Examines interaction using emotion and natural / environmental interaction.
Tomorrow, meetings will mix real meetings in smart meeting rooms with virtual meetings, to provide the best of both worlds. When we are preparing for a meeting, we will review the meeting synopsis of related meetings in which we have participated, or maybe some we missed. As participants interact with one another, sensors in the environment will capture and networks will transmit raw media.
The BrainGate™ Co. is a privately-held firm focused on the advancement of the BrainGate™ Neural Interface System. The Company owns the Intellectual property of the BrainGate™ system as well as new technology being developed by the BrainGate company. In addition, the Company also owns the intellectual property of Cyberkinetics which it purchased in April 2009.
HERMES concentrates on how to extract descriptions of human behaviour from video sequences in a restricted discourse domain, such as:
The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed - alongside the tools we use to design them and impact on their physical structure. Studying these changes from a critical point of view and anticipating them is the goal of the SENSEable City Laboratory, a new research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Augmenting the Human's Natural Abilities
University of Southampton engineers have spent the past five years working with various research groups on the Autonomous Learning Agents for Decentralized Data and Information Networks (ALADDIN) project, which is developing techniques for building decentralized autonomous systems for dynamic environments. "The ALADDIN project has developed autonomous agents which will make decisions on their own without direct human control and can then interact with other similar autonomous agents to get things done," says Southampton professor Nick Jennings.
The Blue Brain project is focused on reverse-engineering mammal brains from laboratory data and to develop a computer model down to the level of the molecules that make a brain. The project has successfully created a detailed simulation of a small region of a brain, developed molecule by molecule, based on the results of an experiment performed on real brains. The project's "Blue Brain" has been put in a virtual body, providing the first indications of the molecular and neural basis of thought and memory.
We aim to: (1) Create autonomous systems including interactive physical robots and synthetic characters in virtual worlds that learn to communicate in human-like ways; (2) Understand how children learn to communicate through longitudinal in vivo observation and analysis; (3) Develop tools for visualizing, searching, and analyzing large corpora (e.g., video) using task-dependent semantic models.
If you feel the earth move, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) wants to hear about it.
With a rapidly aging population, no culture on earth seems to have embraced robotics and associated technology like the Japanese. This is a sampling of the latest robots being developed in Japan.
Europe's First Mobile Robotic Bin-on-Call ICT Results (07/19/10)
eCUTE will develop innovative technologically-enhanced learning approaches in cultural understanding and sensitivity that will help to deal with these problems. It will develop and apply virtual world simulations with intelligent interactive graphical characters embodying models of culturally-specific behaviour and interaction in scenarios developed via a user-centred design process. It will target two end-user types – late primary-age children (9-11) and young adults (18-25) – as contrasting groups over which useful generalisations can be developed.
The project will:
Where does the feeling of one's presence, such as the atmosphere or the authority of a person come from? How can it be captured, revived, and transmitted? To tackle this mystery, we have developed a new real-person based android, “Geminoid”. A geminoid appears and behaves just like its source person. Also, it is tightly-connected with its original by information paths.
kooaba’s image recognition platform augments your digital images with related context. You snap a picture, we tell you what's in it. With this unique technology regular digital images turn into Smart Visuals. Smart Visuals™ enable you to use digital images in a whole new way. Find information about things by snapping pictures with the camera of your mobile phone. Remember pages in newspapers by snapping pictures - Smart Visuals™ provide you with the PDF and related multimedia content.
The European MESH project has developed an integrated platform that combines semantic search with a variety of other tools to deliver more relevant results for a wider variety of sources. The MESH system can search annotated files such as photographs, videos, sound recordings, text, document scans, or any other media to find relevant responses to semantic search terms. The platform uses a variety of techniques, including optical character recognition, automated speech recognition, automatic annotation of video, and photographs that track salient concepts.
Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire and eight universities in the United Kingdom, France, Greece, Switzerland, and Denmark have created Nao, a robot that can develop and display emotions and form bonds with people it meets. "We are working on non-verbal cues and the emotions are revealed through physical postures, gestures, and movements of the body rather than facial or verbal expression," says Hertfordshire professor Lola Canamero.
The PERCEPT architecture is a RFID-enabled automated space for the blind and visually impaired, i.e. an environment with RFID tagged objects (audio landmarks, kiosks), that interacts with the users. Due to their ubiquitous usage and simplicity in operating them, we use off-the-shelf RFID equipped mobile devices (e.g. PDAs) as the end devices in PERCEPT. By blind and visually impaired, we refer to the population that can be termed as legally blind, i.e.
Intel Research's Personal Robotics project aims to develop useful robotic assistants for indoor, populated environments. To transition robots from structured, assembly line scenarios to more natural, unstructured environments requires advances in perception, reasoning under uncertainty, and human-robot interaction. We are currently pursuing research in all these areas.
