and power throughout all the stages of a gait using software created by Herr s group a process the company calls Personal Bionic Tuning.
the researchers used a computer program to align and condense each one so that the arbors were represented by smaller,
the computer program correctly classified all of the known neurons. Among the randomly selected neurons, some ended up being grouped with the known types,
Results can be plugged into the company software, which tracks contaminated products and can provide analytics on
and paper or spreadsheets to track contamination hich makes it nearly impossible to gather large amounts of data,
Custom software reads the driver s braking habits and optimizes the system. The startup also collects operational data from the vehicles to inform fleet managers of the best vehicles for the technology usually ones traveling in the stop
The program links MIT teachers and mentors to Tibetan community programs through Skype supplemented by regular travel by Dalai lama Center staff alumni and students who among other work teach weeklong leadership
You ve updated your operating system and now you need to reboot. This is so the computer can switch to the modified source code.
but this can leave the servers outdated or vulnerable to cyber attacks. In 2008 Jeff Arnold 07 MENG 08 along with a team of MIT computer scientists and engineers began solving this issue by developing
and commercializing software called Ksplice that automatically applies patches (security updates or bug fixes) to an operating system on the fly without requiring a reboot.
Based on Arnold s award-winning MIT master s thesis the novel software compares changes between the old
and updated code and implements those changes into a running Linux kernel an operating system s core data-processing component.
In essence it does something that could normally be achieved only by shutting down the operating system. The software also incorporates novel techniques that remove the need for programmer intervention with the code (a trademark of performing updates without Ksplice)
which decreases the cost and risk of error Arnold says. The aim is to allow administrators the benefit of the update
while eliminating both the cost and downtime for the users Arnold says. After winning the 2009 MIT $100k Entrepreneurship Competition for the software Arnold co-founded Ksplice Inc. with Waseem Daher 07 MENG 08 Tim Abbott 07 SM 08
and Anders Kaseorg 08 in Cambridge to launch it as a commercial product. Arnold served as the company s CEO.
In just 18 months Ksplice accumulated 700 customers independent firms government agencies and Fortune 500 companies that were running the software on more than 100000 servers.
which is now providing the software to its Oracle Linux customers which include banks retail firms and telecommunications companies worldwide.
After the purchase the Ksplice team joined Oracle to help the company integrate the software in its products.
As of today Ksplice has only ever run on Linux operating systems. But Daher says the code is written in a way that should make it potentially expandable to other products such as Mac and Windows operating systems.
Object focusedthe process of updating running kernels is called hot updating or hot patching and predates Ksplice.
when two or more software components have the same name. Ksplice however hot patches the object code using two novel techniques invented by Arnold.
while the servers were in heavy use he delayed installing the update until the weekend.
This wait unfortunately resulted in a cyber attack that required reinstalling all the system software. That s what motivated
You can t bring servers down right away and can t wait until you have a chance to update
Arnold and Daher are now working on another software startup at the Cambridge Business Center and still keep in touch with the VMS they say.
To develop the memorability algorithm the team first fed the software a database of more than 2000 images.
In this way the software was able to analyze the information to detect subtle trends in the features of these faces that made them more or less memorable to people.
Compilers are computer programs that translate high-level instructions written in human-readable languages like Java or C into low-level instructions that machines can execute.
At the ACM Symposium on Operating systems Principles in November, MIT researchers will present a new system
Because Bingham distributions are so central to his work Glover has developed also a suite of software tools that greatly speed up calculations involving them.
The software is freely available online for other researchers to use. In the rotationone reason the Bingham distribution is so useful for robot vision is that it provides a way to combine information from different sources.
Imagine too that software has identified four locations in an image where color or depth values change abruptly likely to be the corners of an object.
Gary Bradski vice president of computer vision and machine learning at Magic Leap and president and CEO of Opencv the nonprofit that oversees the most widely used open-source computer-vision software library believes that the Bingham
An onboard control system has software to track the route and manage the cameras. On the software side, computer vision and machine-learning algorithms stitch together the images, extract features,
and filter out background objects. In one night, the cars can generate more than 3 terabytes of data,
software-analytics approach, says Sarma, who is now Essessboard director. For utility companies, this means pinpointing home and building owners who are more or less likely to implement energy-efficient measures.
