the device then monitors how these reflections vary as someone moves in the environment and intelligently stitches the person reflections across time to reconstruct his silhouette into a single image.
The Wifi Calling service will be limited to pay monthly subscribers using Samsung's Galaxy S6 and S5 phones and Microsoft's new Lumia 640."
'When social media software firm Sprinklr unveiled its latest funding last month, it vaulted into the club of"unicorns,
which makes a business software collaboration tool, entered the group which includes well-known names like Uber
Preventing kinase over-activity The'Phosphosense'technology screens compounds for use in drugs and has produced a new way of detecting the activity of enzymes called kinases.
A software program compares both arcs to determine if the leg is the same length it was before the procedure.
The system used automated speech recognition software to produce"rough-draft"transcripts, displayed on a simple interface,
where automatic speech recognition software produces transcripts and captions, which are pushed then to the cloud. Then, any of the contracted editors can choose which transcripts to edit.
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.
#Insights into potential substitutes for costly platinum in fuel cell catalysts Replacing inefficient and polluting combustion engines with fuel cells is not currently feasible
because the cells require platinum-based catalysts. The PNNL study shows how to create particles with a similar reactivity to platinum that replace some of the platinum with Earth-abundant metals.
It may be used to create alloy nanomaterials for solar cells, heterogeneous catalysts for a variety of chemical reactions, and energy storage devices."
"The researchers are now exploring different metal combinations with various platinum ratios to get the desired characteristics for fuel cell catalysts.
which computers are turned loose on huge data sets to look for patterns. To make machine-learning applications easier to build,
computer scientists have begun developing so-called probabilistic programming languages, which let researchers mix and match machine-learning techniques that have worked well in other contexts.
At the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in June, MIT researchers will demonstrate that on some standard computer-vision tasks,
"By the standards of conventional computer programs, those"models"can seem absurdly vague. One of the tasks that the researchers investigate,
and Pushmeet Kohli of Microsoft Research Cambridge. For their experiments, they created a probabilistic programming language they call Picture,
Even though their computers were painfully slow by today's standards, the artificial intelligence pioneers saw that graphics programs would soon be able to synthesize realistic images by calculating the way in
Kulkarni and his colleagues considered four different problems in computer vision, each of which involves inferring the three-dimensional shape of an object from 2-D information.
Built into Picture are several different inference algorithms that have fared well on computer-vision tasks.
""Picture provides a general framework that aims to solve nearly all tasks in computer vision,
"It goes beyond image classificationhe most popular task in computer visionnd tries to answer one of the most fundamental questions in computer vision:
#Shape changing display could spell the end for the 2d graph Imagine your computer screen could change shape.
Imagine if that screen could spring to life at the touch of a fingertip, translating numbers and trends into shapes
Researchers have developed a 3d prototype display which brings data to life in just this way sounding the death knell for the two dimensional bar chart.
which translates data into a three dimensional display. The interactive grid of 100 moving columns enables people to understand
The 3d display is radically different to interacting with data on a flat screen. A month's sales figures for example spring to life
Lancaster hosts a world-leading Human computer interaction research lab, developing the kind of shape changing displays which could one day make it into our homes, offices and perhaps even our mobile phones.
But for these shape-changing displays to be effective, researchers and developers first need to understand how people interact with them.
This tactile platform allows us to use those inherent skills to examine datasets normally confined to flat 2d displays."
if every pixel on your screen could move? Imagine the possibilities. Our lab works to develop new devices that merge the physical and digital worlds
or underperforming panels is very lowust 0. 1%per year according to new data of 50,000 systems analyzed by the Energy department's National Renewable energy Laboratory (NREL).
whether the panels are to be mounted directly on a roof or on open racks. Quality management of the manufacturing process.
Rigorous quality management will help assure that panels manufactured on one day of the month will be the same quality as those manufactured on any other day of the month.
and less than 1%each year had hardware problems. Inverter failures and fuse failures were reported more commonly than panel failure.
Despite hurricanes hail, shading, vandalism, and hookup delays, approximately 85%of all systems each year produced 90%or more of the electricity predicted,
The microfluidic chip was designed by Autocad software and manufactured from a widely used silicon-based organic polymer known as PDMS.
