uwnews.org | RSS | Technology news releases | University of Washington Office of News and InformationThis RSS news feed from uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information, includes the last 40 in the Technology category.UW to lead $6.25 million project creating electronic Sherlock Holmes- April 16, 2008 A UW computer scientist will direct a major research project for the U.S. Department of Defense. The multi-institutional team will use machine learning to try to link vast amounts of data, including videos, satellite images and sensor measurements.http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40807 Popcorn-ball design doubles efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells- April 10, 2008 By using a popcorn-ball design - tiny kernels clumped into much larger porous spheres - engineers can more than double the efficiency of a type of solar cell at converting the sun's rays to electricity.http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40714 Hubble maps the changing constellation of Internet 'black holes'- April 8, 2008 A surprisingly large fraction of Web traffic gets sucked into temporary black holes, in which information between two computers disappears en route. A new online observatory monitors Internet black holes so network administrators--and frustrated Web users--can diagnose problems in real time.http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40871 |