Laser Vision Offers New Insights

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MIT Offers new Insights into Vision

MIT Offers new Insights into Vision 04/13/2004 09:10 PM
Pawan Sinha and other MIT researchers have combined MRI scans, René Magritte paintings, and a study of individuals who are born blind but later gain some vision to offer new insights into how the human brain recognizes objects and, in particular, faces. Humans are much better at recognizing faces than the best machine vision, even when the faces are extremely blurred. Humans use contextual clues that are not available to most machine vision systems. Up until now, machine vision developers have intentionally removed or cleaned-up images by isolating the object of interest (which precludes consideration of contextual clues). An MIT News story summarizes the research. For more see the Sinha Lab Vision Research webpage.

Laser-o-vision!

Laser-o-vision! 04/27/2004 07:37 AM
Laser-o-visio n: A system that projects light beams directly into the eye could change the way we see the world.

offers a broad ranging set of insights

offers a broad ranging set of insights 03/15/2003 09:44 AM

Jon Markman offers a broad ranging set of insights into the current Wi-Fi climate, from Intel to rural wireless ISPs to hot spots, and his take on Intersil and Broadcom's wireless future is bleak: Intel has the dominance and the marketing muscle.

'Laser vision' offers new insights

'Laser vision' offers new insights 04/26/2004 08:30 PM
A system that projects light beams directly onto the eye's retina could change the way we view the world.

Float offers insights into Google

Float offers insights into Google 04/30/2004 10:29 AM
The financial documents filed by Google offer a fascinating insight into the search engine powerhouse.

Book offers insights into Web privacy
with P3P

Book offers insights into Web privacy
with P3P 12/14/2002 03:34 AM
CNET Dec 14 2002 1:58AM ET

BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Laser vision'
offers new insights

BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Laser vision'
offers new insights 04/27/2004 08:09 PM
BBC NEWS Technology 'Laser vision' offers new insights .. projects lasers onto the retina .. this BBCNews article

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" BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Laser vision'
offers new insights "

" BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Laser vision'
offers new insights " 04/30/2004 03:43 AM

Dell Offers First Sub-$100 Laser Printer

Dell Offers First Sub-$100 Laser Printer 06/22/2005 02:02 AM
In a move that could spark a price war with more established rivals Hewlett-Packard and Lexmark, Dell has launched a new laser printer priced at just $99 USD. Despite it's low price tag, the Dell 1100 printer is more than capable for home and small office settings with a speed of 15 pages a minute.

Brother offers new office laser printers

Brother offers new office laser printers 12/15/2003 11:42 AM
Brother International Corp. on Monday introduced a pair of new Mac-compatible mid-range office laser printers -- the HL-6050D and the HL-6050DN. Aimed at office desktops and small workgroups, the new printers provide up to 25 page per minute (ppm) speed, built-in duplex, expandable paper capacity, a wireless networking option and more.

Griffin offers iPod flashlight, laser
pointer add-ons

Griffin offers iPod flashlight, laser
pointer add-ons 09/25/2004 01:52 AM
Griffin Technology has quietly posted information on iBeam, a set of iPod accessories that consists of a snap-on flashlight and a class IIIA laser pointer...

Konica Minolta offers $499 color laser
printer

Konica Minolta offers $499 color laser
printer 01/05/2005 11:04 AM
Konica Minolta Printing Solutions U.S.A. Inc. on Wednesday introduced its magicolor 2430 DL color laser printer, which it says is an affordable color alternative to conventional inkjet printers. Priced at US$499, the Mac and Windows-compatible printer outputs up to 20 pages per minute in black and white and five in color, produces 2400 x 600 dot per inch resolution on any grade of paper, and features PictBridge support for direct-from-camera photo printing.

SIGGRAPH: AfterBurner offers 23GB blue
laser burner

SIGGRAPH: AfterBurner offers 23GB blue
laser burner 08/11/2004 03:32 PM
NitroAV announced on Wednesday the release of its AfterBurne r series of FireWire 800 disc burners, which use Sony drive mechanisms that employ blue lasers that can write up to 23GB on a ProData optical disc. The AfterBurner series includes a two-bay configuration, as well as an internal ultra-wide 5.25-inch 160 SCSI version and an external USB 2.0/SCSI model, and features 11MB per second and 9MB per second read and write speeds, respectively, a 16MB cache that improves speed and lowers the number of errors and a narrower pitch track for higher recording density.