#Tablet for 2 waiting at an Olive Garden near you soon Olive Garden, owned by Florida's Darden Restaurants Inc,
. started using Ziosk tablets in some of its restaurants last year. The chain said Tuesday that locations using the devices have experienced faster dining times and increased tip percentages for wait staff.
and we're excited to give our guests the ability to customize their visit by leveraging the technology of Ziosk's tabletop tablets,"Dave George,
Tablets have made appearances in airports, where travelers can have delivered food to where they sit, but are limited still in the traditional restaurant scene.
Ziosk tablets are in use at Chili's restaurants and are in the process of launching nationwide at Red Robin.
so a computerized ATLAS hardware"trigger system"grabs the data, makes a fast evaluation, decides if it might hold something of interest to physicists,
"This trigger hardware system makes measurements but they are very crude, fast and primitive.""To further pare down the data,
a custom-designed software program culls even more data from each nanosecond grab, reducing 40 million events down to 200.
helped develop software to monitor the performance of the trigger systems'thousands of computer processors."
"The software program has to be accurate in deciding which 200 to keep. We must be very careful that it's the right 200 the 200 that might tell us more about the Higgs boson, for example.
"The ATLAS computers are part of CERN's computing center, which stores more than 30 petabytes of data from the LHC experiments every year, the equivalent of 1. 2 million Blu-ray discs.
"SMU's Maneframe supercomputer plays a key role in helping physicists from the Large hadron collider experiments.
One of the fastest academic supercomputers in the nation, it allows physicists at SMU and around the world to sift through the flood of data,
and Professor Lennart Lindfors, of Astrazeneca, Sweden, have mapped out'in diagram format the actual movements made by chemical molecules on their breeding journey using computer simulations.
who directs the Computer Vision Laboratory at Columbia Engineering. He notes that in the last year alone,
Also under investigation is Google's smartphone operating system, Android. The EU is looking in whether the company is giving smartphone makers unfair incentives for preinstalling Google's applications,
and wing panel composite skin abnormalities, engineers have had to do extensive analysis to develop repairs.""So the need for certifying a new material comes in,
Professor Shu Kobayashi's group at the Graduate school of Science has developed highly active immobilized catalysts (heterogeneous catalysts)
and demonstrated simple and highly efficient synthesis of (R)- and (S)- rolipram by an eight-step continuous flow reaction using multiple column reactors containing the immobilized catalysts.
Professor Kobayashi's application of flow chemistry techniques to the production of fine chemicals using heterogeneous catalysts has resulted in simple method to synthesize (R)
and without purification of products from catalysts. Professor Kobayashi says"This new technology can be applied to not only other gamma aminobutyric-acids acids and medicines but also various chemicals such as flavors, agricultural chemicals,
#New software analyses the effect of climate change on buildings from the cloud Large Spanish construction companies have begun to use a simulation software package,
and Technology at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (CIT UPC) have developed the first-ever software to analyse the entire life of a building,
Certain details regarding the technology have been published in the journal Advances in Engineering Software. Even before its commercialization, Spanish construction groups such as Acciona and VIA had used already it in some of their projects.
"Another of the software's most original features is the ability to simulate models to show how global warming may affect construction.
Pau Fonseca indicates that the software consists of a core made up of a motor referred to as SDLPS that enables simulations to be carried out from complete representations of the models using languages such as SDL
"This core can be executed in a computer or be combined in a distributed way in a cluster, speeding up the extraction of results"."
Furthermore, the software integrates"key factors such as the price of materials, and their transportation, assembly and disassembly so the construction company can calculate the total cost of the building."
The technology, using a large screen to enhance the sense of reality and interactive avatars, synchronises the different realities so they all coordinate as one.
