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says Dr Jeffrey Miller, at the University of Southern California Computer science Dept, and member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

"When you do a degree in computer science you study the technical things, she says. You study how to write a code, mathematics.

and predictable technology,#says Professor Roch Guerin, Chair of Computer science and Engineering at Washington University, St louis."Bluetooth targets lower transmission ranges and data rates than wi-fi,

One of the features of Orca is an algorithm a set of rules that assigns each member of the network a probability of belonging to a particular gang.

an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), in 2009. His team used that earlier version to fuse adult cells with embryonic stem cells,

Airbnb uses a variation of these algorithms to predict which renters and guests would be the best fit.

but the techniques and the algorithms and the tools are general, Sabah says. By combining company data on employee hiring, promotions, relocations, compensation, employee satisfaction surveys, managerial decisions and job cuts with public data sets like the standard of living in the region

algorithms. The U k. government has overhauled the way it teaches computing to the country's children by adding mandatory programming classes.

and complete puzzles to familiarize themselves with the concept of algorithms without the complexity. By the time they hit 14,

That makes the U k. the first G20 nation to put computer science at the heart of its curriculum."

In 2009, only 19 percent of students graduated with credits in computer science, down from 25 percent in 1990, according to a report from the U s. Department of education.

Or perhaps the nine years of force-fed algorithms and coding will scare them away forever."

"said Robert Cannistra, a Marist lecturer of computer science and IT.""The network is critical to the cloud.

The researchers are also developing intelligent algorithms (small programs) to efficiently manage the energy obtained from the environment.

The algorithms are used then with advanced signal processing techniques to reduce the amount of data that has to be sent for a given monitoring application.

and the industrial partners are incorporating the algorithms and hardware innovations into commercial products. In the longer term, Nicola Bui, the former CEO of Patavina Technologies, a project partner based in Italy,

Dr Hurtos says. ou just need internet access to an online platform where algorithms anonymise the medical images for confidentiality,

The project biomedical engineers combined algorithms and statistical models to enable analysts to accurately predict the outcome of planned treatments for individual patients. here is quite often missing data.

The Cablebot team are also developing control algorithms and systems to operate the cable robots, according to industrial requirements.

automatic speech recognition; natural language understanding; natural language generation; and text to speech synthesis. The Companion can be combined with current dialogue management techniques so as to deliver natural-sounding dialogue.

and image dataset that is being collected Europe-wide can be exploited by a large neuroscience community through the application of sophisticated brain analysis algorithms.

and then analysed using specially developed algorithms. The Healthy Aims project, involving 25 partners from 10 countries,

An algorithm translates the temperature data into an accurate health report all in less than 30 seconds.

#Heart disease could be written on your face University of Rochester rightoriginal Studyposted by Mark Michaud-Rochester on September 2 2014new technology that uses software algorithms

The technology described in the study employs a software algorithm developed by Xerox Corp. that scans the face

In developing countries keeping track of a baby s vaccine schedule on paper is largely ineffective says Anil Jain professor of computer science and engineering at Michigan State university.##

and a control algorithm closing the loop between glucose sensing and insulin delivery, he says. ut creating an artificial pancreas that delivers the right amount of insulin at the right times has been a challenge

because it is difficult to create a control algorithm that can handle the variability among individuals.

and algorithms to handle ig datasuch as these is another notable accomplishment of the 1kite team

All this gesturing wizardry is made possible by a new type of algorithm developed by Jie Song a master s student in the working group headed by Otmar Hilliges professor of computer science at ETH Zurich.

and memory powerexplains Hilliges adding that their new algorithm uses a far smaller portion of computer memory

the Georgia Tech computer science graduate student who developed the software. he text is streamed then to Glass in real time. aptioning on Glass is currently available to install from Myglass.

An algorithm translates the temperature data into an accurate health report all in less than 30 seconds. hese results provide the first examples of epidermal photonic sensorssays John A. Rogers the paper s corresponding author

which could provide another source of energy for certain applicationssays Shwetak Patel associate professor of computer science and engineering and of electrical engineering at the University of Washington.

