Weinberg hopes other developers will be inspired to create more apps to expand Shimi's creative and interactive capabilities, allowing the machine to leave the lab and head into the real world.
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"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.
Construction workers push carts on rail tracks, left over from mining days, through seemingly endless tunnels carved through metamorphic rock, while scientists head straight to their lab spaces, spotless and chilly in their fresh coat of white paint.
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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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.
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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In 1940 President Roosevelt's science adviser, Vannevar Bush, appointed Loomis to head the top-secret "Rad Lab" at MIT.
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.
"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.
"LG is very impressed by the capabilities of NVIDIA's GRID Platform to deliver high-quality game streams directly to LG Smart TVs without a game console, " said Bae-Geun Kang, vice president, head of Software Development Group, TV Research Lab, LG.
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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.
While patrolling the halls of the CHI 2013 Human Factors in Computing conference in Paris, we spied a research project from MIT's Media Lab called "Smarter Objects" that turns Minority Report tech on its head.
Ideas floated for study include using advanced scanning techniques and genetics to fuel knowledge about who is most at risk for head injury, finding ways to regrow knee ligaments in a lab, identifying injury prevention strategies such as new drugs or new helmets, and addressing ethical issues surrounding player injuries.
This one delves pretty deep into head-scratching territory, but it looks like the folks at Invisible Things Lab have discovered an exploit that could open the door to some potentially serious attacks on certain Intel CPUs paired with some popular motherboards.
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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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