FAU Engineering secures NIH grant to explore how the brain learns to ‘see’
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More than 12 million Americans experience visual impairments that limit independence and quality of life. This National Eye Institute grant will fund research on enhancing visual perceptual learning – the brain’s ability to detect subtle visual differences – by leveraging attention mechanisms to generalize improvements across the visual field. Using computational modeling, brain imaging, and neurochemical analysis, the project aims to advance vision rehabilitation, optimize training in visually demanding professions, and inform AI systems that learn and adapt like the human brain.
Security researchers have developed the first functional defense mechanism capable of protecting against “cryptanalytic” attacks used to “steal” the model parameters that define how an AI system works.
ITU’s Facts and Figures 2025 shows steady progress in connectivity, while highlighting gaps in quality and affordability
A new study by Boston University researchers offers a first-time look at populations living within 1.6 km (roughly a mile) of fossil fuel infrastructure across all stages of the supply chain. Published in Environmental Research Letters, the study estimates that 46.6 million people in the contiguous US live within about a mile of at least one piece of fossil fuel infrastructure. This represents 14.1% of the population.
Conventional borehole backfilling suffers from various technical limitations, making infrastructure demolition and renewal difficult. In an innovative development, researchers from Shibaura Institute of Technology have proposed a novel circulating mixing method that pumps backfill material from the bottom of boreholes with unprecedented uniformity throughout the entire depth. This technology can revolutionize urban construction and renewal projects, and disaster prevention and mitigation.