In developing countries keeping track of a baby s vaccine schedule on paper is largely ineffective says Anil Jain professor of computer science

#Algorithms could adjust screens to your vision University of California Berkeley Original Studyposted by Sarah Yang-Berkeley on August 15 2014.

which cannot be corrected by eyeglasses says Brian Barsky professor of computer science and vision science and affiliate professor of optometry at University of California Berkeley. e now live in a world where displays are ubiquitous

A paper on their findings is available in ACM Transaction on Graphics. he significance of this project is that instead of relying on optics to correct your vision we use computationsays lead author Fu-Chung Huang who worked on this project as part of his computer science Phd dissertation at UC

and it is non-intrusive. he algorithm which was developed at UC Berkeley works by adjusting the intensity of each direction of light that emanates from a single pixel in an image based upon a user s specific visual impairment.

The new display combines light field display optics with novel algorithms. Huang now a software engineer at Microsoft corp. in Seattle notes that the research prototype could easily be developed into a thin screen protector

and connect these devices to the internet has kept this from taking off. f Internet of things devices are going to take off we must provide connectivity to the potentially billions of battery-free devices that will be embedded in everyday objectssays Shyam Gollakota an assistant professor of computer science

if you re looking for specific patterns you can find it among all the other Wi-fi reflections in an environmentsays coauthor Joshua Smith an associate professor of computer science and engineering and of electrical engineering.

#Algorithm edits boring bits out of Gopro videos Carnegie mellon University Posted by Byron Spice-Carnegie mellon on August 5 2014.

and Pattern Recognition Conference in Columbus Ohio. he algorithm never looks backsays Zhao whose research specialty is computer vision.

Rather as the algorithm processes the video it compiles a dictionary of its content. The algorithm then uses the learned dictionary to decide in a very efficient way

if a newly seen segment is similar to previously observed events such as routine traffic on a highway.

director of virtual humans research and a professor of computer science. he virtual character delivered on both these fronts and that is

and enable the economic production of gas resources with higher carbon dioxide content that would be too costly to recover using current carbon capture technologies says James Tour professor of mechanical engineering and nanoengineering and of computer science at Rice university.

and produce very small quantities says James Tour chair in chemistry and professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and of computer science at Rice university.

#Search tool finds pics of you based on tag relationships University of Toronto Posted by Michael Kennedy-Toronto on December 2 2013a new algorithm could profoundly change the way we find photos among the billions on social media sites such as Facebook

Because of your close aggingrelationship with both your mother in the first picture and your father in the second the algorithm can determine that a relationship exists between those two

when you search for photos of your father the algorithm can return the untagged photo because of the very high likelihood he s pictured. wo things are happening:

and Computer engineering at the University of Toronto who helped develop the algorithm. The tool called relational social image search achieves high reliability without using computationally intensive objector facial recognition software. f you want to search a trillion photos normally that takes at least a trillion operations.

but a billion usersâ##it s almost a 500 order of magnitude difference. ur algorithm is simply based on the number of tags not on the number of photos

which makes it more efficient to search than standard approaches. urrently the algorithm s interface is primarily for research

and of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. he vision is that eventually you can use this technology to build general-purpose tools. urrently

But smaller faster and cheaper has meant also smaller faster and hotter. nergy dissipation of silicon-based systems has been a major concernsays Anantha Chandrakasan head of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and a world

The Stanford researchers created a powerful algorithm that maps out a circuit layout that is guaranteed to work no matter

Adrien Treuille, associate professor of computer science and robotics, says the drawing assistance app is just one example of how Big data can be used to enhance drawing

For instance, Limpaecher says algorithms have previously been created for identifying whether a person is drawing a face,

In addition to Treuille, the other team members were Nicholas Feltman, a Ph d. student in computer science, and Michael Cohen, principal researcher in Microsoft Research Interactive Visual Media Group.

A cooperative control algorithm allows them to form a network and learn from the data they take in for example by adjusting their course when needed.

#The NSA s $10 million secret deal to get RSA to use backdoored encryption algorithm RSA had been paid by the NSA to set the backdoored algorithm as the default method of random number generation.

