Freescale inertial sensors enhance sensitivity of safety-critical automotive airbag systems
on Dec 18, 2008HARMEMS technology designed to dampen sensor resonant frequency for more reliable and accurate airbag activationFreescale MMA62xxEG inertial sensors for safety-critical airbag systemsMUNICH, Germany (electronica 2008) – Nov. 11, 2008 – Freescale...

Robots
on Dec 16, 2008"How old are you?" she wanted to know."Thirty-two," I said."Then you don't remember a world without robots. To you, a robot is a robot. Gears and metal; electricity and positrons. Mind and iron! Human-made! If necessary, huma

Applications of AI
on Dec 16, 2008Q. What are the applications of AI?A. Here are some.game playingYou can buy machines that can play master level chess for a few hundred dollars. There is some AI in them, but they play well against people mainly through brute force computation--looki...

MIT is developing new technologies for neuroscience research
on Dec 16, 2008(Nanowerk News) The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT today announced six awards to develop new technologies for neuroscience research. The projects, whose themes range from brain-machine interfaces to new genetic tools and brain imaging m...

Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Developing Intelligent GIS
on Dec 9, 2008Defining Issue: Complicated systems such as GIS require sophisticated reasoning mechanisms for dealing with dynamic information.GIS Solution: It is proposed to utilize techniques in artificial intelligence to promote the intelligent information proce...

Prof. Asoka Karunananda
on Dec 7, 2008Professor Asoka Karunananda has contributed to expand the opportunities for education in Sri Lanka. He is the first Professor of the Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa, and the first Sri Lankan professor who has a Doctoral qual...

Artificial intelligence as a peace negotiator? Not quite…
on Dec 5, 2008Elbot  When I first started to programme in BASIC on the Sinclair ZX-81, the programme that captured my interest and imagination the most was Eliza. I spent hours entering strings of phrases and took delight when the programme appeared to engage wi...