You Can Teach An Old Dog New Tricks. By Janice Wood Associate News Editor Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on September 27, 2012 You can teach an old dog new tricks, according to researchers at Dartmouth University. Graduate student Alex Schelgel, first author on a paper in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, notes that the brain continues to change — for the better — in adults, as long as the adult continues learning. The researchers are using the brain’s white matter to study brain function. While most people equate gray matter with the brain and its higher functions, such as sensation and perception, white matter, which makes up about half the brain by volume, serves as the brain’s communications network. The gray matter, with its densely packed nerve cell bodies, does the thinking, the computing, and the decision-making, the researchers said.
“This work is contributing to a new understanding that the brain stays this plastic organ throughout your life, capable of change,” Schlegel said. Source: Dartmouth College. Three Lessons of Successful Innovators. Teleportation with engineered quantum systems. A team of University of Queensland physicists has transmitted an atom from one location to another inside an electronic chip. The team, which includes Dr Arkady Fedorov and Dr Matthias Baur from UQ's ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems and the School of Mathematics and Physics, published its findings in Nature this month. Dr Fedorov said the team had achieved quantum teleportation for the first time, which could lead to larger electronic networks and more functional electronic chips.
"This is a process by which quantum information can be transmitted from one place to another without sending a physical carrier of information," Dr Fedorov said. "In this process the information just appears at the destination, almost like teleportation used in the famous science fiction series Star Trek. " Dr Fedorov said the key resource of quantum teleportation was a special type of correlation, called entanglement, shared between a sender and a receiver. Scene Reconstruction from High Spatio-Angular Resolution Light Fields.
Project Members Changil Kim (Disney Research Zurich)Henning Zimmer (Disney Research Zurich)Yael Pritch (Disney Research Zurich)Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research Zurich)Markus Gross (Disney Research Zurich) The images on the left show a 2D slice of a 3D input light field, a so called epipolar-plane image (EPI), and two out of one hundred 21 megapixel images that were used to construct the light field. Our method computes 3D depth information for all visible scene points, illustrated by the depth EPI on the right. From this representation, individual depth maps or segmentation masks for any of the input views can be extracted as well as other representations like 3D point clouds. Abstract This paper describes a method for scene reconstruction of complex, detailed environments from 3D light fields. [Press Release] Datasets This website provides the datasets including all the images and the results used in the paper. We provide the following as part of the datasets: Mansion Church Couch.
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