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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Doximity, the largest and fastest growing professional network for physicians, today announced a $17 million Series B financing led by Morgenthaler Ventures, with participation from returning investors Emergence Capital Partners and InterWest Partners. The round brings the company's total funding to $27 million. Since Doximity's Series A funding 17 months ago, Doximity has grown 15-fold to over 1 in 7 U.S. physicians on its network....
Today Perceptics announced that its License Plate Recognition (LPR) systems installed at U.S. land border crossings perform with greater than 95% accuracy. Knoxville, Tenn. (PRWEB) August 29, 2012 Today Perceptics announced that its License Plate Recognition (LPR) systems installed at U.S. land border crossings perform with greater than 95% accuracy. The performance data for each port of entry is regularly published as part of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) agreement....
REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced that Stephen Schueler will join the company as corporate vice president of Retail Sales and Marketing. In his position, Schueler will be responsible for driving demand through global retail partners and ensuring customers receive a great service experience. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO) Schueler joins Microsoft from Procter & Gamble, where he most recently served as...
With a management team comprising over 150 years of cumulative industry tenure and knowledge, BDI Pharma continues to set the stage for growth among an otherwise challenging healthcare market. Columbia, SC (PRWEB) August 27, 2012 In a year already defined by record sales and distribution, BDI Pharma, Inc. (BDI), the nation's fastest growing national distributor of specialty biotherapeutics, announced that the company’s forecast for calendar year Q3 exceeds that of the previous two...
Botany is plagued by the same problem as the rest of science and society: our ability to generate data quickly and cheaply is surpassing our ability to access and analyze it. In this age of big data, scientists facing too much information rely on computers to search large data sets for patterns that are beyond the capability of humans to recognize—but computers can only interpret data based on the strict set of rules in their programming. New tools called ontologies provide the rules...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online In order to fully understand some diseases — how they work, how they spread, response to drugs, etc — researchers have been employing some of the world’s tiniest animals, such as the multicellular fruit fly, nematode, or zebra fish. While this examination by itself is useful, these researchers can make real progress in their studies if they can examine a multitude of animals in order to detect any mutation among them. Now,...
New algorithms allow an autonomous robotic plane to dodge obstacles in a subterranean parking garage, without the use of GPS. For decades, academic and industry researchers have been working on control algorithms for autonomous helicopters — robotic helicopters that pilot themselves, rather than requiring remote human guidance. Dozens of research teams have competed in a series of autonomous-helicopter challenges posed by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online MIT researchers have completed a series of flight tests in which an autonomous robotic plane successfully navigates its way among pillars in a parking garage. For the past two years, MIT's Robust Robotics Group has been challenging itself to build robotic planes that are able to navigate indoors without the use of GPS. In 2011, the team developed an algorithm for calculating a plane's trajectory and presented it at the International...
Anyone who has tried to remember a ten-digit phone number or a nine-item grocery list knows that we can only hold so much information in mind at a given time. Our working memory capacity is decidedly finite – it reflects our ability to focus and control attention and strongly influences our ability to solve problems. In a new article in the August issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, Jennifer Wiley and Andrew Jarosz...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online For all the things Siri is currently good for— keeping in mind she’ll be upgraded this fall— there are a few instances where she admittedly lacks. In a somewhat cruel twist of irony, many of us didn’t realize we wanted Siri to perform the functions she can’t perform until she first came onto the scene. Sure, asking her to move our two o’clock to three o’clock is nice, and having her remind us to take out the trash every...
