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...brain, and then to calibrate the computer accordingly. That, however, is a relatively easy tweak, no more complicated than customizing voice-recognition software to individual users. "It's really just a matter of refining the algorithms," says Chau. "We envision this at the very least as a preference detector that allows people to direct their own care...
...high light sensitivity of a detector like black silicon could allow patients to be subjected to less radiation during medical imaging, allowing physicians to produce better images with less damage to the patient’s health. Similarly, digital cameras with more sensitive lenses could capture better quality images in low-light situations, and the technology might enable the development of a cheap and effective night-vision device...
...Harvard team has been primarily concerned with the construction and operation of the ATLAS detector, a cylindrical component of the collider engineered to gather data about the particles that emerge when the machine smashes protons together at energies of 14 trillion electron volts, recreating conditions that may have prevailed only a trillionth of a second after the universe’s inception...
...Harvard team does not seem discouraged by the delay, saying that the malfunction was expected and will give them valuable time to do further research on how to improve their detector equipment...
...Since Ivins' death, his attorney, Paul Kemp, has repeatedly said he was innocent. He says Ivins cooperated fully with the FBI during two dozen interviews and passed at least two lie-detector tests. Kemp claims the FBI harassed his client for months, driving him into a spiral of alcohol and depression. Certainly, Ivins' last months were tortured. He was twice hospitalized for depression, once after one of his counselors said he had threatened to kill his co-workers. By then law-enforcement officials had searched his home, his computers, his cars, his safe-deposit box, his office...