Prototype system developed by Wright State computer engineer allows blind to 'see'
... State University (ASU). "Our object is to develop intelligent assistants that can help blind and visually impaired individuals efficiently conduct daily tasks, such as reading a book or newspaper and efficiently accessing the Web and participating in classes," explained Bourbakis, who has been involved in compu...Childhood obesity leads to adult diabetes, researcher says
... are not necessarily expensive if one were to make intelligent choices and adjustments in their dietary preferences. When it comes to children, she also states that good habits can be imbedded in kids by giving them smaller portions, by cutting them in to smaller pieces or different shapes so as to make it more ...OHSU receives grant to study evolutionary computing for biomedical image analysis
...ion to Genetic Algorithms. Her research centers on intelligent systems, machine learning, evolutionary computation and complex systems. She joined OGI's Department of Computer Science and Engineering in 2002....Keeping grandma safe and healthy with biosensors
...VA Medical Center, and their team will use simple, intelligent biosensors to continuously and unobtrusively monit...nity in northeast Portland. During the study, the intelligent sensors -- equipped with sophisticated information processing and communication capabilities -- will...Map data goes live with voice, gesture-based computer system
...task and their characteristics," Cai said. "We use intelligent agent technology to enable the information systems to be cooperative partners in the users' problem-solving process." The new system is described in a paper, "Designing a Human-Centered, Multimodal GIS Interface to Support Emergency Management," pre...Brain images from patients with schizophrenia will be shared in first nationwide imaging network
...ds in environmental science, civil infrastructure, intelligent transportation, biomedical research, and new media arts....Survey identifies drugs most likely to be found in the environment
...largest scientific society. Were trying to make an intelligent guess as to whats out there in the environment and whats probably toxic, Venkatraman said during an interview. As for any danger to people, We certainly dont have any evidence that most pharmaceuticals pose a human health risk, although the presence ...Berlin chemist wins U.S. award for reaction studies
...as pollutants. "He is one of the most energetic, intelligent and creative chemists of his generation," wrote a colleague in nominating him for the award. A native of Berlin, Schwarz recalled that chemistry first caught his attention in high school when a teacher commented that "chemistry, in essence, is the ...License agreement signed to commercialize intelligent hearing aid
...gically advanced hearing aids, to commercialize an intelligent hearing aid system. The new hearing-aid technolog...anceling out background noise. The concept for the intelligent hearing aid was developed by a team of 12 researchers at the universitys Beckman Institute for Advan...Meharry-Vanderbilt partnership aims to address racial disparity in cancer outcomes
... this disparity exists. We have ideas and can make intelligent guesses, but we need to do the rigorous scientific studies to answer those questions. Through this partnership, we will be better positioned to find those answers together than either institution could be alone." Dr. Harry R. Jacobson, vice chancello......'s. So, one might reasonably expect men to be more intelligent than women.This is not the case, however - men and women consistently score equally onintelligence tests. For neuroscientists, this paradox has long presented apuzzle. If head size correlates with intelligence, and women have smaller heads,why don't ...Research Into Virtual Environments
...ys thegoal of the research is to develop efficient intelligent tools that enablehumans to easily perform tasks and activities in virtual and real environments. "When we use the standard work station on our desks we move the mouse and welook at the monitor and I call that a remote manipulation task. Vision isindi...National Science Foundation Awards Knowledge And Distributed Intelligence Grants
...ing and Intelligent Systems (LIS) (e.g., designing intelligent software agents to control and optimize resource a... is a design and implementation study of automated intelligent agents suitable for controlling and optimizing resource allocation in large-scale networks. This ar...