and explored for use in architecture by inventor Buckminster Fuller in the 1960s. Subsequent research found tensegrities all throughout biology#for instance the human spine relies on both the vertebrae and the muscles tendons and ligaments that surround and support the bones.
Modeling all the way these structures can also interact with their environments is also very difficult he added.
and Liberia where there is illiteracy and weak health infrastructure and where accurate data on the spread of the disease is difficult to come by.
and the leaded film would be contained completely within other materials. The research Environmentally-responsible fabrication of efficient perovskite solar cells from recycled car batteries was published recently online by the journal Energy and Environmental science.
and furnished with stadium-seating for its two crew members, the Advanced High performance Reconnaissance and Surveillance Aircraft (AHRLAC) looks like an alternate history version of a World war i fighter.
Originally created for animated film, the software also allows for easier design changes. This article originally appeared in the September 2014 issue of Popular Science i
The architecture of space has had always a military underpinning. American nuclear submarines, hiding out at sea,
#U k. Supermarket To Run on Electricity Made From Its Own Rotting Food One U k. grocery store plans to power itself using biogas harvested from its own unsold, rotting produce.
and used it to make thin films on a silicon substrate. Via metal electrodes that contacted the film,
the researchers observed the relationship between current and voltage under various conditions. Reflectin transported protons,
The researchers then manufactured the tiny elongated structures out of the modified epoxy film via two-photon polymerisation.
People can also look at two paintings and find similarities between them in terms of composition color texture subject matter etc.
People can also look at two paintings and find similarities between them in terms of composition color texture subject matter etc.
An artist might be inspired by one painting a body of work or even an entire style of art.
Although there has been some research on automated classification of paintings there is almost no research done on computer-based measuring
However there is limited research on the classification of painting style. Measuring influence is a very difficult task because of the broad criteria for
and retrieving paintings. There are millions of paintings present on the Internet; to manage properly the databases of these paintings it becomes essential to classify paintings into different categories and sub-categories.
This classification structure can be used as an index and thus can improve the speed of retrieval process.
Also it will be of great significance if we can infer new information about an unknown painting using already existing databases of paintings.
Although the meaning of a painting is unique to each artist and is completely subjective it can somewhat be measured by the symbols and objects in the painting.
Symbols are visual words that often express something about the meaning of a work as well.
For example the works of Renaissance artists such as Giovanni Bellini and Jan Van-eyck use religious symbols such as a cross wings and animals to tell stories in the Bible.
We should be able to describe the painting from a list of many different object classes.
Paintings do not necessarily have to look alike but if they do or if they have reoccurring objects (high-level semantics) then they might be considered similar.
If influence is found by looking at similar characteristics within a group of paintings the importance of finding a good similarity measure becomes prominent.
and the linearity of paintings therefor cuts down the possibilities of influence. The contribution of our work 1234 is in exploring the problem of computer-automated suggestion of influences between artists a problem that has not previously been addressed in a general setting.
1) studying different representations of painting to determine which is more useful for the task of influence detection;
2) measuring similarity between paintings; 3) studying different measures of similarity between artists. We collected a comprehensive painting dataset for conducting our study.
The data set contains 1710 high-resolution images of paintings by 66 artist spanning the time period of 1412-1996
and containing 13 painting styles. We also collected a ground-truth data set for the task of artistic influences
which mainly contains positive influences claimed by art historians. This ground-truth was used only for the overall evaluation of our discovered/suggested influences
We hypothesized that a high-level semantic representation of painting would be more useful for the task of influence detection.
We tried to find this useful representation by considering the task of classifying painting style.
and classification models for the task of classifying painting style among seven different styles 13.
Using the right features to represent the painting paves the way for judging similarity between paintings in a quantifiable way.
Figure 2 illustrates an example of similar paintings detected by our automated methodology: Frederic Bazille#Studio 9 Rue de la Condamine#(1870) and Norman Rockwell#Shuffleton Barber Shop#(1950.
The paintings may not look similar at first glance; however a closer look reveals striking similarity in composition and subject matter
Measuring similarity between paintings is fundamental to discovering influences however it is not clear how painting similarity might be used to suggest influences between artists.
The paintings of a given artist can span an extended period of time and can be influenced by several other contemporary and prior artists.
