Eugene Barsky
Eugene Barsky is a Science and Engineering Librarian at the University of British Columbia and is a liaison for:
* Computer Science
* Engineering Physics
* Integrated Science
* Mathematics
* Mining Engineering
* Pulp and Paper
* Science One
* Statistics
* Wood Science
Microsoft Demonstrates Universal Translator.
By Eugene Barsky on March 13, 2012
From ASEE First Bell: Popular Science (3/13, Dillow) reports, “Microsoft Research labs has demoed a new prototype software that could be the next big step toward a so-called ‘universal translator’ device, one that can instantly flip one language into another and back again so a conversation can be carried on between two people even when [...]
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Is the World Tottering on the Precipice of Peak Gold? An excellent article in this week Science
By Eugene Barsky on March 2, 2012
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6072/1038.full?rss=1 Seventeen-hundred-dollar-an-ounce gold is driving a mining frenzy, but analysts are concerned that miners can’t extract gold any faster than they have the past decade.
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‘Do-Not-Track’ Browser Button will be available in Chrome
By Eugene Barsky on February 23, 2012
From Advertising Age: Google Inc. will allow a “do-not- track” button to be embedded in its Web browser, letting users restrict the amount of data that can be collected about them. The world’s most popular search engine is joining other Web companies to support the anti-tracking initiative, which prevents an individual’s browsing history from being [...]
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Google’s augmented-reality smart eyeglasses
By Eugene Barsky on February 22, 2012
Google announced yesterday that before the end of 2012, you will be able to buy augmented-reality smart eyeglasses from the search giant. The Android-powered glasses will have an onboard camera that monitors in real time what you see as you walk (or, heavens preserve us, drive) down the street. The lenses will then overlay information [...]
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By the Numbers – From the last issue Science
By Eugene Barsky on February 16, 2012
3769.3 Meters that a Russian team of scientists drilled through Antarctic ice to reach the surface of subglacial Lake Vostok on 5 February (see p. 788). 92 Percentage of the world’s total freshwater consumption each year attributed to agriculture, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. $333,000 Amount in [...]
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Google Awarded Patent For Autonomous Vehicle.
By Eugene Barsky on December 16, 2011
From ASEE Daily briefing: BBC News (12/16) reports, “A US patent for self-driving cars has been awarded to Google.”
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David Lowe wins the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) “Test of Time” Award
By Eugene Barsky on November 24, 2011
From UBC CS blog: David Lowe from UBC Computer Science wins the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) “Test of Time” Award for his 1999 paper “Object Recognition from Local Scale-Invariant Features“. The award was presented at the ICCV conference in Barcelona on November 2011.
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Top 20 Nations in Mathematics; January 1, 2001-June 30, 2011 – We are #7
By Eugene Barsky on November 1, 2011
Canada is #7… From the Essential Science Indicators database from Thomson Reuters. Top 20 Nations in Mathematics; January 1, 2001-June 30, 2011
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Engineering Failures – Leaning Big Ben and Co.
By Eugene Barsky on October 24, 2011
From today Economist‘s blog: THE British Parliament’s Clock Tower (more commonly known as Big Ben) is leaning north-west by 0.26 degrees, or 17 inches (43.5cm), according to documents that were recently made public. But Big Ben isn’t alone; architects have been correcting the Leaning Tower of Pisa since the 1170s when it was still being [...]
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Stanford Researcher Explains How Google’s Self-Driving Vehicle Works.
By Eugene Barsky on October 20, 2011
From ASEE daily briefing: Popular Science (10/20, Kane) reports, “Sebastian Thrun, a Stanford professor and head of the project, and Google engineer Chris Urmson, delivered a keynote speech at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in San Francisco, explaining how the” Google’s self-driving fleet of Priuses work. “The ‘heart of the system’ [...]
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