Brian Dipert

I devoted an airline flight [irony intended: keep reading] earlier this week to catching up on a cache of to-be-read publications, specifically some back issues of National Geographic. One of the many articles that I enjoyed, the September 2011 issue cover story, was entitled "The Daring Dream of Personal Flight". Here's what I found to

Last week, José Alvarez of Xilinx (whose recently published tutorial video I hope many of you have already auditioned) emailed me a heads-up on an online article titled "Make Computers See with SimpleCV — The Open Source Framework for Vision". Authored by Anthony Oliver, Chief Technology Officer at Ingenuitas, the writeup definitely piqued my interest.

A couple of weeks ago, I discussed a mesh networking system employing smartphones' cellular data links, which enabled vehicles to maximize gas mileage and minimize time spent sitting at red lights. Cars and trucks not only go, they also sometimes stop, specifically at parking spots. But finding an available and sufficient-sized spot is often a

In last Wednesday's writeup, I mentioned that PrimeSense was reportedly discussing integration of the company's gesture-based user interface technology within various manufacturers' televisions. PrimeSense's approach, with Microsoft's Kinect as its most visible implementation, is clearly an embedded vision case study. And presumably the focus of PrimeSense's pitch to TV folks is on UI control using

A writeup I saw a few days ago at Ars Technica admittedly left me feeling not particularly fine about our species. Titled "Umpires show ethnic bias in ball/strike calls—unless they're feeling watched", its subject matter is perhaps already obvious…focusing on Major League Baseball, it summarized a recently published research paper which concluded that "In its