Archive for the ‘Computing’ Category
Friday, November 30th, 2012
More than half of existing medical devices depend on software in one form or another, either as an embedded system in the finished device or during its manufacture, according to development testing company Coverity (Camberley, UK). While software drives advances in medical technology, it also creates risk, especially as it ...
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Thursday, June 21st, 2012
Medtech legal specialist and blogger Erik Vollebregt has a bone to pick with the Economist. On his medicaldeviceslegal blog, Vollebregt takes issue with an article on the use of open source software in medical devices that was published in the Economist Technology Quarterly (Q2, 2012).
The article initially summarises the benefits ...
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
Multiple parameters affect the ways in which a liquid interacts with a surface. To get a handle on those quasi-infinite possibilities, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM in Freiburg, Germany, have developed simulation software that predicts how liquids will behave on flat, curved or structured surfaces ...
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
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Psykologifabriken and Hoa's Tool Shop, two Swedish companies, will hold what they say is the world's first Health Hack Day in May in Stockholm. The event aims to make developers aware of the many opportunities in creating apps ...
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Friday, July 1st, 2011
Gaming is not synonymous with a healthy lifestyle . . . yet. Sam Guillaumé, CEO of Movea, has a vision of game consoles becoming, if not all-encompassing home-based health monitors, at least effective weapons in the fight against childhood obesity. Movea combines sensors, which it sources from suppliers, with its ...
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Thursday, May 12th, 2011
Motion control specialist Thomson wants to improve your smartphone's IQ. The company has introduced the EngineersCALC app, which contains four different, frequently used calculation programmes that support machine and positioning system designers and engineers.
EngineersCALC allows users to quickly convert figures from one unit of measurement to another, determine the inertia ...
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Thursday, May 5th, 2011
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Described as the biggest breakthrough in microprocessor design in more than 50 years, transistors using a 3-D structure have been developed by Intel Corp. and will be put into high-volume manufacturing. The Tri-Gate ...
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
The approach that enabled IBM's supercomputer Watson to defeat Jeopardy stars has been used to create Artemis, a software to monitor babies in the intensive care unit. Researchers at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology developed the software, which is currently being tested at the Hospital for Sick Children ...
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Friday, February 18th, 2011
Trouncing two human opponents on the televised US quiz show Jeopardy was, well, elementary for Watson, the IBM supercomputer endowed with Deep Question Answering (QA) software. The impressive and slightly troubling machine is moving on to more consequential challenges. IBM and Nuance Communications Inc. have announced a research agreement to ...
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Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
Hagiwara Sys-Com, a Nagoya-based manufacturer of industrial and consumer flash memory applications, will launch its first virus protection device for medical equipment next month in the United States. Powered by McAfee, Hagiwara’s stand-alone antivirus USB detects and eliminates stealth computer viruses on medical devices as well as industrial systems.
“Medical devices ...
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
A trans-Atlantic partnership between Canada’s National Research Council Institute for Biodiagnostics (NRC-IBD) and Switzerland’s Schmid & Partner Engineering AG (SPEAG) has produced a new software platform for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner design. The platform reportedly seamlessly integrates new tools for radio-frequency (RF) array design and postprocessing. Described as the ...
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Friday, April 16th, 2010
Medical device engineers seeking to improve the use of the processing power of multicore computer systems and migrate existing applications to multi-processor architectures can download the new NAG library for SMP and multicore processors from Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG). Mathematical and statistical algorithms optimised for performance on multicore architectures have become key ...
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