The popular social networking site, Facebook, is unveiling new facial recognition technology that they are integrating with Facebook Photos. They announced this coincidentally the same day that their founder, Mark Zuckerberg was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. This feature, known as Tag Suggestions, will group faces together when uploading photos, and automatically suggest…
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In light of this holiday season, the University of Hertfordshire has conducted a study on gift giving. The focus of this study was determining whether or not gift givers could tell whether or not a recipient liked a present just by looking at their facial expressions and nonverbal behavior. Dr. Karen Pine, a Professor of…
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Two high school juniors from Oregon have won $100,000 in the 2010 Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology. Disabilityscoop website reported commented on the students’, Akash Krishnan and Matthew Fernandez, computer analysis program that helps distinguish among five emotions from the recording of the human voice. Their project “The Recognition of Emotion in Human Speech”…
Read MoreLeBron James Bumps Coach Erik Spoelstra
Miami Heat forward LeBron James may have been a little upset during a timeout during his team’s November 27th game against the Dallas Mavericks. During the third quarter of the basketball match, LeBron bumped into coach Erik Spoelstra while walking to the bench. A complete description of the confrontation is given in detail at the…
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