where we make an LCD monitor vanish.

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News

(c) Prof. Howard Wheal and Dr. John Chad, University of Southampton

Researchers stimulate Parkinson's Breakthrough

Scientists have stumbled upon a new way to help patients with Parkinson's to move more easily. Writing in this week's Science, Duke University researcher Miguel Nicolelis and his colleagues have used experimental animals to show how a simple nerve stimulation technique can overcome the symptoms of...

(c) Trout Lore

Omega 3 – It might be good for you, but it’s definitely bad for fish

The health benefits of eating the Omega-3 amino acids found in fish may not outweigh the cost to the oceans of our continued fishing, according to an analysis in the Canadian Medical Association Journal this week. Dr David Jenkins argues that although some studies show that eating fish rich in Omeg...

(c) Yelyos

Sutures of the future

Sutures of the future might well be deployed by a portable ink-jet printer according to scientists in the US. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researcher Roger Narayan and his team, with a view to finding better ways to close wounds, have been investigating the sticking power of a collect...

(c) B_cool @ wikipedia

Tiger Stripes As ID

New Software can identify a tiger from its pelt, helping to catch poachers out in the act. A tiger’s stripes are unique, much like our own fingerprints, so this means that individual tigers can be identified from its colouring. Lex Hiby, from Conservation Research Limited, has developed a softwar...


Kitchen Science

(c) Dave Ansell
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Disappearing monitors - the power of polarisation

If you have ever wanted to know how to make something on your computer screen disappear then find out here. Also find out why you should use polarised sunglasses and how an LCD monitor works.


QotW

(c) U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Chameleon skin foods

Can food that turns flamingoes pink do the same to humans?


I've never liked the term Computer Science.

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Interviews

(c) NASA

Prospecting the Gravity Field

The European Space Agency has launched the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer, or GOCE for short. They say it’s going to bring about a whole new level of understanding of one of the Earth's most fundamental forces of nature – the gravity field

(c) Greudin

The Future of Computing

What's involved in computer research and can we make computers genuinely intelligent?

(c) NPL

The Underbelly of Second Life

How the guys at Second Life build their virtual environment and why bots with artifical intelligence might be companions of the future.

(c) Washington irving

The Human CPU: from Computer Science to Neuroscience.

Writer of the DOS game Theme Park, Demis applies his programming techniques to understanding the mechanics of the human mind.


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