Mimicking how the brain recognizes street scenes
At last, neuroscience is having an impact on computer science and artificial intelligence (AI). For the first time, scientists in Tomaso Poggio's laboratory at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT applied a computational model of how the brain processes visual information to a complex, real world task: recognizing the objects in a busy street scene. The researchers were pleasantly sur...Inner-city entrepreneurship isn't 'Easy Street,' but some are walking the walk
At a meeting in the church last week, Alder Michael McGee Jr. wanted to discuss a different type of angel "angel investors." These angels...GE Healthcare CT technology gets Wall Street Journal attention
in the Medical Device category of the publication's global Technology Innovation Awards. The annual awards recognize technological breakthroughs by...Vertical partnering: Street smarts for a tough marketplace
Disintermediation, outsourcing and globalization have changed the buying patterns of companies in many ways. The end user is playing an increasingly important role in the selection process and a clear trend is emerging toward acquiring solutions instead of products or equipment. Because IT departments are becoming less involved in companies' daily computing operations, which are often outsourced...Canadian Street Prostitutes Requests Protection
Though sex trade has been legalized in Canada the sex workers feel that the Canadian Law which does not allow the prostitutes to communicate in public for negotiating with their customers in public and does not allow to do sex business in their residence or on an rented flat.// The sex workers organization feels that the law will not help the sex workers as it makes them more vulnerable to brutal...Huge demand for high street chlamydia tests
Boots pharmacies have handed out over 6,000 chlamydia testing kits across London in the first month of a pilot scheme aimed at tackling the silent sex disease. It is part of the National // Chlamydia Screening Program which last year revealed as many as one in nine of 16-24 year-olds could have the disease. The trial was launched in November to encourage young people to be screened fo...Signature Campaign: Striking doctors take to the streets
Mumbai: The Doctors’ strike seems to be only intensifying, even after eight days//. Now resident doctors from hospitals have embarked on a public signature campaign at several railway stations in the city. Resident doctors in lab coats, representing their alma mater, were seen filling up railway stations to appeal to the public. Doctors from JJ hospital, KEM hospital, thronged the sta...Street-protesting Polish Nurses Threaten to Stay Put
Hundreds of Polish nurses who are seeking pay rises remained camped outside the prime minister's office on Monday, and warned they would stay put for weeks unless the government gives ground. The nurses first pitched camp on a grass verge opposite the government headquarters on June 19, in the wake of a demonstration by 4,500 medical workers. They have informed Warsaw...Shahnaz Hussain Takes Ayurveda to London's Harley Street
India's leading beautician Shahnaz Hussain has tied up with a partner in Harley Street - a street here known for private health care centres that are frequented by celebrities - and is introducing Ayurveda treatment for high-end clients. Hussain will enter into tie-up based on her franchise system with the LXiR Centre of Excellence on July 5. Starting Shahnaz Ayurveda on Harley Stre...