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GPS finds new crowd-control and medical applications By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
06/06/2010 06:44

A Hebrew University researcher has shown that GPS can control crowds or the movement of shoppers, and even evaluatE patient recovery after surgery. Global positioning systems (GPS) have become commonplace to help drivers reach their destinations using satellites. But a young Hebrew University of Jerusalem researcher has shown that GPS can have other uses as well, such as controlling crowds or the movement of shoppers, and even evaluating patient recovery after surgery.

Michal Isaacson, a doctoral student working with Dr. Noam Shoval of HU’s geography department, has been involved in developing new approaches for the use of advanced tracking technologies. Her work has implications for understanding the activity of people in different settings, such as urban areas, shopping malls, theme parks, national parks and other tourist attractions. It has already been tested to evaluate crowd activity and flow at Spain’s Port Aventura theme park.   

For her research, Isaacson has been named the first-prize winner among students in this year’s competition for HU’s Kaye Innovation Awards at the Hebrew University.  The prizes will be presented on June 9 at the university’s Board of Governors meeting. Her work in this field has resulted in a book coauthored with Dr. Shoval and in several articles published in leading geographic journals. The first article she coauthored, published in The Professional Geographer, was noted by the journal as one of the top five most-cited articles in 2006 to 2007.

The system she and Shoval have developed uses GPS technology to record the location of people for a designated period of time. During this period, participants are required to carry a small GPS unit with them. The tracking data is then analyzed using a computerized, time/space analysis engine, to derive maps that indicate the volumes of activity throughout the location and charts that indicate how different types of populations spent their time in the location.

The data obtained using tracking technologies can also be analyzed in real time, creating virtual “radar” of the activity of visitors throughout a destination. Real-time analysis can lead to dynamic management of attractions in a more efficient way, both expanding the number of people that can visit an attraction within a given time frame and controlling their flow to promote sales. The analysis of this data can also change the way attractions are planned, and enable effective planning of future additions to an attraction.

The technology also has far-reaching medical applications, they say. In collaboration with Dr. Yair Barzilay of the HU-Hadassah Medical School and Hadassah University Medical Center’s orthopedic surgery unit, a method was developed for detecting the mobility of patientsafter surgery as an objective measure for their recovery and well-being. The patients carry a GPS unit with them after the operation, tracking their movements, which are then analyzed. Future development will integrate additional sensors that will allow the combination of GPS data with physiological data, such as heart rate and blood pressure.

The system was recently licensed through Yissum, HU’s technology transfer company, to Location Based Intelligence Inc., a US company, for further development and commercialization in the medical arena. Defining the potential market for this invention in the field of medical application is difficult at this stage, mainly because this product is creating a new market.

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Heres THE JOKE: "And the standardization and unlimited bandwidth that are coming won’t be used just for a faster Facebook connection; it will be used for things that really count, like delivering energy to far-flung parts of the world, cheaply and safely." THE PUNCHLINE: "When that happens, he ( Alon Ben-Zur, CEO of By...net) says, you’ll be able to stay where you are, and you won’t need to conquer the resources of others to fuel your economy." <<< From Jerusalem Post. Man... they can be dropping white phosphorous while humming kumbaya. Its nearly its own psychiatric disorder. They are capable of holding two opposing thoughts in their head at the same time with no dissonance whatsoever. Its INSANE.


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Digital World: The end of days – coming to a PC near you By DAVID SHAMAH
05/17/2010 21:38

From Jerusalem Post

"Computing power will be such that you’ll be able to have all the resources you need in one place." Talkbacks (5) var artID = document.URL.split('id='); showInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame('396242, 401831, 401889, 401989, 401877, 401914, 401946, 402019', artID[1], 290, 0);   If anyone is in a position to know where the Israeli hi-tech industry is going – indeed, where the entire computer and Internet world is going – it’s Alon Ben-Zur, CEO of Bynet, Israel’s largest integrator of computer technology and services. And, he says, we’re on the verge of the “third wave” of the computer revolution – a revolution that in just five years will completely change the way we work with and even think about computers.

“It’s like the biblical ‘end of days,’” Ben-Zur says. “Computing power will be such that you’ll be able to have all the resources you need in one place. Transportation will be streamlined, and things like power and food will be available for the same amount of money anywhere in the world.

“The result will be that there will be no need for countries to covet the possessions or resources of others, since there will be plenty for everyone, and there will be no need for anyone to invade the space of others. Thus, ‘Nation shall not lift sword against nation.’”

It sounds fantastic, the naive vision of a facile optimist. But as chairman of a company that works with Israel’s largest software, hardware, Internet, telecommunication and software companies, Ben-Zur knows first-hand of the marvelous inventions and developments on the drawing boards and in the workshops of hi-tech companies. Last week at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds, Ben-Zur and Bynet treated thousands of visitors to the annual Bynet Expo, which gathers dozens of Israel’s largest hi-tech companies under one roof to show off their wares and innovations.

