Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS) Discoveries

NSF's public investment in science, engineering, education and technology helps to create knowledge and sustain prosperity. Read here about the Internet, microbursts, Web browsers, extrasolar planets, and more... a panoply of discoveries and innovations that began with NSF support.

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		'Gone Bats' Over Aeroecology New scientific discipline studies bats, birds, other animals in atmosphere closest to Earth's surface Released  October 28, 2008
		Using Your Computer to Grow More Nutritious Rice for a Hungry World Computational biologists use a powerful distributed computing network to research rice genome for increased yields of more nourishing rice varieties Released  October 14, 2008
		2007: Year in Review A look back at some of the NSF-supported advances and activities reported last year Released  January 30, 2008
		Helpful Robot Alters Family Life A relationship with your vacuum cleaner? Robotic vacuums are warming their way into homes and even taking on a personality for some families. Released  June 8, 2007
		Ben Franklin Web Portal Brings the Man to the Masses Driven by search-engine technology, site highlights three centuries of revolutionary influence Released  January 9, 2006
		Man Against Machine Computer-generated method outperforms human-designed program for fingerprint improvement Released  September 1, 2005
		On the Origins of Google Even in the early days of the Internet, people saw the need for better interfaces to growing data collections. A graduate student supported by an NSF digital library project at Stanford University uncovered the missing links in Web page ranking. Released  August 17, 2004
		Hearing It Like It Was Your ears not only tell you what you're hearing, but also a lot about where you're hearing it. A new recording and playback method developed at the University of California, Davis, keeps your head in the mix, so you can hear it like it really was. Released  July 30, 2004
		Detecting Hidden Groups on the Internet In the free-form clamor of the Internet's discussion groups and other public forums, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute want to listen for the whispers of groups trying to stay hidden. Released  July 30, 2004
		Pterosaur Heads Were Uniquely Adapted for Flight Taking a high-tech look at fossil skulls, scientists examined the brains of ancient pterosaurs. They found key structures to be specialized and enlarged, a discovery that could revise views of how vision, flight and the brain itself evolved. Released  July 30, 2004
		eSkeletons: "The Hip Bone's Connected to the …" Web Bone Cyberskeletons are now a click away at an interactive and expanding digital library of human and primate anatomy. Released  July 6, 2004
		Virtual Display Beams Images Directly into the Eye Researchers have developed a display that beams full-color images directly onto your retina. Released  June 3, 2004
		Data Mining Pinpoints Network Intrusions Vipin Kumar and colleagues at the University of Minnesota are developing data-mining techniques to detect rare events, such as computer break-ins, that are difficult to detect using methods that recognize attacks only through pre-defined patterns. Released  April 19, 2004
		An Automatic System for Matching Dental Records By matching bicuspid to bicuspid and filling to filling, forensic investigators use dental records to give a John Doe a real name. Researchers are combining advanced image-processing techniques with elements of logic to get accurate matches faster. Released  March 29, 2004
		Researcher Founds a Robot Soccer Dynasty Since receiving her doctorate in 1992, Manuela Veloso's research interests in artificial intelligence have focused on duplicating the success with which humans plan, learn and execute tasks. Founding a robot soccer dynasty was purely coincidental. Released  March 24, 2004
		Shoebox-sized Robots Deployed in Rescue Effort at Ground Zero Graduate students and the experimental robots they helped to develop were among the early responders who joined the search and rescue efforts shortly after the Sept. 11 collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Released  March 24, 2004
		NSF Researchers Improve Barcode Scanners; Advances Lead to Widespread Use of the Technology From tracking the sale of chewing gum to following the movements of penguins in one of the world's harshest environments, barcode systems automatically capture all kinds of data, thanks in part to NSF-supported improvements in scanner technology. Released  July 18, 2003