Archive for May, 2002
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MIT Researchers Put Words in Your Mouth
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created the first realistic videos of people saying things they never said - a scientific leap that raises unsettling questions about falsifying the moving image.
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Robots Lift Mood in Nursing Home
Modeled after work in aninal therapy a robotic baby seal called “Paro” has helped improve the quality of life for both clients and staff at a Japanese elder day-care facility.
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Who Needs a Browser?
A new Mac program called Watson simplifies finding information on the Internet. It pulls data from multiple websites and strips out the ads and graphics to present only the information you want in a clear, concise format. The way it gathers information from other websites and software programs is a precursor to the XML-based “Web services” proposed by Microsoft, IBM and Sun.
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A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
It seems almost counterintuitive. But this Harvard Business Review excerpt by Harvard Business School professor Stefan Thomke and MIT’s Eric von Hippel suggests that you stop listening closely to your customers�and instead give them tools for creating their own products.