Sentences with phrase «science laboratory researchers»

MIT - Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory researchers have been trying to pull some of the pressure out of large data set analysis through creating a kind of algorithms, which can identify fascinating features hidden behind a massive sea of figures.

Not exact matches

Researchers from MIT's computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory have discovered how to trick Google's (goog) software that automatically recognizes objects in images.
But the only way we will know the answer to that question is to make sure that whatever helmets female lacrosse players wear meet standards that are based on science, and have been developed after a deliberative and collaborative process by an independent organization, like ASTM, which is not funded by helmet manufacturers (unlike NOCSAE), and which does not just invite, but requires input from equipment manufacturers, product testing laboratories, researchers and governing bodies, in this case US Lacrosse.
This week, at the Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Harvard University presented a paper describing a new system, dubbed Veil, that makes private browsing more private.
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory believe that household robots should take advantage of their mobility and their relatively static environments to make object recognition easier, by imaging objects from multiple perspectives before making judgments about their identity.
But DOE's Office of Science will spend only half its budget on work by university researchers, with much of the rest going to its ten national laboratories and research facilities, from Brookhaven in New York state to the Pacific Northwest National Lab in Washington state.
On the organization's Web site it says: «The Brain Observatory is committed to maintaining the highest standards in open science, sharing all the images and data that are created in our laboratories with other researchers and the public.»
Chris Randall walks through the halls of Huntsville, Alabama's A&M University proudly carrying the souvenir bag he got from being an undergraduate researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Department of Energy's (DOE) largest science laboratory, and one of the most prestigious government - run labs inLaboratory (ORNL), the Department of Energy's (DOE) largest science laboratory, and one of the most prestigious government - run labs inlaboratory, and one of the most prestigious government - run labs in the U.S..
Last week, at the Association for Computational Linguistics» Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory won a best - paper award for a new approach to information extraction that turns conventional machine learning on its head.
In the Science paper, the researchers derived a quantity related to the fault's slow onset, called the slip weakening distance, and found it to be several orders of magnitude higher that laboratory experiments on rock samples would predict.
In addition, organizations such as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and Los Alamos National Laboratory systematically fund a large number of undergraduate researchers.
Co-authors are Ok - Kyung Park, a visiting scholar at Rice and a postdoctoral researcher at Chonbuk National University, Republic of Korea; Rice postdoctoral researchers Almaz Jalilov and Rodrigo Villegas Salvatierra and graduate students Luong Xuan Duy, Sandhya Susarla and Jarin Joyner; Rice alumnus Sehmus Ozden, now a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory; Robert Vajtai, a senior faculty fellow at Rice; Jun Lou, a Rice professor of materials science and nanoengineering; and James Tour, Rice's T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of computer science and of materials science and nanoengineering; and Professor Douglas Galvão of the State University of Campinas.
It's the researchers in the Mars Science Laboratory Mission Science Team, in which Javier Martín - Torres is included, who have discovered the solid forms of nitrogen on Mars.
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Manchester, U.K.; Imperial College, London; University of California San Diego; and the National Institute of Material Science (NIMS), Japan, have demonstrated that confined surface phonon polaritons within hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) exhibit unique metamaterial properties that enable novel nanoscale optical devices for use in optical communications, super-resolution imaging, and improved infrared cameras and detectors.
«When you get a lot of structures forming next to one another that are different but still have similar internal energies, you get a sort of frustration as the material tries to crystalize,» said Eric Perim, a postdoctoral researcher working in the laboratory of Stefano Curtarolo, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and director of the Center for Materials Genomics at Duke.
This research was supported by World Class University (WCU), US - Korea NBIT, Mid-Career Researcher (MCR), Converging Research Center (CRC) and Basic Research Laboratory (BRL) programs through the National Research Foundation (NRF), of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (Minister Choi Mun - Kee), US Air Force Office of Scientific Research through Asian Office of Aerospace R&D (AFOSR - AOARD), and AFOSR.
The method was developed at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, by a team of researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Berkeley Lab, Stanford University, and other institutions.
This week researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) presented a virtual - reality (VR) system that lets you teleoperate a robot using an Oculus Rift headset.
The research, led by Daniel Giammar, the Walter E. Browne Professor of Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, was conducted in collaboration with researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Philip Skemer, associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University.
«The researchers found that buds containing high levels of cinnamic acid and its derivatives were less damaged,» says David Cowan, who heads the team responsible for developing cinnamamide at MAFF's Central Science Laboratory in Slough.
«What helps me is to promise my boss that I'll have the paper, experiment, or presentation ready by whatever date,» says Laetitia Delmau, a researcher in the chemical sciences division of the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
For fusion - powered energy, you need big science — massive laboratories, hundreds of researchers making this their life's work, advanced equipment and a concerted multiyear drive — and NIF is nothing if not big science.
Researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology's Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) research center and Gothenburg University employed the biological networks generated for 46 major human tissues in order to identify the liver - specific gene targets.
