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Research/Computers/Information Extraction A new research program by a Cornell computer scientist, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh and University of Utah, aims to teach computers to scan through text and sort opinion from fact. The research is funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: extracting opinions vs. facts
Research/Computers/Virus Protection The way the body's immune system responds when its cells are under attack has inspired a new way of protecting computer networks from viruses and hackers. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: developing artificial immune systems
Nature is proud to present here the complete and comprehensive DNA sequence of the human genome as a freely available resource. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: human genome collection
Research/DNA Large swaths of garbled human DNA once dismissed as junk appear to contain some valuable sections, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of California-Santa Cruz. The scientists propose that this redeemed DNA plays a role in controlling when genes turn on and off. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: DNA discoveries
Research/Evolution Viruses and bacteria have sped up the process of evolution by rapidly transferring DNA from one species to another, a new study suggests. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: pace of evolution
Research/Forensics Space scientists built advanced imaging tools to investigate the origins of the planets. Now they're working with forensic scientists to see if their tools can help investigate crime. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: multispectral imaging
Research/Forensics University of Portsmouth scientists have developed a powerful new tool that 'freezes' the memory of crime scenes in the minds of witnesses. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: intellegent building response
Research/Global The Information Society Technologies research area addresses the convergence of information, communications and computer processing. Link * This is a very interesting and deep site covering the latest and greatest technological products being developed in Europe. Could spend days here . . . Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: european research activities
Research/Global An instructor at MIT's Edgerton Center, Smith co-founded the International Development Initiative, which provides MIT students with hands-on experience in community and development projects. She and her students work in poor nations to find design solutions that are inexpensive, use local materials and are culturally sensitive and relevant. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: appropriate technology
Research/Humanitarian Two items high on the list of public concerns are the need for greater food safety and a growing demand for natural or organic food products. Understanding this, chemists and food scientists at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, joined forces to develop natural approaches to the prevention of food contamination and spoilage. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: preserving food
Research/Humanitarian Improving Food Security Analysis and Response Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: food security analysis and response
Research/Humanitarian Out-of-date policies are undermining unprecedented opportunities for recent aid commitments to improve the environment and combat poverty, according to scientists at a new global research centre launched today. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: new approach to povery reduction
Research/Medical Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society contains a special section describing ways in which human factors/ergonomics professionals are improving health care. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: ergonomics and improving health care
Research/Medical/Alzheimer's Learning appears to slow the development of two brain lesions that are the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease, scientists at UC Irvine have discovered. The finding suggests that the elderly, by keeping their minds active, can help delay the onset of this degenerative disease. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: delaying Alzheimer's
Research/Medical/Alzheimer's “Our study found that speaking two languages throughout one’s life appears to be associated with a delay in the onset of symptoms of dementia by four years compared to those who speak one language,” Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: bilingualism and dementia
Research/Medical/Alzheimer's Wang expects that this imbalance could be the main factor in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. If correct, the addition of Aβ40 may stop the disease’s development. Wang notes that further research is needed, but his preliminary results challenge the current mode of thinking about how these peptides contribute to the progression of the disease. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: preventing dementia
Research/Medical/Bleeding "We have found a way to stop bleeding, in less than 15 seconds, that could revolutionize bleeding control," said Rutledge Ellis-Behnke, research scientist in the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: bleeding control
Research/Medical/Cancer A new method of delivering chemotherapy to cancer patients without incurring side effects such as hair loss and vomiting is being developed. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: delivering chemotherapy
Research/Medical/Cancer We found out that temperatures too low to kill cells were quite effective in sensitizing tumors to other treatments, Dewhirst says. Temperatures that were a mere 2°C to 9°C warmer than body temperature could make a difference for cancer treatments. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: heat therapy for cancer
Research/Medical/Implants Purdue University researchers have developed new miniature devices designed to be implanted in the brain to predict and prevent epileptic seizures and a nanotech sensor for implantation in the eye to treat glaucoma. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: implants for epilepsy and glaucoma
Research/Medical/Malaria "For decades, our knowledge of the parasite has been driven solely by studies in cultured cells, not in humans," said Wirth. "Our work underscores the importance of studying the malaria parasite in its natural environment and will hopefully spark novel approaches to malaria drug discovery." Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: malaria parasite behavior in humans
Research/Medical/Malaria "Researchers from the Universities of Exeter and Coventry have developed the first new technique for diagnosing malaria able to challenge the rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) currently used in the field. Early results, now published in the Biophysical Journal, suggest that the technique could be as effective as RDTs but far faster and cheaper, making it a potentially viable alternative." Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: diagnosing malaria
Research/Medical/Surgery the team is developing a virtual simulator that will allow surgeons to touch, feel, and manipulate computer-generated organs with actual tool handles used in minimally invasive surgery Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: virtual rehabilitation
Research/Medical/Surgery Biomedical engineering undergraduates at Johns Hopkins have invented new way to close the chest after heart surgery. It uses polymer cable ties threaded through the ribs in place of steel wires that are used to pierce the breastbone in most operations today. Link *You have to go to this link to see the picture - simplicity is a thing of beauty. Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: polymer cable ties for chest closure