1 R. Aroara and A. Elgammal#Towards Automated Classification of Fine-art Painting Style: A Comparative Study#21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR#12) Tsukuba Science City Japan November 2012.2 Kanako Abe Babak Saleh and Ahmed
By sequencing notes together like lines of code in a program children can make Wigl dance
and even uncover secret dances. This fusion of right brain creativity with left brain logic engages children
and move to the music. Original versions of Wigl used DTMF (Dual Tone Multi Frequency) chips which are used commonly in touch-tone phone systems.
If you play a series of notes together to form a song Wigl celebrates with a special dance!(
Most children s entertainment is moving towards software mainly on tablets and I believe that limits their creativity and understanding of what s possible.
 Other participants in the B fundingâ included Qualcommâ KPCB Andreessen Horowitz Obvious Ventures and Legendary Entertainment m
but important questions have to be well thought to be realistic. he Poppy communitypoppy developers hope that the robot will also be used in schools for learning about robotics and as an experimental platform in the arts;
and does a little dance when the user decides to stop eating. It interactions like these that make mealtime more entertaining andâ help to establish a bond between the user and the robot.
Wire-framer of ideas and framer of ideas out of sculpture wire. Hannah Chung Cofounder and CCO:
#I see this as an enhancement to our customer service#said Brian Mcguinnessâ Starwood hotels#senior viceâ president for its Specialty Select brands which include the 100 Aloft hotels expected to be opened in 14 countries byâ next year.#
If you#re a football fan then June 12th is the day you#ve been waiting for
but eagle-eyed technophiles are likely to have noticed one very exciting addition to the opening ceremony.
Given that the World cup is a celebration of all things football it seems only right that this event should showcase some emerging technologies that could help a disabled patient to achieve a dream that so many have#taking the first kick at the World cup.
and females) to enable them to master control of an exoskeleton directly with their brain in a stressful environment like a stadium.
The hopeful volunteers have trained in a realistic virtual environment mimicking the real stadium while receiving feedback from the tactile sleeves for the past 8 months with the final decision on who would take the kick made only last week.
The second worry for the project was that electromagnetic fields from cell phones carried by people in the stadium would block electronic signals in the exoskeleton
#however testing in a comparable stadium showed that this would not be a problem. The researchers hope that by using such a high profile event as the World cup the general public will gain a greater understanding and a greater tolerance of
if playing music was as simple at looking at your laptop screen. Now it is thanks to Kenneth Camilleri
and World cup Football Packbots will be deployed in Brazil during the 2014â World cup Soccerâ season to bring a high-tech approach to security.
The robots will be stationed throughout Brazilâ#12 host cities during the soccer matches to boost security
#Microsoft pays 5m CHF to ETHZ and EPFL for research on flying robots and new memory architectures ETH Zurich and EPFL are jointly entering into a new research partnership with Microsoft Research.
At the Ecocloud center at EPFL Dr. Edouard Bugnion and Professor Babak Falsafi are carrying out research into energy-efficient memory architectures for data centres that can handle huge amounts of data.
Other companies include Holomni makers of high tech wheels Bot&dolly and Autofuss the super cool robotics software companies behind the special effects in the film Gravity.
and Control and the Professorship for Architecture and Digital Fabrication both from ETH Zurich Switzerland. ee Federico research paper a collaboration with Ammar Mirjan presented at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference
Mataerial is a research collaboration between Petr Novikov and Sasa Jokic from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and Joris Laarman Studio.
and television shows such as ARD Nachtmagazin. This (ongoing) media attention has helped us to reach the public:
#Why we need renewable energy to end poverty More than 700 million people live in extreme poverty around the world.
So it goes without saying that ending energy poverty is a key step in ending poverty itself.
Without renewable energy, we cannot end poverty by 2030. enewable energy is the foundation of a modern economy,
and dynamical modeling to watch the light-harvesting process in action, and to demonstrate that the new viruses were indeed making use of quantum coherence to enhance the transport of excitons. t was really fun,
For the first time in history, extreme poverty (people living on less than $1. 90 each day) worldwide is set to fall to below 10%.
#US ARMY Turns to Computer Software for Medic Training Technology already has pushed medical and emergency responder training well beyond the days of mock wounds and static mannequins.
