"We can obtain real-life data to train our algorithms in large amounts that would practically be impossible to get in any other way, " said Leopold Summerer, head of the Esa lab that developed the app.

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Hsinchun Chen, head of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Arizona says this technique, which he performs for American and international intelligence agencies, is an emerging and booming field.

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On Monday I attended a dinner hosted by Andreas Weigend, former Chief Scientist at Amazon and head of the Social Data Lab at Stanford University.

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Pentland is also head of the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship program, and has co-founded or served in an advisory role to several big data analytics startups such as Ginger.io and Sense Networks.

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Tighter diesel fuel standards could help reduce vehicle emissions by as much as 15%, according to Yue Xin, head of the vehicle fuels and emissions lab at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, which is affiliated with the Environmental Protection Ministry.

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"This really is an insurance policy for him, " said Dr. Jonathan Reiner, Cheney's personal cardiologist and head of the hospital's cardiac catheterization lab.

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Kasuri said Sunday that foreign intelligence had years ago passed on information about Khan giving nuclear technology to other countries -- prompting his removal in 2001 as head of the Khan Research Laboratories, the main nuclear lab named after him.

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The company is also (without DFKI) developing a virtual reality environment that uses a pair of active-shutter glasses and a head-tracking camera to let you wander around cave-like structures from the comfort of the lab.

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