Lunes, 31 de Julio de 2006
The Universidad de Granada takes part in a European project to improve the fabrication of electronic circuits and devices
GRIDE – the research group on Electronic Devices of the Universidad de Granada- takes part in the SINANO network of excellence (Silicon-based Nanodevices).SINANO brings together a total of 44 universities, research centres, and companies from 16 countries in order to contribute in the development of silicon devices. SINANO network also joins the best European research groups on semi-conductors to draw up a research programme which satisfies the needs of NanoCMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semi-conductor). (...)
Jueves, 20 de Abril de 2006
The European Laboratory for Particle Physics uses a new documental system created by a UGR researcher
The growing digitalization of traditional libraries and the increase of scientific production, like in the fields of High Energies Physics, have leaded to consider the manual indexing systems to be obsolete, as they are unviable in practice. By way of example: every week, more than one thousand new papers reach the database of the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN in French), in Switzerland, near Geneva, and considered nowadays to be an international model of (...)
Martes, 21 de Marzo de 2006
A UGR project allows to obtain academic information from a computer on the phone
Persons with visual disability do not only have to deal with architectural barriers. How could the blind community gain access at any time to the information of an institution or company without moving from home and through a simple phone call? The research group GEDES, of the department of Computer Languages and Systems of the Universidad de Granada, has the answer; they are the responsible for the oral dialog system "University on the line", an (...)
Viernes, 13 de Enero de 2006
The UGR edits a book on astronomy, cartography and geodesy applied to Topography and Photogrammetry
Books on Topography and Photogrammetry do not usually analyse astronomic, cartographic and geodesic questions, essential to understand the meaning and applications of such subjects. According to the author, Mario Ruiz Morales, professor of the department of Graphic Expression in Architecture and Engineering of the Universidad de Granada, such premises justify the publication of this book entitled Complementos geodésicos y cartográficos (Geodesic Cartographic Complements) and published by Editorial Universidad de Granada. “It will be –according to the (...)
Lunes, 08 de Agosto de 2005
Researchers of the UGR apply last generation wireless technology to control irrigation systems and industrial processes
In some months, cable communication will be a thing of the past. The development of a new high-speed technology, long-range (more than 50 kilometres) and much cheaper than UMTS, will change the communication systems existing up to now. WIMAX, which will replace WIFI, has been created for offices or small places; it will also replace ADSL, expanding the access to the Internet, especially in rural areas without network range at present. But these will not (...)
Viernes, 29 de Abril de 2005
Do not get lost
Getting lost in an unknown city is still part of the romanticism of travelling for some people. Others do not have time to waste and prefer having a plan to visit the most interesting monuments of the place. For this type of tourists, researchers of the University of Granada, in collaboration with other Spanish universities, are developing a computer system to make tourism easier with a visit plans network designed according to their preferences and (...)
Martes, 12 de Abril de 2005
A thesis of the UGR proposes an e-learning model for a Mexican university
E-learning is an educational model to solve in an agile and efficient way flexible educational demands regardless distance or time. The thesis of Ely Karina Anaya Rivera, titled “An e-learning-teaching model: Analysis, design and application in a Mexican university system” and supervised by professors Enrique Herrera Viedma and Oscar Cordón García, of the University of Granada, suggests the implementation of an e-learning model in a Mexican technological university to make the most of this system.The (...)
Martes, 01 de Febrero de 2005
Researchers of the UGR develop an intelligent system to help to extinguish forest fires
SIADEX is an intelligent system capable of generating, in an autonomous way, extinction plans for forest fires on the ground from the available data (where did the fire started, environment, resources available, etc.). This system gathers a series of computer programs, among which two stand out: BACAREX, a knowledge base where the experience of the Plan INFOCA is included, and the SIADEX, a program capable of using the data of the INFOCA to establish plans (...)
Lunes, 29 de Noviembre de 2004
The UGR creates a heat model to study temperature control in closed spaces
A practical teaching experience of real-time control of a heat model, using the Simulin-Matlab environment, is the result of a teaching innovation project, coordinated by teacher Olivares Ruiz, of Systems and Automatic Computing. Patrick Walaschewski, student of the German University of Dortmund, and the teachers of the Dpt. of Computer Architecture y Technology of the UGR Miguel Damas Hermoso, Ignacio Rojas Ruiz, Francisco Gómez Mula, Héctor Palomares Cintas, Moisés Salmerón Campos and Francisco Pelayo Valle (...)
Lunes, 22 de Noviembre de 2004
A simple, attractive teaching innovation method makes easier for the students the complex world of algorithms
Thanks to the capacity to communicate our thoughts by algorithms we can create machines whose behaviour simulates intelligence to a certain extent. The level simulated by the machine is limited by the intelligence we can communicate by means of algorithms. An algorithm is a finite whole of instructions or steps useful to execute a task or solve a problem; machines can only carry out algorithmic tasks.Making this subject easier for students is very difficult for (...)