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White Paper Scientists who are involved in human genetics and the human genome project are confronted with this epistemological reconstruction of the self in unique ways, since they find themselves... [25 Feb 2004]
Human genome to fit on single chip
News It will allow scientists to conduct gene research faster than before and is significantly less costly than its predecessors. The chip will allow scientists to discover which genes are 'active' - an... [03 Oct 2003]
Fly-eating robot smells of sewage
News The current version of the robot is fed manually with flies by its creators but the scientists are hoping the next version of the EcoBot will be able to attract them itself - by pumping out the smell of... [09 Sep 2004]
Web science: Sir Tim plugs new subject
News Social scientists can help analyse online communities, and experts in life sciences can help web scientists understand how complex systems like the human body - or the web - operate, she... [03 Nov 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.02.08
Round-Up The scientists hope to unlock the secrets of the insects' tiny brains - they have about 950,000 brain cells to a human's 100 billion - by analysing how they make complex choices about which routes to fly... [29 Feb 2008]
Photos: Robots, lasers, action
Photo You know the future has arrived when scientists bring together two staples of science fiction: lasers and robots. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Emory University School of... [10 Apr 2008]
Photos: Six unusual power sources
Photo German scientists have produced thermo-generators (pictured) that use human body heat to generate power and could be used to run mobile devices in future. Scientists are coming up with... [19 Nov 2007]
Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century - Absolute Identification
White Paper Indeed, a growing number of scientists, engineers, and politicians now see identification of human bodies not as a technical problem, but rather as a political one. Absolute identification is a policy... [10 Oct 2007]
An Experimental Study on the Role of Touch in Shared Virtual Environments
White Paper Investigating virtual environments has become an increasingly interesting research topic for engineers, computer and cognitive scientists, and psychologists. Although there have been several recent studies focused on the... [25 Feb 2004]
Genetic Information, Genomic Technologies, and the Future of Drug Discovery
White Paper Parallel developments of new biological technologies, such as transcript profiling, allow scientists to examine almost any biological system in high molecular resolution. The completion of the first draft of the... [25 Feb 2004]
Using UML to Understand Lojban
White Paper Lojban differs in structure from other languages in major ways and was developed as a test vehicle for scientists studying relationships among language, thought, and culture. Lojban is intended for human... [11 Feb 2005]
CSIRO - May 2004
White Paper The challenge for CSIRO was to provide CSIRO scientists, located around the country, with ready access to a single, secure and powerful computing resource that would centralise their research on the... [10 Apr 2008]
Interpretive Guidance for Project Manager Positions
White Paper The paper addresses the common concerns about project management issues as raised by officials and representatives from OPM, the Office of Management and Budget, the Chief Human Capital Officers Council, the Chief... [30 Aug 2005]
Enabling GeoCollaborative Crisis Management Through Advanced GeoInformation Technologies
White Paper An interdisciplinary team from Penn State University (comprised of GIScientists, information scientists, and computer scientists) has joined efforts with collaborators from federal, state, and local... [30 Aug 2005]
Machine talkers fail test to convince they're human
News To clinch the prize, ACEs have to convince around a third of volunteers, a mixture made up mainly of computer scientists and journalists, that they are having a conversation with a person. This weekend saw artificial... [13 Oct 2008]