A secret $10 million deal between the NSA and the security firm RSA has resulted in RSA incorporating a flawed algorithm for generating random numbers into its products,

In the spotlight was flawed a algorithm known as Dual ec drbg, or the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator.

The deliberately crippled Dual ec drbg algorithm was being used as the default pseudo-random number generator a crucial component in RSA s BSAFE toolkit.

##What wasn known t until#Reuters#reported it was that RSA had been paid by the NSA to set the backdoored algorithm as the default method of random number generation.

and a computer algorithm can tell you#how likely you are to get the flu.

The system s algorithms constantly monitor electricity supply and demand charging and discharging the battery to minimize drawing expensive electricity from the power grid.

#When algorithms grow accustomed to your face Face-reading technology raises many questions about privacy and surveillance.

and control all of the apps that emerge from its algorithms, Dr. Kaliouby said. Face-reading technology may one day be paired with programs that have complementary ways of recognizing emotion,

##The software uses its algorithms to read your expressions, ##she said, ##but it doesn t store the frames.##

##So far, the company s algorithms have been used mainly to monitor people s expressions as a way to test ads, movie trailers and television shows in advance.

The algorithms have improved, but##they are not perfect, and probably never will be said,##he. Apps that can respond to facial cues may find wide use in education

It uses proprietary algorithms to reduce false alarms. Lockheed touts the##field -and-forget##technology as providing maximum coverage at minimal costs,

said Shyam Gollakota, a UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering. We now have the ability to enable Wifi connectivity for devices

and UW associate professor of computer science and engineering and electrical engineering, says that although the signals are tiny

The technology uses algorithms to alter an image based on a person's glasses prescription together with a light filter set in front of the display.

The algorithm alters the light from each individual pixel so that, when fed through a tiny hole in the plastic filter,

Brian A. Barsky, a University of California, Berkeley, computer science professor and affiliate professor of optometry and vision science who coauthored the paper, says it's like undoing

and a detail of a Vincent Van gogh self-portrait and applied algorithms that warped the image by taking into account the specific eye condition it was told to account for.

more processing power on the device for things like speech recognition, instant on/off functioning, superior servers, removing most of the device cooling engineering,

#Demand for computer science programs is booming at colleges across the U s. People in the tech industry have worked to persuade more young people in the U s. to become interested in studying computer science for years.

Demand for computer science classes and programs is booming at universities across the U s, . according to data presented this past week at the NCWIT summit for Women in IT by Ed Lazowska, the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer science and Engineering at the University of Washington,

and Stanford Computer science professor Eric Roberts. Demand is also booming for the less expensive Micro Colleges that teach programming skills like Davinci Coders near Boulder, Colorado,

which only costs $6, 000. At Lazowska own school, the number of incoming freshman who plan to major in computer science is soaring the graph below,

published earlier this week by Geekwire, speaks for itself. It not just UW that seeing A CS boom.

Computer science class enrollment is markedly up at a number of institutions, from traditional tech hubs like MIT and Stanford to more humanities-and business-focused schools like Harvard.

According to Lasowska and Roberts, our higher education institutions today aren prepared adequately to handle the surge in computer science education demand.

the algorithms are able to learn and improve from a much wider data set. Semantria business is booming, growing at 20%per month.

In May of 2013, Georgia Tech announced an online master degree in computer science for $7

while also developing advanced algorithms to help the aircraft better traverse wind patterns and flight routes.

Sharkey noted that warrior robots would do battle with other warrior robots equipped with algorithms designed by an enemy army. f you have two competing algorithms

and you don know the contents of the other person algorithm, you don know the outcome.

the interactions of their two algorithms resulted in prices in the millions of dollars. Competing robot armies could destroy cities as their algorithms exponentially escalated,

Sharkey said. An even likelier outcome would be that human enemies would target the weaknesses of the robotsalgorithms to produce undesirable outcomes.

