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Computer scientist turns his face
into a remote control
PhysOrg.com June 25, 2008
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A UC San Diego computer science
Ph.D. student can turn his face into
a remote control that speeds and
slows video playback. The
proof-of-concept demonstration is
part of a larger project to use
automated facial expression
recognition to make robots more
effective...
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The Petabyte Age: Because More
Isn't Just More -- More Is Different
Wired June 23, 2008
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The new availability of huge
amounts of data, along with the
statistical tools to crunch these
numbers, offers a whole new way of
understanding the world, suggests
Wired editor in chief Chris
Anderson. Science can advance even
without coherent models and unified
theories, letting statistical
algorithms find patterns where
science cannot....
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Galaxy map hints at fractal
universe
New Scientist Space June 25, 2008
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New data from the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey shows that the galaxies
exhibit an explicitly fractal
pattern up to a scale of about 100
million light years, say physicists
at Enrico Fermi Centre in Rome,
Luciano Pietronero of the University
of Rome, and St Petersburg State
University....
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Lifetime lessons of DNA change
Nature News June 24, 2008
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Johns Hopkins University
researchers and colleagues have
found that people's epigenome (the
pattern of methyl groups attached to
DNA bases that influences how genes
function) changes throughout their
life, and the way it changes
(gaining or losing methyl groups)
runs in families. This shows that
these epigenetic (potentially
reversible changes...
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Researchers develop neural implant
that learns with the brain
KurzweilAI.net June 25, 2008
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University of Florida researchers
have designed a brain-computer
interface (BCI) that can adapt to a
person's behavior over time, helping
complete a task more efficiently.
When they tested the BCI on rats
(allowing the rat to move a robotic
arm using thought alone), the system
helped the rats become increasingly
efficient at moving the robot...
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Laser 'microscalpel' targets
individual cancer cells
KurzweilAI.net June 25, 2008
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University of Texas at Austin
researchers and colleagues have
developed a 15-millimeter-diameter,
femtosecond laser "microscalpel"
that can remove single cells without
damaging nearby cells. Current
femtosecond laser systems are too
large to be used deep inside the
body. University of Texas at Austin
News Release...
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Free medical tool tackles disease
BBC News June 24, 2008
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The Open Medical Record System
(OpenMRS) is providing countries
such as South Africa with an online
patient medical record system. Users
do not require any programming
knowledge for the tool, which at its
core has a "concept dictionary" that
stores all diagnoses, tests,
procedures, drugs and other general
information....
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