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Technology News Highlights 2004 p3 of 3:

• Scripps-PARC Institute unveils early cancer-detection system
  MAY 21--The Palo Alto Research Center (www.parc.xerox.com), a subsidiary of Xerox Corporation, and The Scripps Research Institute have formed the Scripps-PARC Institute for Advanced Biomedical Studies with the intent to accelerate discovery processes in the life sciences.
• Braintech adds 2.5-D vision-guidance technology to ABB robots
  MAY 20--Braintech Inc. (www.braintech.com) has announced the availability of its Inferential Depth Measurement technology.
• Berkeley Lab physicists develop way to digitally restore and preserve audio recordings
  MAY 10--US Library of Congress-sponsored research will help Berkeley Lab (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California; www.lbl.gov) physicists digitize audio data encoded in the hill-and-valley surface of Edison wax cylinders.
• Machine vision to be used to automate cotton gins
  APRIL 20--A scientist at the US Agricultural Research Service (www.ars.usda.gov) has developed a patented machine-vision system for automating cotton gins.
• New PCI-only version of PC/104 form factor enables increased functionality
  MARCH 24--The PC/104 Embedded Consortium (San Francisco, CA; www.pc104.org) has introduced the PCI-104 specification.
• Electronic device standards to yield choicer chop
  MARCH 17--Increasingly, meat processors use electronic devices and equipment--such as optical probes, ultrasonic sensors, and digital cameras--to evaluate critical fat-to-meat ratios.
• HHS announces new requirements for barcodes on drugs and blood
  FEBRUARY 26--US Health And Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy G. Thompson has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration is issuing a final rule requiring barcodes on the labels of thousands of human drugs and biological products.
• Minimally invasive surgery tools being developed in France
  FEBRUARY 2--New software programs and equipment designed to help medical practitioners view and control their procedures better are aiding the rapid expansion of minimally invasive surgery in France.
• NVIDIA helps NASA reconstruct Mars rover data in virtual reality
  JANUARY 19--NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, CA; www.nvidia.com) has announced that NASA is using its technology to reconstruct Martian terrain from transmitted rover data in photorealistic virtual reality.

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