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The Opposite of Green Is Purple?

The conventional understanding of opponent colors has red and green as one axis and yellow and blue on a second axis. This perceptual opponency is a result of the trichromatic nature of human color vision in combination with subsequent processing in the visual system. This red-green and yellow-blue opponency is...

Tags: SPIE, Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-03-21

Thousands of On-Line Observers Is Just the Beginning

Web-based or on-line experiments are still a relatively new research topic. Laboratory or highly controlled experiments are, for many reasons, the preferred methodology for visual experiments. However recent experiments suggest that on-line experiments have some unique properties and advantages that may in some cases outweigh or offset their disadvantages. This...

Tags: Experiment, SPIE, Productivity, Channel Management, Marketing

White papers 2009-03-21

Leading Engineering Specialist Helps Employees Collaborate in Real Time

SPIE helps 50,000 public and private sector customers' design, build, operate, and maintain their buildings and facilities. To deliver services effectively, employees need to collaborate with colleagues at 400 locations worldwide. SPIE has deployed Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 to enhance e-mail, voice mail and fax communications. In addition, it rolled...

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Colleague, SPIE, Fax, Corporate Communications, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2007-10-01

A More Aggressive Prefetching Scheme for Streaming Media Delivery Over the Internet

Efficient delivery of streaming media content over the Internet becomes an important area of research as such content is rapidly gaining its popularity. Many research works studied this problem based on the client-proxy-server structure and proposed various mechanisms to address this problem such as proxy caching and prefetching. While the...

Tags: Streaming Media, SPIE, Web Site Development, Internet, Web Technology, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2007-08-17

Additional Resources

Lasers detecting explosives from 20 meters away

Lasers detecting explosives from 20 meters awayBajeebersIt's amazing what people can do when they have a good enough reason.RE: Lasers detecting explosives from 20 meters awayAlso see the article on the SPIE Newsroom website "Novel method for remotely detecting explosives" using a pulsed UV laser, from MIT Lincoln Lab. http://spie.org/x24953.xml

Tags: laser

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

Collaborating in virtual environments

Engineers have been using collaborating tools in virtual reality environments for almost 20 years. Now, South Korean and Japanese researchers have tried to compare different experiences of users working together using the Virtual Dollhouse application where two people working together have to build a virtual dollhouse using virtual building blocks,...

Tags: Network, Environment, Object, Physics Law, Virtual Reality, Networking, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-05

Rebuilding George Washington

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...

Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Science &, Nature, Social Sciences

Blog posts 2007-02-18

Nortel Network Case Study: Comtesse du Barry

Headquartered in the Toulouse region of France, Comtesse du Barry is a leading producer and supplier of foie gras and other luxury foodstuffs to businesses and the consumer market. Its head office supports 25 boutiques throughout France and 44 franchise outlets. As a purveyor of quality food products to customers...

Tags: Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Food & Beverage, VOIP, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Manufacturing, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2007-01-01

Duden - Redewendungen 1.4 (Mobile)

Für wen Redewendungen wie Eulen nach Athen tragen, tote Hose, das Kind mit dem Bade ausschütten oder Spießruten laufen noch böhmische Dörfer sind, dem hilft der Duden Redewendungen weiter. Jetzt auch auf dem Handheld. Programm-Merkmale: Schnelle Suche über Anfangsbuchstaben Volltextsuche Ausspracheregeln in Lautschrift Angaben zur Grammatik Umfangreiche, leicht verständliche...

Tags: Mobile, AlphaSmart Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Marketing, Hardware

Software downloads 2004-09-13

Bush: Broadband for the people by 2007

Bush: Broadband for the people by 2007HYDROGEN alternative is a crock of poop - we already use Hydrogen!Why bother with Fuel Cells - just run the damn cars we already own on Hydrogen. Every car on the road today can be easily converted to hydrogen, most for less than $100...

Tags: Network technology, phone line, gasoline, hydrogen, broadband

Discussion threads 2004-04-26