Computer Science and Technology News

University of California, San Diego today announced a new method for accurately capturing the shape and appearance of a person’s hairstyle. The results closely match the real hairstyles and can be used for animation.

Scientists have for the first time engineered 3-D materials that can reverse the natural direction of visible and near-infrared light and, to the delight of science-fiction and fantasy buffs, cloaking devices that could render objects invisible.

Antivirus software on your personal computer could become a thing of the past thanks to a new "cloud computing" approach to malicious software detection developed at the University of Michigan.

War casualties are typically kept behind tightly closed doors, but one company keeps the mangled pieces of its first casualty on display. This is no ordinary soldier, though — it is Packbot from the iRobot Corporation.

Data breaches are a recurring nightmare for IT managers responsible for securing not only their company's confidential data, but possibly also sensitive information belonging to their clients, such as social security numbers or health or financial records

Hundreds of insect species spend much of their time underwater, where food may be more plentiful. MIT mathematicians have now figured out exactly how those insects breathe underwater.

Scientists have demonstrated, for the first time, highly directional semiconductor lasers with a much smaller beam divergence than conventional ones. The innovation opens the door to a wide range of applications in photonics and communications.

An enormous research effort by Europe’s leading broadband players has helped accelerate dramatically the rollout of next-generation broadband services reaching speeds in the 10s of Mbit/s in many European countries. That is just the start.

More than 75 percent of the bank Web sites surveyed in a University of Michigan study had at least one design flaw that could make customers vulnerable to cyber thieves after their money or even their identity.

A new approach to design would put each person through a brief skills test and then generate a mathematically-based version of the user interface optimized for his or her vision and motor abilities.