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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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He went on to earn a master's degree in computer science in 2008, also from Loyola. Akhtar and Nguyen flew to Quito, Ecuador, to test their product on Juan Suquillo, who lost his left hand during a 1979 border war between Ecuador and Peru. "I loved everything about engineering, programming, and building things," he says. "I

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A New Olympics Event: Algorithmic Video Surveillance

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The more data you collect, the more danger there is in the future that that data can end up in the public or in the wrong hands,” Cirio says. Indeed, after China’s 2008 Olympics, Ecuador and other countries with mixed human rights records purchased surveillance equipment based on systems displayed at the 2008 Olympics.

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