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Submission + - First Amputee in the world with a prosthetic hand wired to nerves (youtube.com)

Submitted by kalman5 on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @05:07PM

kalman5 writes: Dennis Aabo Sørensen is the first amputee in the world to feel sensory rich information — in real-time — with a prosthetic hand wired to nerves in his upper arm. Sørensen could grasp objects intuitively and identify what he was touching while blindfolded.
More (french) on: http://actu.epfl.ch/news/une-p...

Comment Os they use (Score 1) 282

by kalman5 on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @02:57PM (#36169400) Attached to: PSN Up, And Then Down Again

Out of curiosity, which OS are they running PSN on ?

Comment hammer - all nails (Score 2, Insightful) 444

by kalman5 on Sunday March 28, 2010 @04:25PM (#31649984) Attached to: Why Some Devs Can't Wait For NoSQL To Die

As soon people have an hammer on their hands, all the stuffs they see around are nails. The good IT worker is the one with different tools on his hands with the ability to choose the right one at the right time, and before you forget it remember that premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Comment Re:But how can you trust the results? (Score 1) 260

by kalman5 on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @07:01PM (#29890835) Attached to: Asus Releases Desktop-Sized Supercomputer

You will get a FFT on (2^20) Complex (float/float) on Xeon W5590 in 10 ms while using a C1060 in 1 ms

Comment Re:But how can you trust the results? (Score 1) 260

by kalman5 on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @06:59PM (#29890811) Attached to: Asus Releases Desktop-Sized Supercomputer

I will tell you then some data from real-workload. FFT on (1 10 ms C1060 -> 1 ms

Comment Re:But how can you trust the results? (Score 1) 260

by kalman5 on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @06:53PM (#29890763) Attached to: Asus Releases Desktop-Sized Supercomputer

Next NVIDIA GPU generation (Fermi architecture) will have more than 4GB addressable with ECC.

Comment That is not the best you can get (Score 1) 260

by kalman5 on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @06:39PM (#29890583) Attached to: Asus Releases Desktop-Sized Supercomputer

I have on my desktop a double socket W5590 with 4 Tesla C1060. You can get one of those systems from E4 in italy. http://www.e4company.com/

Comment Re:MySql (Score 1) 334

by kalman5 on Friday May 22, 2009 @03:07PM (#28057861) Attached to: Has MySQL Forked Beyond Repair?

And why you didn't test postgresq as well ?

Pentagon Seeks a New Generation of Hackers 134

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday May 22, 2009 @02:49PM from the just-give-them-places-to-play dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "Forbes reports on a new military-funded program aimed at leveraging an untapped resource: the population of geeky high school and college students in the US. The Cyber Challenge will create three new national competitions for high school and college students intended to foster a young generation of cybersecurity researchers. 'The contests will test skills applicable to both government and private industry: attacking and defending digital targets, stealing data, and tracing how others have stolen it. [...] The Department of Defense's Cyber Crime Center will expand its Digital Forensics Challenge, a program it has run since 2006, to include high school and college participants, tasking them with problems like tracing digital intrusions and reconstructing incomplete data sources. In the most controversial move, the SANS Institute, an independent organization, plans to organize the Network Attack Competition, which challenges students to find and exploit vulnerabilities in software, compromise enemy systems and steal data. Talented entrants may be recruited for cyber training camps planned for summer 2010, nonprofit camps run by the military and funded in part by private companies, or internships at agencies including the National Security Agency, the Department of Energy or Carnegie Mellon's Computer Emergency Response Team.'"

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