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New computer software that can read lips at almost any angle has helped make sense of one of the Second World War's lingering mysteries —Hitler's home movies National Institute Of Technology, New Computer Technology. The technology allows the dialogue to be dubbed on to the silent films, many of them made by Eva Braun at Hitler's mountain retreat, the Berghof. With the new soundtrack, Hitler can be heard encouraging young children towards a life in the military, criticising even his closest henchmen and [New Jersey Institute Of Technology, New Technology] flirting with Braun.

The footage forms part of a documentary, Hitler's Private World: Revealed, to be broadcast next Tuesday on Five. It has languished in archives since the war after being found by the US Office of Strategic Services in the cellars under the Berghof. The film shows very different Hitler from the strident orator who led Germany into war [New York City College Of Technology, New York Institute Of Technology]. At ease among his guests, he cracks jokes and talks animatedly about his love for cinema — his tastes included Mickey Mouse.

He is also seen teasing Braun about a screening in his cinema at the Berghof. "I understand you didn't like the movie last night," he says. "I know what you want. You want Gone with the Wind." Much of the footage is taken on a terrace at the Bavarian retreat, with Hitler and his guests relaxing in the sunlight. He finds time to flirt with Braun [Oregon Institute Of Technology, Parsons Technology], saying: "What are you filming an old man for? I should be filming you."

But the war was never far away. "You talk about a dress that does not fit … imagine my problems," he says with exasperation to his lover. The technology that has allowed the dialogue to be reconstructed is called ALR — automated lip reading — and has been developed by Frank Hubner, a speech recognition expert Pennsylvania College Of Technology, Phonograph Technology. The computer recognises shapes that lips make, turns them into sounds and matches these to a dictionary.

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When actors voice the script that this generates Promise Technology, Rfid Technology, the result is home movies all the more chilling for their apparent happy domesticity. Hitler is shown reading to children, and playing with them. "You be a brave boy," he says to a small Aryan child. "You will be a fine soldier one day." Hitler had bought Braun a cine camera for her birthday in 1936. Given his manipulation of the German people by the use of filmed propaganda, it is hardly surprising that he showed enthusiasm for cameras Robert Half Technology, Rochester Institute Of Technology. "Every German family must have one. Every aspect of the nation's growth would be captured," he says. Among Hitler's staff shown at the Berghof are Heinrich Himmler, Albert Speer, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Reinhard Heidrich, Joseph Goebbels and Karl Wolff. Himmler is seen telling Heidrich and Wolff: "I'm very busy with this project and that project." A disturbing statement from the man in charge of the Final Solution.

Film shot towards the end of the war shows Hitler complaining about tremors in his arm [Science Technology, Search Technology], giving more credence to the theory that he was suffering from Parkinson's Disease. What also becomes clear is that Hitler did not hold back from criticising his inner circle. He is scathing about Himmler's enthusiasm for archaeological digs to establish the origins of the Aryan race but reserved his bitchiest remark for Goering. "I looked at him across the dining table and then I knew that what they say was true," he says [Stevens Institute Of Technology, Surgical Technology], "that pigs eat the flesh of their own."

Rowan University has joined forces with RL Associates, a five-person scientific research and development firm, in an effort to develop a new laser that will enable rescue workers to see through smoke and fog. The College of Engineering junior/senior clinic received a donation of equipment from RL Associates and $5,000 from Rowan University, according to a March 10, 2006 Rowan news release [Tech Stock, Technology Article, Technology Consulting]. The project is being overseen by Paris Von Lockette, a mechanical engineering associate professor, and Dr. Kevin Dahm, a chemical engineering associate professor.

Rowan joined the project after Joe Matchett, a mechanical engineer from RL Associates and a Rowan graduate, pitched the idea to the engineering department. According to Lockette Technology Credit Union, Technology Grants, Technology In Education, Matchett began working with RL Associates during a senior project at Rowan and went on to work with them full-time after graduation. Lockette said the project caught his attention right away.

"It had to do with lasers, and lasers are some of the things that I work with," said Lockette. Four students from the College of Engineering were selected to work on the chamber. The team includes team leader Nolan Towers, a junior civil and environmental engineering major, Henry Ip, a senior chemical engineering major, Jeff Hanna, a sophomore electrical and [Technology In The Classroom, Technology Jobs, Technology Management] computer engineering major and Greg Misiak, a senior mechanical engineering major.

"They all bring different skills and training to the project," said Lockette. Despite the long preparation and planning, the project has proved to be very time demanding. Misiak said he spends 10 to 20 hours a week working on it [Technology Marketing, Technology News, Technology Photography]. Lockette said the students are expected to put in 12 hours a week outside the six hours per week in clinic.

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According to the news release, the Rowan team constructed a six-foot acrylic fog chamber to simulate real-world settings, with a fogger at one end and a condenser at the other. They are now working to determine how much of the laser's beam is actually transmitted through fog and how much is absorbed or reflected. "Turns out, fog is fairly complicated," said Lockette [Technology School, Technology Training, Technology Transfer]. "It has to do with the pollution levels in the air, particles and all this stuff. It's pretty interesting." Lockette said that part of the project is to measure the concentration of water in the air.

Although the laser is expected to go through smoke as well, the concentration of this study is to find out how well it works with fog specifically. The initial expectation for the laser was for it to travel at least six feet, although the ideal result would be eight or nine feet Tennessee Technology Center, Tulsa Technology Center. "The specific concentration is for coastguard workers searching for people in the coastline and during different parts of the day where there might be weather conditions like mist or fog," said Lockette. As the semester winds down, Lockette hopes to be able to run tests to provide RL Associates with data on additions that would improve the fog chamber.

