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A computer science engineering team has developed an indoor navigation system for people with visual impairments. The researchers have explained how a combination of human-computer interaction and motion-planning research was used to build a low-cost accessible navigation system, called Navatar, which can run on a standard smartphone.

Researchers who applied computer analysis to a database of movie scripts think they may have found the secret to a memorable movie line - use familiar sentence structure but incorporate distinctive words or phrases, and make general statements that could apply elsewhere.

Web-based software dashboard helps facility managers assess the potential impact of settings changes or daylight harvesting applications.

This is what consumerization in the enterprise looks like: communications company Polycom unveils a new, softer corporate identity.

Alfred Hitchcock's debut feature film, The Pleasure Garden, has been restored by the British Film Institute (BFI) as part of its celebration of the film-maker.

The chip designer's co-founder Tudor Brown on its past successes and future plans

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image. - Stephen Hawking

Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence. - Edsger Dijkstra