Daniel Bardsley

From the Reactable homepage: “The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving and rotating physical objects on a luminous round table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sonic topologies, with generators, filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.”
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The recently released results of the Face Recognition Grand Challenge now show that computers are capable at outperforming humans in face recognition tasks. The recent match up of face-recognition algorithms showed that machine recognition of human individuals has improved tenfold since 2002 and a hundredfold since 1995. Indeed, the best face-recognition algorithms now perform more accurately than most humans can manage. Overall, facial-recognition technology is advancing rapidly.

Check out Mark Williams’s article for the Technology Review for a rundown of some of the entries for the grand challenge. This story was also recently covered on slashdot.