Science and Enterprise

Tag: computer science

  • Mapping Project to Find Innovation, Entrepreneurial Networks

    The University of Maryland in College Park will develop analytical mapping tools that identify innovation and entrepreneurial networks, and help spot opportunities for new business collaborations. The project, funded by part of a $500,000 grant from U.S. Department of Commerce, is based on research conducted by a Maryland doctoral candidate in urban and regional planning.…

  • U.S. Navy Developing Common Radar for Surface Ships

    The U.S. Navy is developing a new common radar architecture for surface ships, which it hopes will provide modern capabilities using commercially-available technologies. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) says the Affordable Common Radar Architecture is designed to replace multiple legacy systems with an open design that encourages more competition among industry providers. The goal…

  • More Efficient Algorithms Devised for Robotic Motions

    Computer scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have built a new robotic motion-planning system that calculates much more efficient trajectories through free space. The researchers in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) will present their findings next week at the IEEE International Conference on…

  • Semiconductor Foundation, NSF Fund Nanoelectronics Research

    Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and National Science Foundation (NSF) are funding $20 million in grants on nanoelectronics research. Some 12 research teams at 24 participating U.S. universities will conduct research over a four-year period on a new switching mechanism using nanoscale electronics as a replacement for current transistors, the…

  • Smartphone Advance Can Improve Efficiency, Extend Battery

    Researchers at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have devised a more efficient “idle mode” for smartphones and Wi-Fi devices that reduces power use and can extend battery life. Computer science and engineering professor Kang Shin and doctoral student Xinyu Zhang will present their discovery, still in proof-of-concept stage, next week at the ACM International…

  • Simulation Improves Safety at Traffic Intersections

    A computer simulation developed at Tel Aviv University in Israel incorporates human behavior data with traffic statistics to determine environmental features that lead to black spots, intersections that experience a high incidence of traffic accidents. Environmental science Ph.D. student Gennady Waizman and colleagues discussed the SAFEPED model in July at the Geocomputation 2011 conference in…

  • Consortium Funds Semiconductor Research in Emirates

    Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), a university-research consortium in Durham, North Carolina, announced seven research contracts will be awarded to four universities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The new contracts continue the joint effort between SRC and the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) in the UAE begun last year on semiconductor sciences and technologies. The…

  • Measure Devised of Disruption From Attacks on Wi-Fi Networks

    Engineers at North Carolina State University in Raleigh have developed a way of measuring the potential disruption from various types of attacks on Wi-Fi networks. The tools proposed by professor of electrical and computer engineering professor Wenye Wang and her colleagues will appear in a forthcoming issue of the journal IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.…

  • University, Company Partner on Contraband Nuclear Detector

    Researchers at University of New Hampshire in Durham and Michigan Aerospace Corporation in Ann Arbor have received a contract from the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency to build an instrument to accurately detect illicit radioactive materials from a safe distance. The one-year contract of $303,000 calls for a realistic field test of the device in…

  • Engineers Develop Full Duplex Wireless Technology

    Computer engineering researchers at Rice University in Houston have developed a technology that makes it possible for wireless devices to transmit and receive signals simultaneously and on the same frequency. This “full-duplex” capability can, in effect, double the capacity of wireless networks without adding any more cell phone towers. Mobile phones and wireless data devices…