Assistant Professor, School of Computing - University of the Fraser Valley, UFV - Abbotsford, Canada
Abbotsford, BC, Canada
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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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Fingertip Sensor Gives Robot a Sense of Touch
A robot equipped with a novel optical sensor is able to grasp a USB plug and insert it into a USB port.
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Manual Control
Oblong Industries is bringing gesture-control technology developed for Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report" and other Hollywood films to corporate conference rooms...
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Extracting Audio from Visual Information
An algorithm can recover speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag or other objects filmed through soundproof glass.
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Going to the Red Planet
Whenever the first NASA astronauts arrive on Mars, they will likely have MIT to thank for the oxygen they breathe—and for the oxygen needed to burn rocket fuel...
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Getting a Grip on Robotic Grasp
Researchers at MIT have developed a wrist-mounted device that enhances the grasping motion of the human hand with two robotic fingers.
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Bake Your Own Robot
Printable robots—those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers—have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna...
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A New Kind of Media Theory
MIT's Fox Harrell is looking to give computer games, social media, and digital media the same opportunities for social reflection present in literature, film, and...
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Natural-Language Processing Techniques Aid Activity-Recognition Algorithm
Techniques from natural-language processing enable computers to efficiently search video for actions.
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Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing
MIT researchers have developed a self-contained autonomous soft robotic "fish" that can convulse its body to change direction in just a fraction of a second, almost...
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Social Physics
Since 2001, the Human Dynamics Laboratory at the MIT Media Lab has used digital technologies—from home-brewed portable sensors to cellphone call records—to try...
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Seeing Things: A New Transparent Display System Could Provide Heads-up Data
Transparent displays have a variety of potential applications—such as the ability to see navigation or dashboard information while looking through the windshield...
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Marvin Minsky Honored For Lifetime Achievements in Artificial Intelligence
MIT Media Lab professor emeritus Marvin Minsky, 86, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, has won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award...
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Power (of Electronics) to the People
MIT Media Lab alumna and entrepreneur Ayah Bdeir SM '06 wants to help all people worldwide, tech savvy or not, understand and build creatively with electronics.
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Catching (radio) Waves
In 2000, five MIT Media Lab alumni co-founded ThingMagic to help bring radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology—wireless readers and data-transmitting tags—to...
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Forget Hide and Seek: System Allows Through-Wall, 3-D Motion Tracking
New technology developed at MIT uses radio signals to track a person's location and movement through walls and obstructions, pinpointing his or her location to...
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'wise Chisels': Art, Craftsmanship, and Power Tools
It's often easy to tell at a glance the difference between a mass-produced object and one that has been handcrafted: The handmade item is likely to have distinctive...
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Algorithm Could Eliminate nexplained Traffic Jams
If integrated into adaptive cruise-control systems, a new algorithm could mitigate the type of freeway backup that seems to occur for no reason.
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Building Disaster-Relief Phone Apps on the Fly
Researchers have developed new tools that allow people with minimal programming skill to rapidly build cellphone applications that can help with disaster relief...
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Artificial-Intelligence Research Revives Its Old Ambitions
The birth of artificial-intelligence research as an autonomous discipline is generally thought to have been the monthlong Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial...
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Terramechanics Research Aims to Keep Mars Rovers Rolling
In May 2009, the Mars rover Spirit cracked through a crusty layer of Martian topsoil, sinking into softer underlying sand.
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