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Our ambiguous world of words

30 May 2013

Ambiguity in language poses the greatest challenge when it comes to training a computer to understand the written word. Now, new research aims to...

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The Emotion Sense app asks users to record their feelings on a chart designed by psychologists, then surveys them further to assess their mood accurately. This is cross-referred with data about their behaviour, picked up by sensors within the phone itself

Mood-tracking app paves way for pocket therapy

08 May 2013

An Android app which keeps tabs on users’ mood swings and works out what might be causing them has been developed by researchers, with implications...

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The virtual talking head, “Zoe”, uses a basic set of six simulated emotions which can then be adjusted and combined.

Face of the future rears its head

19 Mar 2013

Meet Zoe: a digital talking head which can express human emotions on demand with “unprecedented realism” and could herald a new era of human-computer...

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3D microchip created

31 Jan 2013

New type of microchip created which not only moves information from left to right and back to front, but up and down as well.

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Naked Scientists uncovers cyber security risks

30 Dec 2012

An investigation by the Naked Scientists for BBC 5 live has highlighted the risks of selling on unwanted computer hardware without correctly wiping...

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Light cycles

Humanity's last invention and our uncertain future

25 Nov 2012

A philosopher, a scientist and a software engineer have come together to propose a new centre at Cambridge to address developments in human...

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Professor Stephen Hawking, Andrey Kaliazin (Centre for Theoretical Cosmology), Mike Woodacre (SGI), Paul Shellard (Centre for Theoretical Cosmology) and Simon Appleby (SGI)

Hawking launches supercomputer

20 Jul 2012

The new COSMOS@DiRAC supercomputer will advance our understanding of the origin and structure of our universe.

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Image-guided intensity modulated RT plan for a patient with a spinal tumour. The radiation dose is shaped away from the kidneys (yellow outlines) and the spinal nerve roots (inside the green outline). The colour wash represents radiation dose

Project to improve radiotherapy planning

30 Jan 2012

A collaborative project between physicists, oncologists and computer scientists at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, launched last month, will...

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Computer Keyboard

PCs to blame for rise in stressed out workers

30 Sep 2011

New research shows early adoption of PCs led to a rise in work intensity in the UK

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Circuit board

The next generation of computing

04 Jul 2011

Progress in electronics has relied heavily on reducing the size of the transistor to create small, powerful computers. Now spintronics, hailed as the...

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New Face

The new face of human–computer interactions

18 Mar 2011

Cambridge computer scientists are building computers that read minds – and robots and avatars that express emotion.

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Computing for the Future of the Planet

Computing for the Future of the Planet wins Google funding

01 May 2010

A gift from Google will help Computing for the Future of the Planet.

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