OpenSim

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Free software models how humans move

Andrew Myers | Stanford University | November 1, 2011

An open source software application modeling human motion is helping medical professionals and bioengineers study, diagnose, and correct abnormalities in how people move. Read More »

IBM WebSphere Enables Creation of Tools to Track Seniors' Health

Brian T. Horowitz | eWeek | November 9, 2011

IBM and the University of Alberta are collaborating on a project that involves using IBM WebSphere Sensor Events to create avatars from data gathered from devices monitoring elderly patients. Read More »

OpenSim Needs a Viewer of Its Own

Lawrence Pierce | Hypergrid Business | October 27, 2011

Even as OpenSim implementation continues to grow, a constant remains: there is no viewer tailored specifically for OpenSim as it comes direct from OpenSimulator.org. Read More »

OpenSim Simulates Human Movement with Robotics

Alexis Garduno | The Stanford Daily | November 7, 2011

Professor of orthopedic surgery Scott Delp developed OpenSim in 2007. He said his long-term goal is to create simulation tools that could be applied to address important clinical problems. Delp developed the project as part of SimTK, an online host for software from the National Institute of Health’s Center for Biomedical Computation at Stanford (SimBios),which allotted money to fund the OpenSim project.

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OpenSim, Open-Source Software, Accurately Models Human Motion, Experts Say

Unknown | Science Daily | October 28, 2011

In a new exhibit at The Leonardo, a science and technology museum in Salt Lake City, a team of Stanford engineers is demonstrating an open source software package called OpenSim that accurately models human movement. Read More »