Intel has established the Intel Science and Technology Center for Cloud Computing at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The research will be focused around four pillars: Specialization, a practice that can create greater efficiencies such as lower energy usage ...
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The Intel Science and Technology Center for Embedded Computing at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will conduct research in four basic areas: Collaborative Perception which is essentially computer vision, Real-time Knowledge Discovery which includes machine learning, Robotics, and Embedded ...
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Researchers are developing technologies that will eventually allow users to control devices like computers, televisions and cell phones with their thoughts. Scientists have created Brain Computer Interface, also known as “BCI,” technology that allows computer programs to interpret human intentions ...
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Open Cirrus, a test bed for cloud computing (spearheaded by the companies HP, Intel and Yahoo, and including research partners such as Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Illinois) recently announced its expansion. An Internet service such as Facebook ...
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We have Isaac Asimov to thank for thinking about robots as a science when he coined the term “robotics” in the 1940s. Originally, the term came from the word “robota” from Czech (possessing a similar meaning in other Slavic tongues) ...
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The concept of “stemness” refers to the capacity within a stem cell to create different kinds of cells. It promises to revolutionize medicine. Isolated in the petri dish, stem cells exhibit interesting behaviors that scientists are just beginning to understand. ...
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