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Key Phrase: Dawkins and memes
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Key Phrase: ASSIST project, Advanced Soldier Sensor Information System and Technology
Research/Military ‘‘There is a large community that is envisioning a robot that is deployable in an armored vehicle, much closer to combat, where an expert surgeon can remotely work on the patient very quickly after an injury is sustained,” Link *bringing surgical expertise to remote areas Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: remote surgery
Research/Military Emmanuel G. Collins, the John H. Seely Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Florida A&M University-FSU College of Engineering, envisions the creation of an unmanned ground vehicle that could patrol large areas without putting U.S. soldiers in harm's way. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: unmanned patrol vehicle, CISCOR,
Center for
Intelligent Systems, Control, and Robotics
Research/Military Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are often to blame when soldiers are wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. The makeshift weapons account for a high percentage of musculoskeletal injuries that, in both theaters, frequently lead to difficult-to-treat infections. Military physicians have faced challenges treating such infections, and the U.S. Army has turned to a University of Missouri-Columbia research physician to study the problem and develop medical solutions. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: fighting battlefield infections
Research/Molecular The key to understanding all biological processes is recognition. Each molecule has a unique composition and shape that allows it to interact with other molecules. The interactions between molecules let us - as well as bacteria, animals, plants and other living systems - move, sense, reproduce and accomplish the processes that keep all living creatures alive. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: how molecules recognize each other
Research/Neuroscience “It may not be a perfect analogy, but it’s similar to the human genome project, where you try to assess the code. By understanding that, you form a basis to not only understand how biology works, but also how therapeutic strategies should be developed. It’s a very systematic, large-scale effort to understand the brain.” Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: neuroscience and memory
Research/Neuroscience/Mental Models organisms carry a 'small-scale model' of external reality within their brains. In this view an organism is not just physically situated in its environment, but also has an internal model of it, which allows it to deal with external reality in a more effective manner. Link *the Cambridge Neuroscience collaborative research page, with links to on-going studies about the brain Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: neuroscience and mental models
Research/Neuroscience/Movement USC neuroscientists studying discrete and rhythmic movements are finding the two activities have far-reaching differences – including their points of origin in the brain. Their insights may produce more precise motion in robots and new methods of rehabilitation for the injured. Link *makes you think about how we design for rhythmic vs. discrete movements Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: discrete vs. rhythmic movements
Research/Neuroscience/Movement "All animals, including humans, must continually make adjustments as they walk, run, fly or swim through the environment. These adjustments are based on feedback from thousands of sense organs all over the body, providing vision, touch, hearing and so on. Understanding how the brain processes this overwhelming amount of information is crucial if we want to help people overcome pathologies," Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: movement and the brain, prosthetic limbs and robots
Research/Neuroscience/Time "The value of this research lies in understanding how the brain works," said Dean Buonomano, associate professor of neurobiology and psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a member of the university's Brain Research Institute. "Many complex human behaviors — from understanding speech to playing catch to performing music — rely on the brain's ability to accurately tell time. Yet no one knows how the brain does it." Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: how does the brain tell time
Research/Superpowers After injecting spider genes into a goat, researchers were able to extract a silk-like material, dubbed BioSteel, from the goat's milk. Because of its compatibility with the human body, BioSteel appears to have some remarkable real-life applications (artificial limbs, tendons and ligaments). Stronger than steel, and with a breaking strength of 300,000 pounds per square inch, wannabe webheads will undoubtedly dream about using the technology for a swing through New York City. Link *Another Spidey power in the news - gekko glue. Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: technology and superhuman powers
Research/Usability “The way college students conduct online searches promotes a ‘rich-get-richer’ phenomenon, where popular sites get more hits regardless of relevance,” Link *you'll also find other links to interesting search research here Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: In Google We Trust:
Users' Decisions on
Rank, Position, and Relevance
Research/Usability By making the technology visible when it needs to be and comprehensible all the time, palpable computing reduces the complications of using the technology, while opening the door to developers creating new applications more easily. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: palpable computing
Research/Usability It is almost impossible to say what new types of interface design will emerge from the vibrant and active research community created by SIMILAR, but it will almost certainly result in advances in almost every area of interface design. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: SIMILAR
Research/Usability The research, which could lead to a brighter polarized light source for LEDs in laptop computers, cell phones and other consumer electronics devices, currently appears in the advance online edition of the Journal Nature Nanotechnology. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: polarized light for better LED display
Research/Usability Not satisfied with anecdotal evidence from Apple iPhone owners, usability consultancy User Centric Inc. put a group of iPhone users through a rigorous usability test to find what's to like and not like about the iconic mobile phone. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: iPhone usability
Research/Usability Some of the technologies being developed in the Lab include 3D panoramic displays, virtual and augmented reality, voice and behaviour recognition and intuitive aural and tactile feedback. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: human interface technology
Research/Usability Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia have found that less is more when it comes to online content. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: presenting fewer choices online
Research/Vision Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine estimate that the human retina can transmit visual input at about the same rate as an Ethernet connection Link *not about what we see, but how much/how fast Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: visual systems
Research/Vision By recording from cells in the brains of insects, Dr Brinkworth and his colleagues have shown it is possible to determine exactly how animal eyes work, and to reproduce the process using computer software and hardware. Link *so long sci-fi . . . Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: video cameras learn from insect eyes
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