New software designed for Army medical training allows personnel to see in real-time the effect of their treatments on the bodies of virtual patients and high-tech mannequins.
but with high-tech mannequins, according to Jenn Carter, senior scientist and project manager for new program, called Biogears. et say a person is performing CPR on a mannequin,
Carter said. hat mannequin is set up to detect things like pressure and the speed of your hands.
and speed to the driver in our physiology engine and as that person is treating the mannequin we can have a model saying this is
and mannequin training system, but by the broader public because it is open source. ll the models we are creating can be downloaded for free by anyone to create immersive training,
#Compulsively checking Facebook will now include impulse shopping Facebook will soon start looking more and more like an online shopping mall.
spokesman for the International organization for Migration, told AFP. All the deaths were in the Chautara district, east of Kathmandu,
due to apparent activation of blind pores within the carbon architectures as the cell charges and discharges over time,
Just ask any twelve-year-boy carrying a bat and searching for his baseball. But scientists are interested keenly in making glass resilient
imagine 5000 new facilities each roughly the size of a sports stadium.)Yet the scientists found the environmental benefits of such a massive technological campaign were surprisingly small, especially in terms of protecting the ocean from the impacts of climate change.
researchers have combed now the literature for relevant research. When ants came, crop yields often improved, the team concludes online today in the Journal of Applied Ecology.
not only how light reflects off the film, but also how much of it is absorbed. When a transparent material lay underneath the GST film
spots with a crystalline order absorbed more light than did spots with an amorphous structure.
if they could gain more information about a collection of particles, such as their individual sizes and relative positions. ith the previous system,
and research scientist in the MIT Department of Architecture. very material responds to some sort of energy source,
if we want to demonstrate a new architecture that wel be allowed to manipulate the factory in any way.
The software, dubbed Matriarch for aterials Architecture allows users to combine and rearrange material building blocks in almost any conceivable shape.
With Matriarch engineers can explore what happens to a material properties when its architecture changes.
and design them according to their needs. ur description of the material architecture is backed up by a rigorous mathematical framework,
Seeing a person silhouette and even distinguishing between individuals. In a paper accepted to the SIGGRAPH Asia conference taking place next month,
the team presents a new technology called RF Capture that picks up wireless reflections off the human body to see the silhouette of a human standing behind a wall.
By tracking the silhouette, the device can trace a person hand as he writes in the air
in order to see the person silhouette. The key challenge, however, is that different individuals and, for that matter,
and intelligently stitches the person reflections across time to reconstruct his silhouette into a single image.
The online retail startup Fab. com, which raised $300 million and joined the unicorn club last year, ended up selling most of its assets in March to the manufacturing firm PCH in a deal reported to be worth just $15 million.
More recently, the company entered the entertainment space, landing Netflix as a client. That was a product of the company's ability to process a lot of content in a short amount of time
and involved the collaboration of chemists, cancer biologists, computer modeling experts, biochemists and biophysicists at KUOTABLY the labs of Xu, Jeffrey Aubé in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Jon Tunge in the Department of chemistry.
Leave the process running longer and a continuous film forms. Stepped surfaces result in the nanoparticles forming linear chains on the step edges at low coverage.
when you're modeling, "Kulkarni says.""You don't think mathematically. It's a very different style of modeling."
"Joining Kulkarni on the paper are his adviser, professor of brain and cognitive sciences Josh Tenenbaum;
Scientists at the Universities of Edinburgh and Dundee studied the protective film formed by the common soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis.
They found it incorporates proteins that change shape as they reach the film surface. This exposes an impervious surface on the protein molecules
The film is able to repel water-which means other potentially harmful molecules also bounce off.
but the ability to control the creation of a water-repellent film has many possible applications."
special concerns for thin-film and concentrator PV; connectors; PV systems; and soiling. A final task group was assembled to tackle how to communicate PV quality assurance ratings to the industry, stakeholders,
our sensor architecture easily lends itself to a compact solid-state imaging chip. We believe our results are a significant step forward in developing an entirely new generation of cameras that can function for a very long durationdeally,
Zhuang says she had been pondering about how to distinguish between such an overwhelming collection of molecules for a long time,
"Scientists can now synthesize a large collection of FISH probe enough to bind selectively to each RNA within a cell.
