An associate professor of media arts and sciences and leader of the Biomechatronics Group in MIT's Media Lab Herr is sophisticated building devices that aid human movement by mimicking nature.
In high school he had trained in tool and die machining at a vocational school; shortly after returning home from the hospital he set up a workshop in the garage
So although Herr had intended never to go to college a few years after his accident he decided to give it a try earning a bachelor's degree in physics at Millersville University in Pennsylvania at age 25.
After graduating Herr came to MIT where he completed a master s degree in mechanical engineering in 1993.
The lab which is packed typically with students and postdocs working on projects is strewn with computer parts coffee cups wires rolls of tape random tools
Daniel Ferris director of the Human Neuromechanics Laboratory at the University of Michigan says that Herr's strength is knowing the biological mechanisms
Luke Mooney a graduate student in the Biomechatronics Group says that many people think exoskeleton and imagine an Iron man style suit.
and unique approach and his drive says Woodie Flowers SM 68 ME 70 Phd 72 an emeritus professor of mechanical engineering who helped supervise Herr s graduate research work.
Ian Hutchinson a professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT and one of the principal investigators at the MIT fusion research reactor says the type of confinement described by Lockheed had long been studied without much success. Hutchinson says he was only
a professor at Stanford university who helped developed a DNA interpretation site called Interpretome as part of a class he teaches on genetics. s it going to be concentrated by medical associations,
To Barbara Evans, a professor at the University of Houston Law Center, the idea that people can gather DNA from one company
a data sharing initiative started by Harvard Medical school. All the sites quickly reported gene variants contained in the files
For example researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder are using satellite data and local measurements to build a tool that can tell governments about expected patterns of land sinking in delta areas.
and this requires action said Efi Foufoula-Georgiou a professor in the Department of Civil engineering and former director of the National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics at the University of Minnesota in an interview after the conference.
Irina Overeem research scientist for the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System at the University of Colorado says the proportion of world deltas vulnerable to flooding is expected to increase by 50 percent this century.
says payments expert Bill Maurer, dean of the School of Social sciences at the University of California,
Today Matthew Salganik at Princeton university in New jersey and Karen Levy at New york University outline an entirely new way of gathering data inspired by a new generation of information aggregation systems such as Wikipedia.
Finally the pairs presented to new participants can be selected in a way that maximizes learning based on previous responses so a wiki survey can adapt as it evolves.
For example people were asked to choose between Open schoolyards across the city as public playgrounds and Increase targeted tree plantings in neighborhoods with high asthma rates.
The generator makes use of a novel highly efficient thermoelectric material discovered recently at the University of Michigan (see Thermoelectric Material to Hit Market Later this Year.
Ali Shakouri a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University says the cost savings sound plausible given the material being used
Stephen Forrest, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan, published work on a more efficient,
Now Viney Dixit and buddies at the Hydrogen energy Center of Banaras Hindu University in India say they have discovered that carbonized coconut flesh is particularly good at this task.
It should be more like training a dog he says. Instead of programming you show it consistent examples of desired behavior.
But Izhikevich says more extensive training conducted over days or weeks could teach a robot to perform a more complicated task such as pulling weeds out of the ground.
Training robots through demonstration is a common technique in research labs says Manuela Veloso a robotics professor at Carnegie mellon University.
Sonia Chernova an assistant professor in robotics at Worcester Polytechnic institute says that most other industrial robot companies are now working to add that type of learning to their own robots.
But she adds that training could be tricky for mobile robots which typically have to deal with more complex environments.
Izhikevich acknowledges that training a robot via demonstration while faster than programming it produces less predictable behavior.
John Leonard, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT who was involved not in the research, says the Carnegie mellon programmable headlight could improve automotive machine vision.
Researchers at Cornell University and Rothamsted Research in the United kingdom successfully transplanted genes from a type of bacteria-called cyanobacteria-into tobacco plants
If you can have a simpler mechanism that doesn't require anatomical changes that's pretty darn good says Daniel Voytas director of the Center for Genome Engineering at the University of Minnesota.
Maureen Hansen a professor of molecular biology and genetics at Cornell says the advances won't be seen in commercially grown food crops for at least five or 10 years.
and making sure the genes are stable says Dean Price a professor of medicine biology and environment at Australian National University.
