Scientists at Australia’s Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, the National Centre for Sensor Research at Dublin City University, and the Defense Science and Technology Organisation Maritime Platforms Division have developed the Wireless Aquatic Navigator for Detection and Analysis (WANDA), a robotic fish that contains a camera and can seek out and swim toward a particular object [...]

European researchers working on the Mosaica project are developing portals that will enable users to virtually travel to both ancient and new destinations. “Mosaica was an opportunity to carve a niche in the semantic web for cultural diversity; to transfer young people’s inherent fascination for technology into a learning experience; and to galvanize communities around [...]

The Fraunhofer Institute’s THESEUS Project aims to improve the use and exploitation of digital knowledge through the use of semantic technologies that will be able to recognize the meaning of information content. “The society of the future will be even more knowledge-based than the present one,” says the Fraunhofer Institute’s Hans-Joachim Grallert. “For that reason [...]

New York Times (01/27/09) P. D3; Markoff, John 
University of Washington researchers have released the first component of a public system that will provide authentication for an archive of video interviews with prosecutors and other members of the International Criminal Tribunal on the Rwandan genocide, along with the first portion of the Rwandan archive. The system [...]