Steve Squyres oversees the science operations of both rovers and a team of 170 researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Norway also a member of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBO) and European Science Foundation (ESF) and are also a member of the following organisations that provide opportunities for mobile researchers (only available in Norwegian.)
«The National Academy of Sciences recently convened a meeting to look at science missions in CubeSats,» said Bryce Tappan, an explosives chemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and lead researcher on the CubeSat Propulsion Concept team, «and identified propulsion as one of the primary categories of technology that needs to be developed.»
In a new study published in the current issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, researchers in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science at Florida Atlantic University and Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin in Germany measured the effects of situations on human behavior in real - time and outside of a laboratory setting in one of the largest studies to employ experience sampling methods.
The study has been a cooperative project between researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), Uppsala University, Linköping University and Stockholm University, in addition to several affiliated institutes in Italy.
These days, the science of assisted reproductive technology is advancing at such a rapid rate that laboratory researchers say it will soon be medically possible for even a centenarian to give birth.
The study, led by Dr. Juan Martinez - Sykora, researcher at Lockheed Martin's Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (California, USA) and astrophysicist at the University of La Laguna (ULL), is published today in the journal Science.
Fellow participant Jacqueline Gamboa Varela, a DNA researcher and podcast host, sought to attend workshop because she wanted to learn more about ways in which she could apply her science degree outside of the laboratory.
Researchers at Stockholm University and Science for Life Laboratory have developed a new computer algorithm for analysing gene function called BinoX, which was e-published in Nucleic Acids Research on September 22 (Ogris et al., 2016a).
Marine researchers are facing «substantial» water damage to one of two major laboratory buildings at the University of Texas (UT) Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas, according to Communications Coordinator Sally Palmer.
Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are getting closer to doing exactly that.
«Global change affects so many different environmental aspects, and across such a range of conditions, that it can be difficult to study in the laboratory,» said Erik Sperling, assistant professor of geological sciences at Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, lead author of the study, which was conducted while he was a postdoctoral researcher at Scripps.
Researchers from the Environemental Protection Agency's Gulf Breeze laboratory in Florida could be among those affected by deep proposed cuts to the agency's science programs.
At other institutes in the town, researchers explored the boundaries of particle physics, materials science, geomagnetism, astrophysics, space and astronomy — and always they were shadowed by defence specialists looking for potential military spin - offs that could be pursued more fully in adjoining laboratories.
Now, researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have created origami - inspired artificial muscles that add strength to soft robots, allowing them to lift objects that are up to 1,000 times their own weight using only air or water pressure.
While quantum technologies remain grist for science fiction, a team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have taken an important step towards efficient light generation, the foundation for future quantum networks.
Reacting to a report in Nature last week that Scottish researchers had cloned a sheep from a cell taken from an adult ewe, Clinton said, «Each human life is unique, born of a miracle that reaches beyond laboratory science.
A significant proportion of researchers in China spend too much time on building connections and not enough time attending seminars, discussing science, doing research, or training students (instead, using them as laborers in their laboratories).
The risk of developing diabetes was greater than was previously thought,» says Tove Fall, a researcher at the Department of Medical Sciences and the Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, who coordinated the study together with researchers from the Karolinska Institutet and Oxford University.
Edouard Brézin, president of France's Academy of Science, is more optimistic: The temporary positions will allow young researchers to acquire scientific independence, he says, and allow research groups with understaffed laboratories to hire postdocs.
In a paper to be published in an upcoming issue of Energy & Environmental Science, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory describe details of a low - cost, stable, effective catalyst that could replace costly platinum in the production of hydrogen.
Stanford's Department of Materials Science and Engineering published a paper in the journal Nature Materials yesterday that claimed researchers there have managed to prove in laboratory tests that heat usually lost in the solar generation process can be saved by improving semiconductors.
A Scientist as a Knowledge Agent Anne Forde, 11 March 2005 Up to doctoral level, Alex Lewis was a geosciences researcher but she now works for the UK government's Defense Science and Technology Laboratory as a «Knowledge Agent»
The results, which appear in the July 30 print edition of Nature and online, represent a culmination of more than a decade of work by researchers in three countries, including Christer Jansson, director of plant sciences at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and EMSL, DOE's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.
Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Rockville, Md., report in the online edition of Science that they pieced together the genes of Mycoplasma genitalium, the smallest free - living bacterium that can be grown in the laboratory and a common culprit in urinary tract infections.
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a new computational model of a neural circuit in the brain, which could shed light on the biological role of inhibitory neurons — neurons that keep other neurons from firing.
At the Neural Information Processing Systems conference this week, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are presenting a new approach to training speech - recognition systems that doesn't depend on transcription.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z