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• Chemistry: New math technique improves atomic property predictions to historic accuracy
• Spintronic technologies: Advanced light source provides new look at skyrmions
• Collaborative learning -- for robots: New algorithm
• New device allows brain to bypass spinal cord, move paralyzed limbs
• 3-D computer model may help refine target for deep brain stimulation therapy for dystonia
• Demonstrating a driverless future: Promise of driverless cars
• Robot can be programmed by casually talking to it

Chemistry: New math technique improves atomic property predictions to historic accuracy Posted: 25 Jun 2014 11:12 AM PDT By combining advanced mathematics with high-performance computing, scientists have developed a tool that allowed them to calculate a fundamental property of most atoms on the periodic table to historic accuracy, reducing error by a factor of a thousand in many cases. The technique also could be used to determine a host of other atomic properties important in fields like nuclear medicine and astrophysics.

Spintronic technologies: Advanced light source provides new look at skyrmions Posted: 25 Jun 2014 10:25 AM PDT Researchers for the first time have used x-rays to observe and study skyrmions, subatomic quasiparticles that could play a key role in future spintronic technologies.

Collaborative learning -- for robots: New algorithm Posted: 25 Jun 2014 10:24 AM PDT Machine learning, in which computers learn new skills by looking for patterns in training data, is the basis of most recent advances in artificial intelligence, from voice-recognition systems to self-parking cars. It's also the technique that autonomous robots typically use to build models of their environments. A new algorithm lets independent agents collectively produce a machine-learning model without aggregating data.

New device allows brain to bypass spinal cord, move paralyzed limbs Posted: 25 Jun 2014 10:01 AM PDT For the first time ever, a paralyzed man can move his fingers and hand with his own thoughts thanks to a new device. A 23-year-old quadriplegic is the first patient to use Neurobridge, an electronic neural bypass for spinal cord injuries that reconnects the brain directly to muscles, allowing voluntary and functional control of a paralyzed limb.

3-D computer model may help refine target for deep brain stimulation therapy for dystonia Posted: 25 Jun 2014 07:11 AM PDT Using a complex set of data from records and imaging scans of patients who have undergone successful DBS implantation, researchers have created 3-D, computerized models that map the brain region involved in dystonia. The models identify an anatomical target for further study and provide information for neurologists and neurosurgeons to consider when planning surgery and making device programming decisions.

Demonstrating a driverless future: Promise of driverless cars Posted: 24 Jun 2014 02:23 PM PDT In the coming decades, we will likely commute to work and explore the countryside in autonomous, or driverless, cars capable of communicating with the roads they are traveling on. A convergence of technological innovations in embedded sensors, computer vision, artificial intelligence, control and automation, and computer processing power is making this feat a reality.

Robot can be programmed by casually talking to it Posted: 23 Jun 2014 06:18 AM PDT A professor of computer science is teaching robots to understand instructions in natural language from various speakers, account for missing information, and adapt to the environment at hand.

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