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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Guatemalan Archives May Help Locate Missing
January 31, 2007 Thousands of people in Guatemala's capital city went missing during the bloody civil war. The discovery and investigation of a massive archive of police documents may reveal what happened to many of those people.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Storm Victims' Remains Exhumed in Guatemala
January 30, 2007 A little more than a year after Hurricane Stan devastated the Mayan village of Panabaj, a forensics group is working to exhume and identify the remains of victims buried in a mudslide caused by the storm.
Monday, January 29, 2007
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January 29, 2007 An estimated 200,000 people were killed in Guatemala's decades-long civil war, and an additional 100,000 "disappeared." One group of forensic anthropologists is using technology to help the country come to terms with its past.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Friday, December 22, 2006
Monday, November 13, 2006
Tech Solutions to Iraqi-U.S. Language Barrier
November 13, 2006 Part of the daily struggle for soldiers and Marines in Iraq is communicating with civilians. Few military personnel have enough fluency with Iraqi Arabic to be easily understood, and translators are in short supply. But small, hand-held devices may help close that communications gap.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Spotting Irate Customers with 'Emotion Detection'
November 7, 2006 A high-tech company called NICE systems has developed software that records calls and listens for emotional signals that the call is going badly. It could be valuable to Fortune 500 companies, because it would help them spot problems in customer support and improve their service.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Monday, October 30, 2006
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
A Digital 3-D Brain Map Breakthrough
September 26, 2006 Researchers at the Paul Allen Brain Institute — thanks to a $100 million donation from the Microsoft co-founder — celebrated the completion of a new digital atlas of the mouse brain, an achievement that will likely lead to a greater understanding of how the human brain works.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Jigsaw's Data Mining Sparks Privacy Debate
September 14, 2006 A San Francisco data-mining business called Jigsaw Data is paying people to hand over the details of their Rolodexes, and then makes that information available on the Web to its customers. But the practice treads on what many consider basic business etiquette.
Friday, August 11, 2006
Tradition vs. Change in 'Lhasa Vegas'
August 11, 2006 Tourists to Lhasa, the ancient heart of Tibetan Buddhism, might find two very different cities — one unchanged by centuries and still clinging to tradition, the other modernizing rapidly along with neighboring China.
Thursday, August 10, 2006
A Wireless Network for 'Little Lhasa'
August 10, 2006 The volunteers building the "mesh" network in Dharamsala are linking an ancient culture to the modern world on the cheap, using recycled computers and piggybacking on existing towers — even Buddhist and Hindu temples are sporting antennas.
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Connecting Tibet's Exile Community via the Web
August 9, 2006 Two full generations of Tibetans have grown up outside their native land, but the expatriate community remains close-knit and many still dream of returning to a country free of Chinese domination. Until then, they are embracing the Web as a key to their future.
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
The Gaddi People of Dharamsala
August 8, 2006 The nomadic Hindu tribe has dwelled in the shadows of the Himalayas in Northern India for countless generations. Before Tibetan refugees and Western tourists arrived, they were the dominant ethnic group — but as development looms, their culture is changing.