For those who worked in the computer industry abroad and wistfully remember the computer shows of old – floor shows, T-shirts, key chains, “drop your business card in the box to win a laptop” contests, a free lunch – Bynet Expo is as close as you’re going to get in Israel!

But of course, the main attraction at the show was the technology, of which there was much to see – too much for the day allocated to it. While there were numerous lectures and discussions on innovations in many areas of thecomputer industry, the main attraction, as always at such shows, was the booths set up by the biggest hi-tech companies in Israel and many from abroad, including Cisco, IBM, Polycom, Audiocodes and Radware.

Among the many things coming to a computer store near you is a better, faster way to do videoconferencing – in 3-D! That’s courtesy of a new generation of video transmission perfected by Radvision (a member of the RAD group, along with Bynet), called scalable video coding (SVC), which helps correct video-transmission errors and enables superior forward-error correction (i.e., anticipating when there is going to be packet loss and preparing for it) and faster transmission, with fewer bottlenecks. The transmission, coupled with superior 3-D renderingsoftware , enables users to have as realistic a video-communications experience as possible, even from halfway across the world. And of course, no glasses are necessary.

According to Radvision’s Moshe Machline, the system is good enough for the company, which was able to save nearly $1.5 million last year by enabling conferees to “meet” by video, instead of flying to meetings.

“Eye contact is very important at meetings,” he says. “You miss a lot of the nuances on the screen, and that is one major thing that has held up adoption ofvideoconferencing. But with 3-D videoconferencing, you can get a much better ‘read’ on everyone in the room, just as if you were actually there.”

The Radvision solution is sold by Bynet as part of a full videoconferencing solution.

Or take security, an area that – unfortunately, in this period when the “end of days” has not quite yet arrived – is still at the top of our agenda. Along with advances in video surveillance, Bynet partners have developed various technologies that enables the company to offer a unique solution for border patrols, police and other law-enforcement agents: a communication system capable of transmitting live, real-time video, data and voice communications via a single broadband connection, using a fast, secure and private network.

The key to the system is the high-speed wireless network, which allows fast transmission of high-resolution video and audio without any effort required on the part of the driver; the vehicle continues on its rounds or pursues a suspect, and the camera focuses, with an individual in the control center able to enhance the picture to see inside a vehicle even hundreds of meters away. Again, SVC and video correction and enhancement techniques are used, so observers get a full, uninterrupted view of the action. The network enables full transmission of the data with no bottlenecks.

And although the deployment of these technologies would seem to have little to do with the good and bountiful future Ben-Zur sees, he says the technologies that are being built today for prosaic and workday needs will be the technology that supplies the future change.

“We’re coming into a period where there are going to be unlimited digital resources,” Ben-Zur says. “The bottlenecks that have prevented us from doing what we want are being eliminated, just as the problems of storage and standards were eliminated in earlier periods. Once we get used to working with these resources, new uses for them will be developed – all of them making life easier.”

And the standardization and unlimited bandwidth that are coming won’t be used just for a faster Facebook connection; it will be used for things that really count, like delivering energy to far-flung parts of the world, cheaply and safely. When that happens, he says, you’ll be able to stay where you are, and you won’t need to conquer the resources of others to fuel your economy.

“When everything is available to everyone for a reasonable price and computers are doing most of the work – you have the building blocks for universal peace,” Ben-Zur says. It’s a vision even the most computer-phobic can embrace.

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Tolerance???

http://www.destinationisrael.com/escape/landing1.asp?gclid=CL6L3sLpvp4CFQk75QodY3Nunw

"Jewish people only" <<< DEAD SERIOUS

Yes indeed, you two can infringe upon another peoples land on the basis of religious fantasy cradled by global apathy... all under the convenient guise of enhancing ones knowledge of fascism and volunteering for social causes like... working in hotels frequented by American tourists, land aquisitions, killing Palestinian kids for throwing rocks at you for taking everything they own while pretending your shit dont stink... 

But remember its for Jewish people only (i.e. Not arabs, native americans, blacks, or whites). Only Jews can come and experience Israel in all its progressiveness and tolerance... Yes indeed!!! You to can be a covert imperialist!!!

Israel welcomes you to visit our fabulous secret nuclear facilities, our crumby old wall that our religious quackery slobbers over daily, dont forget our American dual citizenry, and last and least the native inhabitants (terrorists and anti-semites) that we keep caged behind barbwire and concrete walls (an adrenaline rushing spectacle for your convenience!!!), they await your stealing the few jobs that they are allowed to work.

Fox news and its zionist comrads are promoting a new Israeli website that offers a personality report based on a modern day facial phrenology. The website takes one of your pictures and compares it to its zionic database to assess your worth and potential as a human being in the context of its value system.

The website claims 90% accuracy in its personality inductions. Then again so does your weekly horoscope (or someone elses used on yourself)...

This news report didnt fall short of injecting the usual Fox News propaganda by analyzing the facial features of Ahmadinejad and Obama who not suprisingly both sport nefarious wears, however 2 fox news reporters also analyzed show favourable characteristics! Who would have thunk it!!!