Apple offers free iPod custom laser
engraving

Apple offers free iPod custom laser
engraving 10/30/2003 01:42 PM
DealMac notes that the online Apple Store is currently offering free custom laser engraving on any new iPod purchased before November 5, 2003...

Microsoft offers rosy vision amid thorny
problems

Microsoft offers rosy vision amid thorny
problems 05/05/2004 02:51 AM
SiliconValley.com May 5 2004 7:13AM GMT

New Brother, HP, and Oki Data Mono Laser
Printers Fuel 15% Growth in 2004
Shipments: Desktop Monochrome Laser
Market Grows as Major Vendors Refresh
Their Lines

New Brother, HP, and Oki Data Mono Laser
Printers Fuel 15% Growth in 2004
Shipments: Desktop Monochrome Laser
Market Grows as Major Vendors Refresh
Their Lines 04/12/2005 04:15 AM
"2004 Desktop Monochrome Laser Printer Market" is the second report in Lyra’s "Hard Copy Observer Spotlight" report series. These product-planning reports includes information on how products and prices changed from January through December, current market trends, a review of the competitive landscape, and selected articles from The Hard Copy Observer. [PRWEB Apr 12, 2005]

Lyra Imaging Symposium Spotlights Office
Printing Technology and Trends with
Speakers from HP, Laser Imaging,
Lasertone, Rhinotek, Static Control
Components, Teckn-O-Laser and Xerox

Lyra Imaging Symposium Spotlights Office
Printing Technology and Trends with
Speakers from HP, Laser Imaging,
Lasertone, Rhinotek, Static Control
Components, Teckn-O-Laser and Xerox 12/19/2004 03:45 PM
Lyra Research’s Symposium agenda explores key trends and dynamics in office printing [PRWEB Dec 10, 2004]

Renowned Business Guru, Dr Eli Goldratt,
Makes His Viable Vision Offer to Top
Executives; Companies to Receive Free
‘Vision Work’ from Dr Eli Goldratt

Renowned Business Guru, Dr Eli Goldratt,
Makes His Viable Vision Offer to Top
Executives; Companies to Receive Free
‘Vision Work’ from Dr Eli Goldratt 03/14/2005 04:09 PM
Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt, author of the international best-selling business book “The Goal” will be in Bogota on April 5, Chicago April 8, Amsterdam April 19, and Kiev April 21 for his Viable Vision Offer world tour. Other countries on the 2005 tour include: China, Chile, Hungary, India, and Brazil. The Viable Vision Offer is based on Goldratt’s body of work in the Theory of Constraints (TOC). Goldratt defines a Viable Vision as the specific strategy and tactics to turn a company’s current sales level into their profit level within 4 years. For example, a $100 million sales company will achieve a $100 million profit level within 4 years. [PRWEB Mar 9, 2005]

Cites & Insights

Cites & Insights 12/23/2003 09:16 PM
Cites & Insights
http://cites.boisestate. edu/civ4i1.pdf

Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 4:1 (January 2004) is now available for downloading at the above URL. This 26 page issue, PDF as usual includes the following:

*Bibs & Blather (looking forward & back, plus weblog blather

*First Have Something to Say: 15: Breaks and Blocks (the third and final free chapter)

*Scholarly Article Access (PLoS publicity and feedback; other OA notes; and why this is the final Scholarly Article Access)

*Following Up (Martin Luther King, Jr. library; DVD compatibility; Amazon's Search in the Book and swamping)

*Ebooks, Etext and PoD (the ebook biz, elibraries, devices)

*Copyright Currents (DMCA exemptions, the SunnComm follies, more music stuff, SCO and Linux)

*A Scholarly Access Perspective: Tipping Point for the Big Deal? (Elsevier, ScienceDirect, Cell Press, and academia)

FC Now: Off-Site Insights

FC Now: Off-Site Insights 09/25/2004 05:22 AM
For the last two days, the Fast Company team has been sequestered in a country home built during the 1830's in the Delaware Valley. The...