In one new software tool, we have applied expertise in advanced algorithm development, knowledge on genetics and principles of genome architecture."
receivers and other hardware used to implement it. According to Vadim Makarov of the University of Waterloo and colleagues, many scientists assume that
says this idea of actively damaging QKD components was"not previously on the radar screen"of scientists working on quantum-communication technologies.
the development of QKD is"always a cat and mouse game
#China Stocks Extend Slide Amid Warning of Severe Trade Pressure Shanghai/Beijing: Chinese stock markets tumbled for a second straight day on Wednesday as investors crowded the exits,
"said Davish Jain, chairman of the Soybean Processors Association of India.""Our oilseed and edible oil production will not rise
#Dell to Acquire EMC in $67 Billion Record Tech Deal Computer maker Dell Inc said on Monday it had agreed to buy data storage company EMC Corp in a $67 billion record technology
"Dell wants to become the old IBM Corp, a one-stop shop for corporate clients.
and will also give EMC shareholders a special stock that tracks the share price in virtual software provider VMWARE Inc."The combination of Dell
While IBM Corp, Cisco systems Inc and Hewlett-packard Co could theoretically be potential suitors for EMC,
An offboard computer runs the algorithms and sends commands out to the#ying machines via a customized wireless infrastructure.
If you pry open one of today ubiquitous high-tech devices whether a cellphone, a laptop,
Such batteries provide a 20 to 30 percent improvement in power density with a corresponding increase in how long a battery of a given size could power a phone, a computer,
Applications of these devices include advanced microscopes, displays, sensors, and cameras that can be mass-produced using the same techniques used to manufacture computer microchips. hese flat lenses will help us to make more compact and robust imaging assemblies,
said Mahmood Bagheri, a microdevices engineer at JPL and co-author of a new Nature Nanotechnology study describing the devices. urrently,
Manipulating the polarization of light is essential for the operation of advanced microscopes, cameras and displays;
In a modern, multicore chip, every core or processor has its own small memory cache, where it stores frequently used data.
With Intel set to release a 72-core high-performance chip in the near future, that a more than hypothetical advantage.
says Christopher Hughes, a principal engineer at Intel Labs, ut at least to my knowledge, they tend to use physical time.
Simultaneously, the cost of 3-D printers has fallen sufficiently to make them household consumer items.
Now a team of MIT researchers has opened up a new frontier in 3-D printing:
Like other 3-D printers now on the market, the device can print designs created in a computer-assisted design program,
producing a finished product with little human intervention. In the present version molten glass is loaded into a hopper in the top of the device after being gathered from a conventional glassblowing kiln.
far higher than the temperatures used for other 3-D printing. The stream of glowing molten glass from the nozzle resembles honey as it coils onto a platform,
Klein says the printing system is an example of multidisciplinary work facilitated by MIT flexible departmental boundaries in this case
the lab assembled three-dimensional computer models of illared graphene nanostructures, akin to the boron nitride structures modeled in a previous study to analyze heat transfer between layers. his time we were interested in a comprehensive understanding of the elastic and inelastic properties
Rice university, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National institutes of health and IBM-shared University Research Award supported the research.
The researchers used the NSF-supported DAVINCI supercomputer administered by Rice Ken Kennedy Institute for Information technology n
and metamaterials offers tantalizing future prospects for technologies such as high resolution optical microscopes and superfast optical computers.
At the macroscale, among other applications, invisibility cloaks could prove useful for 3d displays. This research was funded by the DOE Office of Science a
and metamaterials offers tantalizing future prospects for technologies such as high resolution optical microscopes and superfast optical computers.
At the macroscale, among other applications, invisibility cloaks could prove useful for 3d displays. This research was funded by the DOE Office of Science i
and re-scan it repeating the process until the desired spatial resolution is achieved before combining the data from each scan using a computer algorithm.
Using mouse models, the researchers tested their sunblock against direct ultraviolet rays and their ability to cause sunburn.
The research group already recruited large populations of students to help determine the connectome of a part of the mouse retina
and monitors to locate other vehicles on the road enables the Inspiration Trucks to remain in their lane,
As Peter Stone, a University of Texas computer scientist put it, efore it became clear that the technical issues could be addressed,
#A Computer That Can Sniff out Septic Shock Dr. David Hagar treats dozens of patients each day at the intensive care unit at John Hopkins Hospital in Maryland.
A group of computer scientists at John Hopkins University partnered with Hagar, and created an algorithm that can predict septic shock
The computer system sifted through a dataset of over 16,000 patient electronic health records, which includes a historical profile of blood pressure, heart rate,
explains the study lead computer engineer, Suchi Saria. Part of the difficulty is that there may be systematic bias in the medical information recorded.
Saria and her team address this problem by modifying pattern recognition algorithms so the computer can avoid mistaking high-risk patients for low-risk ones.
