I worked with Cristi and this is his blog :) http://mitisorpoienaru.blogspot.com/

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2010, and a more personal touch

This is NOT a quote, just MY personal remark( the author of the blog). Even though at technology we keep improving, when it comes to human-nature nothing ever gets improvement. The human nature is some-how constant, the needs are the same, but we visualise at totally different . Honesty is a good quality, but even on quality people is missing :) . I understand the reasons, but when the truth is right in front of you, why bother lying?
Anyway, I start working again from January, doing research and development of software and equipment in the medical sector. It's very interesting and I'm learning a lot in the medical department, but also in software development in critical areas, such as this.
I feel this year is going to be a great year, despite it's prediction.
I wish you a great year, for 2010!

COMMERCIAL PROFILE - SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND: The Neonatal Brain Research Group has made great advances in detecting and monitoring newborn babies at risk of brain injury


http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/innovation/2010/0108/1224261838362.html

The most valuable machine you own may be between your ears. Work done at Microsoft Research is using electroencephalograph (EEG) measurements to “read” minds in order to help tag images. When someone looks at an image, different areas of their brain have different levels of activity. This activity can be measured and scientists can reasonably determine what the person is looking at. It only takes about half a second to read the brain activity associated with each image, making the EEG process much faster than traditional manual tagging. The “mind-reading” technique may be the first step towards a hybrid system of computer and human analysis for images and many other forms of data.

http://singularityhub.com/2010/01/10/reading-your-mind-to-tag-images-and-work-with-computers/

Consortium of European researchers, coordinated by the Computer Vision Centre (CVC) of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), has developed HERMES, a cognitive computational system consisting of video cameras and software able to recognise and predict human behaviour, as well as describe it in natural language. The applications of the Hermes project are numerous and can be used in the fields of intelligent surveillance, protection of accidents, marketing, psychology, etc.


http://www.uab.es/servlet/Satellite/latest-news/news-detail/new-computer-vision-system-for-the-analysis-of-human-behaviour-1096476786473.html?noticiaid=1263281686625

Software reveals the inner workings of the human genome

The approximately 30,000 genes discovered in the human genome are far fewer than the 50,000 to 140,000 scientists had expected to find. Furthermore, some simpler organisms have more genes—or proportionally more—than do humans. The rice genome contains 50,000 genes and the fly 14,000, to cite two examples.

http://www4.lehigh.edu/news/newsarticle.aspx?Channel=%2fChannels%2fNews%3a+2009-2010&WorkflowItemID=6e02d85f-3715-4afa-a8db-4cc52906a197

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2010/01/123_59116.html

So this is from the other, a nice song . I don't regret anything

Ellen's Speech

Motivational and inspiring, but also funny.