• PART 2. 교통사고·도난사고 모두 막는다

    PART 2. 교통사고·도난사고 모두 막는다

    과학동아 2012년 09호

    수는 없을까. 음악, 동영상, 내비게이션, 웹브라우징 등 복잡한 자동차 인포테인먼트(information+entertainment)를 작은 기기에 모두 담은 스마트폰은 자체만으로도 자동차가 매력을 느낄 만하다. 이미 ‘미러링크’라는 기술이 국제표준규격으로 자리잡았다.미러링크는 스마트폰에 설치된 앱이나 다양한 ...

  • 싱가포르 국립대 - QS 대학평가 아시아 2위

    과학동아 2012년 09호

    학생 유치에 날개를 달아줬다. 자연대에는 세계적으로 뛰어난 ‘양자 정보 기술(Quan tum Information & Technology)연구소’가 있다. 이 연구소를 위해 양자 기술 분야의 최고 권위자인 옥스퍼드대의 아르투르 에커트(Artur Ekert) 교수를 영입했다. 뿐만 아니다. ‘기계생물학(Mechanobiology) 연구소’를 위해 콜 ...

  • Can a Program Become a Journalist?

    과학동아 2012년 07호

    did college baseball,” Hammond recalled. “And we built out a program that would take box scores and historical information, and we would write a game recap after a game.” Narrative Science then began branching out into finance and other topics that are driven heavily by data. Soon, Hammond says, large companies came looking for help sorting huge amounts of data themselves. “I think the ...

  • The Return of the New Margarine

    The Return of the New Margarine

    과학동아 2011년 04호

    was doomed when U.S. Food and Drug Administration decreed that by 2006, trans fats had to be listed on the nutritional information panel on all food products. Many health experts think trans fats are the worst of all bad fats. And without trans fats, no stick forms are possible. Thus came the buttery spreads. Buttery spreads have taken over its role as a saturated-fat substitutes. With few ...

  • IBM’s Next 5 in 5 List

    IBM’s Next 5 in 5 List

    과학동아 2011년 03호

    fighting global warming to tracking invasive species.4. Customized commute-system : Ubiquitous sensors will gather information on traffic conditions, road construction, public transit schedules, and other factors that affects your commute. When you inquire about the quickest way of getting from A to B, computer systems will take into account all the variables unique to that day and time, ...

  • Facebook, for social lives

    Facebook, for social lives

    과학동아 2011년 02호

    earlier entrepreneurs looked at the Internet and saw a network of computers, Zuckerberg saw a network of people. The information technology was transparent for him.Facebook started its competition among photo sharing services. But its functions were crappy. The resolution was low, and editting capability was limited. It was like jumping into a gunfight with a knife. But it gave new feature of ...

  • Photos as Memories

    과학동아 2010년 12호

    learned facts (Paris is the capital of France; her husband’s name is Ed), and she can retain a limited amount of new information. But she can rarely remember the sensations of an experience - the sights, sounds and feel, what psychologists call her episodic memory. Episodic memory store memory of past personal experiences, while semantic memory is the part of memory that stores facts and ...

  • War between GOOGLE vs. MS

    과학동아 2009년 10호

    slick ads are unavoidable and blistering. They suggest that Google is now broken, that it rarely leads us to the information. Microsoft claims Bing isn’t even a search engine. They say Bing is a “decision engine.” What that means isn’t exactly clear. Bing seems to work the same way Google does. You type in some keywords, it prints out some Web results. But the marketing shows signs of ...

  • Erasable Memory

    과학동아 2009년 02호

    types of memory content. And fortunately, PKMzeta stores only high-quality memories, the kind that provide detailed information rather than general abilities of the brain.” “If further research confirms this view we can expect to one day see therapies based on PKMzeta memory erasure,” Dr. Fenton suggests. “Negative memory erasing not only could help people forget painful experiences, ...

  • 로보카, 무인자동차 대회 출격 준비 완료!

    로보카, 무인자동차 대회 출격 준비 완료!

    과학동아 2007년 11호

    통합하여, 각종 서비스를 총합하여 제공하기 위한 것 INS(고도정보통신시스팀: Information Network System)도 이것의 일종이다 만일 이것이 완성된다면, 금융·보험·증권회사 등에 의한 홈뱅킹(home banking), 신문·방송·출판·광고회사에 의한 뉴스서비스, 백화점·슈퍼마킷에 의한 홈 쇼핑(home shopping), ...

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