Internet Security Insights

Internet Security Insights 03/29/2005 11:26 AM
HostReview.com Mar 29 2005 2:43PM GMT

Short-Cited Insights about RSS

Short-Cited Insights about RSS 02/07/2005 01:41 AM

On page six of the February issue (PDF) of Cites & Insights (“Rss hub-bub”), Walt Crawford pooh-poohs the idea of ILS vendors providing native RSS feeds out of the catalog. It’s a difficult assertion to challenge because nowhere in his comments does Walt use the word “because,” thereby directly stating his objection(s). There are implications, though, so let’s examine them since they are all we have to go on.

First of all, Walt seems to think that someone has advocated libraries replace their email alerts with RSS alerts. That’s a statement Walt can’t back up, although I’m sure he’ll note it if he has proof of *anyone* ever in the history of the world using the word “replace” or a synonym. If he backs off from that statement, I’ll be curious to know why his first assumption was that the two can’t live happily ever after together, side by side, especially since RSS would be the driving force behind the new titles lists he claims will vanish into the olden days of yesteryear.

In reality, the only time I’ve ever received an email from my catalog is when I had a book that was really, really, really, really, really overdue and I think they were about to send Guido after me. That they’ll email me about. But the convenience notice when it’s a couple of days overdue (or even a couple of weeks or months)? Fuggedaboutit. So SWAN libraries, consider this me begging for email alerts! Oh, and I guarantee you that none of my libraries went to Innovative (or before that GEAC) asking for email alerts. It’s just something that made a lot of sense, the vendor understood what was happening in the outside world, and the code was relatively easy to implement. Just like RSS.

Next, Walt seems to advocate that libraries shouldn’t offer a service for what he asserts is 1% or less of your population. I’m not challenging the mathematical figure, but I can think of lots of services that libraries provide for users that comprise less than 1% of our patrons. Let’s use my home library as an example. They serve a population of about 30,000 people right now. One percent of the current population would be 300 people, and 1% of actual users would probably be closer to 150. So what services do they offer that only 149 or fewer people use? Here’s a list just to name a few:

• Homebound service (even though we have a lot of senior housing in our area);
• Sign language translators for patrons who are deaf and might attend their programs;
• Night Owl telephone reference service;
• A form for challenging “offensive” titles in the collection.
• A web site that is accessible to blind users.
• The ability to use a USB flash drive with the library’s computers (I’m sure that figure is rising, but I don’t see tons of patrons picketing libraries over this one and yet a lot of libraries are now offering this).

I don’t think Walt would quibble that these are all valuable, even essential, services, but then he’d probably be basing those decisions on factors other than how many people are using the service. Nowhere in his comments does Walt use any other criterion for RSS, so why the double standard?

In addition, far less than 1% of 1% of a library’s RSS users actually go to the trouble of programming for themselves services the library’s catalog doesn’t offer. However, I can name three off the top of my head (from across North America), the most obvious example being Peter Rukavina who rolled his own RSS but is [rightly] too busy to help the rest of us who would like to provide that service but aren’t programmers. If his home library wanted to, they could download his script and start displaying the list of their new DVDs on their own web site, but they can’t get it natively from their own ILS. What’s wrong with that picture?

Of course, you could also flip this example and argue that you really should be providing a service that your users want badly enough that they resort to hacking your catalog and then noting it on their very public blog. There are at least three examples of users who are running scripts against catalogs, and there are a lot more who have signed up with Library ELF, probably without their librarys’ knowledge. Disclaimer: I love ELF, and I use it myself. I’m willing to give my personal data to a guy in Canada in order to get the email and RSS alerts my catalog refuses to give me. I can’t imagine that Walt thinks that a non-programmer like myself should be forced to do that just to get an RSS feed of what I have checked out, but he also doesn’t seem to care about RSS in the context of patron data. I assure you there is no one at MLS or at a SWAN library that can code this themselves to offer it to patrons, which means we’d be forced to have someone else do this. Why shouldn’t that be the vendor?

