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Face Recognition Start-up Says It Can Identify Terrorists
By Sydny Shepard
An Israeli start-up has signed a contract with homeland security to help identify everything from terrorists to geniuses using facial recognition software.
Faception can analyze faces from video streams (recorded or live), cameras or online/offline databases, encode the faces in proprietary image descriptors and match an individual with various personality traits.
The start-up has built 15 different classifiers, which evaluate with 80 percent accuracy certain traits. The start-up believes the software can look at a person's face and realize character traits that are undetectable to the human eye. Using the traits found, they can determine if the person is a terrorist, extrovert, pedophile or even a white-collar criminal.
Face Recognition Start-up Says It Can Identify Terrorists
By Sydny Shepard
An Israeli start-up has signed a contract with homeland security to help identify everything from terrorists to geniuses using facial recognition software.
Faception can analyze faces from video streams (recorded or live), cameras or online/offline databases, encode the faces in proprietary image descriptors and match an individual with various personality traits.
The start-up has built 15 different classifiers, which evaluate with 80 percent accuracy certain traits. The start-up believes the software can look at a person's face and realize character traits that are undetectable to the human eye. Using the traits found, they can determine if the person is a terrorist, extrovert, pedophile or even a white-collar criminal.
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Title: Practical Antenna Design for Advanced Wireless Products
Date: June 14, 2016
Time: 8am PT/ 11am ET
Sponsored by: National Instruments
Presented by: Henry Lau, Lexiwave Technology
Abstract:
Antenna performance plays a critical role in determining the communication range and quality of service for wireless products. As devices must increasingly support challenging spectral requirements (wideband or multi-band) and small product size, design becomes crucial to the success of new wireless products. Competence in advanced antenna design strengthens the competitive edge of such products for their manufacturers.
This webinar offers participants technical insights into the vital aspects of antenna design from an industrial and practical perspective. It covers fundamental theory, concepts and definitions of the features, specifications and performance of different types of commonly-used and advanced antennas found in wireless products. Simulation results on some design examples will be discussed. Practical implementation strategies and approaches to overall product design for optimum antenna performance will also be presented.
Title: Practical Antenna Design for Advanced Wireless Products
Date: June 14, 2016
Time: 8am PT/ 11am ET
Sponsored by: National Instruments
Presented by: Henry Lau, Lexiwave Technology
Abstract:
Antenna performance plays a critical role in determining the communication range and quality of service for wireless products. As devices must increasingly support challenging spectral requirements (wideband or multi-band) and small product size, design becomes crucial to the success of new wireless products. Competence in advanced antenna design strengthens the competitive edge of such products for their manufacturers.
This webinar offers participants technical insights into the vital aspects of antenna design from an industrial and practical perspective. It covers fundamental theory, concepts and definitions of the features, specifications and performance of different types of commonly-used and advanced antennas found in wireless products. Simulation results on some design examples will be discussed. Practical implementation strategies and approaches to overall product design for optimum antenna performance will also be presented.
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3D Laser Scanner Runoff Pushes New Standard Towards the Finish Line
Large-volume 3D laser scanners play an essential role in manufacturing large products (e.g., airplane wings), making measurements for large-scale construction (e.g., bridges), and other applications where very large structures must be measured in three dimensions.
3D Laser Scanner Runoff Pushes New Standard Towards the Finish Line
Large-volume 3D laser scanners play an essential role in manufacturing large products (e.g., airplane wings), making measurements for large-scale construction (e.g., bridges), and other applications where very large structures must be measured in three dimensions.
SPRL-A0005
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:
The SPRL-A0005 is a high power conical spiral, left-hand circularly polarised antenna designed operation in the 400 – 450 MHz band. The antenna provides broad beam coverage without nulls or reduction in performance.
The antenna features a low VSWR and high gain over the operating band with a fibre glass radome to protect the radiator.
PRODUCT FEATURES:
LHCP antenna
High power - 700 W CW
Low VSWR
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:
The SPRL-A0005 is a high power conical spiral, left-hand circularly polarised antenna designed operation in the 400 – 450 MHz band. The antenna provides broad beam coverage without nulls or reduction in performance.
The antenna features a low VSWR and high gain over the operating band with a fibre glass radome to protect the radiator.
PRODUCT FEATURES:
LHCP antenna
High power - 700 W CW
Low VSWR
DARPA wants new software architecture that integrates space command and control tools
U.S. military researchers are asking industry to develop an enterprise software architecture test bed that can integrate several different tools and capabilities for space command and control.
U.S. military researchers are asking industry to develop an enterprise software architecture test bed that can integrate several different tools and capabilities for space command and control.
Researchers in Massachusetts Created A "Liver on a Chip"
Mon, 07/18/2016 - 2:59pm by Massachusetts General Hospital
A team of researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Engineering in Medicine (MGH-CEM) have created a "liver on a chip," a model of liver tissue that replicates the metabolic variations found throughout the organ and more accurately reflects the distinctive patterns of liver damage caused by exposure to environmental toxins, including pharmaceutical overdose. Their report has been published online in the journal Scientific Reports.
"Our goal with this project was to create a liver tissue construct that responds to toxins the same way the liver in your body does," said William McCarty, Ph.D, a postdoctoral fellow at MGH-CEM and the paper's lead author. "The liver is a chemical processing plant, but it's not a single vat; different locations within the liver react differently to drugs and toxins. Here, we exploited microfluidics to control the metabolism of liver cells down to a resolution of a few cells, allowing us to create liver tissue that shows the same patterns of toxicity caused by differences in drug metabolism as the liver in your body."
Mon, 07/18/2016 - 2:59pm by Massachusetts General Hospital
A team of researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Engineering in Medicine (MGH-CEM) have created a "liver on a chip," a model of liver tissue that replicates the metabolic variations found throughout the organ and more accurately reflects the distinctive patterns of liver damage caused by exposure to environmental toxins, including pharmaceutical overdose. Their report has been published online in the journal Scientific Reports.
"Our goal with this project was to create a liver tissue construct that responds to toxins the same way the liver in your body does," said William McCarty, Ph.D, a postdoctoral fellow at MGH-CEM and the paper's lead author. "The liver is a chemical processing plant, but it's not a single vat; different locations within the liver react differently to drugs and toxins. Here, we exploited microfluidics to control the metabolism of liver cells down to a resolution of a few cells, allowing us to create liver tissue that shows the same patterns of toxicity caused by differences in drug metabolism as the liver in your body."