All the stories tagged with algorithms
Perfectly good kidneys for transplant discarded because of inefficient software
09/20/2012, There are over 90000 people waiting for a transplant kidney in the United States, so it’s rather disheartening when you learn that last year, 2600 kidneys were harvested and subsequently discarded. Sure, some of those organs might not be suitable [...]
Algorithm predicts wayward drivers
12/01/2011, Do you think that we humans love a good challenge, always pushing the proverbial envelope? After all, how else do you explain the situation where we are obsessed with records and want to break them even though they seem to [...]
Algorithm sniffs out graffiti artists
11/17/2011, Gangs tend to mark their territory with graffiti, as well as leave signs to communicate with those in the loop about drug deals, and the police are left scratching their heads as they work on deciphering those “messages”. Well, the [...]
Smart arms in robot make handling objects a painless procedure
09/21/2011, You know, you ought to give your hands much more credit than they deserve. I am quite sure that many of us do not really put much thought in how much pressure we use when holding an egg, compared to [...]
Robots to replace human traders?
09/19/2011, Being an investment banker is one of the coolest jobs ever – you get paid insane amounts of money even when everyone around you is grateful for even having a job, and you get to play with a pool of [...]
Computer algorithm depixelizes your 8-bit graphics
05/26/2011, For those of you who grew up playing video games, surely you would have noticed how far graphics in video games have come over the years. Imagine playing your NES and SNES titles on a High Definition 3DTV, won’t the [...]
Object tracking algorithm picks things up on-the-fly
03/31/2011, Zdenek Kalal (now that’s definitely a name that is hard to guess its spelling!), who is a researcher at the University of Surrey, has conjured what could very well be one of the more advanced vision systems that are known [...]