In the past year, I have been repeatedly asked why I wanted to build Aiko. It actually starts back in the 70s during my childhood where I spent a lot of time watching Japanese anime which often featured robot themes. I remember saying to myself as a child, “I will build one of those when I grow up.” Throughout my life, I have built many prototypes and smaller robots.
New Robot With Skin to Improve Human Communication University of Hertfordshire (04/30/09) Murphy, Helene
Imperial College London (UCL) scientists say that a humanoid robot called iCub will help advance research into human cognition, perception, reasoning, and judgment. The researchers are investigating how humans use cognition to interact with the world.
Willow Garage develops hardware and open source software for personal robotics applications.
We see personal robots as the next paradigm-shifting personal productivity tool. By investing in open source and open platform adoption models, we aim to lay the groundwork for the use of personal robotics applications in everyday life.
Southampton is one of the leading centres in Europe for the study of archaeology, with world class research and teaching ranging from human origins to the modern world, and with field projects across the globe. We have an international reputation for the quality of our teaching and research.
'Augmented Reality' on Smartphones Brings Teaching Down to Earth Chronicle of Higher Education (06/20/10) Li, Sophia
A panel at EmTech@MIT will discuss future directions in augmented reality (AR). Over the past year, the technology has reached the mainstream, with applications released for cell phones equipped with sophisticated positioning sensors. So far, most are geared towards tourism and navigation.
Integration of health monitoring tools into textiles brings the benefits of safety and comfort to the users. Instrumented clothes will provide remote monitoring of vitals signs, diagnostics to improve early illness detection and metabolic disorder and benefits to the reduction on medical social costs to the citizen. Ambulatory healthcare, isolated people, convalescent people and patients with chronic diseases are addressed.
Over the past decade, as many as 10,000 of the rarest and most important medieval manuscripts have been scanned into digital formats that could be studied on the Internet, but finding these documents online can be extremely difficult. "Searching for medieval manuscripts gets you millions of hits, most of which have nothing to do with manuscripts, and when they do, they usually feature only images of a single page rather than the entire book," says University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) professor Matthew Fisher.
The project is already finished, but has interesting possibilities such as the "cybercarpet"
Dryad lets you intuitively create beautiful trees for your virtual world or game. In Dryad, you create a tree by visually navigating to it through a design space: the space of all trees. This space has close to a hundred dimensions and Dryad lets you move around it as if it were a city map. To help you find your way, Dryads around the world communicate to share which trees were picked in the past.
Twelve law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom are using a forensic facial composite software tool that does not require witnesses to provide detailed descriptions of suspects they can barely remember. Instead, the EFIT-V software has the witness answer questions about the age, sex, face shape, and hairstyle of the suspect to initialize the system and then produce a set of computer-generated faces.
3D Virtual Learning Platforms
Eureqa is a free program developed at Cornell University's Computational Synthesis Lab that takes raw data and derives mathematical laws in a matter of hours. Cornell researchers developed Eureqa as a successor to a series of robots that can repair themselves. The same algorithms used in earlier robots have been adapted for the analysis of any kind of data that can be presented in a spreadsheet. The algorithms may help scientists find complex equations and laws.
Enormous amounts of data are being generated every day in health care, computational biology, homeland security, commerce, and many other areas. Analyzing these massive and complex data sets is essential to achieve new discoveries, but extremely difficult.
Evaluating Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems is a notoriously hard problem: Unlike natural language interpretation, where annotated corpora may provide a gold standard against which a system can be measured, there are generally multiple equally good outputs that an NLG system might produce. On the other hand, access to human experimental subjects who could judge the quality of the system's output is usually too expensive for large-scale use. Nevertheless, there has recently been an increased interest in shared tasks and new methodologies for evaluating and comparing NLG systems.
GestureTek, creates interactive displays for TV weathermen, museums, and hotels using three-dimensional cameras that can distinguish the hand movements of users. From a soft punch up into the air to turn on the TV, to a twist of the hand to change channels, or raising the volume with an upward pat, these simple gestures can be detected by the cameras and interpreted by specially-designed computer chips.
EU Scientists Make Virtual Reality Touchable CORDIS News (Belgium) (07/20/10)
Immersive simulated environments for experiential learning are growing in popularity and will play a key role in tomorrow’s technologies for adult training. The major challenge is to effectively align the learning experience in the virtual environment with the ‘real-world’ context and ‘day-to-day’ job practice.
ImREAL provides a new class of cost effective adaptive systems adjusted to adult learners' needs:
The Laboratory for Intelligent Imaging and Neural Computing (LIINC) was founded in September 2000 by Paul Sajda. The mission of LIINC is to study fundamental processing strategies and representations used by biological vision systems and apply these to develop artificial vision systems capable of sophisticated and adaptive image and scene analysis. Our laboratory pursues both basic and applied neuroscience research projects, with emphasis in the following:
A new European research project is developing three-dimensional (3D) versions of Mediterranean islands that will be updated automatically with current information from public and private databases. MedIsolae-3D will enable users to virtually "fly over" Mediterranean islands and swoop down on areas of interest.
