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Smithsonian November 2005 Douglas Chadwick |
35 Who Made a Difference: Daphne Sheldrick Since 1955, she has extended her kindness toward the wild animals of Africa, particularly orphans, the most helpless of all. |
PC Magazine August 27, 2003 Carol A. Mangis |
Face Time expressions found in today's games |
Technology Research News March 9, 2005 |
Pattern Recognition: Computers and Human Communications A computer's ability to track and interpret the types of input humans use to communicate - gestures, words and facial expressions - is not enough. Meaning is often conveyed by a combination of different types of sensory input. Words and gestures, for example, can go together to produce meaning that cannot be determined from simply examining the inputs separately. |
Popular Mechanics March 12, 2008 Erin McCarthy |
Super-Size Surgery at Next-Gen Zoo Could Halt Elephant Killings Utilizing fiberoptic instruments to permanently sterilize free-ranging elephants will help manage the population of elephants and prevent the need to kill them. |
Smithsonian December 2006 Eric Jaffe |
Mirror Image By exposing elephants to mirrors, scientists have spotted a hidden side of the giant creatures: the ability to recognize themselves. |
Technology Research News January 1, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Interface gets the point Researchers are working to untangle the relationships between prosody -- the loudness, pitch, and timing of speech -- and gestures in an attempt to improve the way computers recognize human gestures. |
Smithsonian December 2006 Owen Edwards |
Beard's Eye View When elephants began dying, Peter Beard suspected that poachers were not entirely to blame. |