Death and the Powers, a new opera by Tod Machover, premieres on September 24 at l’Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Monaco. Shows run on September 24th (invitation only), September 25th (8pm), and September 26th (3pm and 8pm). The opera was produced by ...

A computer uses virtual blocks to build a three-dimensional approximation of the image at left that makes sense based on volume and mass. (Carnegie Mellon University) Computer vision systems can struggle to make sense of a single image, but a ...

Amazon | In this remarkably illustrative and thoroughly accessible look at one of the most intriguing frontiers in science and computers, award-winning New York Times writer George Johnson reveals the fascinating world of quantum computing—the holy grail of super computers where the ...

Sociologist Clifford Nass, who’s just published the book The Man Who Lied to his Laptop, in which he uses our interactions with machines to investigate how human relationships could be improved. More here: New book says we relate to our computers like ...

A number of Android alternatives are ready to hit the market over the next several months and there’s something for everyone. More here: Here They Come: The Android Tablet Invasion

Amazon | After a gig investigating “locative art” for the “overly wealthy and dangerously curious” Hubertus Bigend, founder of the trend-forecasting firm Blue Ant (Spook Country, 2007), Hollis Henry finds herself once again under Bigend’s employ. This ...

UCLA researchers have fabricated the fastest graphene transistor to date, using a new fabrication process with a nanowire as a self-aligned gate. Self-aligned gates are a key element in modern transistors, which are semiconductor devices used to amplify and switch electronic signals. Gates ...

(David Knezevic and Dinh Bao Phuong Huynh) Researchers in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering have developed software that can simulate complicated physical phenomena — how cracks form in building materials, for instance, or fluids flow through irregular channels — on an ...

The AlloSphere, a three-story-high globe at the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara,  facilitates interactive 3-D visualizations to enables scientists to dive into data in unprecedented ways. Inside the sphere, they can get their hands on the ...

Memristor (StanWilliams, HP Labs) Hewlett-Packard announced today that it has entered an agreement with the Korean electronics manufacturer Hynix Semiconductor to make memristors, starting in 2013. Storage devices made of memristors will allow PCs, cellphones, and servers to store more and switch ...

Rice University scientists have created the first two-terminal memory chips that use only silicon to generate nanocrystal wires as small as 5 nanometers — far smaller than circuitry in even the most advanced computers and electronic devices. The technology breakthrough ...

Scientists at Rice University and Hewlett-Packard are reporting this week that they can overcome a fundamental barrier to the continued rapid miniaturization of computer memory by using memristors, or memory resistors, switches that retain information without a source of power. Go here to ...

DARPA is proposing a “foundry-style manufacturing capability” to reinvent manufacturing. Its new iFAB program will make everything from powered exoskeletons to bombers in a generic fabrication facility. It will soon ask for requests for proposals from private industry. More: How DARPA Plans to Reinvent ...

As the effects of accelerating technology ripple across the corporate world and combine with the forces of the Web, mobile computing, consumerization and virtualization, “traditional IT organizations won’t look [the way] they do now,” says Thomas Druby, an IT executive. To ...

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In 2010, the 16th Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments, the 7th EuroVR (INTUITION) Conference, and the annual Virtual Efficiency Congress will combine together into JVRC10 – the Joint Virtual Reality Conference of EuroVR, EGVE, and VEC. JVRC10 will provide an ...

IVA-2010 is an interdisciplinary annual conference, and the main forum for presenting research on modeling, developing and evaluating intelligent virtual agents, with a focus on communicative abilities and social behavior. Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are interactive characters that exhibit human-like ...

Researchers at Ohio State University have demonstrated the first plastic computer memory device that utilizes the spin of electrons to read and write data. An alternative to traditional microelectronics, the “spintronics” device could store more data in less space, process ...