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UBC Computer Science’s Joanna McGrenere, Dinesh Pai, Alla Sheffer Awarded NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements

By Eugene Barsky on April 10, 2012

The Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS) Program provides  substantial and timely resources to a small group of researchers  whose research proposals suggest and explore high-risk, novel or  potentially transformative concepts and lines of inquiry, and are  likely to have impact by contributing to groundbreaking advances. https://www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2012/04/joanna-mcgrenere-dinesh-pai-alla-sheffer-awarded-nserc-discovery-accelerator-supplement

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Outstanding Presentation Award at this year’s Applied Power Electronics Conference.

By Eugene Barsky on April 4, 2012

ECE PhD candidate wins APEC outstanding presentation award Deepak S. Gautam, a PhD student in power electronics from computer and electrical engineering, received an Outstanding Presentation Award at this year’s Applied Power Electronics Conference. In the poster Deepak describes a novel zero voltage switching full-bridge converter with trailing edge pulse width modulation and capacitive output [...]

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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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‘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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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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MOLECULAR PROGRAMMING DNA and the brain

By Eugene Barsky on July 28, 2011

An article in Nature by a UBC CS professor – Anne Condon – http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v475/n7356/full/475304a.html

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Transparent Battery Could Bring Us to See-Through Phones.

By Eugene Barsky on July 26, 2011

From the ASEE daily update – First Bell: On its website, MSNBC (7/26, Roach) reports, “Imagine a smartphone that looks like a piece of clear plastic, lighting up to display contacts, a game, the weather, or email from a friend. That future may be upon us thanks to a new, transparent and flexible lithium-ion battery.” [...]

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Los Alamos National Laboratory Employees Working On Preserving Webpages.

By Eugene Barsky on July 18, 2011

From ASEE’s daily update: The Washington Post (7/18, de Vise) reports that Michael Nelson, a computer science professor at Old Dominion University in Virginia, “and some colleagues at Old Dominion and the Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a sort of Internet time machine called Memento” that lets users “search for a Web site as [...]

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