#New Algorithm for Real-time Simulations in Materials Research Researchers at LBNL have have developed a new algorithm that opens the door for real-time simulations in atomic-level materials research.

and visiting scholar Zhi Wang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have developed a new real-time time-dependent density function theory (rt-TDDFT) algorithm that increases the small time

The traditional algorithms work by directly manipulating these equations. Wang new approach, which involves adding a new algorithm on top of his PETOT (parallel total energy) code,

originally developed by Wang when he worked at the National Renewable energy Laboratory and later parallelized by Wang

"With this new algorithm, the rt-TDDFT simulation can have speed comparable to the Born-Oppenheim ab initio molecular dynamics simulations,

"To achieve this, the algorithm expands the equations in PETOT into individual terms, based on which states are excited at a given time.

describing the key to the algorithm success: Solving the equations in bigger time steps reduces the computational cost and increases the speed of the simulations."

"Comparing the new algorithm with the old, slower algorithm yields similar results, e g.,, the predicted energies and velocities of an atom passing through a layer of material are the same for both models,

Returned pictures are reconstructed into 3-D images using algorithms developed by Menon and Kim. nlike miniature microscopes,

The extremely fast hierarchical 3d reconstruction software speeds up imaging internal microstructures 10-100 times compared to traditional or GPU-accelerated micro-CT algorithms.

with a unique algorithm developed by computer scientists at MIT. The microprocessor tells the robot what to do what shape to take and how to move.

a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT who also worked on the self-assembling robot."

And, according to Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland professor of computer science and director of the Computer Vision Lab, cooking was the perfect skill to test the robots'progress."

and then use data-compression algorithms such as JPEG to store the image in a smaller file."

An algorithm compiles data from each wavelength to generate a complete image every 0. 1 seconds.

and Google is sure to refine its algorithms. But as flu-tracking techniques based on mining of web data

But the latest US flu season seems to have confounded its algorithms. Its estimate for the Christmas national peak of flu is almost double the CDC s (see Fever peaks),

In 2009, Flu Trends had to tweak its algorithms after its models badly underestimated ILI in the United states at the start of the H1n1 (swine flu) pandemic###a glitch attributed to changes in people s search behaviour as a result of the exceptional nature of the pandemic (S. Cook et al.

An algorithm devised by researchers in Canada and California now offers an answer#in this case, bituqen.

but the authors say that earlier algorithms tended to be rather intractable and prescriptive. Bouchard-C# t#and colleagues'method can factor in a large number of languages to improve the quality of reconstruction,

The algorithm can automatically identify cognate words (ones with the same root) in the languages. It then applies rules known to govern sound changes to deduce the probable root of each set of cognates.

and run their own algorithms. Source: BCC Researchother firms offer a range of approaches. Seven Bridges Genomics, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts,

e developed a modulation algorithm that increases the throughput of data in visible light communications, Maite Brandt-Pearce,

Algorithms interpret the data in the light spectrum, and identification information is delivered back to your phone within seconds.

Coe-Sullivan, then a Phd student in electrical engineering and computer science, was working with Bulovic and students of Moungi Bawendi, the Lester Wolfe Professor in Chemistry,

That s our unique contribution to this challenge says Daniel Weitzner the principal investigator for the CPI and a principal research scientist in MIT s Computer science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL.

CSAIL is home to much of the technology that is at the core of cybersecurity such as the RSA cryptography algorithm that protects most online financial transactions and the development of web standards via the MIT-based World wide web Consortium.

To address these issues CPI will not only bring to bear different disciplines from across MIT from computer science to management to political science

Additionally more than 60 research organizations across the globe are using the system on management social psychology medicine computer science and physical therapy among other things.

You can store very long-term information says Timothy Lu an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and biological engineering.

Behind Keystone Smith, who studied mechanical engineering and electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, conceived of a tapered spiral-welding process

Nonetheless, he a member of a recently formed rock band with a fellow mechanical engineering major and two computer science majors, keeping music

they were able to spot problems in the underlying algorithms, and make improvements much faster than before. here are a lot of problems that pop up because of uncertainty in the real world,

or restructure your vision of how your algorithm works. You could see applications where you might cut down a whole month of work into a few days.

who was involved not in the research. t will also enable the testing of decision-making algorithms in very harsh environments that are not readily available to scientists.

and a former associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science who co-invented the technology. That turns out to be the key to keeping the efficiency very high.