Children's Hospital Boston (CHB) researchers, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have developed MedWatcher, an iPhone application designed to engage health care professionals and the general public in drug safety issues and real-time pharmacovigilance. MedWatcher enables users to track the latest drug safety updates provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and incorporates information about medications listed in FDA databases. Users also can see reviews by patients and providers.
The comprehensive database of Virtual World Environments
The National Visualization and Analytics Center is a national and international resource providing strategic leadership and coordination for visual analytics technology and tools. NVAC supports the Department of Homeland Security's mission to secure our homeland and protect the American people.
The NYU Movement Lab is a motion capture studio and research group dedicated to the analysis and animation of all forms of human movement. It is housed at NYU's Courant Institute and VLG.
Posey is a computationally enhanced poseable hub and strut construction kit that can be used as an interface to applications running on a host computer. Its optocoupled ball and socket joints transmit local topology information and determine the roll, pitch and yaw of connections. Zigbee transceivers in each hub communicate this data wirelessly back to the host computer.
Live3D is a web-based application that allows users to update the geometry and textures in Google Earth to see what the world looks like at this very moment. Users are encouraged to take one of the many outdoor webcam images and embed them three-dimensional space, constructing a scene with up-to-date images.
Live3D can also calibrate camera images and infer the camera's location and orientation. So, without leaving your desk, you can geo-locate and geo-orient a camera (usually to within a couple meters).
Introducing Project Natal, a revolutionary new way to play: no controller required. See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak you and your friends can jump into the fun -- the only experience needed is life experience.
The RFID Ecosystem is a large-scale project with participants from various research groups at the University of Washington's Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The project investigates user-centered RFID systems in connection with technology, business, and society. Past research on user applications of RFID has been limited to short-term technology and user studies in restricted scenarios. In contrast, the RFID Ecosystem provides a living laboratory for long-term, in-depth research in applications, databases, privacy, security, and systems.
Computer-controlled (USB), eight-cartridge scent* machine uses compressed air** to project different scents on cue for a predetermined time followed by a burst of unscented air to clear for the next scent. System includes software to control the delivery and duration of scents from the SDS100 unit. Scents can be triggered from a virtual reality environment.
Skape provides B2B professionals with presentational 3D city and mapping data as well as high accuracy building data.
In order to help us give you the best possible service, we commissioned over 80 interviews with organisations using geo-information products (2D or 3D). These included:
European researchers are working on what they call a “tangible acoustic interface", which will allow users to convert virtually any tangible objects such as table tops, walls, and windows, into interactive surfaces. The advantage of these new techniques is that they are not limited to objects of a specific location or size like keyboards, mice, and touch screens, and can enable users to interact more intuitively with computers wherever they are.
This is the site for the Color Organ created by Jack Ox and David Britton with 3D modeling by Richard Rodriguez and Jack Ox.
You can watch the development of this visualization instrument by visiting our online "notebook" every so often.
In the ViSUS project (see the featured article in the LDRD report) we develop data streaming techniques for progressive processing and visualization of large scientific datasets. Our strategy is to exploit the coupling between time-critical algorithms and progressive multi-resolution data-structures to realize an end-to-end optimized flow of data from the original source, such as remote storage or large scientific simulation, to the rendering hardware.
World Wind allows any user to zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth, leveraging high resolution LandSat imagery and SRTM elevation data to experience Earth in visually rich 3D, just as if they were really there.
A European research team has developed a virtual laboratory designed to help doctors match drugs to patients and make treatments more effective. The ViroLab Virtual Laboratory uses machine learning, data mining, grid computing, modeling, and simulation technologies to convert the content of millions of scientific journal articles, databases, and patients' medical histories into knowledge that can be used for treatment.
Natural Language Interaction
Overview of the CMU SLM Toolkit, Rev 1.0
Microsoft researchers are using data mined from the Internet to develop Engkoo, an online Chinese-to-English dictionary and language-practice service. The technology could be used in similar tools to learn any language. Engkoo has a core of translation data drawn from Microsoft-licensed dictionaries. That content is mixed with data from Web sites with parallel Chinese and English versions. When an Engkoo user types a word or sentence into the Web site's input bar, in either Chinese or English, the site draws on statistics from its data to translate it.
Language Analysis Tool to Ascertain Age and Gender The Engineer (United Kingdom) (06/22/10)
The Linguistic Data Consortium supports language-related education, research and technology development by creating and sharing linguistic resources: data, tools and standards.
Athree-year project focused on the problem of real-time understanding of spontaneous speech in the context of advanced telecom services. The main objective of LUNA is the creation of a robust natural spoken language understanding toolkit for multilingual dialogue services, able to carry out human-computer communication with a good degree of user satisfaction.
