Artificial Intelligents
Researchers in Germany are working on a facial recognition software that could be used by retailers to track their customers' shopping habits.
Stiefelhagen is among a group of researchers at the Institute for Anthropomatics at the University of Karlsruhe who are working in the area of artificial intelligence and the learning capacity of machines. He and eight colleagues are developing the facial-recognition software that recognises, finds and sorts faces.
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Atom smasher closing in on 'God particle'
The world's biggest atom smasher has scaled up in power even faster than hoped for and may soon unlock some of the universe's deepest secrets, scientists at a top physics conference said.
Quarks
One goal of the massive 3.9 billion euro ($5.6 billion) machine is to affirm or disprove the so-called Standard Model.
Experiments at the Tevatron's Fermilab in the US have found most of the tiny and ephemeral matter predicted to exist by the theory, including a family of particles called quarks.
The heaviest among them, known as the "top quark," is so fleeting that it only exists for a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second before turning into something else.
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