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Rice University’s Richards-Kortum, Vardi elected to National Academy…

Bioengineer, computer scientist join elite list of dual-academy members [caption id="attachment_4184" align="alignright" width="224"] Rebecca Richards-Kortum[/caption] HOUSTON – Rice University bioengineer Rebecca Richards-Kortum and computer scientist Moshe Vardi have joined the elite group of scientists elected to both…

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European space agencies inaugurate altered-gravity aircraft

[caption id="attachment_4178" align="alignright" width="625"] Parabolic flight aircraft A310[/caption] ESA, France’s space agency CNES and the German aerospace centre DLR inaugurated the Airbus A310 ZERO-G refitted for altered gravity by running 12 scientific experiments this week.…

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Object recognition for free

System designed to label visual scenes according to type turns out to detect particular objects, too. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Object recognition — determining what objects are where in a digital image — is a central research…