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers are developing the Never-Ending Language Learning (NELL) system, a computer that can master semantics by learning more like a human. NELL was provided with basic knowledge in various categories and connected to the Web with a mission to teach itself. "For all the advances in computer science, we still don't have a computer that can learn as humans do, cumulatively, over the long term," says CMU professor Tom M. Mitchell.
The Rosetta Project is The Long Now Foundation's first exploration into very long-term archiving. It serves as a means to focus attention on the problem of digital obsolescence, and ways we might address that problem through creative archival storage methods.
SIL International Partners in Language Development SIL serves language communities worldwide, building their capacity for sustainable language development, by means of research, translation, training and materials development.
European researchers working on the Statistical Multilingual Analysis for Retrieval and Translation (SMART) project have developed technology that will enable machine translation using statistical analysis. SMART researchers were inspired by the Pascal Network of Excellence, which sought to develop cooperative ties among Europe's leaders in pattern analysis, statistical modeling, and computational learning.
RDF is a directed, labeled graph data format for representing information in the Web. This specification defines the syntax and semantics of the SPARQL query language for RDF. SPARQL can be used to express queries across diverse data sources, whether the data is stored natively as RDF or viewed as RDF via middleware. SPARQL contains capabilities for querying required and optional graph patterns along with their conjunctions and disjunctions. SPARQL also supports extensible value testing and constraining queries by source RDF graph.
SRILM is a toolkit for building and applying statistical language models (LMs), primarily for use in speech recognition, statistical tagging and segmentation, and machine translation. It has been under development in the SRI Speech Technology and Research Laboratory since 1995. The toolkit has also greatly benefitted from its use and enhancements during the Johns Hopkins University/CLSP summer workshops in 1995, 1996, 1997, and 2002 (see history).
University of Washington researchers have developed an automated information extraction software engine that mines meaning out of more than 500 million Web pages, contributed by Google, by analyzing fundamental relationships between words. The project expands the scale of the TextRunner application in terms of the number of pages and the breadth of topics it can examine.
The aim of the project is study and develop automated reasoning techniques for both offline and online tasks associated with ontologies, either seen in isolation or as a community of interoperating systems, and devise methodologies for the deployment of such techniques, on the one hand in advanced tools supporting ontology design and management, and on the other hand in applications supporting software agents in operating with ontologies.
We present a visualization of all the nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning. Each of the tiles in the mosaic is an arithmetic average of images relating to one of 53,464 nouns. The images for each word were obtained using Google's Image Search and other engines. A total of 7,527,697 images were used, each tile being the average of 140 images. The average reveals the dominant visual characteristics of each word. For some, the average turns out to be a recognizable image; for others the average is a colored blob.
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What if you could teach a college course without a classroom or a professor, and lose nothing?
In the "so bad it's good" category, we honor eight PowerPoint slides that will make you say, "Holy $#@%, What were they thinking?"
By Thomas Wailgum
National Public Radio is so much more than a nationwide stage for unsettlingly tranquil Minnesotans and nerdish hipsters. It's also one of the geekiest media outlets out there—one that has embraced the new digital landscape more than any other major network.
CLRN makes it easy for you to find the standards-aligned software, video and Internet learning resources you need. CLRN experts have identified, reviewed and organized hundreds of Electronic Learning Resources (ELRs) in a searchable database that allows you to compare key features of selected resources. The Web Information Links (WILs) let you search or browse hundreds of free primary, secondary and reference resources.
Welcome to the Computer History Museum on YouTube. We're committed to preserving and presenting the history and stories of the Information Age. Here on YouTube we offer videos of the many lectures and events at the museum and also historic computer films. Also, be sure to check out the Computer History Museum website for even more information including online exhibits, upcoming events and our collection of computing artifacts: WWW.COMPUTERHISTORY.ORG
eTBLAST is a unique search engine for searching biomedical literature. Our service is very different from PubMed. While PubMed searches for "keywords", our search engine lets you input an entire paragraph and returns MEDLINE abstracts that are similar to it. This is something like PubMed's "Related Articles" feature, only better because it runs on your unique set of interests.
An online news source featuring the latest discoveries from North America's leading research universities.
A simple online tool that allows users to plug in strings of up to 5 words and graph the phrase’s use over time. The database consists of 500 billion words contained in books published between 1500 and 2008 in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese and Russian.
Practical applications include finding trends or tracking down when certain ideas were most popular.
The iCampus Technology-Enabled Active Learning Project at MIT: An Interview With Phillip Long Innovate (05/09) Vol. 5, No. 4, Morrison, James L.; Long, Phillip
Want to know how to write programs for the iPhone and iPod touch? Beginning this week, a Stanford computer science class on that buzzworthy topic will be available online to the general public for free.