Another early creator of the technology Mark Akeson who works alongside Deamer in the bioengineering department at the University of California Santa cruz says
Nick Loman a researcher at the University of Birmingham said his lab has paid about $1000 each to get hold of the machines though disposable cells containing the matrix of pores (about 2000 of them) would cost extra.
It s quite lightweight flexible and conformal says Conor Walsh a professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at Harvard.
In 1998 researchers at the Carnegie Institution and the University of Massachusetts made a surprising discovery about how cells regulate
The world went from believing RNAI would change everything to thinking it wouldn t work to now thinking it will says Robert Langer a professor at MIT and one of Alnylam s advisors.
which grew out of research at Carnegie-mellon University. This summer Rowbot used its machine to fertilize 50 acres of corn
although drone services can yet be offered commercially in the United states. Mike Schmitt, a professor in the Department of Soil, Water,
and Climate at the University of Minnesota, who has no ties to the startup, says the robot is great additional tool to put in the nutrient management technology toolkit.
is in discussions with researchers at the University of Illinois to prove the advantages of its approach.
Donald Waldman a professor of economics at the University of Colorado says services like Datacoup may provide useful insights about the perceived value of privacy.
but the patient-identifying system has broader applications says Anil Jain a distinguished professor at Michigan State university s Computer science and Engineering Department and coauthor of the paper.
Now John Martinis a professor at University of California Santa barbara has joined Google to establish a new quantum hardware lab near the university.
and UCSB that will allow him to continue his own research at the university. Quantum computers could be immensely faster than any existing computer at certain problems.
Chris Monroe a professor who leads a quantum computing lab at the University of Maryland welcomed the news that one of the leading lights in the field was going to work on the question of
Maimone, a Phd student at the University of North carolina at Chapel hill, is developing a new kind of head-worn display that could make augmented reality hereby digital objects
Together with three other researchers from the University of North carolina and two from Nvidia Research
Christopher Kuner is senior privacy counsel with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Brussels and associate professor of data protection law at the University of Copenhagen n
One of her graduate students is also designing plates that will penetrate materials other than biological tissue.
says Eran Tromer, a computer security expert at Tel aviv University. The remarkable result is described in this paper due to be presented at a conference in South korea next month,
and others, says Radu Sion, a computer security expert at Stony Brook University. Tromer says he doesn know of anybody performing a ground-potential attack to steal real data
After building up a set of training data, which included images of hands, the group found it could measure a person motions at a speed of 220 frames per second.
While the training data focused on faces and hands, the group wasn actually training the machines to recognize hands or faces,
The huge amount of training data allows the machine to build enough associations with the data points in the pictures that it can then use additional properties of the image to estimate the depth.
what sort of training data that you give it, he says. he approach in itself can be tailored to work on any other scenario. n
Indeed various research teams are working on such systems some with significant success. Today Andrey Chernev at St petersburg Academic University in Russia
simulated neural networks to work on data (see eep Learning. But those networks require giant clusters of conventional computers.
developed by researchers at the University of Washington, get all the power they need by making use of the Wi-fi, TV, radio,
an assistant professor at the University of Washington who worked on the project. The battery-free Wi-fi devices are an upgrade to a design the same group demonstrated last yearhose devices could only talk to other devices like themselves (see evices Connect with Borrowed TV Signals and Need No Power Source.
a paper he coauthored with researchers at Duke university medical school indicated that the company earbud sensor was able to accurately estimate total energy expenditure
Kevin Bowyer, chair of the University of Notre dame computer science and engineering department, who has studied iris
a professor of materials science at Rice university who led the work. Several companies are making progress towards commercializing RRAM.
says Wei Lu, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, and cofounder of Crossbar.
