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NEW YORK, November 4 /PRNewswire/ -- International students now have an online tool that can quickly and accurately convert their non-US grades and calculate their grade point average (GPA) on a 4.0 scale, the WES iGPA Calculator. More and more, higher education institutions are asking for students to give a self-reported GPA on their applications, to enable them to quickly determine eligibility. For American-educated students this is an easy task, but for internationally-educated students who are not used to the 4.0 scale it causes confusion and undue stress. That's why World Education…
Researchers at the PSG College of Technology Peelamedu in Coimbatore, India have devised a dedicated, embedded system that uses the short-range Bluetooth wireless networking protocolto connect patient data to the network in order to make it available to healthcare providers.
According to a paper in the forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics, a telemedicine system based on a modified version of the Bluetooth wireless protocol can transfer patient data for assessment almost four times as fast as conventional Bluetooth and without the intermittent…
While it lacks the subtle charm of Alberto Tomba, this robot is just as much at ease flying down a slalom course. Designed by Bojan Nemec of the the Jozef Stefan Institute in Slovenia, the robot utilizes two computers to stay upright and pointed downhill.
The upper part of the robot contains a USB camera, a GPS system and the computer that processes the information from those sources to keep the robot heading in the right direction. The lower portion of the robot contains a computer that controls the legs, and the gyroscope that keeps the robot balanced.
Nemec created the robot to test ski…
Autopsies, for all the useful information they provide, have significant downsides. They are often upsetting to the deceased's family, they prevent people from receiving certain kinds of religious burials, and they leave a bit of a mess. To correct for those problems and more, a team at the University of Bern, Switzerland, has developed a robot that can perform virtual autopsiesThe robot uses stereo cameras to record a 3-D image of the body's exterior, and a CT scanner to record the body's internal condition. This results in a complete, 3-D, computerized model of the entire body. Doctors…
Korea's First Humanoid Robot Capable to Walk: Hubo!!!
Hey Guys? Hope you are interested in humanoid robots. Hubo can't climb the stairs but its movement of its fingers, the physical intelligence and physical force is great! Lets watch some video!
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Humanoids are great! In this project we will do…
Asimo:The Most Advanced Scientific Robot!!!Lets watch a video!!
Hey, but did you know that Asimo can sometimes can't climb up the stairs?Watch this video!!!!
On Memorial Day, May 26, 2008, the "Roadrunner" supercomputer exceeded a sustained speed of 1 petaflop/s, or 1 million billion calculations per second. "Petaflop/s" is computer jargon—peta signifying the number 1 followed by 15 zeros (sometimes called a quadrillion) and flop/s meaning "floating point operation per second." Shortly after that it was named the world's fastest supercomputer by the TOP500 organization at the June 2008 International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden Germany.
Now, supporting Los Alamos National Laboratory's role in the international Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine…
One small step for mankind, one giant leap for ... averting natural and man-made disasters?
A new Tel Aviv University technology combines sensors in orbit with sensors on the ground and in the air to create what they call a "Hyperspectral Remote Sensor" (HRS) which will provide advance warnings about water contamination after a forest fire, alert authorities of a pollution spill long before a red flag is raised on earth - or even tell people in China where a monsoon will strike.
The HRS simultaneously acquires hundreds of optical images, each from a different frequency, that enable a "…
Terry Zink, a spam-fighter at Microsoft, recently blogged about remembering passwords. His problem, a problem most of us share, is how to strike a balance between using distinct passwords for different services, and remembering myriad passwords:
Why do I say this? While we should always use good passwords (like letter/number combinations, nothing obvious like “123456” and “password”), it’s completely unrealistic to have different passwords for every site if you have a very wide reach on the web. Consider myself:
I have an online bank account from back in Canada
I have another online bank…
Around three and a half years ago, I posted an item in my personal blog about public key infrastructure.[1] In it, I mentioned two certificate authorities from which one could get free certificates for personal use: Thawte and CAcert. (You can also get free certificates from Comodo, ipsCA, and StartCom.) For somewhat arbitrary reasons — mostly because Thawte seemed better situated, and its root certificate was already set up in Windows as a trusted signer (CAcert is not) — I settled on that one, and have been using a Thawte certificate.
Unfortunately, it seems that Thawte is getting out of…