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NYU Prof's Body Rejects Camera That Was Surgically Implanted in His Head
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsPlenty of people react badly to having a camera on them -- perhaps none more so than Wafaa Bilal. The New York University photography professor was forced to remove a computer webcam that had been surgically implanted in his head because his body rejected the foreign object. Doctors removed the camera from Bilal's head today because his body failed to accept one of three titanium posts that had been wedged between his skin and his skull to mount the contraption, The Huffington Post reports. Brad Farwell Talk about having photography on your mind. Wafaa Bilal had a camera ...
Largest-Ever Image of Universe Released
By not in system - AOL NewsAstronomers have released the largest, most detailed color picture ever taken of the universe. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey's breathtaking image, released at the 217th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, is actually a mosaic stitched together from 7 million pixels, each made of 125 million pictures, the BBC said. It was made using a 138-megapixel camera attached to a 2.5-meter telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico. M. Blanton / SDSS-III The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III (SDSS-III) releasing the largest digital color image of the sky ...
Meet Wafaa Bilal: The World's First Internet-Connected, Photo-Taking Cyborg
By Joe Peacock - AOL NewsWhat does it feel like to have a computer webcam surgically implanted in your skull? "It hurts," Wafaa Bilal told AOL News. And who better than he to know? A month ago, he underwent surgery to do exactly that -- install a small, Internet-connected camera into the back of his head. "The pain has gone down by a significant amount, but the healing process is still ongoing," says Bilal. "I feel the camera in my skin, even though the majority of the pain is gone." Brad Farwell Wafaa Bilal always has photography on his mind. Literally. Last month, he had a camera surgically implanted ...
The 'Non-Evil Facebook'? Diaspora Social Network Publishes Code
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Sept. 16) -- Developers have taken their first glance at Diaspora -- the so-called "Facebook Killer" -- which revealed its open source coding to the Internet on Wednesday. "This is now a community project and development is open to anyone with the technical expertise who shares the vision of a social network that puts users in control," reads a statement from the Diaspora blog. "From now on, we will be working closely with the community on improving and solidifying Diaspora." The self-described "privacy-aware, personally-controlled" social networking platform aims to create a user ...
Li-Ann Thio and NYU Confront 'Academic Freedom'
By Sara Nommensen - Politics DailyHow much should an academic institution sacrifice in the name of lively debate? The instinctive answer, it seems, is pretty much everything. Don't the foundations of academia rely on intellectual discussion, most often fueled by opposing viewpoints? How can true growth be fostered when students and faculty are only exposed to a singular world view? And yet, mustn't this expectation of academic freedom have some limit? New York University School of Law has recently been forced to confront these longstanding questions. ...
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