Posts Tagged ‘software’
Privacy: Does face recognition cross the line?
IOWA STATE (US) — Facial recognition technology could help businesses customize services but are customers ready for it? Continue…
Thursday, May 9, 2013 14:29 - 4 Comments
Top Stories - Apr 26, 2013 11:06 - 0 Comments
Android phone pinpoints sniper’s location
VANDERBILT (US) — A new system can turn an ordinary Android smartphone into a shooter location device. (more…)
Science & Technology - Apr 8, 2013 14:26 - 1 Comment
Find and fix ‘bugs’ in surgical robots
CARNEGIE MELLON / JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — Researchers have used a new technique to detect glitches in the software that controls surgical robots. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Dec 21, 2012 13:55 - 0 Comments
MRI tool cuts risk of making strokes worse
JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — A new way of reading MRI brain scans measures blood-brain barrier damage more accurately, an advance doctors hope will lead to safer, more individualized treatment immediately after a stroke. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Dec 12, 2012 16:21 - 1 Comment
Virtual heart predicts real cardiac risks
U. ROCHESTER (US) — A new computer model of the heart wall is able to predict a patient’s risk of irregular heart rhythms and sudden cardiac death. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 30, 2012 16:44 - 0 Comments
Robots built to take photos of ‘tricky’ ocean floor
STANFORD (US) — New underwater vehicles can photograph regions of the ocean floor that were once considered too risky. (more…)
Top Stories - Nov 30, 2012 11:54 - 4 Comments
Homicide spreads like the flu
MICHIGAN STATE (US) — Homicide moves through a community like an infectious disease, a finding that may help police track and even prevent murders. (more…)
Top Stories - Sep 26, 2012 10:29 - 1 Comment
Why we don’t understand collagen (but want to)
RICE (US) — Scientists have made a major step toward synthesizing collagen, the most abundant protein in the human body. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 19, 2012 10:13 - 3 Comments
Software adds brawn to 3D-printed objects
PURDUE (US) — Objects created with 3D printing often fall apart or lose their shape, but new software anticipates weak spots and increases durability. (more…)
Science & Technology - Aug 29, 2012 14:34 - 6 Comments
Software adds joints for 3D printed figures
CORNELL (US) — New software takes a graphic image of a video game or movie character and translates it into a posable plastic model to be fabricated by a 3D printer. (more…)
Science & Technology - Aug 20, 2012 11:58 - 0 Comments
3D design with no mouse, just hand gestures
PURDUE (US) — A new design tool lets people create 3D objects with their bare hands using a depth-sensing camera and advanced software algorithms that interpret hand movements. (more…)
Science & Technology - Aug 9, 2012 8:23 - 0 Comments
Time-space makes animation easy to edit
CARNEGIE MELLON (US) — A computer animation model that simultaneously takes into account both space and time dramatically reduces editing time. (more…)
Top Stories - May 25, 2012 11:53 - 0 Comments
Software scans tongue for signs of disease
U. MISSOURI (US) — New software combines ancient Chinese practices and modern medicine to measure health by analyzing images of the tongue. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jan 24, 2012 17:47 - 0 Comments
Battery drain may influence app design
U. TEXAS-AUSTIN (US) — The first systematic power profiles of microprocessors could help lower the energy consumption of small and large devices, say researchers. (more…)
Top Stories - Dec 19, 2011 12:18 - 3 Comments
Strokes diagnosed via iPhone FaceTime
EMORY (US) — Using two-way video on the iPhone 4 could help doctors assess the severity of a patient’s stroke symptoms, according to a new study. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 1, 2011 7:00 - 0 Comments
Free software models how humans move
STANFORD (US) — An open source software application modeling human motion is helping medical professionals and bioengineers study, diagnose, and correct abnormalities in how people move. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 14, 2011 11:16 - 0 Comments
Brainy robot gets an ‘A’ in biology
VANDERBILT / CORNELL (US) — Engineers have demonstrated for the first time that a computer can take raw experimental data and solve a complex biological modeling problem from scratch. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 15, 2011 16:04 - 1 Comment
Software predicts West Nile’s ground zero
BROWN U. (US) — A computer model of the spread of West Nile virus in California in 2005 was able to predict areas where human cases would be concentrated, especially around Sacramento. (more…)
Science & Technology - Aug 11, 2011 17:16 - 0 Comments
Turn digital faces into a smooth video
U. WASHINGTON-SEATTLE (US) — Computer engineers have created a way to take hundreds—or even thousands—of digital portraits and in seconds create an animation of a person’s face. (more…)
