Day archives: April 14th, 2008

From USA Today: The breadth of a smile can be measured by new technology from Japanese electronics and health care company Omron Corp. The software technology, shown to reporters Thursday, scans a video image to detect faces. It can find up to 100 faces in an image, according to Yasushi Kawamoto of Omron. “Okao Catch,” …

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From eWeek: A professor says he has only one girl in a computer science major class in 2008, down from 40 percent in 2000. What happened? eWEEK gets field experts to weigh in. While women hold 51 percent of professional jobs in the United States, they make up only 26 percent of the IT work …

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