You've heard of the 'smart phone', now comes the 'smart kitchen'. The Ambient Kitchen is a digitally augmented room with sensors to help people learn how to cook, or learn a new language as they cook, or to assist those with neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia, by giving audio and visual prompts.
US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) has launched a live online portal offering DOE Office of Science researchers and IT staff a wide range of customized tools intended to greatly improve their ability to understand network issues in real time.
As natural disasters strike worldwide, leaving a path of destruction and death in their wake, grids can help mitigate these hazards. Now a new web portal gives weather researchers access to the vast resources of the Grid.
Rotors are slowed down by the turbulent wakes they leave behind in the air. But now researchers are using GPU machines to improve the fluid dynamics codes used for rotorcraft design.