But just because Walt doesn’t do it, doesn’t mean I won’t look at other criteria to discuss reasons to implement RSS. In a previous post, I noted that in my library system alone, we could conceivably save 924 hours of actual librarian work each year if our vendor, Innovative, provided native RSS feeds out of the catalog. Let’s take it a step further and come up with the number of potential saved work hours for just half of the 3,700 libraries in Illinois. Let’s say that only half of them might actually take advantage of RSS feeds to change how they display new titles on their web sites. If this saved just one hour per month for 1,850 libraries, native RSS feeds would save Illinois librarians 22,200 hours in just one year.

So even if there was never a single patron that subscribed to a single feed, it would save Illinois librarians 22,200 hours, and let me tell you something: other than funding, the biggest thing we could really use more of is time (which can also be translated into more staffing, but on a personal level, I feel very constrained time-wise). So now we’ve freed up 22,200 hours of librarians’ days, thanks to relatively easy programming on the part of the major vendors. How awesome is that?! And if my vendor can’t understand that kind of savings, then I have to question them as my vendor. Sometimes you really can make a big difference with just “a flip of the switch.”

Other ways I think native RSS feeds would be used, furthering the benefit to libraries:

• I think there are users who would display queues (if we offered queues) or lists on their sites, just like they do now with NetFlix and Amazon. I’m even willing to bet my hat that some of them (yes, less than 1%) would display what they have checked out at this moment, just like they do with NetFlix and Amazon (“what I’m reading now”). While you’re at it, throw music in there, too, since a lot of people (less than 1%) like to post what they’re listening to as they’re composing their blog posts.
• Library holdings could be displayed on third-party web sites, like a school’s site, an academic department’s site, or a community’s site. In fact, libraries could partner with newspapers, area sports clubs (a brilliant idea from Stephen Abrams), and other groups to more easily display material on their web sites. The content would update automatically, thereby keeping those librarian hours free for other tasks.

And yet, Walt doesn’t think it’s exciting that ILS vendors are starting to offer this type of support to libraries. In fact, Walt doesn’t seem to think that ILS vendors should be providing RSS feeds here and now at all. I don’t see any of my member libraries clammoring for Z39.50 compliance with the Bath Profile, but that doesn’t mean Innovative shouldn’t be compliant or working on it (number of patrons who are requesting this or even know about Z39.50: zero). I don’t hear about any of my member libraries doing anything with Dublin Core metadata, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be (number of patrons who are requesting this or even know about DC: zero). Should vendors offer only those services that are formally requested by 50% of library users (the implication Walt makes by noting that even in his high-tech community, less than half the residents probably know about RSS)? What’s the magic number at which Walt would consent to let ILS vendors start working on providing RSS feeds? 40%?  25%?  10%?  Hopefully he will leave a comment so the vendors will know when to start.

 I don’t know if he was just lobbing a softball over the plate in order to help prove the point that native RSS feeds would be valuable right now or if he truly believes the position he declines to actually support, but either way, this one clearly demonstrates Walt’s bias against RSS. That’s okay, because everyone has their biases. This time, though, Walt’s just asking for trouble.

Insights on how obesity kills

Insights on how obesity kills 05/09/2004 06:30 PM
Straits Times May 9 2004 11:12PM GMT

Gore's TV Seeks Northern Insights

Gore's TV Seeks Northern Insights 04/14/2005 07:00 AM
Al Gore's new cable television network promises to update the boob tube for the internet generation. An experimental Canadian TV show has been doing just that for the last three years -- and it ain't easy. By Niall McKay.

IS 2004 provides rare insights for CIOs

IS 2004 provides rare insights for CIOs 07/30/2004 08:31 AM
Express Computer India Jul 30 2004 12:37PM GMT

MMOG Subscription Analysis Provides New
Insights

MMOG Subscription Analysis Provides New
Insights 08/19/2004 03:15 PM

New technique provides insights into
gene regulation

New technique provides insights into
gene regulation 12/22/2004 01:25 AM
Medical News Today Dec 22 2004 2:09AM GMT

Marketers Scan Blogs For Brand Insights

Marketers Scan Blogs For Brand Insights 06/24/2005 05:44 PM
Slashdot Jun 24 2005 8:56AM GMT

Naked News Reveals Insights in Britain
(AP)

Naked News Reveals Insights in Britain
(AP) 08/11/2004 05:42 PM
AP - Stripped-down news anchors posed outside the Houses of Parliament Wednesday to launch the latest addition to Britain's competitive news media — Naked News.