To do so, Sarma helped develop software that brings in household and demographic data such as information on householdsmortgage payments
And constant tweaks had to be made to the GPS system that required more sophisticated software. hen youe driving around
There also the software. ou get the system running and realize there a tree in front of the building and,
was finding how closely coupled the hardware was to the software. his is truly mechatronic,
he says. small change to the hardware could have profound effects on the software. You may say,
but that changes everything else in the software. You really have to think about everything together.
Vandiver made the organization first 3-D printed land mine example from an existing computer-aided design (CAD) model of a Russian antipersonnel landmine.
and MIT students to improve their CAD skills and learn to perfect 3-D printing.
and even livestock would have embedded their own sensors that report information directly to networked servers,
Software uploads these disparate images to a mobile device and stitches them together rapidly into full panoramic images.
is the image-stitching software, developed by engineers at the Costa rican Institute of technology. The software algorithms, Aguilar says,
vastly reduce computational load and work around noise and other image-quality problems. Because of this, it can stitch multiple images in a fraction of a second,
A computer program controls the printer by directing the movement of the substrate and varying the voltage at the nozzle to print a given pattern.
Additionally nanocomposite materials are used already in fenders and panels in the automotive and textile industry.
and bind to them increasing the chances of forming that essential Plug in addition and very importantly these platelets are engineered to dissolve into the blood after their usefulness has run out.
Current panels can process only 20 percent of the solar energy they take in. By applying the nanowires the surface area of the panels would increase
and allow more efficient solar energy capture and conversion. The wires could also be applied in the biomedical field to maximize heat production in hyperthermia treatment of cancer.
Our simple'diode'panel could obtain high brightness efficiency of 60 Lumen per Watt which holds excellent potential for a lighting device with low power consumption said Norihiro Shimoi the lead researcher and an associate professor of environmental studies at the Tohoku University.
Thus the new flat-panel device has compared smaller energy loss with other current lighting devices which can be used to make energy-efficient cathodes that with low power consumption.
and meticulously planned using computer design software. Using the software the researchers design three-dimensional frameworks of the desired size
and shape built from linear DNA sequences which attract and bind to one another in a predictable manner.
The method reported in the journal ACS Nano could someday vastly improve the outlook for patients.
#Conductive nanofiber networks for flexible unbreakable and transparent electrodes Transparent conductors are required as electrodes in optoelectronic devices, such as touch panel screens, liquid crystal displays, and solar cells.
Examples of applications are large displays, large interactive touch screens, photovoltaic solar panels, light-emitting diode panels, smart phones,
The only difference is the ones we used are much more precise due to a sophisticated system of hardware and software.
She adds that these biosensors will need to be integrated with optical components, with electronics for reading out the measurements, software to process all data,
such as a proposal last year by researchers at MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) for materials that could be cut out as flat panels
With the aid of special computer software researchers combine these images to form a three-dimensional picture,
This paper describes a new nanoparticle-based covert barcode system in which a selected panel of solid-to-liquid phase change nanoparticles with discrete and sharp melting peaks is added in a variety of objects such as
Using a computer program, they were able to customize the chemical building blocks of the DNA sequence
and absorption properties Solar thermal panels developed at EPFL are are dressed up in unique and patented new materials.
Researchers created a stronger black coating that retains its original color and thereby its absorption properties much longer than traditional panels.
The color black is at the key element of thermal panels because it can absorb up to 90%of the energy it receives.
and the panel becomes less efficient. Engineers have developed an innovative process that deposits thin layers of 3 different materials that are more resistant,
It abandons the black chromium that was used for panels currently on the market in favor of a multilayer composite of cobalt for its corrosion resistance, manganese for black,
along with software developed by Asylum Research and his lab made it possible to study the growth in situ or in place.
The Open source Beehives project is a collaborative response to the threat faced by bee populations in industrialised nations around the world.