This computer system can be tailored to many different medical conditions including acute lung injury, pneumonia, and post-rehabilitation illnesses like neuropathy. e are at a very exciting time,
Tan and company built their igh Doppler resolution passive Wi-fi radaron two multi-frequency, software-defined, FPGA-based transceivers (National Instrumentsusrp,
or Universal Software Radio Peripheral. The system compares the reference and surveillance signals, interprets the very small frequency shifts,
so and developed computer models demonstrating that combining graphene with lithium might do the trick. Lithium, they predicted,
In a research paper available on arxiv, the researchers demonstrated in physical experiments that the computer models were indeed correct in their predictions.
Those companies, in turn, typically made it available through smartphone apps or dashboard consoles. The new service, called INRIX Road Weather, adds data gleaned from the actions of the caror instance,
Graphene has long been pursued as a potential replacement for indium tin oxide (ITO) as a transparent electrode material for displays.
Graphene has long been pursued as a potential replacement for indium tin oxide (ITO) as a transparent electrode material for displays.
Right now, Fraunhofer is putting the film on small panels that can be glued to the inside of a car door,
#3-D Printing Software Turns Heart Scans into Surgical Models A new 3-D printing system can transform medical scans of a patient heart into a physical models that help
The efficient system relies on a computer algorithm that requires just a pinch of human guidance to figure out a patient heart structure from MRI scans.
The new software developed by MIT and the Boston Children Hospital, can correctly identify an individual heart anatomical structures by following the lead of a human expert who interprets a small patch equivalent to just one-ninth of the area of each cross section, according to an MIT press release.
and allowing the computer algorithm to infer the rest of the patient heart structure across the rest of the MRI scan 200 cross sections.
The software results were in agreement with human experts interpreting all 200 cross sections 90 percent of the time.
But the new software from a team led by Danielle Pace, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science, managed to create a fairly accurate digital 3-D model of each patient heart in just an hour.
The researchers plan to report on their system at the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention in October.
They hope to improve the software accuracy by examining patches that appear in several MRI cross sections.
either be based on physical 3-D printed models or virtual 3-D models, with the models based on either human expertise or the computer software.
But separate clinical trials aim to test how a personalized computer model for each individual patient could improve medical care,
in the same way that Microsoft latest Xbox Kinect sensor works. The time of flight camera sends out bursts of microwaves
pediatricians explained how hardware and software specialized for genetic analysis can provide such fast and lifesaving information.
The key piece of technology: A processor from the company Edico Genome that designed to handle the big data of genetics.
Lead researcher Stephen Kingsmore, a pediatrician and genomics expert at Children Mercy Hospital in Kansas city, explains that doctors typically run targeted genetic tests for specific diseases
Using Edico Genome DRAGEN processor, the researchers got this step down from 15 hours to 40 minutes.
After that, Kingsmore team used in-house software to search through the mutations for those associated with a disease that matched the baby symptoms.
noting that Children Mercy is going to make its software packages available as freeware by the end of the year.
The DRAGEN processor delivered its critical speed gains to the hospital servers thanks to its architecture,
He envisions the DRAGEN processor outputting its analysis directly into a patient electronic medical record, where actionable intelligence would be flagged for the physician.
#Bright blue PHOLEDS Almost Ready for TV A new energy-efficient organic LED (OLED) that glows a deep blue is finally close to meeting the most stringent U s. video display brightness requirements,
OLEDS have enabled a new generation of bright, high-quality, low-cost, power-efficient, flexible, lightweight flat panel displays.
Each pixel in an OLED display typically consists of red, green, and blue OLEDS that shine with different brightnesses to produce any desired color.
but developing the kind of bright deep blue PHOLEDS needed for video displays has proven challenging.
work sponsored by Universal Display Corporation and the U s. Air force. The researchers added their new lights nearly meet the most stringent requirements of the National Television systems Committee (NTSC),
#Computer Count of Huge Crowds Now Possible Getting a headcount of crowds numbering in the hundreds of thousands need not strain human eyes any longer.
New software has carried out the first automated crowd count on that scale ever by analyzing aerial photographs of a huge demonstration timesaving innovation that could eventually help save lives
The software, developed by University of Central Florida researchers, can drastically cut the time needed for crowd counts from a week to just half an hour.
and other dangers. utomated computer analysis of such large-scale and dense crowds has never been done before,
said Mubarak Shah, computer science professor and director of the Center for Research in Computer Vision at the University of Central Florida, in a press release.
