A few weeks ago I alluded to an amazing computer science class I took in which we tried to identify a car from some extremely poor surveillance video. In movies and TV shows enhancing video is a snap, but for some reason just typing “enhance” while watching the video didn’t work on our machines. Instead [...]
There are some major advances taking place in bionics these days (in part due to the Iraq war). Most recently, there’s the i-Limb (I hope Apple doesn’t sue), featured in this cnet article slideshow. The i-Limb costs about $18,000 dollars and is much more human-like than other prosthetic hands. For one it has 5 fingers, [...]
I realize healthcare isn’t my area of expertise, but it’s a hot topic these days and as a a computer scientist I feel obliged to sing the praises of electronic medical records (EMRs).
Today Ezra Klein highlighted this recent study, which questions whether EMRs really improve patient care. The study looks at whether patients seeing private [...]
I’m back at Brown and computer science is in the air (computer science is uncomfortably humid). My own research isn’t quite ready for a blog entry, but today was a red letter day for Hutter Prize recipient Alexander Ratushnyak. What is this “Hutter Prize” you ask? Well I’ll give you a hint, it involves Wikipedia [...]