Sudoku, Biorobotics & Aeronautical Genius

An IEEE Spectrum Radio Program

IEEE Spectrum Radio
23 minutes, 10.6mb, recorded 2005-10-01

In this collection of short features from IEEE Spectrum Radio, discover how computers are helping create Sudoku puzzles. Finding a solution, and rating the puzzle for difficulty is extremely subjective, and takes humans an inordinate amount of time: computers make creating, solving and rating puzzles many times quicker.

In a talk with Jacob Rosen, find out how advanced electronics are making it possible to equip the elderly and disabled with exoskeletons that help them walk, climb stairs and carry heavy objects. Advances in technology have similarly enabled scientists to study the aeronautic wizardry of the common housefly, leading to new designs for micro air vehicles.

But technology has also helped us make sense of all of our data. At a Microsoft research center in Cambridge, England, engineers have been working on MyLifeBits - helping people cope with the oversupply of data in their lives. The goal is what they call CARP, the continuous archiving of personal experiences.

This program was originally broadcast on IEEE Spectrum Radio.


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