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Jarek Rossignac, professor in the School of Interactive Computing, developed Surgem, an interactive geometric modeling environment that allows surgeons to use both hands and natural gestures in 3D to grab, pull, twist and bend a 3D computer representation of a patient's anatomy. Source: Reuters

Alexander Gray, assistant professor in Computational Science and Engineering, has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for his project, "Scalable Machine Learning for Astrostatistics." Source: Office of Communications

In a Q&A-style interview, Professor Ron Arkin of Interactive Computing talks about his work with the U.S. Army to develop autonomous robots for military use. Arkin explains the "ethical adaptor," modeled on human feelings of guilt, that theoretically would allow the machine to make ethical decisions in the heat of battle. Source: CNET News