A special CCTV camera might know what you are doing, thanks to a monitoring system that can detect aggressive behavior. According to New Scientist, Kintense, which is based on Microsoft’s, gaming sensor Kinect, analyses a person’s body and picks out where the joints are to create a real-time 3D skeleton figure. An algorithm then recognises movements made by this model that indicate aggressive acts such as kicking, pushing, hitting and throwing. The system, designed by researchers at the University of Virginia, was created to warn medical staff if a patient is acting violently &ndas...
For fans who have been clamoring to see Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia play in men’s basketball, a rare treat is in store when the teams finally meet tonight. The game marks only the third time — and the first since 1995 — that two Virginia teams have met while ranked in The Associated Press poll.
When writer/director Jeff Wadlow suggested adding a production component to the Virginia Film Festival in 2004, he didn’t foresee that the 72-hour filmmaking competition would become his baby. “This is the 10th year, and I’ve only missed one,” said Wadlow. “And now we do it in the spring in Eugene at the University of Oregon.” As many as a dozen three-person teams pitch, write, cast, film, edit, and screen their films—all in three days under the guidance of professional filmmakers like Wadlow.
(Audio) The Virginia Film Festival is underway, offering the public more than a hundred films and lectures over the weekend.
The Virginia Film Festival has brought a number of films to the Charlottesville area, but now one exhibit is bringing several together under the same roof. Dozens of films are projected on the walls of a gallery all at once, and it's making a statement.
"The biggest problem for religious liberty in our time is deep disagreement over sexual immorality," said Doug Laycock, professor of law and religious studies at the University of Virginia School of Law. "Abortion, contraception, emergency contraception, sterilization ... gay rights and same-sex marriage, are dividing the country and poisoning the debate over religious liberty."
The University of Virginia is in the process of making major upgrades to its core computer network.
Students at the University of Virginia are sharing a part of the school's history that is often untold. This weekend a conference at UVA will focus on the legacy of slavery at the university.
(By Larry J. Sabato, politics professor and director of U.Va.’s Center for Politics) Fifty years ago this month, something happened that became a “flashbulb moment” for every American alive at the time and old enough to remember anything. The indelible images — in books, movies and television — and the detailed personal accounts by millions who recall precisely where they were and what they were doing when they heard about President John F. Kennedy’s assassination have been passed on to succeeding generations.
(By Phillip Zelikow, a history professor at the University of Virginia and former executive director of the 9/11 Commission; registration may be required) The uproar over US intelligence collection in friendly countries may be just the jolt that is needed to persuade leaders on both sides of the Atlantic to think again about the way their intelligence and security services co-operate. Rather than recoiling in horror, they should be discussing sharing more.
McAuliffe may have already accomplished the primary goal of voters who elected him, says Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “McAuliffe’s mandate from the voters, after this extremely negative campaign, is very simple: to not let Ken Cuccinelli within 100 yards of the governor’s office for the next four years,” Sabato wrote in his Crystal Ball analysis. “In that sense McAuliffe has already done what he was elected to do — keep Cuccinelli out of power.”
(Registration may be required) The University of Virginia Law School has introduced a hands-on model for helping students find jobs. “Before the recession, there were students who didn’t even set foot in our office – they really didn’t need to,” says Kevin Donovan, the career services dean. “Now, we work with almost every student on almost every facet of his or her job search.”
But the idea, known as Project Frontier, already has come under the scrutiny of the assembly’s watchdog agency, the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, and has drawn fire from the longest-serving member of the VRS board, Edwin T. Burton III, who cast the sole vote against the proposal. Burton, an economics professor at the University of Virginia who has served on the board 18 of the past 20 years, said last week that he is adamantly opposed to giving VRS’ investment staff free rein to potentially compete with private money management companies.
On the University of Virginia’s website, next to a photo of parents of current students, there is a plea to join them in supporting school traditions by signing up for the Parents Committee; a separate link prompts parents to contribute $2,500 to $25,000 annually. … It used to be that alumni were the main focus of fund-raising from their alma maters, but that is less so nowadays. With endowments in the doldrums and government funding curtailed at state universities, colleges both public and private are stepping up efforts to tap parents of current students for donations in ways pr...
(Audio) On day two of the Virginia Film Festival, podcaster Sean McCord talks with Robert Griffith, a Virginia-based independent documentary filmmaker. His film Seasons with Brian and Julia documents a full year in the life of a Virginia farm and family.
(By Janine Jagger, Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia) Demoralized and despondent, I was back in my doctor's office for the umpteenth time in three years. Dr. Schorling walked in looking unsuitably chipper holding a scrap of paper torn from a note pad. So far all diagnostic roads led nowhere.
The two critical movie reviewer clichés that bug me the most might be these: "I can't wait to see it again!" and "Were we even watching the same film?" Usually these are more about critics speaking to other critics than the films themselves. Critics can forget they should be talking primarily to readers.
Virginia's top experts in autism are collaborating to help people overcome the disorder's challenges. Friday, they met in Charlottesville to share their work.
Just a short walk can offer key insight in evaluating multiple sclerosis. University of Virginia researchers are gaining invaluable information based on how fast a patient crosses the finish line.
In the Virginia race, McAuliffe won only narrowly despite heavily outspending Cuccinelli, who was “just too socially conservative for a moderate swing state that is trending away from its traditional roots,” said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato.