Science news articles about 'teaching computer'

  • Researchers teach computers to search for photos based on their contents

    ... uses to describe the photographs are appropriate. ALIPR works by teaching computers to recognize the contents of photographs, such as buildings ... . "We then would build a statistical model to teach the computer to recognize patterns in color and texture ...
  • Video: Google teaching computers to "cry"

    Phillips will scale back its TV business while Samsung may be selling off its hard drive business, and Google invests in research that will attempt to teach computers to feel regret.
  • To sing like Shakira, press '1' now

    ... Aviv University has successfully managed to train a computer to rate vibrato quality, and has created an application ... . He hopes to be able to teach computers how to recognize a range of different emotions, such as anger and nervousness ...
  • Peru women receive ICT training in local tongue

    Around 1,500 Andean women are benefiting from a programme teaching computer skills in their native quechua language.
  • Computers figuring out what words mean

    ... smarter this week with the release of a semantic map that teaches computers the meanings behind words -- and gives the machines a vocabulary far larger than that of a typical US ...
  • New direction in teaching computer science emphasizes activity, interaction, critique

    ... of a popular song, there is such a thing as the real world. Computer science faculty at Washington University in St ...
  • A glimpse at vision: First impressions count

    ... envisions using the vision algorithms discovered in humans to teaching computers how to see as well as people, so ... . A more futuristic application would be the design of brain-computer interfaces that would allow people with visual ...
  • From a Queen song to a better music search engine

    ... 's "vocabulary" before opening it up to the public later this year. Teaching Computers to Label Songs In order ... time, the games deliver the data we need to teach our computer audition system to listen to and describe ...
  • Teaching computers to recognise

    ... of objects is something we humans take for granted. For computers, this is far from straightforward. A European project has come ...
  • Map of your brain may reveal early mental illness

    ... laboratory," Csernansky explained. Now he is teaching computers to do the work, speeding the process and enhancing accuracy. Csernansky's previous research has already ...
  • 'Last Lecture' prof's program to be updated

    (AP) -- Carnegie Mellon University will release an updated version of the animation-based software developed by late "last lecture" professor Randy Pausch to teach computer programming.
  • Machine Learning by Watching and Listening

    ... Taskar is using television shows with large fan bases like CSI, Alias, and Lost to teach computers how to be smarter about what they see, hear ...
  • New computer security guide can help safeguard your small business

    ... , who spends much of his time on the road teaching computer security to groups of small business ... through the important steps necessary to secure their computer systems and data. Small businesses make ...
  • Seeing things: Researchers teach computers to recognize objects

    ... PhysOrg.com) -- If computers could recognize objects, they could automatically search through hours of video footage ... object recognition is one of the major research topics in computer vision, MIT researchers may have found a way to make ...
  • Teaching computer games

    ... , outline a case for using rapid computer game creation as an innovative teaching method that could ultimately help ... . The team adds that teaching people how to use off-the-shelf tools to quickly build a computer game ...

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