iPhones and other smartphones can be a huge help to the visually impaired, but only 15 percent of vision doctors are recommending them to patients, according to a study presented at the 2012 ARVO Annual Meeting.
Mayo Clinic has created a comprehensive mobile health application; combining a custom mobile experience with unparalleled expertise and access. Empowering patients with information at their fingertips, this app sets a new standard for health care apps.
With little more than basic information about Web users’ behavior – that is, the hyperlinks they click on daily and the content at those sites – Susan Gauch can build a better search engine. In information systems research, this work is known as “implicit” user profiling, meaning there are basic assumptions about user interest and intent based on the sites they frequent and the content they view.
Kansas State University cybersecurity experts are researching the feasibility of building a computer network that could protect itself against online attackers by automatically changing its setup and configuration.
An acoustic diode, enabling the one-way transmission of sound waves, could dramatically improve the quality of medical ultrasound imaging and lead to better sound dampening materials. Such a device has now been created by researchers at China’s Nanjing University.
A new study by a Georgia Tech researcher shows that capped broadband pricing triggers uneasy user experiences that could be mitigated by better tools to monitor data usage through their home networks.
Engineers at the University of Arkansas have developed a wireless health-monitoring system that gathers critical patient information, regardless of the patient’s location, and communicates that information in real time to a physician, hospital or the patient herself. The system includes a series of nanostructured, textile sensors integrated into a conventional sports bra for women and vest for men.
Contractors recently installed 16 solar panels atop a roof-top computing facility at Rutgers. Researchers will use it to study effective management of computing with solar power. Ricardo Bianchini, project director, has $1.5 million in NSF grants for research into energy efficiency in computing. He is a co-PI on a $1.5 million grant from Google Inc.
Georgia Tech researchers have developed a prototype radiation-detection system that uses rare-earth elements and other materials at the nanoscale. The system could be used to enhance radiation-detection devices used at ports, border crossings, airports and elsewhere.
Patients find “cloud” technology a faster, more efficient way to store and distribute their medical images than current options, according to the preliminary findings of an image sharing project led by The Mount Sinai Medical Center in conjunction with four other academic medical institutions. The Phase I results of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Image Share project are being presented today at the American Roentgen Ray Society Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada.
The kilogram is the only base unit in the International System of Units that's still tied to a physical artifact, but two ambitious efforts could soon change that.
Light-field cameras promise an imaging revolution.
If you are tired of Windows and OS X, then this open-source operating system may be for you.
Humans apply a moderate amount of morality and other human characteristics to robots that are equipped with social capabilities and are capable of harming humans, new findings show.
A team of Harvard University researchers has been allocated time on the Trestles supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego to perform computational calculations with the goal of creating the next generation of organic solar cells as an inexpensive and efficient source of energy.
Nursing researchers at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Virginia are studying how technology can help victims of domestic violence.
As a young boy growing up in Iran, Mohammad Razani was fascinated with space travel and its potential to benefit humans. His passion has shaped his career and his scholarship, inspiring the publication of his new book, Information, Communication, and Space Technology (CRC Press, 2012).
Using lasers to excite just one atom from a cloud of ultra-cold rubidium gas, physicists have developed a new way to rapidly and efficiently create single photons for potential use in optical quantum information processing – and in the study of dynamics and disorder in certain physical systems.
In parts of the world without reliable electricity, a pedal-powered nebulizer could provide life-saving asthma treatments. Small wax-filled sleeping bags could keep premature infants warm. A salad spinner centrifuge for blood samples could help clinicians diagnose anemia.
As the U.S. economic recovery continues its struggle to gain traction, companies across the nation are eager to hire new college graduates who can replenish their aging talent pool in specific areas. With a record graduating class next month, Missouri University of Science and Technology is helping fill the growing demand for technologically savvy individuals in areas that are most poised for growth: business, computer science, and electrical, computer and mechanical engineering.
Team Finds New Possibilities in Untapped Terahertz Range With Implications For a Host of Devices
It was a figurative whack on the head that started Sandia National Laboratories distinguished technical staff member Juan Elizondo-Decanini thinking outside the box — which in his case was a cylinder. He developed a new configuration for neutron generators by turning from conventional cylindrical tubes to the flat geometry of computer chips.
It was a figurative whack on the head that started Sandia National Laboratories distinguished technical staff member Juan Elizondo-Decanini thinking outside the box — which in his case was a cylinder. He developed a new configuration for neutron generators by turning from conventional cylindrical tubes to the flat geometry of computer chips.
The nation’s top 20 public firms could have added nearly $1 trillion to their market value if, in 2010, they had used a new tool, known as the research quotient (RQ), to determine their research and development (R&D) budgets, says its creator, Anne Marie Knott, PhD, associate professor of strategy at Washington University in St. Louis.