Starting with the shape and design of the building modelled in three dimensions with the open standard Building information modeling (BIM),
In one new software tool, we have applied expertise in advanced algorithm development, knowledge on genetics and principles of genome architecture."
#E-commerce Players Betting Big on Offline Presence Many e-commerce players have started foraying into physical retail space
"The reality is e-commerce is still a fraction of overall retail and is going to be this way for quite some time.
That's why companies getting into it want to ensure that they increase their reach by setting up physical retail outlets as well,
while pureplay online retail will continue to stay.""We can neither call this trend a passing fad nor conclude by saying that it is something that is here to stay as there is a huge gap between the online
According to Tripti Lochan, CEO of VML, a leading digital marketing agency,"pureplay online retail will continue to live as not every e-commerce player has need either the
or the appetite to get into traditional retail.""""We are investing in technology to solve many complex online furniture shopping problems in an innovative way.
He is a member of the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine in the East midlands,
However, these devices, often created with nondegradable elastic polymers, bear an inherent risk of intestinal obstruction as a result of accidental fracture or migration.
This amalgamation makes it a terrifically attractive material to apply to scientific developments in a wide variety of fields, such as electronics, aerospace and sports.
At the International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques in October, MIT researchers unveil the first fundamentally new approach to cache coherence in more than three decades.
Beyond the clinical applications, Professor Bernier findings could enable the modelling of human retinal degenerative diseases through the use of induced pluripotent stem cells,
lay down a film just a few micrometers thick on a suitable substrate, and run a current through it.
Right now, Fraunhofer is putting the film on small panels that can be glued to the inside of a car door,
Here's a video showing the microwave camera taking pictures of (among other things) a mannequin through a solid wall:
If the mannequin in the video looks suspiciously like it's covered in aluminum foil, that almost certainly because it is covered,
Doing this actually makes the mannequin more human like: wee very good at reflecting microwaves in this frequency range
and covering the plastic mannequin in tin foil makes it a close approximation to the real thing.
The DRAGEN processor delivered its critical speed gains to the hospital servers thanks to its architecture,
and a confluence of new hardware technologies that freed computation from the desktop and automated multivariate collection of big data.
inexpensive but sophisticated hardware sensors have emerged to automate the collection of massive data sets. With these technology shifts, exciting technologies like drones, AI, satellite mapping, robotics,
Unless youe been in small business retail or sales and have tried to craft a marketing campaign
The process is somewhere between using a dowsing rod and the dark arts. This is the holy grail of marketing,
CA-based Soraa who is using the technology in their connected LED lamps. ee built the unique architecture where devices form a native,
which is noneducational, it more entertainment focused, so a kid that doesn want to spend money can still learn,
In addition to the black boxes, there will be a new database of dangerous persons, new devices to record phone calls, FISA-like metadata collection and more.
So far though, the startup has focused on getting an initial version right by modeling droplet sizes
and has an in industry low CPA (for personal retail checking accounts) by a significant margin.
and it gives you a summary of each one based on literature, says Banda. t not someone else tweet
Among other projects, the new Pediatric 3d printing Unit at the hospital will focus on pediatric medical imaging, digital modelling, 3d fabrication,
According to Kim Francois, a spokeswoman from Materialise, the company will contribute with training for digital modeling and 3d printing procedures, clinical software development and technology support.
the maximum swimming speed can reach 12.5 mm/s and the minimum turning radius is 25 mm in the stomach.
The team demonstrated that silicone elastomers can be printed seamlessly into gradient architectures composed of soft and rigid regions (meaning that for wearable devices,
They turned to architecture firm Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill to design the house, which includes a small kitchenette, entertainment area, and Murphy bed.
Clayton Homes, the nation largest builder of manufactured housing, assembled it. Both the house and car used over 25,000 lbs of printed material.
by helping clean seas while swimming, one stroke at a time. The team began development on the material four years ago for applications such as cleaning up oil spills
an architecture and design firm based in New york city and Istanbul. The make the swimsuit, the material was moulded into the shape of a bikini
with any shape and form of swimming outfit, can contribute to the cleanliness of the seas by a sports activity or simply a leisurely summer vacation
The process of manufacturing these metals involves additive manufacturing process modelling sensor network, and seamless process integration.
