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Professor’s Research Helps Restore Sight to the Blind

By Guest PostJanuary 21, 2012Health, Scienceartificial retina project, artificial retinas, atmospheric blimps, autonomous robots, blind patients, boston university, cyclops, disease, electric stimulation patterns, electrochemical signals, eye, geological features, image processing software, kenneth lutchen, lake landers, macular degeneration, milliseconds, retinitis pigmentosa, robot, robotic surrogate, rovers, satellite, tier scalable reconnaissance, university of arizona, vision implant, wolfgang fink

*Wolfgang Fink’s research into artificial retinas helps restore some sight in blind patients with age-related macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa.*

University of Arizona College of Engineering professor Wolfgang Fink has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Fink is an associate professor in the UA department of electrical and computer engineering, where he is the founding director of the Visual and Autonomous Exploration Systems Research Laboratory and holds the Edward and Maria Keonjian Endowed Chair. Fink also has joint appointments in the departments of biomedical engineering, systems and industrial engineering, and ophthalmology and vision science. (more…)

10 Reasons Why It Has Become So Soul-Crushingly Difficult To Find A Job In America Today

By Guest PostFebruary 13, 2011Economyadvances in technology, Barack Obama, China, economic benefit, economic downturn, Economy, find a job, food and drug administration, gallup, globalism, middle class, mortgage, rene sommer, robot, soul crushing, taxation, today, trade deficit, u s, unemployed, unemployed worker, united states, war zones

Have you been unemployed lately? If so, then you probably know how frustrating it is to try to find a job in the United States today. It now takes the average unemployed worker about 33 weeks to find a job. There are millions of Americans that have not been able to find a full-time job even after searching hard for an entire year. Some areas of the United States have been devastated so badly by the economic downturn that they are starting to resemble war zones.

Unless you have been there, it is hard to even try to describe the extreme frustration that one feels when you are unable to pay the mortgage and feed your family. It can be absolutely soul-crushing. But it is not the fault of those who are unemployed. The truth is that our economy is dying and it is not producing nearly enough jobs anymore. Unfortunately, as you will see from the facts listed below, most of the things that are causing our economy to die have no realistic chance of being changed any time soon.

The following are 10 reasons why it has become so insanely difficult to find a job in America today…. (more…)

Cunning Machines: Researchers Give Robots the Capability for Deceptive Behavior

By Guest PostSeptember 9, 2010Weaponsalan wagner, algorithms, battlefield, cognitive deception, georgia institute of technology, movies, office of naval research, robot, robot deception, ronald arkin, terminator

A robot deceives an enemy soldier by creating a false trail and hiding so that it will not be caught. While this sounds like a scene from one of the Terminator movies, it’s actually the scenario of an experiment conducted by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology as part of what is believed to be the first detailed examination of robot deception.

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Professor’s Research Helps Restore Sight to the Blind

10 Reasons Why It Has Become So Soul-Crushingly Difficult To Find A Job In America Today

Cunning Machines: Researchers Give Robots the Capability for Deceptive Behavior