Each hive contains an open source sensory kit The Smart Citizen Kit (SCK) which can transmit to an open data platform:
The heavy lifting of the Zebedee is done in software as all that conflicting laser data is converted to a 3-D map.
--but that's not necessarily a bad thing as long as the software is capable of sorting out the redundant data in a reasonable time-frame which it sounds like this data is.
it's a wall panel or at most a pair of wall panels. But a room it is not.
#FAA Panel Recommends Lifting Ban On Gadget Use During Flights After receiving countless complaints abuse towards flight attendants who are only doing their jobs
A 28-person advisory panel just concluded its study and says the AP will recommend that the FAA lift
The panel does not recommend the use of cellular networks like 3g and 4G LTE; you won't be streaming Netflix
while taking off if the panel has its way. Not that you probably could; the airplane's speed means that you'll be switching from tower to tower faster than your phone
Amazon has tested previously interference on its own by testing an airplane packed full of Kindles as an Amazon representative told the AP.#The advisory panel's decision is likely to be implemented by the FAA;
the FAA not only created the panel but also had a hand in selecting some of the members
if the agency chose to ignore the panel's conclusions. The AP says that the decision could be implemented as soon as early 2014
#Editors will need software that selects the best images not just the ones from the right place at the right time.
With Scoopshot a Helsinki software start-up publishers can send photo assignments to the service s network of 300000-plus mobile users.
But to assure quality editors will need software that automatically selects the best images not just the ones taken in the right place at the right time.
The Sun-Times to benefit from that type of machine vision the software will need to process larger image batches from multiple sources.
So using custom-built software called TERRA Petigura corrected for the challenges associated with finding all of the planets orbiting stars in the Kepler field
and Android#that can be used for the detection of radioactivity in everyday life such as exposure on airplanes from medical patients or from contaminated products.
Gammapix uses its software to measure the impact of those rays and give a picture of radioactivity#in the area.
--The Editorspolytechnic Institute of New york Universitycreating a new way to cloud computejustin Cappos can access the Internet from anywhere in the world a desktop computer in Ethiopia an Android phone in France even a tablet on an island off the coast of Antarctica
Cappos and colleagues are now working on software that could access the sensors in smartphones as well.
which is why she s building software that allows people to see where the information they upload to the cloud goes.#
Her latest software uses a series of shadow accounts to see how ads change when certain phrases are used.
Lee told Popular Science that an international panel helps us set up criteria for evaluation sites looking at risk facing the sites significance of the sites and technical benefits of the sites.
#The Rise Of Open source Hardware So in the summer of 2012 Petrone (then an engineer at a Portland startup) launched a site where flexible matrix boards
Open source has become very much a part of the brand and what people within the hardware world associate with us.#
#Part of the reason software has led the open source charge is that it has the advantage of being lightweight Petrone explains.
which made components cheap#is helping to lower the barrier to open source entry for hardware as are crowdsourcing platforms such as Kickstarter.#
#For companies and makers the revenue model for open source hardware is still being worked out since a person could potentially exploit an open source platform and sell it for profit.
But as Arduino#a microcontroller for DIYERS and the most successful open source hardware project to date#shows people tend to buy the $30 original version rather than the $10 copycats.
Most people want to support those who are actually contributing and putting the sweat and time into the project Petrone says.
There is so much demand for the open source products sold on the site that the waiting list alone contains nearly half a million dollars worth of orders.
Apple s not going to open source their products anytime soon but Tesla could.##This article was published originally in the October 2014 issue of Popular Science#with#the title The Etsy Of Hardware.
DIRTT is hoping to forestall these problems with the help of their Doom engine-based software named ICE.
The Doom engine is a computer program that can render 2-D blueprints into a 3-D space.
Because the engine is open-source DIRTT was able to adapt it for their own needs--for example ICE melts with other design softwares including Autocad.
When the panels arrive at their destination they're popped into pre-cut aluminum frames which will hold the wall panels upright in the finished building.
But it s not only the speed at which the walls are built that's helpful. Jenkins explains that some buildings such as hospitals may need to reconfigure their interior panels quickly to make way for another patient with different needs.
