CONSERVATIVE academics won't like it but they must break free of their intellectual silos and work together on the complex problems looming in the future.

LOS ANGELES----Image Metrics, the leading developer of performance-driven computer generated facial animation in video games and film, today announced that Dave Rolston, Ph.D., has joined its board of directors.

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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Arkansas researchers seeking new ways to make health care more efficient and cost-effective have built a new kind of hospital: one that uses location aware systems, sensors, smart devices, radio-frequency identification and

Imagine an attack by a swarm of armed micromachines ... or a bioweapon small enough to fit in a suitcase and deadly enough to destroy the human race. It's the stuff of Hollywood storylines, but to the U.S. government such plots are potentially very real