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Augmented Reality Brings Movie Magic to City Visits
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Augmented Reality Brings Movie Magic to City Visits

Many people's first encounter with a foreign country is in the cinema. Using a combination of location-based services and augmented reality,  European researchers...

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Sas Seeks to Improve Data Mining of Social Media

No one doubts that social media--all the stuff on Facebook, Twitter and other online forums--provides a rich lode of user sentiment that companies ought to be able...

In Profile: Missy Cummings
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In Profile: Missy Cummings

Professor Mary (Missy) Cummings, director of MIT's Humans and Automation Laboratory, wants to make it easier for humans to supervise automatic control systems,...

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Intel Guru Says 3-D Internet Will Arrive Within Five Years

Intel Labs technology evangelist Sean Koehl speculates that technological advances could make realistic three-dimensional Internet applications a reality in five...

Robots With Better Observation
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Robots With Better Observation

Researchers say that new three-dimensional sensing technology under development will be more similar to the human eye in the way it enables robots to observe their...

Stanford Researchers' Audi to Climb Pikes Peak Without a Driver
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Stanford Researchers' Audi to Climb Pikes Peak Without a Driver

It can traverse rough terrain, accelerate quickly and negotiate sharp turns like other high-performance sports cars, but there's one thing that sets this Audi coupe...

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Visual Tricks Can Make Downloads Seem Quicker

Twiddling our thumbs while waiting for files to download is one of the great frustrations of our high-speed, technologically interconnected world. Computer scientists...

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Math Tutoring Software Reads Visual Clues

University of Massachusetts in Amherst researchers are testing a math tutoring program that uses a built-in camera to identify visual cues from the student user...

Robotc2.0 Gives Students Cross-Platform Robot Programming
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Robotc2.0 Gives Students Cross-Platform Robot Programming

Robot programming is many students' first exposure to the world of computer programming. As with so much of the computing world, however, different robot platforms...

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Comcast Ruling Raises Questions on FCC Regulation

At first glance, Tuesday's federal court ruling on Comcast looked like a clean win for the cable giant and for competitors including Time Warner and AT&T. The court...

Computer-Enhanced Vision Adds a 'sixth Sense'
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Computer-Enhanced Vision Adds a 'sixth Sense'

Engineers and scientists at the inaugural Augmented Human International Conference in France unveiled cutting-edge research on improving human perception with information...

CM­ Student ­ses Skin as Input For Mobile Devices
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CM­ Student ­ses Skin as Input For Mobile Devices

A Carnegie Mellon student and Microsoft researchers have developed Skinput, technology that combines bio-acoustic sensors and machine-learning programs to enable...

Look, No Hands: Cars That Drive Better Than You
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Look, No Hands: Cars That Drive Better Than You

With his jeans, white trainers and stripy top, Bob is every inch the well-dressed 6-year-old. He's standing in the middle of a hotel car park and, scarily, I'm...

Glonass: Has Russia's Sat-Nav System Come of Age?
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Glonass: Has Russia's Sat-Nav System Come of Age?

With the Glonass satellite-navigation constellation nearly complete, Russia's plan to wean itself off the US Global Positioning System (GPS) appears to be coming...

Combing Medical Records For Research
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Combing Medical Records For Research

When the stimulus bill passed last year--allocating $20 billion to help doctors and hospitals adopt electronic medical records (EMRs)--many scientists were excited...

Head-Mounted Display Monitors Patient Data During Surgery
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Head-Mounted Display Monitors Patient Data During Surgery

A new head-mounted display system lets anesthesiologists keep an eye on critical monitoring data during surgery—without having to turn their attention away from...

Braille Displays Promise to Deliver the Web to the Blind
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Braille Displays Promise to Deliver the Web to the Blind

The Web's wealth of information would lose some of its luster if you read it only one line at a time. Yet this is exactly how blind and other vision-impaired...

Walking, Talking Doll: Japanese Scientists ­nveil Female Android
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Walking, Talking Doll: Japanese Scientists ­nveil Female Android

Japanese scientists worked with robot manufacturer Kokoro to develop a female android that can mimic a person's facial expression. 

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Haptic Solution Gives Industry a Better Feel for Designs

Industrial design modeling, used to make prototypes of home appliances or mock-ups of car parts, could soon make the leap from the world of plaster, plastic and...

Programming With Purpose
From ACM TechNews

Programming With Purpose

The University of Washington recently held a reception that enabled computer-science and engineering undergraduate students to show off new accessibility applications...
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