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The new site is an online resource on the theory of evolution and Charles Darwin, and is linked to exposure The wonder of Mr. Darwin, The House of Sciences. This is the first exhibition of the Science Museums of Corunna intended to stimulate knowledge through interactivity.
The Science Museums of Corunna (MC2) celebrated Darwin Day, February 12, with the introduction of a dedicated website about the famous scientist and his theory of evolution. Is the first exhibition of the mc2 created for the WebIn the same key to interactivity to stimulate the knowledge base is the exposure of the House of Sciences, and the Aquarium in Domus.
MisterDarwin.eu is a web interactive, participatory, multilingual (Galician, Castilian and English), created to complement the exhibition “The astonishment of Mr. Darwin.” But more than just a complement, is an autonomous informative product that will have value in itself, even after exposure has ended, as it is designed to offer new educational resources to audiences around the world.
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A chip that performs calculations that are not entirely accurate could return to process some types of data thousands of times more efficiently than current chips .
Ask a computer which is the result of adding 100 and 100, and your response will be 200. But what if a 202 response times and sometimes 199, or any other number in the range of 1 percent difference from the correct answer?
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How to measure with a scientific method the intelligence of a human being, an animal, a machine or an alien? It is not yet achieved, but a team of Spanish and Australian researchers have taken a first step in introducing the journal Artificial Intelligence the grounds on which to base this method and advance a new intelligence test.
“We have developed an intelligence test ‘anytime’, ie which can cut off ‘at any time’, but in a way that the more time is available to do, the more approach to the understanding of the subject is achieved,” explains Jose Hernandez-Orallo SINC, a researcher at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV).
This is just one of many determinants of universal intelligence test. “The other is that it can be applied to any subject-biological or not, at any time in its development (child or adult, for example), for any system now or in the future, and with any level of intelligence or level of speed, “said Hernandez-Orallo.
The researcher, together with his colleague David L. Dowe, Monash University in Clayton (Australia), suggest the use of mathematical and computational concepts to encompass all of these conditions. The study is published in the journal Artificial Intelligence and is part of the “Universal Intelligence Anytime, involving other scientists from the UBC and the University Complutense of Madrid.
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An international team of engineers Spanish, Hungarian and Swedish, has shown that it is possible to accelerate the speed of browsing by monitoring traffic and adjusting the on-demand services. These results are already used by several major communications companies.
Internet is a combination of different networks administered by different providers that manage the data sent and monitor the traffic generated. When the network must convey too much data, the traffic is so slow that causes discomfort at the user level.
Through the project TRAMMER (“Traffic measurements and models in multi-service networks”), scientists aimed to remedy these problems. By monitoring the Internet networks in Spain and Sweden for three years, they raised an impressive amount of data (3000 terabytes) and was thus able to study trends and traffic trends over a long period and for a continuous flow information.
The researchers used these data to develop new tools to measure traffic and get a complete view of a network, enabling them to significantly speed up the browsing speed by tailoring services to user demand. At the user level, these tools will enable a better quality of multimedia services on Internet such as streaming.
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Some users of video games come to Easily feat The Weakness of a game to Their Advantage. Sander Bakker, PhD student at Tilburg University, studied how The Computer Cdn Quickly adapted to game conditions, and Therefor The Player-by machine learning. This new artificial intelligence for video games to allow The Computer Become a real opponent Adapted To Each player.
If The Sound and visual quality of video games more realistic May Be, The type of opponent Does not Vary: for Many games, The Player Is Strong Than The Computer. This is Due To The Lack of artificial intelligence Known as artificial intelligence game (Game AI).
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A team of scientists has developed computer software that quickly edit high-resolution images, which contain everything from billions to hundreds of thousands of millions of pixels.
So far, it took hours to get a preview of reasonable quality of such images, as they often had to first complete the full image processing. The new software takes only seconds to produce preview images useful for physicians, analysts, intelligence services, photographers, artists, engineers and other professionals.
Taking samples from only a fraction of the pixels in a mass image, for example, a photo taken by a satellite or a panoramic photo made up of thousands assembled, the software can produce good approximations or previews of how it should look when completely processed.
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A team of scientists and researchers has shifted to the summit of Teide (Tenerife) to watch and broadcast live online on total lunar eclipse will take place at night, at dawn on December 21. The eclipse will be the last year and the first of its kind for three years. In Europe, its visibility will be reduced, but through the Internet can be followed from around the world.
The total lunar eclipse will take place the evening of December 21 will be broadcast live on Internet from the summit of Teide on the island of Tenerife, on the Cyclops Group, Faculty of Informatics, Polytechnic University of Madrid, and the Shelios GroupWith the collaboration of Astromadrid.
These groups have organized an expedition to the summit of Teide in order to observe on one hand the total lunar eclipse from Pico old (PN del Teide), on December 21, 2010 (around 5:33 GMT) as well as broadcast live over the web the phenomenon eclipse shadow of Teide.
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A team of researchers from DTU Informatics has developed a computer-based biology and able to repair itself. Their invention was named Edna, for DNA-mail.
Armed with a binary code, mathematical models and a good dose of patience, Jan Madsen and his two PhD students Pascal and Michael Reibel Boesen Schleuniger have spent the last three years working on this concept of Edna. The result of their ideas and their working years now stands proudly on a throne office DTU Informatics.
Unfortunately, even if the result is a kind of mixture between human and computer, our readers will be disappointed to learn that it bears no resemblance to Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Terminator series. In fact, the computer EDNA looks just like a normal computer from the outside, while inside it is as revolutionary as spam Terminator.
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Researchers from five European countries, among which are Spanish, Faculty of Informatics, Polytechnic University of Madrid, develop a network of excellence for managing large-scale data on the Internet. The network is called PlanetData and is funded with three million euros within the Seventh EU Framework Programme.
Researchers from the Ontology Engineering Group , Faculty of Informatics, Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) participate, along with experts from four other European countries, the Project PlanetData, a network of excellence that aims to help researchers to publish their Internet data easily.
PlanetData aims at establishing a sustainable European research community to support organizations in publishing their data in new and useful ways, increasing their skills in making sense of huge amounts of data continuously published online, including structured data unstructured data flows, (micro) blog entries, digital files, e-Science resources, sets public sector data, and data linked to the “cloud.”
The project focuses on a number of key challenges to be addressed for actual exposure data in a usable form on a large scale. Provides representations of the data flow rate and scalable techniques to integrate, publish and access such data resources on the Web.
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The research carried out in collaboration with the Mountain Military School and Special Operations Jaca (IMHO), the Service of the Guardia Civil Mountain, have served to develop a protocol that improves rescue victims of avalanches in which transceiver devices are used.
A French acronym of AGRA Victim of reserch Appareil d’Alvalanche is a device capable of locating an avalanche victim has been completely buried and also has another transceiver. At issue is a beacon that emits a magnetic field to 457 KHz. On receiving this signal, amplifies and transforms it into an audible signal or a digital display of distance to the sender.
During the course of an activity in snowy mountains, the transceiver must be switched on and the role of issue. For a person to be buried, his companions or rescue teams using another transceiver in the receptor function, in order to detect and locate the transceiver in the issuance of the person buried in the avalanche.
At present, all the search strategies are based on the propagation model in a vacuum and it is assumed that the transmitter is vertical. Therefore, the solutions of the magnetic field can approach the quasi-static expressions for a vertical magnetic dipole.
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So far, it took hours to get a preview of reasonable quality of such images, as they often had to first complete the full image processing. The new software takes only seconds to produce preview images useful for physicians, analysts, intelligence services, photographers, artists, engineers and other professionals.