An Astrobiological Exploration part of he Sixth Elementdesign collection, curated by Stratasys for Euromold 2014. Wanders saw the designer
Chen and Wang successfully discovered that the strong swimming mechanisms of their microfish actually enhanced the ability to clear up toxins,
helping medical professionals gather their diagnosis from swimming throughout the body with these microfish. 3d printing enthusiasts are amazed oftentimes by
entertainment area, and murphy bed with an accompanying Printed Utility Vehicle (PUV). The home, on the one hand, receives energy from solar panels affixed to its roof,
Owings & Merrill LLP, one of the largest architecture firms in the world, laid out the blueprints for the structure and,
Several university decision makers, company partners and other Hungarian 3d printing ventures participated at the opening ceremony held last week.
The 3d Academy is an educational studio specialized in 3d printing, 3d modeling and 3d scanning.
That when partners of New york city-based architecture and design firm Eray Carbajo came in with the idea to implement the material into a wearable technology
Respitetm allows allows the dose to be adjusted based on a patient's size, age, gender, physiological profile and disease severity.
This means that we can apply all the required partial layers even to films or other flexible substrates, explains Peter William de Oliveira, head of the program division Optical Materials.
professor of neurobiology and behavior in the College of Arts and Sciences and senior associate vice provost for research. e know that the technological breakthroughs
Linda B. Glaser is a staff writer for the College of Arts and Sciences a
Vibrant optical colors are generated from ultra-thin single layer silicon films deposited on a thin aluminum film surface with a low cost manufacturing process.
The optical colors are controlled by the thickness of silicon films. The thickness of the silicon films ranges from 20 to 200 nanometers for creating different colors.
For reference, 100 nanometers is about 1/1000 of the thickness of a single sheet of paper.
The combination of high index of refraction and low absorption enables strong optical wave interference inside ultra-thin silicon films,
while his student holds a collection of color samples.""And the colors are very durable.
In combination with innovative quantitative approaches and numerical simulations, they were also able to define the genome architecture at the nanoscale.
they observed key differences in the chromatin fibre architectures of both cells. Pia Cosma, group leader and ICREA research professor at the CRG explains,
"It also has a long-term cycling stability, in other words, the electrode could retain nearly 95 percent of initial capacitance after cycling
#Canatu Announce Multitouch, Button-Free Automotive Panels with Carbon nanobud Films Canatu, a leading manufacturer of transparent conductive films, has in partnership with Schuster Group
and Display Solution AG, showcased a pioneering 3d encapsulated touch sensor for the automotive industry. The partnership is delivering the first ever,
Canatu CNB#(Carbon nanobud) In-Mold Film with its unique stretch properties provides a clear path to the eventual replacement of mechanical controls with 3d touch sensors.
CNB#In-Mold Films can be formed easily into shape. The film is patterned first to the required touch functionality, then formed,
then back-molded by injection molding, resulting in a unique 3d shape with multitouch functionality.
CNB#In-Mold Films can bring touch to almost any surface imaginable. The unique properties of CNB#In-Mold Films are unmatched as no other film on the market can be stretched 120%and molded without losing their conductivity.
A natural partnership Schuster Group has a long history in manufacturing customized paneling for the automotive industry.
Schuster Group is keen to utilize Canatu proprietary CNB#(Carbon nanobuds) In-Mold Film in their latest next generation product design.
The partnership was a natural choice for Schuster Group as Canatu CNB#are the world highest performing carbon based transparent conductive film for transparent conductors in touch
'In addition to controlling music or phone calls, the iskin technology could be used for many other applications. For example, a keyboard sticker could be used to type
high throughput fashion, says Zwart. he full deployment of FXS as a new tool in the arsenal of the structural biologist will take some time,
typically entailing the collection of large quantities of the protein. They also often require modifying the protein,
and Jeffery G. Saven, a professor in Penn Arts & Sciencesdepartment of Chemistry. It was published in the journal ACS Nano.
Different silhouettes allow different amounts of an ionic liquid to pass through. The change in ion flow is measured by electronics surrounding the pore;
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