Brian A. Barsky, a University of California, Berkeley, computer science professor and affiliate professor of optometry and vision science who coauthored a paper on it, says it like undoing
However, Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab who coauthored the paper, says that
The second device, called Traxion, was developed within the last year at the University of Tokyo by a team led by computer science researcher Jun Rekimoto.
interim director of the Information Services Unit at the University of California San francisco School of medicine. t really about coming up with applications that make data actionable.
which a deletion on chromosome 22 causes problems such as learning and memory deficits, are building a database of information from genomic tests, clinical medical records, extensive family surveys and histories,
Today, we get an answer thanks to the work of John Lang at the University of Waterloo in Canada and a couple of pals.
and Dow chemical. The batteries are based on research that company cofounder Christine Ho began as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley,
Ali Shakouri, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University, says that tetrahedrite has promise
says MIT professor Mildred Dresselhaus. Other materials are made from elements so rare that they wouldn be available for widespread use.
Nicholas Law and pals at the University of North carolina at Chapel hill, say they are developing just such a piece of kit.
a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT who heads MIT Center for Clean water and Clean energy, where the technology was developed.
Today we get to see one idea developed at the University of Wyoming in Laramie by Anh Nguyen and Amy Banic.
a professor of chemistry and chemical biology, turned to nature for an alternative approach, taking inspiration from the pitcher plant,
says Lorrie Cranor a computer scientist at Carnegie mellon University, where she directs the Cylab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory.
says Zeynep Tufeki, an assistant professor at the University of North carolina, Chapel hill, and a former fellow at the Center for Information technology Policy at Princeton university. concerned about these practicesesting and manipulating the user experience every day.
may be that when academic institutions are involvedesearchers at Cornell University and the University of California, San francisco, participated in the emotion studyheir academic institutional review boards should take a closer look.
a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California who has made key findings in the understanding of the brain processes underlying emotion. agree that emotion manipulation is quite common,
Etta Pisano, dean of the College of Medicine at the Medical University of South carolina, says there still isn enough evidence to say
professor and chief of the breast imaging division at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
a researcher at Intel Labs who developed the technology while a Phd student at Dartmouth. f
says Carl Gunter, a computer scientist at the University of Illinois, who was not involved with the project.
and Environment Concentration at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, is that at least three other solar companiesirst Solar, Yingli Solar,
Today they get an answer thanks to the work of Devesh Singh and pals at the Hannover Centre for Optical Technologies at the University of Hannover in Germany.
Microsoft has dedicated a quantum computing research lab, known as Station Q, on the campus of University of California,
and given them to the academic community. Those tools range from cloud simulation platforms for theoretical work to new types of electronics for use in the super-cooled temperatures of quantum hardware experiments.
Mark Billinghurst, a professor and leader of the Human Interface Lab at the University of Canterbury, New zealand, says that the approach developed by Microsoft could have a broad impact
a startup spun out of Boston University that been operating quietly since 2008 and is now ready to go to market with its first productshe are earthmetals neodymium and dysprosium.
a professor of materials science at MIT who is not involved with the company. believe Infinium technology is sound.
#Military Funds Brain-Computer Interfaces to Control Feelings Researcher Jose Carmena has worked for years training macaque monkeys to move computer cursors and robotic limbs with their minds.
or DARPA, awarded two large contracts to Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of California, San francisco,
who is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and involved in the UCSF-led project. e could detect that feeling
Michel Maharbiz, a professor in Berkeley electrical engineering department, says the Obama brain initiative, and now the DARPA money, has created a eeding frenzyaround new technology. t a great time to do tech for the brain,
and involves several Japanese universities, has been testing platoons made of three semi-automated or fully automated trucks since 2007.
operated out of the University of California, Berkeley, is testing vehicle platooning along with other technologies designed to improve transportation.
DNA-templated synthesis allows researchers without a lot of expensive equipment to more quickly evaluate all the potential small molecule interactions that could occur from a library of building blocks. single student with only minimal equipment
either alone or in combination with the already applied medication says Dennis Plachta a microsystems engineer at the University of Freiburg in Germany.
Bisognano a cardiologist who runs a resistant-hypertension clinic at the University of Rochester Medical center in New york knows well the need for more treatment options.
to allow students to practice a complex procedure using a simulation system that feels as realistic as it looks.
said study senior author Stephen Badylak, a regenerative medicine researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, at a teleconference on Tuesday.