Not only that but they need to be sensitive to rapid technology changes as well. Hospitals are making decisions for
and other virtual reality viewing systems may integrate with the ICE software--to further simplify the design process
At the crown of the helmet a flexible panel that has a polycarbonate shell attaches with a living hinge.
Instead it puts together neurorobotics software and hardware that have been developed by several labs in recent years.
A video demo of the software shows a prototype of the app on a laptop.
Usually the idea is that such algorithms could go into software for marketing departments (How is this new ad making viewers feel?
in addition to needing the software potential buyers have to be able to afford Google glass but perhaps
to host custom servers. This article originally appeared in the September 2014 issue of Popular Science e
Most of the handsets run on hardened versions of Android that make privacy the default for app permissions and network connections.
###Free Android; ios coming late summerpros Apps enable#end-to-end encrypted calling and messaging.##Open-source code allows for shared fixes.
Con Your callers also need to have installed the apps for the encryption to work.####Free WINDOWS OS X Linux Orbot for Androidpros The preconfigured browser routes you through a worldwide network of proxy servers anonymizing IP numbers.
Con NSA views Tor usage as suspicious.####Free tails. boum. org/Pros Housed on a USB memory stick
or a DVD this Linux variant OS uses only anonymous Tor Internet connections and leaves no evidence of your session.#
#Con Some popular software packages won t run on Linux.####$40 hidecell. compros Storing your phone in a metal-lined bag will eliminate surveillance possibilities by blocking cell-tower signals along with your Wi-fi GPS and Bluetooth connections.
the software also allows for easier design changes. This article originally appeared in the September 2014 issue of Popular Science i
P. S. P. S. Popular Science Postscript: How can a process that produces carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, help reduce global warming?
This ranges for example from companies that physically manufacture robots and automation machinery to companies specialising in the types of software and technology that enable automation.
Every note played is memorized like lines of code in a computer program. Then to run your Wigl program you play a special NTERNOTE
Most children s entertainment is moving towards software mainly on tablets and I believe that limits their creativity and understanding of what s possible.
and spearheaded the Android operating system before that resigned fromâ Google and will start a tech incubator focused on hardware.
Regarding James Kuffner who replaces Rubinâ The Wall street journal saidandy Rubin former leader of Google#s Android mobile businessâ oversaw a series of robotics acquisitions last year
In a memo on Friday Mr. Page said that Mr. Pichai#s empire#which already includes the Android
and Chrome products along with Google Apps like Google docs and Gmail#will now include Research Search Maps the social media network Google Plus along with Commerce.
which is essentially the ever-growing racks of servers and switches that keep all those products working.
Magic Leapas artificial intelligence software and emerging learning chips fuse into more speedy and capable pursuits the line between things robotic (which has a specific definition)
and AI-driven robotic activities not yet defined (like software bots) is coming into question. Hence the interest in whereâ Google is focusing.
and software that surpasses existing virtual and augmented reality solutions. Â Other participants in the B fundingâ included Qualcommâ KPCB Andreessen Horowitz Obvious Ventures and Legendary Entertainment m
#Opensource 3d printed oppyhumanoid enables experimentation in robot design Funded by the European Research Council (ERC) Â Poppy is printed a 3d open source humanoid designed by the Inria Flowers lab a French research
and development) hopes that the open source and 3d printable aspects of the project will enable researchers to quickly print custom body parts and experiment with different robot morphologies in order to study their impact on behaviour and learning.
while other humanoid projects such asâ icubâ are also open source the 3d-printable aspect of Poppy is significant
 With 3d printing changing the body shape is easier. nother platform that is similar to Poppy in that it is both open source and 3d printed isâ Jimmy the Robot.
the 3d printing and open source aspects of the project are part of that vision. To facilitate collaboration
and experimentation they have created an open source dedicated webâ platformâ that combines hardware software and webtools.
Both hardware and software are open source. There is not one single Poppy humanoid robot but as many as there are users.
#Japan holds first#robotics revolutioncouncil meeting This fall the Japanese government held its first meeting of a new panel focused on its goal of aâ#robotics revolution#a key item in the government#s
The panel is tasked with promotingâ measures to increaseâ the use of robots and related technologies in various fields extending out ofâ the manufacturing sector andâ into hotel distribution medical and elderly nursing-care services.
