Thursday, August 02, 2007

security Using Face Recognition Instead of a PIN Number. coondoggie writes "Face recognition as a unique biometric is growing slowly in certain corporate and consumer applications, but researchers at the University of Houston (UH) are trying to make the technology far more ubiquitous and secure: they want it to replace the dozens of personal identification numbers (PIN), passwords and credit card numbers everyone uses every day. University researchers developed the URxD face recognition software that uses a three-dimensional snapshot of a person's face to create a unique biometric identifier."Read more of this story at Slashdot. 9:03:16 AM    comment [] AI Sharing a Joke Could Help Man and Robot Interact. Current AI programs are devoid of humor, but joking around is central to human social interaction. So University of Cincinnati researchers built a computer program that can get a joke -- based on a simple pun. To teach the program to spot jokes, t... [KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News] 9:02:09 AM    comment [] IQ How the brain extracts meaning. Stanford University School of Medicine researchers asked subjects to listen to symphonies to probe one of the central abilities of the brain -- segmenting the continual stream of sensory information into perceptual chunks to extract meaning. Thei... [KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News] 9:01:39 AM    comment [] brain control Man Regains Speech After Brain Stimulation. A 38-year-old man who spent more than five years in a mute, barely conscious state as a result of a severe head injury is now communicating regularly with family members and recovering his ability to move after having his brain stimulated with pulses... [KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News] 9:00:29 AM    comment [] biotech Bioengineers Devise 'Dimmer Swith' To Regulate Gene Expression In Mammal Cells. Boston University biomedical engineers have created a genetic dimmer switch that can be used to turn on, shut off, or partially activate a gene's function during expression as proteins. The switch holds promise for therapeutic applications, and he... [KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News] 8:59:51 AM    comment [] IP Broken Patent System? Google, Apple Disagree. Whiney Mac Fanboy writes "The AlwaysOn Stanford Summit featured the panel discussion 'The Patent Crisis: Crossroads for the Business of Technology.' Speakers included patent lawyers from Google, IBM, and Apple. According to The Register, Google's and Apple's patent jocks had diametrically opposing views. Google's head of patents believes the system is in crisis: 'The Patent Office is overburdened,' she said. 'The volume of patents going in is huge. And the quality of patents coming out — it could be better.' But Apple's chief patent counsel said the US patent system was 'not broken' and 'not in crisis,' calling it 'the best in the world.'Read more of this story at Slashdot. 8:56:34 AM    comment []

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