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Telstra hit over virtual Uluru
By Simon Canning
May 24, 2007 01:00am
Article from: The Australian
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Whereas previous screens produced only an illusion

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They found that new axons – the branches that connect ...
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Jigsaw figures out what you are doing by monitoring your... microphone, GPS and accelerometer for patterns character... activities - and it could be set to send the results to ... sites.
More importantly, Jigsaw can log how active you are each ...

Attempts to simulate the brain usually involve programmi... behave like groups of neurons. A new "neuromorphic" desi... recreate the brain's hardware, using analogue components...
The Spikey chip contains 400 "neurons", or printed circu ...
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Topshop pays 140 times as much tax as Google, despite be... less profitable business.

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In the nineteen-seventies, the Internet was a small, dec ...
This is not the Internet we know today. Nearly two decad ...

Get Your Own Social Network!
Ning is the only online service where you can create, cu ...

The OpenURL Framework Standard defines an architecture for creating OpenURL Framework Applications. An OpenURL Framework Application is a networked service environment, in which packages of information are transported over a network. These ...

This project is an important step in the development and... assessment metrics, which include usage-based metrics, s... references, and network behavioral analysis. In addition... explore potential assessment criteria for non-traditiona... such as dat

AVL tree
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Definition: A balanced binary search tree where the heig ...

k-d tree
(data structure)
Definition: A multidimensional search tree for points in ...
See also binary search tree, adaptive k-d tree, point ac ...
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luefish is a surveillance system which tracks the prese... devices, and their users.
Bluefish constantly scans for Bluetooth-enabled devices, ...
Over time, a profile is built for each discovered device ...

Microsoft is under fire this week over a patent it was g... dubbed the "avoid ghetto" feature for GPS devices. The n... to help pedestrians avoid unsafe neighborhoods, bad weat... terrain by taking information from maps, weather reports...
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Daniel Berger, a researcher at MIT, traced these neurons ...
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People can get pretty addicted to computer games. By som ...
Right now I'm at the novice level of a game called EyeWi ...

In universities around the world, semesters end with stu... similar surveys about their experience in the class and ... teacher.
Student ratings are high-stakes. They come up when facul ...
Recently, a number of faculty members have been publishi ...