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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:06:44 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: When Robots Invaded the Senate
When Robots Invaded the Senate
Scalpels that a surgeon uses to excise small tumors but never actually touches. Robots that can take the place of lab rats in clinical trials. Cars that can drive themselves through busy streets. These were just some of the cutting-edge technologies on display at the Hart Senate Office Building last week as the National Science Foundation (NSF) presented a luncheon briefing and open house for Senate members and their staff on cyber-physical systems (CPS), an emerging technological field
that ...
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:40:26 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Classifying "Clicks"
A new way to classify sounds in some human languages may solve a problem that has plagued linguists for nearly 100 years--how to accurately describe click sounds distinct to certain African languages.
Cornell University professor Amanda Miller and her colleagues recently used new high-speed, ultrasound imaging of the human tongue to precisely categorize sounds produced by the N|uu language speakers of southern Africa's Kalahari Desert. The research potentially could ...
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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:43:29 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Congressional Briefing on Capitol Hill: Energy Storage
Congressional Briefing on Capitol Hill: Energy Storage
On July 16, Discover Magazine's noontime, congressional briefing series examines how wind and solar energy storage could play a key role in dramatically changing the nation's energy infrastructure. Top experts address the major challenges facing alternate energy storage technologies and how close the nation is to achieving a critical breakthrough.
These congressional briefings are open to the press. The National Science Foundation, IEEE-USA, and ASME jointly host the briefing with ...
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