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This Article will Self-Destruct

Nobody can run away from the past. In today’s massively online network through computer, it is literally impossible to dump the past behind anymore. Social networking sites like Facebook where people posts pictures can pop up during a job interview and can make a difference overall changing one’s perspective. And that is not all; a legal investigation can dig the whole contents that are in computers from home or office which leads to uncover many details which may be incrimination and very inconvenient which could be very embarrassing sometime when someone gets those private information from the computers.

Now to avoid those unexpected encounter, the University of Washington has created a solution which can help such information to expire after putting up a certain period of time. Private details like emails, Facebook posts and chat messages do not exist because now they are automatically self destructed and totally impossible to [...]

Research on Computer-Related Injuries

Anyone who uses computer long term, they are always under the hazards of back pain, blurred vision and mouse related injuries. This is increasing very rapidly and there has been lots of research. A recent study which was published in July 2009 from American Journal or Preventive Medicine, where many researchers from Center for Injury Research and Policy and the Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and The Ohio State University College of Medicine, have concluded that they have found many case related to computer injuries like head injuries die to computer monitor falls, tripping over computer wires, components and many other physical accidents which case minor to serious injuries.

Data collected from National Electronic Injury Surveillance System shows that there were more than 78, 000 cases related to computer related injuries. These injuries took place between 1994 and 2006 and were treated in U.S. emergency departments. The study showed [...]

Lab-On-A-Tube Monitors Human Brain

Scientists at the University of Cincinnati are developing a new invention nicknamed the “lab-on-a-tube” which measures several parameters of the brain simultaneously. It is being developed by Chunyan Li, PhD a student of Chong Ahn, PhD, in the electrical and computer engineering department.
This is a “smart sensor” that measures various changes in the human brain. It has the potential to be used for patients who have undergone accidents and traumatic incidents to the brain. The scientists at UC felt the need for an all-in-one multifunctional tube which measured parameters such as intracranial glucose, oxygen, temperature and pressure.

This tube initially removes excess cerebrospinal fluid from the brain of the accident victim and begins to accurately measure changes. This device is being considered to be a ground breaking invention by the UC scientists and they say it will definitely break major barriers to quick administration of medicines to the affected [...]

Simulation of Water Sounds by Computer Scientists

Scientists at Cornell University in the Department of Computer Science have discovered an algorithm which can synthesize the sound of water flowing. Until now the methods used to accurately reproduce the sounds made by water have been incomplete since there are situations where the complexity of predicting the sounds which would occur for a particular event is extremely computationally intensive and hence inefficient as a result
But now, Doug James an associate professor of computer science along with Changxi Zhen who is a research student in the area of sound synthesis contained in the Human Centered Computing Program are filling up sounds which were previously missing in the sound synthesis of water. This program is headed by Associate professor James, Kavita Bala and Steve Marschner who is the assistant professor and associate professor respectively at Cornell University. It is funded by a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation [...]