Scientists and engineers at UWM have discovered an entirely new semiconducting carbon-based material that is synthesized from the “wonder kid” of the carbon family, graphene. It exhibits characteristics that will make it easier to scale up than graphene.
An air sampler the size of an ear plug is expected to cheaply and easily collect atmospheric samples to improve computer climate models. The inexpensive tool can collect pristine vapor samples in the field. It also can monitor pollution and be employed medically.
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has certified Chronopolis, a large-scale data preservation network, as a “trustworthy digital repository” that meets accepted best practices in the management of digital repositories.
Computer scientists still quest after a machine as adaptable as the human brain. Neural network expert Hava Siegelmann is translating early computational forms into an adaptable system that learns, using input from the environment in a way much more like our brains do than a classic computer.
This self-proclaimed "girly girl" runs one of Google's fastest-growing services.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s new home, set to open on May 1, will redefine the very essence of the hospital experience, and cutting-edge technology designed to improve care, streamline workflow and encourage efficiencies will play a central role. The new building grew out of an urgent need to modernize the hospital’s infrastructure to a level that matches the institution’s scientific and medical expertise.
In a study of 40 cases, a computer correctly identifies liars more than 80 percent of the time, a better rate than humans with the naked eye typically achieve in lie-detection exercises.
An optical diode made with silicon technology can be used for quantum information. Researchers from JQI and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) propose using ring resonators to construct a micro-optical diode. The technology is silicon-on-insulator, making it compatible with the CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) fabrication processes underlying today’s computer circuits.
Rakesh Babu, an assistant professor of information studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is exploring ways to make the Internet and computers more accessible for the blind and visually impaired. Babu, who is blind himself, says his research on usability can also provide benefits to computer users with sight.
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has in the last three years undergone a major reboot, remaking itself into a center of expertise on all aspects of “big data” research including genomics, one of the fastest growing areas of scientific study.
A fiber-optic water monitoring system developed by a UWM chemist has helped Milwaukee-based Advanced Chemical Systems win a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant. Dougherty licensed the patent from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in January.
Georgia Tech’s Logistic Regression Markov Chain (LRMC) method has historically been more accurate than the NCAA’s own Ratings Percentage Index. LRMC predicts this year’s NCAA Final Four matchups will most likely be Kentucky vs. Michigan St. and Ohio St. vs. Kansas, with Kentucky beating Ohio St. for the championship.
A new study by Georgia Tech's Maya Cakmak and Andrea Thomaz (School of Interactive Computing) identifies the types of questions a robot can ask during a learning interaction that are most likely to characterize a smooth and productive human-robot relationship.
Case Western Reserve University engineers propose a method of cutting power use and costs in computer processors. Called fine-grained power gating, the method would shut off energy to unused portions of datapath and memory blocks. Current processors fully power all components but rarely are all fully engaged.
The newest motion-based video games — which are more interactive than standard video game systems with gamepads — are more realistic, give a greater sense of “being there” and are more enjoyable, according to findings by communications studies researchers at Baylor University. An article about their findings, based on two experiments, will appear in the upcoming issue of Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, an academic journal of MIT Press.
An app created by a Vanderbilt graduate student converts a tablet into a powerful tool for teaching math to visually impaired students.
Initial projects range from storm predictions to stock market data.
University of Utah engineers designed a new kind of video game controller that not only vibrates like existing devices, but pulls and stretches the thumb tips in different directions to simulate the tug of a fishing line, the recoil of a gun or the feeling of ocean waves.
A new power scheme for cardiac pacemakers turns to an unlikely source: vibrations from heartbeats themselves.
Like something straight out of “Star Wars,” armies of robots could nimbly be crawling up towers and skyscrapers to make repairs in the not-so-distant future, so humans don’t have to. That’s just one thing researchers in Hod Lipson’s Creative Machines Lab at Cornell University envision with their latest robot prototype.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Jaguar supercomputer has completed the first phase of an upgrade that will keep it among the most powerful scientific computing systems in the world.
Lee Humphreys, Cornell assistant professor of communication, offers insight into the new privacy rules going into effect on Google websites on March 1, 2012
Public-access defibrillators must be absolutely reliable, but some of them are turning out to be anything but.
New brain-machine interfaces that exploit the plasticity of the brain may allow people to control prosthetic devices in a natural way.
This year a series of events around the world will celebrate the work of Alan Turing, the father of the modern computer, as the 100th anniversary of his birthday approaches on June 23. Mathematician Robert Soare now proposes that Turing’s achievement was artistic as well as scientific.
The 10 engineers in this special report have solved the problem of finding an engrossing career in technology.
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