Even with today's technologies many tasks relies on humans to be completed correctly. Engineers must monitor steps in large chains of operations, and verify the results before the next process is allowed to continue. In many such systems, a lot of useful data passes by without ever been stored for efficient future usage. Even though some operations must be verified by an experienced human eye, ...

We describe our experience with the Muithu sports notational analysis system, a novel digital information system in the popular sports domain. The system integrates real-time coach notations with related video sequences, and is configured with small, off-the shelf and cheap components. Muithu requires little or no human post-processing, which is in strong contrast to state-of-the art resource-intensive ...

Background: Only 17% of Norwegian children and adolescents with diabetes achieve international treatment goals measured by glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c). Classic patient–physician consultations seem to be poorly adapted to young children. New strategies that are better attuned to young people to improve support of adolescents’ self-management of diabetes need to be tested and evaluated. Objective: ...

Integrative multi-species prediction (IMP) is an interactive web server that enables molecular biologists to interpret experimental results and to generate hypotheses in the context of a large cross-organism compendium of functional predictions and networks. The system provides a framework for biologists to analyze their candidate gene sets in the context of functional networks, as they expand or ...

Persons with type 1 diabetes who use electronic self-help tools, most commonly blood glucose meters, record a large amount of data about their personal condition. Mobile phones are powerful and ubiquitous computers that have a potential for data analysis, and the purpose of this study is to explore how self-gathered data can help users improve their blood glucose management. Thirty patients with ...

Med den norske opprykksordningen hvor alle med professorkompetanse gis et personlig professorat, så er det ingen andre enn den vitenskapelig ansatte selv som står i veien for professortittelen. I denne artikkelen gjennomgås 12 suksesskriterier for å oppnå professorkompetanse: (1) Ta imot faglige utfordringer; (2) tenk publisering; (3) barn bør ta tid; (4) begrens forelesningsforberedelser; (5) ha ...

En ansatt i vitenskapelig stilling skal utføre minst tre forskjellige oppgaver: forskning, undervisning og formidling. I tillegg kommer administrative gjøremål. Oppgavene trekker på ulike ferdigheter som alle bør dokumenteres i en søknad på en vitenskapelig stilling. Dessverre er det kun et mindretall som utformer sine søknader slik at totalkompetansen anskueliggjøres. En god søknad skal være komplett, ...

Graphic Processing Units have during the recent years evolved into inexpensive high-performance many-core computing units. Earlier being accessible only by graphic APIs, new hardware architectures and programming tools have made it possible to program these devices using arbitrary data types and standard languages like C. This thesis investigates the development process and performance of image and ...

The ability to deliver computing as a metered service has made the cloud an attractive platform for deployment of applications. Using the cloud, enterprises experience a decrease in maintenance overhead, faster deployment, and that cloud elasticity can be exploited to meet fluctuating resource demands.

In recent years, social network providers has become one of the largest industries in the world. These networks created a new arena for sharing information over the Internet, and thus changed the way people interact with each other. Hundreds of millions of social network users are updating statuses and sending messages to each other every day. These interactions produce vast amounts of social data. ...