Sony Electronics reported that it will begin customer shipments of its Professional Disc for DATA (ProDATA) later this month. The company also said it has two more advanced models in the works University Of Technology, Vellore Institute Of Technology. The devices are based on blue-laser technology. The ProDATA drive with 23GB of native capacity write-once, read-many storage is attracting interest from a spectrum of users, many of whom are faced with the necessity of archiving data for compliance purposes, a Sony spokesman said.

"It's finding a place for storing email, for instance" said Robert DeMoulin [Voip Technology, Wireless Technology, Car Technology], marketing manager for branded storage products in the firm's IT Products Division, in an interview. "Write-once is good for compliance." DeMoulin said that the 23-GB device with 11MB/sec transfer rate will be shipped to end-user customers later this month, while second-generation drives and media are scheduled to be on the market by 2005 that will have up to 50GB of capacity and a 22MB/sec transfer rate. A third generation is planned with 100-GB capacity and 43MB/sec transfer rate. With prices for the 23GB drive start at about $9000, Definition Of Technology, Digital Technology; the entire line is aimed at the professional market of IT enterprise users. What about a consumer version of the blue laser technology? A consumer model is shipping to customers in Japan.

IntraLase Corp. (Nasdaq:ILSE) today announced the first corneal transplant cases using the IntraLase(R) FS laser have been successfully performed in patients, marking the first major technology advancement in corneal transplant surgery in more than five years. The use of IntraLase's ultra-fast laser to create a contoured, full-thickness corneal resection in preparation for corneal transplant has the potential to make corneal transplantation a safer Entertainment Technology, Good Technology, more precise procedure as the all-laser approach gains favor among transplant surgeons. Full global launch of this new therapeutic application is expected in Fall 2006. Three of the country's leading ophthalmic institutes, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami, Corneal Research Foundation of America of Indianapolis and the University of California Irvine, Department of Ophthalmology, are among the first in the country to adopt all-laser corneal transplant surgery. They've affirmed IntraLase's ability to improve the surgery Health Care Technology, Hong Kong Information Technology, considered the last resort for patients facing blindness resulting from severe corneal disease.

The IntraLase FS laser is the first femtosecond laser cleared for use in a variety of refractive and corneal surgeries including LASIK, and intrastromal incisions used with ring implants Hybrid Technology, Hydrogen Technology, lamellar keratoplasty, penetrating keratoplasty, and for the preparation of the donor tissue used in corneal transplants. The IntraLase FS laser has demonstrated its superior capability in creating corneal incisions with micron-level accuracy unmatched by hand-held or mechanical blades. "The natural progression of our laser technology is to provide corneal surgeons with the ability to shape the full-thickness resection used in corneal transplants," said Robert J. Palmisano, president and CEO of IntraLase. "With minor enhancements Indian Institute Of Technology Delhi, Information Technology Career, our laser is capable of creating optimal incisional patterns for corneal transplants. Instead of the straight vertical cut performed in traditional full-thickness keratoplasty, the FS laser is programmed to create a stepped-edged incision that may enhance the sealing and stability of the transplanted tissue and allow for faster healing."

The High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility (HELSTF) is located at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. HELSTF became operational on September 6, 1985 when the Air Force conducted the first Lethality and [Information Technology Consulting, Information Technology Degree] Target Hardening (LTH-l) program test for the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO). HELSTF has been managed by the U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense Command (USASSDC) since October 1990. Prior to that, the facility was under the command of Commander, White Sands Missile Range. Primary support for operation and maintenance of the SDC-managed facility is currently provided by Lockheed Engineering and Science Company (LESC). The Navy is responsible for the operation and maintenance of the MIRACL and the SEALITE Beam Director through its contractors, TRW and Hughes Aircraft. HELSTF is designated as the Department of Defense (DoD) National Test Facility for high energy laser test and evaluation. HELSTF is the home of the Mid Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser (MIRACL) [Laser Technology, Masai Bare Foot Technology], the United States' most powerful laser, which is a CW, megawatt class deuterium-fluoride laser operating in a band from 3.6 to 4.2 microns. In the more than ten years since operations began, HELSTF has supported a broad range of both laser and non-laser related test activities. High energy laser tests have included damage and vulnerability testing for all three uniformed services as well as materials and chemical research for industry and academia. HELSTF represents an approximate $800 million investment Cell Phone Technology, with about $80 million of that in military construction funds.

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and NASA scientists studying Mount St. Helens are using high-tech Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) technology to analyze changes in the surface elevation of the crater, which began deforming in late September 2004. With data derived from airborne LIDAR, scientists can accurately map, often in exquisite detail, the dimensions of the uplift and create better models to forecast volcanic hazards. LIDAR shows Symbol Technology, Technology Gadget, in the two weeks before Oct. 4, the new uplift grew to the height of a 35-story building (110 meters or 360 feet) and the area of 29 football fields (130,000 square meters). “This is the first time USGS and NASA have teamed to use LIDAR to measure volcano deformation,” said USGS scientist Ralph Haugerud. He noted LIDAR technology enables researchers to compare with greater accuracy than ever before the topography before and after volcanic events. “The resulting pictures of topographic change can reveal information found in no other kind of data set,” added David Harding, a scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

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