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Using Robotic Avatars in Second Life Simulations and Training- Posted: November 24 2008

Second Life (SL) is a widely-available, free for users, 3D, immersive platform already used by many companies for employee training, placement and new hire orientation. Introduction of robotic avatars technology by AHG and use of such robots in training simulations makes SL truly asynchronous training tool. Now trainees can use training simulations independently from instructor. Use of secure “off-Second-Life� databases located on companies’ network, allows, at the same time, full control over trainee’s work and progress.

Simulations Predict Where We Can Find Dark Matter

p1234 writes with this excerpt from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics: "Simulations by the Virgo team show how the Milky Way's halo grew through a series of violent collisions and mergers from millions of much smaller clumps that emerged from the Big Bang. ... If Fermi does detect the predicted emission from the Milky Way's smooth inner halo, then it may, if we are lucky, also see gamma-rays from small (and otherwise invisible) clumps of dark matter which happen to lie particularly close to the Sun. ... The largest simulation took 3.5 million processor hours to complete. Volker Springel was responsible for shepherding the calculation through the machine and said: 'At times I thought it would never finish.' Max Planck Director, Professor Simon White, remarked that 'These calculations finally allow us to see what the dark matter dis

Fewer Shuffles Suffice

An anonymous reader writes "You may have heard that it takes about seven shuffles to mix up a deck of cards to near randomness. Turns out, though, that most of the time, perfect randomness is more than you need. In blackjack, for example, you don't care about suits. The same mathematician who developed the original result now says that for many games, four shuffles is enough. And the result isn't only important for card sharks. It helps reveal the math underlying Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations, telling applied mathematicians when they can stop their simulations."

DARPA's IBM-Led Neural Network Project Seeks to Imitate Brain

An anonymous reader writes "According to an article in the BBC, IBM will lead an ambitious DARPA-funded project in 'cognitive computing.' According to Dharmendra Modha, the lead scientist on the project, '[t]he key idea of cognitive computing is to engineer mind-like intelligent machines by reverse engineering the structure, dynamics, function and behaviour of the brain.' The article continues, 'IBM will join five US universities in an ambitious effort to integrate what is known from real biological systems with the results of supercomputer simulations of neurons. The team will then aim to produce for the first time an electronic system that behaves as the simulations do. The longer-term goal is to create a system with the level of complexity of a cat's brain.

Seismic simulations help concrete bear earthquake loads

Engineering researchers from Univ. of California San Diego and the Univ. of Arizona have concluded three months of rigorous earthquake simulation tests on a half-scale three-story structure, and will now begin sifting through their results so they can be used in the future designs of buildings across the nation. The engineers produced a series of earthquake jolts as powerful as magnitude 8.0 on a structure resembling a parking garage.

Odyssey: Music Simulations Overtake Sports as Second Most Played Video Game Genre

Interview with Intelepeer VP of Product Management, Charles Studt, and Microsoft Architect, Joeseph Hofstader

Odyssey: Music Simulations Overtake Sports as Second Most Played Video Game Genre

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[EDUCATION FORUM] PHYSICS: PhET: Simulations That Enhance Learning

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Futuristic quantum computers could improve chemical simulations and models

Complimentray educational webinar series to share nanotechnology best practices and application innovations

NASA supercomputer shows how dust rings point to exo-earths

10 October 2008 Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sunlike stars show that planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns that future telescopes may be able to detect. The research points to a new avenue in the search for habitable planets.

Ben Raphael: Teaching Insects to Walk, Virtually

A 1992 Westinghouse finalist goes from six-legged walking simulations to cancer genetics and evolution

Boosting the power of solar cells: New MIT research could lead to higher output, lower cost

New ways of squeezing out greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted by a team of physicists and engineers at MIT.

Boosting the Power of Solar Cells

New ways of squeezing out greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted by a team of physicists and engineers at MIT. Using computer modeling and a variety of advanced chip-manufacturing techniques, they have boosted the cells' output by as much as 50 percent. Full Story

Boosting the power of solar cells

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — New ways of squeezing out greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted by a team of physicists and engineers at MIT.

Researchers boost solar cell efficiency

(PhysOrg.com) -- New ways of squeezing out greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted by a team of physicists and engineers at MIT.

Free Energy Modeling in Google SketchUp

Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) has launched a plug-in for Google SketchUp that delivers energy and carbon footprint simulations to inform early-stage design decisions. The free plug-in provides results without any additional software, although owners of IES’s Virtual Environment package or its VE-Toolkits can perform additional analyses, such as daylight or airflow modeling. The plug-in provides functionality from SketchUp that IES previously offered only from Autodesk’s Revit Architecture and Revit MEP, including documentation for the LEED daylighting credit.

Nvidia Announces "Personal Supercomputer"

"Computers using the Tesla C1060 GPU processor will have 250 times the processing power of a typical PC workstation, enabling researchers to run complicated simulations, experiments and number crunching without sharing a supercomputing cluster, Nvidia said."

How Gears of War 2 Raises the Bar for Military Simulators

Epic Games' Gears of War 2 hits stores today. The Unreal 3 game engine upgrade is part of what makes the new game so great, but it will also contribute to better Army simulations with increased chaos, better AI and improved graphics.

Jupiter Could Have Earth-like Rocky Core

Jupiter has a rocky core that is more than twice as large as previously thought, according to computer calculations by a geophysicist who simulated conditions inside the planet on the scale of individual hydrogen and helium atoms. "Our simulations show there is a big rocky object in the center surrounded by an ice layer and hardly any ice elsewhere in the planet," said Burkhard Militzer from University of California, Berkeley. "This is a very different result for the interior structure of Jupiter than other recent models, which predict a relatively small or hardly any core and a mixture of ices throughout the atmosphere." A comparison of this model with the planet's known mass, radius, surface temperature, gravity and equatorial bulge implies that Jupiter's core is an Earth-like rock 14 to 18 times the mass of Earth, or about one-twentiet

DP7033 The London Agreement and the Cost of Patenting in Europe

This paper analyses the consequences for the European Patent System (EPS) of the recently ratified London Agreement (LA), which aims to reduce the translation requirements for patent validation procedures in 15 out of 34 national patent offices. The simulations suggest that the cost of patenting has been reduced by 20 to 30 percent since the enforcement of the LA. With an average translation cost saving of €3,600 per patent, the total savings for the business sector amount to about €220 millions. The fee elasticity of patents being about -0.4, one may expect an increase in patent filings of eight to 12 percent. Despite the translation cost savings, the relative cost of a European patent validated in six (thirteen) counties is still at least five (seven) times higher than in the United States.

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