The AMO technology was a new transmitter architecture where algorithms could choose from different voltages needed to transmit data in each power amplifier

so a lot of algorithms we develop, we need to think about geometry. Grinspun had upgraded previously a code he developed to simulate hair to model the flow of viscous fluids like honey.

so we thought that we should port some of his algorithms into engineering, and test if these patterns can be predicted,

because it gives you the ability to do highly predictive designs with unique targeting capabilities says senior author Mehmet Fatih Yanik an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and biological engineering.

Then the lipidoid-RNA complex was injected automatically guided by a computer vision algorithm. The system can be adapted to target any organ

The control algorithm constantly adjusts the velocity of the water pumped through each of the six jets to keep the robot on course.

and electrical engineering and computer science the researchers described their findings in the Sept. 21 issue of Nature Biotechnology.

Now MIT researchers have developed an algorithm for bounding that they ve successfully implemented in a robotic cheetah a sleek four-legged assemblage of gears batteries

The key to the bounding algorithm is in programming each of the robot s legs to exert a certain amount of force in the split second during

and graduate student Meng Yee Chuah will present details of the bounding algorithm this month at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Chicago.

Kim and his colleagues developed an algorithm that determines the amount of force a leg should exert in the short period of each cycle that it spends on the ground.

#In experiments the team ran the robot at progressively smaller duty cycles finding that following the algorithm s force prescriptions the robot was able to run at higher speeds without falling.

Kim says the team s algorithm enables precise control over the forces a robot can exert while running.

or underwatered. hey don have to know the flight algorithms, or underlying hardware, they just need to connect their software or piece of hardware to the platform,

when Downey, who studied electrical engineering and computer science, organized an MIT student team including Airware chief technology officer, Buddy Michini 7, SM 9,

Then for each trip their algorithm identifies the set of other trips that overlap with it the ones that begin before it ends.

Next the algorithm represents the shareability of all 150 million trips in the database as a graph.

The graphical representation itself was the key to the researchers analysis. With that in hand well-known algorithms can efficiently find the optimal matchings to either maximize sharing

The researchers also conducted experiments to ensure that their matching algorithm would work in real time if it ran on a server used to coordinate data from cellphones running a taxi-sharing app.

Algorithms distinguish the pills by matching them against a database of nearly all pills in circulation.

In a computer-vision class in the Computer science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory he saw that advances in 3-D object-recognition technology meant computers could learn objects based on various characteristics.

Seeking a change of pace from computer science Reynisson enrolled in the MIT Sloan School of management where he saw that Helgason was right.

algorithms can do less work and hence finish more quickly. hese days, with cloud technology, storing lots of data is no big deal.

and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical engineering and Computer science at MIT and one of the Science paper s co-authors.

Rus is joined on the paper by Erik Demaine an MIT professor of computer science and engineering and by three researchers at Harvard s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and School of Engineering and Applied sciences:

In prior work Rus Demaine and Wood developed an algorithm that could automatically convert any digitally specified 3-D shape into an origami folding pattern.

but that s probably tolerable for many applications In the meantime Demaine is planning to revisit the theoretical analysis that was the basis of the researchers original folding algorithm to determine

and computer science at the University of California at Berkeley who has been following the MIT and Harvard researchers work.

#Extracting audio from visual information Algorithm recovers speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag filmed through soundproof glass.

and Adobe have developed an algorithm that can reconstruct an audio signal by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video.

a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and first author on the new paper. he motion of this vibration creates a very subtle visual signal that usually invisible to the naked eye.

Joining Davis on the Siggraph paper are Frédo Durand and Bill Freeman, both MIT professors of computer science and engineering;

So the researchers borrowed a technique from earlier work on algorithms that amplify minuscule variations in video

The researchers developed an algorithm that combines the output of the filters to infer the motions of an object as a whole

so the algorithm first aligns all the measurements so that they won cancel each other out. And it gives greater weight to measurements made at very distinct edges clear boundaries between different color values.

The researchers also produced a variation on the algorithm for analyzing conventional video. The sensor of a digital camera consists of an array of photodetectors millions of them, even in commodity devices.

says Alexei Efros, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California at Berkeley. ee scientists,

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