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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Researchers Create 3-D Models from Online Photo Databases
Computer scientists have invented a technique that automatically creates 3-D models of landmarks and geographical locations, using ordinary two-dimensional pictures...
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Where Cinema and Biology Meet
When Robert A. Lue considers the "Star Wars" Death Star, his first thought is not of outer space, but inner space.
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Chips in Football Helmets to Monitor For Concussions
Intel researchers are working with football helmet manufacturers and several universities to develop technology that can monitor brain damage in real time and build...
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A Conversation With Ed Catmull
Pixar Animation Studios president Ed Catmull says he once used realistic computer-generated animation as a goal because "doing it is so hard that it would help...
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Uic Researchers Paint on 20-Foot Electronic Canvas
The University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Laboratory maintains a video display wall with a resolution of 8,160 by 2,304 pixels. Recently...
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Taking Movies Beyond Avatar
University of Abertay Dundee researchers have developed a technique that builds on the virtual cameras used in the movie "Avatar" by using home computers and motion...
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Human-Computer Music Performance System Links Music and Musical Gestures
University of Victoria researchers have developed a new method for capturing musical gestures and mapping them to sounds. The method involves the use of sensors...
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Piracy Technology to Revolutionize Market Research in Cinema
Researchers are developing piracy tracking technology for movie theatres. "We plan to build on the capabilities of current technology . . . to detect criminals...
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Career Opportunities
What are the job prospects for today's—and tomorrow's—graduates?
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Security in the Cloud
Cloud computing offers many advantages, but also involves security risks. Fortunately, researchers are devising some ingenious solutions.
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Turning Data Into Knowledge
Today's data deluge is leading to new approaches to visualize, analyze, and catalog enormous datasets.
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Get Ready For the Decade of Gamification
The popularity of video games and the explosion of social networking are intersecting to redefine how we will experience the Web over the next decade.
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With Kinect, Microsoft Aims for a Game Changer
Tim Nichols measures fun. A slim, 32-year-old psychologist, he spends his days behind a one-way mirror at Microsoft’s video games research center here, watching...
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Giant Science Party
Mondo science party this weekend in DC! The USA Science & Engineering Festival and Expo features 1,500 exhibits, 750 organizations, 75 stage shows, and more.
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Festival Visitors Get Virtual 3-D Tour of the niverse
As part of the USA Science and Engineering Festival, the Thirty Meter Telescope will present a tour of the cosmos with a portable planetarium.
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Smart Phone Game Helps Players Make Healthier Food Choices
A Georgia Tech study has shown that playing health-related video games on a mobile device can help adults learn to live more healthfully by making smart diet choices...
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Computer Beats Human at Shogi, Japanese Chess, For First Time
A computer has beaten a human at shogi, otherwise known as Japanese chess, for the first time. Shogi is more complex than western chess, offering about 10224...
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You Too Can Have a Dream Body
If you dislike the way you look on video, a new kind of image-manipulation software could make you feel better about yourself.
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Therapeutic Computer Games Target Stroke Sufferers
A therapeutic computer game developed in Ireland uses 3-D goggles to improve the brain's sense of perspective and balance in stroke sufferers. A motion-controlled...
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