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		<title><![CDATA[A math lab in your cell phone]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=630]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[As most of us are using cell phones today, Israeli scientists have decided to put a math lab in your pocket. They developed a library of math modules which can be installed on almost cell phones available today. So you'll be able to see graphs or solve equations on your...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:27:18 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Using Flickr to edit your photos]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=629]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[What can you do with millions of images? Computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University CMU think you can use web images to add realism to your photos. For example, the goal of one of their projects, named 'Photo Clip Art,' is to insert new objects into existing photographs by querying...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:39:52 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Watching cities in 4D]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=627]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Computer scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Microsoft Research have developed 4D Cities, a software that shows the evolution of a city over time. New Scientist writes that you can see a city change in four dimensions. So far, the team has only modeled Downtown Atlanta by scanning...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:04:08 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/social+sciences.html"><![CDATA[Social Sciences]]></category>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/energy+%2526+environment.html"><![CDATA[Energy & Environment]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why do we trust established search engines?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=618]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The answer is simple: because we trust well-known brands more than others. Researchers from Penn State University PSU have integrated Google results pages into pages looking like coming from other search engines, such as Yahoo!, MSN Live Search or an in-house PSU search application. Then they asked a panel of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:29:42 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/social+sciences.html"><![CDATA[Social Sciences]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[People as an AI computing tool]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=617]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The tagging phenomenon started about 3 years ago, with people putting labels on their posts in their blogs or on their pictures or videos. Now, a researcher from the University of Southern California USC has discovered the newest AI computing tool: people. Computer scientist Kristina Lerman thinks that 'she has...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:21:18 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/social+sciences.html"><![CDATA[Social Sciences]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cataloguing marijuana's fingerprints]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=611]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When a police officer stops a car and finds marijuana under the driver's car seat, he has no idea where the marijuana comes from. But as Alaska Report recently wrote, he might be soon able to ask the marijuana itself. Scientists from the Alaska Stable Isotope Facility at the University...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:14:08 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/health+%2526+medicine.html"><![CDATA[Health & Medicine]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Interview: Motorola CTO Padmasree Warrior]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=604]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Padmasree Warrior is not an ordinary blogger. As Motorola's Chief Technology Officer CTO, she handles an R&D budget of about $4 billion and defines the technology strategy for more than 22,000 Motorola engineers all over the world. Despite her busy schedule, she started a very interesting blog in September 2006,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:49:30 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/wireless+%2526+telecom.html"><![CDATA[Wireless & Telecom]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Using virtual reality to prevent wildfires]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=599]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[University of Central Florida UCF researchers want to immerse people in a virtual wildfire to encourage them to invest in prevention. The UCF research team has developed an interactive virtual reality simulation of a wildfire spreading through Volusia County. Participants will receive $100 of real money to be immersed in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2007 09:38:56 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Digital privacy behind virtual walls]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=586]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Ubiquitous computing was the only subject discussed at the 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on May 13-16, 2007. As reports the National Post, in the future, everything will be a computer. As ultra small computers can now embedded in virtually everything, pervasive computing applications...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 09:47:47 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[From Platform Disturbia to Platform Utopia]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=584]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Padmasree Warrior is the CTO of Motorola, managing thousands of engineers, and is one of the most powerful women in business. She also writes an excellent blog, Bits at the Edge.In one recent entry, she wrote that the next decade is about the Mobile Revolution. She discusses the value of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 09:42:32 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Virtual police lineups]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=564]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In "Virtual becomes reality at Stanford," the San Francisco Chronicle looks at several projects using virtual reality to study how digital technologies can transformed human social interactions. One of these projects is a virtual police lineup where witnesses can view the suspects from any angle and in a virtual environment...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2007 09:07:46 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A really smart image search engine]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=532]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When you search for images on the Web, you use a search engine which relies on the text associated with the pictures -- and not on the images themselves. So the results are sometimes unsatisfactory. But this soon might change because engineers from UC San Diego UCSD have developed new...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:28:42 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/social+sciences.html"><![CDATA[Social Sciences]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Teaching nanoscience to the blind]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=530]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Nanoscale objects are much too small for us to see them. So, according to educators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, nanotechnology is a research field where blind students and sighted ones are equal. After all, "were all blind at the nanoscale," says a member of the educational team. Theyve built...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:58:42 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/social+sciences.html"><![CDATA[Social Sciences]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rebuilding George Washington]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=493]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[According to The Arizona Republic, American researchers have created realistic faces of George Washington by using 3-D scanning, forensics technology and software. They started by scanning a bust of the first U.S. President when he was 53 and developed a special software with the help of an anthropologist to build...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:49:44 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Computers mimicking the brain]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=487]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research have used a biological model to train a computer model to recognize objects in busy street scenes, such as cars or people. Their very innovative approach, which combines neuroscience and artificial intelligence with computer science, mimics how the brain functions to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:32:34 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Satellites unveil 2,000-year-old trails]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=455]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder) and at NASA have used satellites to track the movements of people living in the Arenal region of Costa Rica more than 2,000 years ago. Theyve also used video-game software to virtually fly above the footpaths taken by Central Americans between...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2007 10:20:04 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Are androids 'better' robots?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=445]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of Connection Science is dedicated to Android science. This special issue was co-edited by Karl MacDorman, in the Human-Computer Interaction program of the School of Informatics, Indiana University, and Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of the Intelligent Robotics Lab at Osaka University. As youll find out in "I, Robot;...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:00:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/karl+macdorman.html"><![CDATA[Karl MacDorman]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Who wrote that scientific paper?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=438]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[If your best friends name is Bill Gates, you probably have some difficulties to find him online using a search engine. Too many results will point to you to the richest man on the planet. In the scientific world, things can be even worse. Imagine a guy named John Doe...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:24:12 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mercedes wants to wake up sleepy drivers]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=424]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[According to various scientific studies, between 10 and 20 per cent of serious traffic accidents can be attributed to drowsiness and fatigue. In the U.S. alone, over 100,000 accidents are caused by driver fatigue every year, in which 1,500 people are killed and a further 71,000 injured. So Mercedes-Benz is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:37:36 -0800</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/roland+piquepaille.html"><![CDATA[Roland Piquepaille]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pearson's wiki business book]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=414]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Our world has certainly changed if Pearson, the publishing giant behind the Financial Times, Les Echos or Penguin Books, has decided to use a wiki to create a new business book. According to the Wall Street Journal in U.K.s Pearson Tests The Group Dynamic For a Wiki Book (paid registration...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:17:11 -0800</pubDate>
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