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Sunday, September 28, 2014

ScienceDaily: Information Technology News

ScienceDaily: Information Technology News


Scanning babies' fingerprints could save lives through vaccination tracking

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 11:10 AM PDT

Each year 2.5 million children die worldwide because they do not receive life-saving vaccinations at the appropriate time. Now researchers are developing a fingerprint-based recognition method to track vaccination schedules for infants and toddlers, which will increase immunization coverage and save lives.

New technology may lead to prolonged power in mobile devices

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 08:20 AM PDT

Researchers have created technology that could be the first step toward wearable computers with self-contained power sources or, more immediately, a smartphone that doesn't die after a few hours of heavy use.

Can cartoons be used to teach machines to understand the visual world?

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 07:09 AM PDT

An enormous gap exists between human abilities and machine performance when it comes to understanding the visual world from images and videos. Humans are still way out in front.

Conflictive animations support the development of programming skills

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 05:56 AM PDT

Traditional educational tools present information to students in a conventional way: what they present is true and students are expected to learn what is presented. Educators have now developed a tool that tricks students during their learning process. They use "conflictive animations" to teach computer programming, which is a very challenging topic for students due to its abstract nature.

Computational model: Ebola could infect more than 1.4 million people by end of January 2015

Posted: 26 Sep 2014 05:55 AM PDT

The Ebola epidemic could claim hundreds of thousands of lives and infect more than 1.4 million people by the end of January, according to a statistical forecast released this week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC forecast supports the drastically higher projections released earlier by a group of scientists, including epidemiologists with the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, who modeled the Ebola spread as part of a National Institutes of Health-sponsored project called Midas, short for Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study.

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