In the new work, researchers from University college London and the University of Iceland added carbon dioxide to a stream of water being pumped underground at a large geothermal power plant in Iceland,
says Sigurdur Gislason, a professor at the University of Iceland. The researchers report that 80 percent of the carbon dioxide they injected had formed carbonates in just one year.
says Eric Oelkers, a professor of aqueous geochemistry at University college London. The researchers estimate that this will make it twice as expensive as conventional approaches to storing carbon dioxidet least in the short run.
Mark Zoback, a professor of earth sciences at Stanford university, says there may be other challenges. While basalt is common, especially on the ocean floor,
and dynamics, says Gary Housley, a neuroscientist at the University of New south wales in Sydney, Australia, who led development of the new implant.
says Lawrence Lustig, director of the Cochlear Implant Center at the University of California, San francisco Medical center.
says Jack Hu, a professor of industrial operations and engineering at the University of Michigan.
Undergraduate students in a class called uild-A-Genomeat Johns Hopkins used molecular biology tricks to string together snippets of DNA around 70 nucleotides (A
Now, researchers from Northeastern University and Novobiotic Pharmaceuticals and their colleagues have identified a new Gram-positive bacteria-targeting antibiotic from a soil sample collected in Maine that can kill species including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
a microbiologist at New york University Langone Medical center who was involved not in the work. Although further studies are needed before the antibiotic can be tested in humans
said Gerard Wright, director of the Institute for Infectious disease Research at Mcmaster University in Hamilton, Canada,
"University of Melbourne's Associate professor Katherine Kedzierska said.""The virus was infecting more people rapidly
The team at Dartmouth College studied how to enable screens and cameras to communicate without the need to show any coded images like QR code,
an assistant professor of computer science and co-director of the Dartnets (Dartmouth Networking and Ubiquitous Systems) Lab."It works on off-the-shelf smart devices.
"said Dr Pravat Mandal, a professor at NBRC and associate professor (adjunct) at the John Hopkins University, Maryland, USA.
Dr Kameshwar Prasad, professor and head of neurology at AIIMS, said the findings are preliminary."
Fraser Stoddart from the Northwestern University.""The ring-shaped molecules we work with repel one another under normal circumstances,
but this often sacrifices peripheral and night vision, according to the researchers at the Johns hopkins university and the University of Maryland.
said lead author Akrit Sodhi, an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Johns hopkins university School of medicine. To find an explanation,
but this often sacrifices peripheral and night vision, according to the researchers at the Johns hopkins university and the University of Maryland.
said lead author Akrit Sodhi, an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Johns hopkins university School of medicine. To find an explanation,
the devices could start being sold worldwide Flinders University, where it was created, has formed already a company to sell the devices."
"There are 10,000 universities in the world and this has got applications in chemistry, engineering, biology, medicine,
the devices could start being sold worldwide Flinders University, where it was created, has formed already a company to sell the devices."
"There are 10,000 universities in the world and this has got applications in chemistry, engineering, biology, medicine,
Kevin Harrington, UK trial leader and professor of biological cancer therapies at the ICR and an honorary consultant at the Royal Marsden, said he hoped the treatment could be available for routine use within a year in many countries
"said Professor Harrington.""We hope this is the first of a wave of indications for these sorts of cancer fighting agents that we will see coming through in the next decade or so."
"Professor Paul Workman, chief executive of the ICR said:""We may normally think of viruses as the enemies of mankind,
Alan Melcher, professor of clinical oncology and biotherapy at the University of Leeds, and an expert in oncolytic viruses, said the field had accelerated quickly in recent years."
Kevin Harrington, UK trial leader and professor of biological cancer therapies at the ICR and an honorary consultant at the Royal Marsden, said he hoped the treatment could be available for routine use within a year in many countries
"said Professor Harrington.""We hope this is the first of a wave of indications for these sorts of cancer fighting agents that we will see coming through in the next decade or so."
"Professor Paul Workman, chief executive of the ICR said:""We may normally think of viruses as the enemies of mankind,
Alan Melcher, professor of clinical oncology and biotherapy at the University of Leeds, and an expert in oncolytic viruses, said the field had accelerated quickly in recent years."
the graduate student involved in the work. The team applied this simpler approach to mouse embryonic stem cells in a dish,
Blaine A Pfeifer, an associate professor of chemical and biological engineering in the University at Buffalo School of engineering and Applied sciences, has been studying how to engineer Escherichia coli (E coli) to generate new varieties of erythromycin, a popular antibiotic.
