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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Robots Jacob Whitehill at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering has demonstrated a proof of concept that allows his facial expressions to speed-up and slow-down video playback. Pretty sweet. But we're more interested to hear that his project is part of a larger effort at the UCSD Machine Perception Lab (gulp) to use automated face recognition to "make robots more effective teachers." We can see the future now... Human: (frowning) Robot: Aw, my meat bag is sad, I will now give it a hamburger and turn on Golden Girls. Fortunately, human teachers who've somehow missed out on the billions of years of biologically evolution required to recognize the "oh face" can take advantage of this research as well. See a video demonstration of that after the break, face-controlled video here.Continue reading Expression recognition turns humans into remote controls... for robotsRead | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Journalist and UC Berkeley professor Mark Danner chides the Bush Administration for what he sees as its poor record on torture and human rights. A panel discussion follows to complete the 2006 DeWitt Higgs Memorial Lecture event, sponsored by Earl Warren College at UC San Diego. [Public Affairs]

While serving as Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc. from 1995 to 2005, Norman Pearlstine confronted some of the most vexing issues in journalism today. In this talk, Pearstine describes the court case history that informed his decision to instruct Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper to cooperate with the grand jury that eventually indicted Scooter Libby, then the top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney. Pearlstine is presented by the Helen Edison Lecture Series, sponsored by UC San Diego's Extended Studies and Public Programs. [Public Affairs]