Shah and his colleagues tested their software on aerial photographs of a demonstration involving thousands of people calling for the independence of the Catalonia province from Spain.
The software analyzed 67 aerial photographs taken of the demonstration in Barcelona and came up with a headcount within 30 minutes.
The images and software calculations were double checked by a team at the Pompeu Fabra University in Spain.
The timesaving software could also make accurate crowd counts a crucial new tool for managing large crowds.
For more, see the IEEE Spectrum article on how the Hajj crowds defy conventional computer simulations.
and a confluence of new hardware technologies that freed computation from the desktop and automated multivariate collection of big data.
Finally, a confluence of hardware and software technology advances are creating opportunities to address this market.
Inexpensive and infinitely configurable mobile devices (enabled by advances in wireless and energy storage) have liberated technology from the office desktop.
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,
It hardware/software solution enables farmers to analyze every drop of water on their property,
#Apple Patents Learning Computer Vision For Gesture Control Apple has a new patent (via Appleinsider) for 3d gesture control,
specifically describing the tech used to help a computer identify hand motions made by a user.
The key innovation Apple made with the iphone interaction model was based getting touch input right its capacitive screens
But square does it without any additional hardware by leveraging the fact that they own the payments stack.
and tracking software to attempt to link those emails to return customers hey can just click a link in the insights dashboard of their Square account.
The setup and execution of a campaign are so simple already that it makes sense to let those sellers using mobile devices primarily to collect campaigns to do it just as easy as those sitting at their desktops.
location and cell network strength to automatically determine whether youe available for a call and display that information to friends.
-and-forget nature of the connection software. Each object connects to the controller app automatically with no pairing
or as an ios app. There are actually two versions of Code Kingdoms: one that free for schools to use,
as part of corporate social responsibility programs when they worked for Intel and ARM. In schools they were using the MIT graphical programming language Scratch,
which involves both DIY hardware and learn to code software, and similarly offers a graphical interface to simplify programming.
But Targett argues Kano is a platform on which the Code Kingdoms product could happily sit.
So, while it giving its software to schools for free it aiming to monetize via the play at-home game version of the product using schools as its low-cost distribution mechanism to get in front of lots of kidseyeballs.
In future it plans to sell premium content for the non-schools version of its software to kidsparents,
#Airware Launches Its Commercial Drone Operating system Drones could save businesses big money by doing dull, dirty,
Airware integrated hardware software, and cloud system lets enterprises customize drones to check on gas pipelines,
survey farm land, inspect cell towers, patrol property, or do search & rescue, Now wel see just how many businesses will pay a monthly subscription for Airware to power their drones for industrial inspections, agriculture management, anti-poaching, and more.
But long-term, theyl likely be commoditized as hardware makers around the globe clone and undercut each other on price.
Whatever companies makes the software that runs these drones would make serious profits for years to come.
the Ground Control Station that lets a single user operate a fleet of drones from a Windows laptop or tablet,
and then painstakingly dump the data back to your servers, Airware can handle the whole process.
enhance it with cloud widgets to customize their drone to the day use case, and the data flows back automatically.
After several similar demos, Drone America CEO Mike Richards spoke about using his company larger drones with Airware software for missions outside of traditional industrial uses.
which lets customers create widgets for the Ground Control Station in the C# programming language. These widgets are actually the main reason Airware is sticking with Windows for its tablet app.
Instead of requiring customers to build their own app with the exact drone interface needed, building on Windows will allow them to download the same app to each tablet
but provide different interfaces by simply checking off which widgets should be available to different workers in the field on the cloud backend.
Michini was excited also to talk about the App Core which will provide a full-on Linux computer for developers to work with in addition to the standard Flight Core autopilot and Ground Control Station integration.
When it rolls out to select Airware partners this summer, this new system will let customers take advantage of more advanced sensor
It just added investment from Intel capital to the money from GE, A16z, Kleiner, First Round, Google Ventures,
monitor farm land, and survey big tracts of land. Planes and helicopters can be terribly expensive for collecting this overhead video and measurement data, though.
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