by mokosam on November 18, 2009
By matching children with rare or life-threatening diseases and modelling potential disease progression, researchers hope to find new routes forward.
Software tools are being developed that can search and compare patient data at hospitals across Europe to find children with closely matched conditions. The doctors can then study how the matched patients at other hospitals were [...]
by mokosam on November 15, 2009
New software is under development that doctors hope will help them identify brain tumours in children that will grow aggressively.
Some brain tumours in children remain benign and doctors choose not to operate. But a small percentage of those will suddenly start to grow aggressively.
Doctors have not identified what triggers that aggressive tumour growth, despite the [...]
by mokosam on November 14, 2009
Scientists and curiosity seekers who want to know what a partially or completely cloaked object would look like in real life can now get their wish — virtually. A team of researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany has created a new visualization tool that can render a room containing such an object, [...]
by mokosam on December 11, 2008
Aircrafts and fueling vehicles move around, cleaning brigades come and go. Security staff keep watch on everything to ensure nobody gets into danger. New software will soon help them with their task: It locates people and objects, and immediately detects unauthorized persons.
The apron of an airport is a hive of activity. Ground staff drive baggage [...]
by mokosam on December 6, 2008
Software deadlocks are the Catch-22s of the computer world. These common bugs can freeze the machine when different parts of a program end up in an endless cycle of waiting for one another as they access shared data.
University of Michigan researchers developed a new way around this problem with a controller that can anticipate and [...]
by mokosam on November 9, 2008
A road construction barrier falls over: The car driver can’t avoid it, since there are cars on the lane next to him. In future, a new software program will enable cars to coordinate maneuvers together in dangerous situations.
A child runs across the street without paying attention to the traffic, just as a car approaches at [...]