According toâ Prime minister Shinzo Abe who instigated the robot panel determiningâ the appropriate use of robots will be a key to solving these problems.
The panel chaired by Mitsubishi electric Corp. consultant Tamotsu Nomakuchi will work out a five-year plan to be presented by the end of 2014 with details on how they willâ achieve the numerical targets.
and research developer of Openbci a low-cost open-source hardware platform that records the brain#s electrical signals and uses devices and software languages to make the data easily accessible.
Russomanno and cofounder Joel Murphy aim to accelerate the advancement of BCI through collaborative hardware and software development.
Another of Openbci#s exciting potentials is the fact that it is fully open source. Russomanno
Jerry is built off of the android platform and has sewn 19 sensors throughout his fur. These sensors let children check Jerry glucose levels feed him foods give him insulin
Android developer hacker hustler and resident diabetes expert if our bears ever become sentient you#ll know whom to blame.
Happiest in a machine shop with a well-made spreadsheet or fly fishing. Brian Oley Software engineer: An acrobatic unicycling photographer and developer of mobile games and medical software.
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#In recent years#they say#we have seen accelerated levels of innovation in both software and hardware that are now driving new possibilities for consumer readiness and adoption of personal robotics.#
The software Edware is open source and compatible with Windows Mac and Linux. Programs download into the robot via the supplied Edcomm cable that plugs into the headphone jack of your computer.
and above it the whole front panel is made of foam so the car is not only safe for its passengers but for pedestrians as well.
Unfortunately there is no super-software that can be uploaded to the robot to make it become an instant medical expert.
Software may be upgraded in the future to allow R2 to move around the stations interior and perform routine maintenance tasks such as cleaning filters.
As the user looks at the boxes on the screen the computer program is able to figure out the commands allowing the music player to be controlled without the need of any physical movement.
The collaboration is a continuation of a project launched in 2008 that focused on embedded technology software solutions and prototypes.
To do this they are combining thousands of energy-efficient micro-servers in a way that enables them to access the memories of the other servers with a minimal time delay.
and batteries) and allowed a CAD design of the entire system. Part of this step was the design of a special brake to suddenly stop a momentum wheel to transfer its energy to the entire cube
once on site the robot would be connected to the machinery software through a brand-independent software system
The consortium aims to have the workflow process designed within the first year to have the software prototype tested for the first use case by the third year
#Google buys up robotics companies from DRC If youe recently wondered where all the roboticists were going the answer is to an unassuming complex in Palo alto. Google has backed Android developer Andy Rubin to acquire at least 7 major robotics
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.
â##I feel with robotics itâ#a green fieldâ#he said. â##Weâ##re building hardware weâ##re building software.
Nowadays theye used for applications that require extremely high precision such as mounting smartphone components and coating the glass panels in LCD TVS.?
and control tasks (with the exception of a microcontroller for bundling sensor data) are executed on a base station that runs the Robot Operating system.
#OAK, a Kinect-based active support system for the severely disabled OAK which stands for bservation and Access with Kinectis a software application for use by people with severe disabilities.
 Through theâ Open Hand Project an open source project with the goal of making robotic prosthetic hands more accessible to amputees aâ fully-functional prototypeâ has already been developed.
and featuring aâ high-precision motion capture system a wireless communication network and custom software for executing estimation and control.
a script takes 3d models designed by the user in CAD software converts them into 3d curves
Rethink Robotics Baxterrethink Robotics##new Baxter robot is getting a software upgrade. Big deal? Actually it is.
Brooks vision was to have a hardware platform frequently enhanced with new software and capabilities#and it is happening as promised and on schedule.
Rethink recently launched an academic version of Baxter with a Software Development Kit (SDK) enabling users to train the robot and share their programs with other Baxter owners.
Just the other day Rethink upgraded their operating system to V1. 1 to make it easier to integrate existing factory machine synchronization
###Once purchased our users can expect a steady stream of software upgrades giving them access to all the new features on the latest robots to leave the factory.
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