WSJ.com - Marketers Scan BlogsFor Brand
Insights

WSJ.com - Marketers Scan BlogsFor Brand
Insights 06/24/2005 06:07 PM
Perfect evening reading .. Quote: .. WSJ

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Personal Computing | Insights into
technology users

Personal Computing | Insights into
technology users 12/18/2003 04:36 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 18 2003 3:54AM ET

OGC book provides insights into
transforming the Government workplace

OGC book provides insights into
transforming the Government workplace 07/12/2004 02:32 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jul 12 2004 7:13AM GMT

Mathemagenic: learning and KM insights -
Thursday, April 22, 2004

Mathemagenic: learning and KM insights -
Thursday, April 22, 2004 04/25/2004 09:41 AM
Technorati Cosmos links for Radio .. Matt

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Science Blogs Offer Insights Into “Life
on the Lab Side”

Science Blogs Offer Insights Into “Life
on the Lab Side” 12/19/2004 03:16 PM
The Science Advisory Board’s Web site under went major renovations this fall. Our redesigned Web site was officially launched on December 5, 2004. Enhancements include improved site navigation and organization as well as a much friendlier user-interface. [PRWEB Dec 13, 2004]

Research at cellular level provides
insights into intricacies of physical
aging

Research at cellular level provides
insights into intricacies of physical
aging 08/02/2004 06:42 AM
Jewish World Review Aug 2 2004 11:13AM GMT

Director of The Science Advisory Board
to Present Biodefense Research Insights

Director of The Science Advisory Board
to Present Biodefense Research Insights 03/17/2005 02:52 AM
Tamara Zemlo, Ph.D., MPH, Executive Director of The Science Advisory Board, will be presenting a review of biodefense research opportunities at the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Biodefense Meeting. The presentation, “Biodefense Research: Turning Obstacles into Opportunities,” can be viewed at the Monday Poster Session on March 21, 2005 from 8:30 AM – 7:00 PM, and Dr. Zemlo will be available to answer any questions from 5:00 – 7:30 PM. The meeting takes place at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront in Baltimore, MD. [PRWEB Mar 16, 2005]

Insights from Customers and Partners
Help Microsoft Create More Flexible
Licensing and Financing Options

Insights from Customers and Partners
Help Microsoft Create More Flexible
Licensing and Financing Options 09/22/2004 04:13 PM
Continuing its commitment to communicate directly and consistently about the latest developments in licensing programs and policies, Microsoft today hosted a Volume Licensing Quarterly Update Webcast for its customers intended to help them better plan software investments.

Director of The Science Advisory Board
to Present RNA Interference Technology
Research Insights

Director of The Science Advisory Board
to Present RNA Interference Technology
Research Insights 04/07/2005 02:52 AM
On Monday Tamara Zemlo, Ph.D., MPH, Executive Director of The Science Advisory Board, presented an overview of RNA interference research opportunities at the Emerging Technologies for Drug Discovery Meeting in San Francisco, CA. Her talk, “RNA Interference Technology: Challenges and Opportunities,” provided life science researchers with insights into the types of products and services required to support functional genomics research, and was based upon a survey conducted by BioInformatics, LLC (http://www.gene2drug.com), an Arlington, VA-based market research and consulting firm. [PRWEB Apr 7, 2005]

Ipsos Novaction & Vantis Selects
Interactive Edge’s XP3® Suite to Provide
Faster and Better Insights to their
Consumer Packaged Goods Client Base

Ipsos Novaction & Vantis Selects
Interactive Edge’s XP3® Suite to Provide
Faster and Better Insights to their
Consumer Packaged Goods Client Base 02/05/2005 10:00 PM
XP3 Suite will allow Ipsos Novaction & Vantis to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of its business analytics by helping to better utilize and integrate disparate data sources leading to unique insights [PRWEB Feb 4, 2005]
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