Blaine A Pfeifer, an associate professor of chemical and biological engineering in the University at Buffalo School of engineering and Applied sciences, has been studying how to engineer Escherichia coli (E coli) to generate new varieties of erythromycin, a popular antibiotic.
The developers include Tsinghua University and Tzekwan Technology, a Hangzhou firm in eastern China's Zhejiang province that provides security protection for financial transactions.
The developers include Tsinghua University and Tzekwan Technology, a Hangzhou firm in eastern China's Zhejiang province that provides security protection for financial transactions.
Researchers at the University of California, San diego School of medicine and Shiley Eye Institute at UC San diego Health System identified the gene mutation that underlies achromatopsia, an inherited eye disorder.
senior study author and an associate professor in the UC San diego School of medicine Department of Pathology. Five other genetic mutations have previously been identified by research groups as pivotal in achromatopsia."
The families received testing in the lab of Susanne Kohl, the study's first author from Centre for Ophthalmology at University of Tuebingen in Germany.
A team at the University of Bristol has been quietly developing the technology for the past three years.
Professor Duncan Wass, said he expected self-healing products to reach consumers in the"very near future".
Professor Wass and his team have been working with aerospace engineers at the university, who wanted to know
"Professor wass said.""We've not evolved to withstand any damage -if we were like that we'd have a skin as thick as a rhinoceros
Professor wass said. The technology could also make airline safety checks far cheaper as a dye could be added to the healing agent causing any damage to an aircraft to stand out like a bruise.
Professor wass said a bruise was a"good analogy "-but accepted that the dye would need to be tweaked to cater for nervous fliers."
"Professor wass said. The research was funded by the Engineering and Physical sciences Research Council's UK Catalysis Hub, a collaborative project between universities and industry.
This week's conference, entitled Catalysis Improving Society, will be one of the first events at
Professor Richard Catlow of the University of London one of the organisers of the meeting, said the research showed that catalysis
but Professor wass said the general principle would remain the same.""We're definitely getting to the stage where in the next five
when researchers at the University of Illinois in the US created a plastic capable of repairing itself
How the technology is being used Professor Wass's team at the University of Bristol has been focusing on the creation of self-healing versions of carbon fibre composite materials
A team at the University of Bristol has been quietly developing the technology for the past three years.
Professor Duncan Wass, said he expected self-healing products to reach consumers in the"very near future".
Professor Wass and his team have been working with aerospace engineers at the university, who wanted to know
"Professor wass said.""We've not evolved to withstand any damage -if we were like that we'd have a skin as thick as a rhinoceros
Professor wass said. The technology could also make airline safety checks far cheaper as a dye could be added to the healing agent causing any damage to an aircraft to stand out like a bruise.
Professor wass said a bruise was a"good analogy "-but accepted that the dye would need to be tweaked to cater for nervous fliers."
"Professor wass said. The research was funded by the Engineering and Physical sciences Research Council's UK Catalysis Hub, a collaborative project between universities and industry.
This week's conference, entitled Catalysis Improving Society, will be one of the first events at
Professor Richard Catlow of the University of London one of the organisers of the meeting, said the research showed that catalysis
but Professor wass said the general principle would remain the same.""We're definitely getting to the stage where in the next five
when researchers at the University of Illinois in the US created a plastic capable of repairing itself
How the technology is being used Professor Wass's team at the University of Bristol has been focusing on the creation of self-healing versions of carbon fibre composite materials
developed by Professor Hubert Egger at the University of Linz in northern Austria. Surgeons first rewired remaining foot nerve endings from a patient's stump to healthy tissue in the thigh,
The former teacher, who lost his right leg in 2007 after suffering a blood clot caused by a cerebral stroke,
developed by Professor Hubert Egger at the University of Linz in northern Austria. Surgeons first rewired remaining foot nerve endings from a patient's stump to healthy tissue in the thigh,
The former teacher, who lost his right leg in 2007 after suffering a blood clot caused by a cerebral stroke,
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