The 10-week course, iPhone Application Programming, is a hot ticket. It begins today and videos of the classes will be posted at Stanford on iTunes U two days after each class meeting (http://itunes.stanford.edu). Copies of the slides shown in class will be available there as well.
It is conceivable that over the next ten years we will approach a point when all undergraduate students at all colleges and universities will have access to some form of Internet-enabled device. These devices will probably be far more powerful and contain far more functionality than what is available today, but undoubtedly their affordances will continue to include the capability to communicate, query and reflect.
A Science Fair gone wild
Media Grid standards, technologies and initiatives (such as Immersive Education) are develo
University of Michigan professor Elliot Soloway and University of North Texas professor Cathleen Norris have developed the Mobile Learning Environment, a suite of educational software that turns smart phones into personal computers for use in classrooms. The suite features programs that allow students to map concepts, animate drawings, surf related information on the Internet. The software also enables students to integrate their lessons and assignments. "The future is mobile devices that are connected," Soloway says.
The MOMO (Mobile Moodle) project is an Add-On to the popular Moodle Learning Management System. It brings the ability to implement mobile learning scenarios with Moodle as a backend.
Moodle is an Open Source Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It has become very popular among educators around the world as a tool for creating online dynamic web sites for their students. To work, it needs to be installed on a web server somewhere, either on one of your own computers or one at a web hosting company.
Nao is the most used humanoid
To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. When children have access to this type of tool they get engaged in their own education. They learn, share, create, and collaborate. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future.
Friends are fun, but they're only on some websites. OpenSocial helps these sites share their social data with the web. Applications that use the OpenSocial APIs can be embedded within a social network itself, or access a site's social data from anywhere on the web.
Ask questions, give help, and connect with over 100,000 students from 170 countries and 1,600 schools.
Project Euclid's mission is to advance scholarly communication in the field of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. Project Euclid is designed to address the unique needs of low-cost independent and society journals. Through a collaborative partnership arrangement, these publishers join forces and participate in an online presence with advanced functionality, without sacrificing their intellectual or economic independence or commitment to low subscription prices.
A computer programming language geared toward children ages eight to 16. Scratch users write code by connecting graphical blocks together.
Welcome to the The Center for Teaching and Learning. We are committed to advancing best practices and innovation in teaching and learning at The University of Texas at Austin. It is our privilege to work with all colleges and schools to enhance the teaching and learning experience of faculty, students, and staff at our great institution.
I invite you to contact us to share your experiences with teaching and learning, and to discuss how we can best promote teaching and learning excellence in your department. We look forward to working with you.
Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.
Touch - Based Interaction
New Interface Technology Realizes 'Touchable' 3-D Images
TeslaTouch infuses finger-driven interfaces with physical feedback. The technology is based on the electrovibration principle, which can programmatically vary the electrostatic friction between fingers and a touch panel. Importantly, there are no moving parts, unlike most tactile feedback technologies, which use vibration motors. This allows for different fingers to feel different sensations.
Links to sights of interest for Human Factors Engineering, HCI and general Device Interaction
A scrapbook of illustrated examples of things that are hard to use because they do not follow human factors principles.
The concept of using thought to move a robotic device, a wheelchair, a prosthetic, or a computer was once strictly the stuff of science fiction, but no longer. BrainGate™ collects and analyzes the brainwaves of individuals with pronounced physical disabilities, turning thoughts into actions.
We aim to raise a new generation of neuroscientists trained to work in forward-thinking interdisciplinary environments. The philosophy of the Center is “pedagogy from hands-on research experience”. A central focus of the Center is our Ph.D. program, created to provide a multi-disciplinary training with the goal of creating a “new breed” of scientist who can unite theory and experiment, computational modeling and complex data collection and analysis using the latest technologies.
Our research is focused on the field of contextually-aware, wearable computing systems. We are interested in how the continued emergence of on-body computational resources will impact society. To explore this issue, we target several core interest areas.
Core Interest Areas
A recent article was on ACM TechNews about Prof. Patrick Baudisch of the Hasso Plattner Institute developing gesture based input devices.
This site is concerned with a Virtual Human Markup Language. The language is designed to accommodate the various aspects of Human-Computer Interaction with regards to Facial Animation, Body Animation, Dialogue Manager interaction, Text to Speech production, Emotional Representation plus Hyper and Multi Media information.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science, "Triple A-S" (AAAS), is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association. In addition to organizing membership activities, AAAS publishes the journal Science, as well as many scientific newsletters, books and reports, and spearheads programs that raise the bar of understanding for science worldwide.
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and The MIT Press established the AAAI Press in 1989 as a publishing imprint founded to serve the information needs of the international AI community. AAAI Press serves to keep AAAI members and the scientific community abreast of breaking research by offering the finest publications in the field of artificial intelligence.
The AutoNOMOS team is part of the Artificial Intelligence Group of the Freie Universität Berlin. We, researchers and students, have the vision to develop the technology for driverless cars of the future.
