Sperm-hybrid micromotors: on-board assistance for nature’s bustling swimmers

Conversational speech systems for on-board car navigation and assistance

This paper describes our latest efforts in building a speech recognizer for operating a navigation system through speech instead of typed input. Compared to conventional speech recognition for navigation systems, where the input is usually restricted to a fixed set of keywords and keyword phrases, complete spontaneous sentences are allowed as speech input. We will present the interaction of spe...

Hybrid Intelligence for Driver Assistance

We report on our on-going effort to build an adaptive driver support system, Driver AdvocateTM, merging various AI techniques, in particular, agents, ontology, production systems and machine learning technologies. The goal of DA is to help drivers have a safer, more enjoyable, and more productive driving experience, by managing their attention and workload. This paper describes the overall arch...

Hybrid System for Driver Assistance

In the past four Years, Road Traffic Injuries (RTI) ranked fourth among the leading cause of death. Nearly 1.3 million people die every year on the world’s roads and 20 to 50 million people suffer non-fatal injuries, with many sustaining a disability as a result of their injury. However, active safety systems like ABS (Anti−lock Braking System) and ESP (Electronic Stability Program) offer possi...

The National Assistance Board in Action

Bustling argon: biological effect

Argon is a noble gas in group 18 of the periodic table. Certificated to exist in air atmosphere merely one century ago, discovery of argon shows interesting stories of researching and exploring. It was assumed to have no chemical activity. However, argon indeed present its biological effect on mammals. Narcotic effect of argon in diving operation and neur-protective function of argon in cerebra...