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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Security bugs in large software ecosystems
Dimitris MitropoulosThe XRDS blog highlights a range of topics from security and privacy to neuroscience. Selected blog posts, edited for print, will be featured...
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The many stages of writing a paper, and how to close the deal
Suresh VenkatasubramanianOriginally posted on The Geomblog
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Quantified performance: assessing runners with sensors
Christina Strohrmann, Gerhard TrösterA look at how athletic performance can be measured outside of the laboratory.
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Fitness trackers
Andrew MillerDigital activity sensors are no longer confined to research labs; they're in the wild and they come in lime green. They offer the promise to improve...
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Tracking how we read: activity recognition for cognitive tasks
Kai KunzeUsing activity recognition for cognitive tasks can provide new insights about reading and learning habits.
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Toward smartphone assisted personal rehabilitation training
Gabriele Spina, Oliver AmftWhen utilizing internal sensors, modern smartphones are inexpensive and powerful wearable devices for sensor data acquisition, processing...
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Capturing human motion one step at a time
Rolf AdelsbergerThe design, construction, and deployment of a pressure-enhanced IMU system that fits in the bottom of your shoe.
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mHealth @ UAH: computing infrastructure for mobile health and wellness monitoring
Mladen Milosevic, Aleksandar Milenkovic, Emil JovanovNew health care systems that integrate wearable sensors, personal devices, and servers promise to fundamentally...
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Airwriting: bringing text entry to wearable computers
Christoph Amma, Tanja SchultzIt may be possible to enable text entry by writing freely in the air, using only the hand as a stylus.
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Wearable brain computer interface are we there yet?
Viswam NathanBrain computer interfaces are still restricted to the domains of health and research, but we understand what needs to be done and are getting closer...
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Sharing Massive Data
In BBC Technology: How do game companies readily share very large 50GB plus files? This interested me because I recently had to do this for an analytics project...
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