Pictures of our new car MadeInGermany, can be found here.
We focus on creating tools to better capture and share visual information. The goal is to create an entirely new class of imaging platforms that have an understanding of the world that far exceeds human ability and produce meaningful abstractions that are well within human comprehensibility.
The CulturePlex is directed by Juan Luis Suárez, Ph.D., and formed by a multidisciplinary team of researchers and Ph.D. students with very diverse personal and intellectual backgrounds. To know more about our people and projects, please, click on the relevant links in the main menu.
Why do we still use a keyboard and mouse to interact with digital information? This mode of human-computer interaction, invented more than 40 years ago, severely constrains our ability to access and interact naturally with digital content. Computer systems lack the contextual knowledge to offer relevant information when and where we need it. Further, traditional screen-based interfaces divert our attention in mobile and social situations. They are designed for a single user, and not well suited to accommodate collaborative activities.
The Society's mission is to promote the discovery and exchange of knowledge concerning the characteristics of human beings that are applicable to the design of systems and devices of all kinds.
Informatics Europe is the association of computer science departments of universities and research laboratories, public and private, in Europe and neighbouring areas.
The mission of Informatics Europe is to foster the development of quality research and teaching in information and computer sciences, also known as Informatics.
The Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory (IAS) researches ways in which autonomous robots - large and small; walking, climbing and flying - can be developed to 'do the right thing at the right time'. Using innovative approaches researchers at UWE are developing robots to assist humans in dangerous situations in, say, detecting land mines; inspecting, sorting mail, risk-assessment or maintenance of hazardous or inaccessible plant and machinery, or in locating the sources of pollution.
The Media Interaction Lab is a research lab hosted at the Interactive Media department of the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg. The Media Interaction Lab integrates research and education, providing students with a project-based learning environment. Both undergraduate and graduate students from the Digital Media department within the University carry out projects in the lab.
Sensing is going mobile and people-centric. Sensors for activity recognition and GPS for location are now being shipped in millions of top end mobile phones enabling a myriad of new sensor based applications for personal, social and public sensing. This complements other sensors already on mobile phones such as high-quality cameras, microphones, and digital compasses.
The MIT Media Lab applies an unorthodox research approach to envision the impact of emerging technologies on everyday life—technologies that promise to fundamentally transform our most basic notions of human capabilities. Unconstrained by traditional disciplines, Lab designers, engineers, artists, and scientists work atelier-style, conducting more than 350 projects that range from neuroengineering, to how children learn, to developing the city car of the future.
The Human Media Lab is one of Canada's premier media laboratories. Its mandate is to develop disruptive technologies and new ways of working with computers that are viable 10 to 20 years from now. We are currently working on the design of Organic User Interfaces (Oui!), an exciting new paradigm that allows computers to have any shape or form.
At the Monet group in UIUC we work on the emerging tele-immersive 3D multi-camera room environments. These environments allow us to engage in distributed physical activities such as physical therapy, sport activities, and entertainment.
Such environments need 3D multi-camera setups at the sending side and multi-display setups at the receiving side connected via appropriate network infrastructure. They also pose a large number of challenging research questions.
The mission of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab is to understand the dynamics and implications of interactions among people in immersive virtual reality simulations (VR), and other forms of human digital representations in media, communication systems, and games. Researchers in the lab are most concerned with understanding the social interaction that occurs within the confines of VR, and the majority of our work is centered on using empirical, behavioral science methodologies to explore people as they interact in these digital worlds.
Through education and training programs, the creation and management of visualization facilities, and advanced visualization research, the visualization technology group (VTG), promotes the use of visualization and virtual reality technologies for improved understanding of scientific data and human cognition.
VTG manages the DiVE (Duke immersive Virtual Environment), a 6-sided virtual reality theater. We host open houses every Thursday at 4:30. The rule is first come, first served. Just drop on by and visit the DiVE yourself.
An online veracity alert system that "sniffs" through what you are reading online. If anything smells fishy – perhaps questionable poll results or references to “death panels” it blows a whistle and says, “This is disputed. Here’s the evidence.”
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
A little something in which I participated.
One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty but achievable goal.
To build Open Library, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a wiki interface, and lots of people who are willing to contribute their time and effort to building the site.
To date, we have gathered over 20 million records from a variety of large catalogs as well as single contributions, with more on the way.
Instant summaries of user reviews from around the web
Free online file conversion
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource.
Our goals are to:
Expert help for finding the best new books ad articles in computing
Computers Intersect With Sociology to Sift Through 'All Our Ideas' Princeton University (07/19/10) Emery, Chris
European researchers working on the CASPAR project are building a software infrastructure that facilitates access to and understanding of scientific data from out-of-date projects while promoting shared global usability of present-day digital research. "The techniques that you need to preserve old digital objects--techniques that make unfamiliar digital objects usable--are exactly the same techniques you need to make newly created digital objects accessible and understandable," says project coordinator David Giaretta.
