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...also prestigious, giving Japan's big technology companies a global showcase for their cutting-edge research capabilities. Honda devoted millions of dollars towards the development of its first walking humanoid ASIMO "with no hope of direct commercial success," says Noel Sharkey, a robotics professor at the University of Sheffield. The exercise both "shows that they are technological leaders," Sharkey says, and gives Honda a chance to "reward the very best engineers in the company by placing them on the ASIMO team." (Read about robots in the U.S. army...
...prefrontal cortex may in fact represent truth-telling in some people. "There is a great deal of variation between the findings described, and, crucially, there is an absence of replication by investigators of their own findings," wrote Sean Spence, a well-respected deception researcher at the University of Sheffield, in a 2008 critique of 16 peer-reviewed articles describing the neural correlates of lying...
Pforzheimer House: Roger R. Fu, Kevin M. Jonke, Teresa A. Knickman, Paul Jeffrey R. Leopando, Karen R. Lovely, Jennifer J. Malin, Wangui M. Muigai, Boyce R. Owens, Julia L. Renaud, John M. Sheffield...
...World War II." Sorry. Wrong! He missed the small matter of Britain, Australia, Canada, South Africa, other Commonwealth countries, Free French, Poles and Russia. It is time that the American attitude of "If we are in it, we won it" died. After all, you are usually late. John Steers, SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND...
...guide, entitled A Tale of 7 Cities, is written by academics from the London School of Economics and piles praise on seven European cities for their recovery following the collapse of vital industries toward the end of the 20th century. The cities - Sheffield and Belfast in the U.K., Bremen and Leipzig in Germany, Turin in Italy, Bilbao in Spain, and Saint-Etienne in France - were all industrial behemoths of the 19th century. Belfast and Bremen thrived through shipbuilding. Many of the world's knives, blades and cutlery came from Sheffield. Turin was famous for its car manufacturer Fiat. But from...