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University of Pennsylvania professor Daniel Lee is working to imbue robots with human-level thinking and behavioral ability.
Lee believes the key to this advancement is achieving a better understanding of how living things compute information and transferring that information to the robot realm. “Traditional computer algorithms which do fast search and brute computation will not make [...]

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Researchers at Seagate Technology are pursuing a laser heating recording method to improve the capacity of computer hard drives.
The researchers have developed a test magnetic recording head that includes a new device that acts like an optical antenna. They say that a thin film of tiny magnetic particles could be heated while receiving data [...]

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A movement is underway to eliminate power cables from consumer mobile devices by using wireless recharging.
However, while the technology may be sound, a profitable business model remains elusive. Developments that may help convince manufacturers to incorporate wireless charging modules into their devices include the organization of the Wireless Power Consortium, a group committed to establishing [...]

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The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT) has developed an augmented reality (AR) system for underwater use that outfits a scuba diver’s mask with a display that overlays computer-generated virtual scenes onto real underwater surroundings.
The AR technology is being explored to find applications for professional divers. Underwater use is a major challenge for [...]

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The personal computer (PC) is expected to advance in both intelligence and form factor over the next 10 years, evolving into a merger of computing devices and peripherals that can help carry out “the higher cognitive tasks of what people do to get their jobs done,” says Intel research director Andrew Chien.
The laptop form factor [...]

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Henry Tirri, Nokia’s head of research, says the economic downturn will lead to more investments in collaboration tools, broadband, video, and mobile technology to eliminate the need for travel.
Over the next few years, people will move some of their computing functions onto mobile devices, including Internet browsing and media consumption. Tirri says that by 2020, [...]

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The Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) and scientists at the University Catholique de Louvain in Belgium deployed a Web-based, secure, verifiable-voting system for the Belgium presidential election that was held in early March.
Called Helios, the system was developed by CRCS fellow Ben Adida. “Helios allows [...]

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Microsoft unveiled a Microsoft Office Labs production codenamed ‘2019′ at the Wharton Business Technology Conference, giving out the idea on how Microsoft itself envisions the future. The devices shown do not exist yet but they are likely to be built in the next 10 years.
The video production can be viewed below.

Video: Future Vision Montage

Source: Sizlopedia.com

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The University of Illinois at Chicago’s National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) has developed the Sector System, a cloud-computing system that processes data from geographically distributed data centers across high-performance networks at a rate that is six times faster than competing technology.
The technology behind the Sector System has an open architecture design. The system uses [...]

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