'Killer App' for Research Launched University of Oxford (03/07/11)
Labor-on-demand is cloud computing but with human workers. In the same way you can divide tasks among a bunch of computers to get more processing power, you can get scalable, parallel work with our online workforce.
The eSiMon dashboard is a collaborative web-based system that provides scientists to monitor and analyze their simulations. The “live” version of the dashboard is physically located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and can be accessed with a National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) account at https://esimmon.ccs.ornl.gov. This version of the dashboard gives an overview of ORNL and National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) computers.
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed the Gigapan, a robotic tripod that enables digital cameras to take gigapixel-size pictures. The Gigapan uses motors to capture a scene with a grid of hundreds or thousands of images with the camera set to full zoom. Photo-stitching software is used to combine the images into a single super-detailed image containing billions of pixels. The highly detailed image is called a gigapan.
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The Linking Open Government Data (LOGD) project investigates opening and linking government data using Semantic web technologies. We are translating government-related datasets into RDF, linking them to the Web of Data and providing demos and tutorials on mashing up and consuming linked government data.
A European research project aims to replace scientific papers and peer reviews with a process inspired by social networking. The LiquidPublication project seeks to revolutionize how scientists share their work and evaluate contributions from others. The current scientific publication paradigm leads to wasted time, a heavy load for peer reviewers, and too many papers that recycle already published research or dribble out results a bit at a time, says project leader Fabio Casati. The researchers are developing a new way to share scientific knowledge, which they call liquid publication.
Monash University software engineer Steve Androulakis and biochemist Ashley Buckle have developed MyTARDIS/TARDIS, a tool designed to securely collect, store, and share research information.
This project will design, evaluate, and operate a unique distributed, shared resources environment for large-scale network analysis, modeling, and visualization, named Network Workbench (NWB). The envisioned data-code-computing resources environment will provide a one-stop online portal for researchers, educators, and practitioners interested in the study of biomedical, social and behavioral science, physics, and other networks.
OpenSim is a powerful and freely available tool for modeling and simulation of movement. Watch the video below to get an overview of the project and see how OpenSim can be used to help plan surgery for children with cerebral palsy.
Washington University in St. Louis computer engineers have developed an ultrasound device that can be plugged directly into a smartphone's USB port. The device enables smartphones to capture images and display them directly on the phone's screen. The phone also can be used to send the images to other users. Washington University researchers William Richard and David Zar created the smartphone device from an ultrasound probe they previously developed that can plug into a laptop's USB port.
Stanford University researchers have developed Protovis, a set of tools that simplifies the process of building complex data visualizations. Although Protovis requires some programming knowledge, it is designed to be easy to use for someone without significant programming experience, says Stanford professor and Protovis creator Jeff Heer. He says the level of programming needed for Protovis is only slightly higher than HTML, but lower than JavaScript.
By using Scholarometer you help tag authors and contribute to the social database of annotations Use established impact measures
The Science of Science (Sci2) Tool is a modular toolset specifically designed for the study of science. It supports the temporal, geospatial, topical, and network analysis and visualization of scholarly datasets at the micro (individual), meso (local), and macro (global) levels.
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The graph-based SPEAR algorithm (Spamming-resistant Expertise Analysis and Ranking) is a new technique to measure the expertise of users by analyzing their activities. The focus is on the ability of users to find new, high quality information in the Internet. At the same time, the algorithm has been shown to be very resistant to spamming attacks.
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) invests in high-risk/high-payoff research programs that have the potential to provide our nation with an overwhelming intelligence advantage over future adversaries.
The University of California, Davis' Visualization and Interface Design Innovation lab, run by professor Kwan-Liu Ma, seeks to render massive data sets into insightful visualizations that are explorable and workable. "By employing our visualization techniques we are able to let researchers see the full extent of their data at the highest possible resolution and in both three-dimensional space and the temporal domain," Ma says.
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CLARION is a project investigating fundamental structures of the human mind. In particular, it aims to explore the interaction of implicit and explicit cognition, emphasizing bottom-up learning (i.e., learning that involves acquiring first implicit knwoledge and then acquiring explicit knowledge on its basis). The project is aimed at the synthesis of many interesting intellectual ideas into a coherent model of cognition.
European researchers working on the Contract project are developing computer systems capable of autonomously creating, monitoring, and managing online contractual agreements. The Contract project has developed a set of verification algorithms that enable on- and offline validation of e-business interactions based on contracts. Individuals and organizations can use the verification process to test for conflicts between a contract they are about to enter and other obligations that exist from previous contracts.
DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link other data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data.
FOAF is about your place in the Web, and the Web's place in our world. FOAF is a simple technology that makes it easier to share and use information about people and their activities (eg. photos, calendars, weblogs), to transfer information between Web sites, and to automatically extend, merge and re-use it online.
