Showing posts with label Research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Research. Show all posts

Dec 31, 2010

Researchers use supercomputer. They help police find child pornography distribution.


Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee using the super computer named Jaguar to help the police to find them published child pornography on the Internet. The distribution of file formats, and peer-to-peer file sharing, such as the Web.

The Jaguar supercomputer at the 1.8 petaflop, which is to check the information that is passed each other on the Internet. And search for suspicious patterns that are distributing the files related to child pornography and store the IP of the machine in question and inform the police to go check.

Researchers propose to use super computer. Help to find the culprit. After that met with Grier Weeks Executive director of the National Association to Protect Children, which said that the police are having problems in managing offenders. The difficulty of finding the guilty and the number of people who do not work enough.

The supercomputer used to help this is better than the old system. The only catch the people posting or publishing pornographic images only. It can also detect up to see who the people began to leave the picture out. Which may help police find the person who is guilty. Or may be able to help children who are being made is also obscene. (In the case of detained children, and then take it out on the internet sharing).

Source : Blognone, NewScientist.


Dec 30, 2010

Researchers led Kinect used in the game World of WarCraft.


Researchers from the Institute for Creative Technologies of the University of Southern California shows the body control to play World of WarCraft on camera Kinect.

Research team developed a software Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (FAAST) is a middleware for processing images from camera To identify the body parts were then converted to a command in the game.

World of WarCraft game is just one example, only Future would apply to other games have more detailed principles, see the video.

Source - Blognone, Fast Company.