Articles Tagged: Computers in other domains
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Feeding a hungry world
The fusion of next generation sensors and advanced information systems, combined with advances in unmanned aircraft systems that have emerged through aerospace engineering technologies, will contribute to the challenge of feeding our future world in a sustainable manner. Without these advances, the world may find itself short of food and perhaps on the brink of global conflict.
By Wayne Woldt, Eric Frew, George Meyer, March 2014
Journalism with flying robots
The use of unmanned aerial drones will revolutionize news reporting, but many issues need to be resolved before things can really take off.
By Matt Waite, March 2014
A dexterous crabster robot explores the seafloor
Crabster CR200 is a giant crab robot with six legs and 30 powerful joints developed at the Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering. The robot can help explore ancient shipwrecks in areas of harsh tidal currents and turbid water, where traditional underwater vehicles have trouble operating.
By Bong-Huan Jun, Hyungwon Shim, March 2014
Jumping into the water
How a Ph.D. graduate went from theoretical computer scientist to water-sensor analyzer.
By Amitai Armon, June 2012
Shared values, clashing goals
The difference between aggregating public data and investigative journalism.
By Sarah Cohen, December 2011
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Smarter Cities: Making societies smarter
In this article we outline the technological characteristics and features of "smart cities," describe how these are being implemented in the real-world, and explore some of the challenges these characteristics present to communications technologies.
By Peter J. McNerney, Ning Zhang, December 2011
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The networked vehicle 1.0
The electric car revolution is back in gear and ready to plug into the mass market.
By Steven Letendre, Willet Kempton, Jasna Tomić, June 2011
Bacterial computing
Undergraduate students find that a genetically engineered machine can solve Hamiltonian Path Problems.
By Jeffrey L. Poet, A. Malcolm Campbell, Todd T. Eckdahl, Laurie J. Heyer, September 2010
IT for synthetic biology and DNA nanotechnology
Somewhere between the studies of information technology and organic chemistry, researchers are trying to make tiny robots out of DNA molecules.
By Masami Hagiya, Fumiaki Tanaka, Ibuki Kawamata, September 2010