Formal Concept Analysis is a theory of data analysis which identifies conceptual structures among data sets. It was introduced by Rudolf Wille in 1982 and has since then grown rapidly. Three well-established annual international conferences (ICFCA, ICCS and CLA) are dedicated to FCA and related methods. The FCA method of formal data analysis has successfully been applied to many fields, such as medicine and psychology, musicology, linguistic databases, library and information science, software re-engineering, civil engineering, ecology, and others.
The Semantic Web Made Easy Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain) (07/21/10) Martinez, Eduardo
The OWL Web Ontology Language is designed for use by applications that need to process the content of information instead of just presenting information to humans. OWL facilitates greater machine interpretability of Web content than that supported by XML, RDF, and RDF Schema (RDF-S) by providing additional vocabulary along with a formal semantics. OWL has three increasingly-expressive sublanguages: OWL Lite, OWL DL, and OWL Full.
The purpose of the Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) is to provide a means for individuals or organizations to describe a group of resources through the publication of machine-readable metadata, as motivated by the POWDER Use Cases [USECASES]. This document details the creation and lifecycle of Description Resources (DRs), which encapsulate such metadata. These are typically represented in a highly constrained XML dialect that is relatively human-readable.
Email addresses, like telephone numbers, are often hard to remember, and they change from time to time, making it difficult to send messages to the intended recipients. In some cases, we may not even know the identity of the recipients, as their roles and interests change.
Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is a free extension of MediaWiki – the wiki-system powering Wikipedia – that helps to search, organise, tag, browse, evaluate, and share the wiki's content.
Semantic technologies appear to hold the promise of significantly enhancing formal and informal learning but issues such as building ontology consensus, the logistics of annotating large volumes of learning content and the underpinning pedagogy have been frequently questioned. However, recent developments in Web 2.0 tools and services for teaching and learning show that these concerns may be successfully addressed and benefit HE/FE, informal learning and exploratory learning.
In addition to the classic “Web of documents” W3C is helping to build a technology stack to support a “Web of data,” the sort of data you find in databases. The ultimate goal of the Web of data is to enable computers to do more useful work and to develop systems that can support trusted interactions over the network. The term “Semantic Web” refers to W3C’s vision of the Web of linked data.
SIMILE is a joint project conducted by the MIT Libraries and MIT CSAIL.
The Tabulator project is a generic data browser and editor. Using outline and table modes, it provides a way to browse RDF data on the web. RDF is the standard for inter-application data exchange.
WikiTrust is an open-source MediaWiki extension that computes the origin and author of every word of a wiki, as well as a measure of text trust that indicates the extent with which text has been revised. To use WikiTrust, you click on a special wiktrust tab added by the extension. In the resulting view:
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ChildCount+ is an mHealth platform developed by the Millennium Villages Project aimed at empowering communities to improve child survival and maternal health. ChildCount+ uses SMS text messages to facilitate and coordinate the activities of community based health care providers, usually community health care workers (CHWs).
Peratech’s Eleksen division is the world leader in touch sensitive interactive textiles for interactive apparel and soft goods products. The core technology, ElekTex, is a unique QTC-based electro-conductive fabric touch pad optimized for the creation of flexible, durable and rugged fabric touch screen interfaces.
Welcome to the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab, a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the government of Singapore created to explore new directions for the development of games as a medium. GAMBIT sets itself apart by emphasizing the creation of video game prototypes to demonstrate our research as a complement to traditional academic publishing.
The Falcon is an affordable force feedback device.
The world needs clean, reliable ways to generate electricity. The United States is expected to need 300 gigawatts of new capacity – that’s 150 times the capacity of Hoover Dam – by 2030. Developing nations can only grow as fast as they can power their economies. Global demand for new electric capacity will outpace the U.S. by tenfold in the same period.
Welcome to Robot Living. A love of mechanical things and David Macaulay’s fascinating building books, such as the book Castle, read at a young age helped prompt us to create this website. Also the love of science fiction, has prompted the creation of this website.
Sensimed is a Swiss company with its principal focus on design, development, and commercialization of integrated micro-systems for medical devices.
Sensimed is a spin-off of well renowned Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), and grows within a world-leading cluster for medical devices in the lake of Geneva area. The company is leveraging on the three main key competencies available in Switzerland.
Our Company We are a team of experts in the fields of Textiles and Electronics. Our goal is to seamlessly integrate micro-electronics with textile structures – changing the way people interact with technology. Our focus is on developing and commercializing comfortable, practical, scalable and affordable product solutions.
A look at the designs of future technology including the "Naptkin PC"
and the Nextep Wearable Computer envisioned by Sony for 2020. Only time will tell.
@font-face is a css rule which allows you to download a particular font from your server to render a webpage if the user hasn't got that font installed. This means that web designers will no longer have to adhere to a particular set of "web safe" fonts that the user has pre-installed on their computer.