From speech to text
The physician speaks into the microphone. The words appear on the screen as she speaks them. But this is not always as straightforward as it might seem. Perhaps she speaks in a dialect, and says «ol’...
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Shifting sculptures
Shifting sculpture First like this ... then like this ... ... and then maybe like this? AS YOU LIKE IT: Espen Gangvik’s sculpture “Transformer” will be able to change shape and position in response to...
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THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE
Photo: Nina Tveter In a freezing cold room on an old wharf in Trondheim, a group of five scientists have gathered around three dark brown logs. Each log is just under a metre tall, and a half-metre in...
View ArticleReal-time Beethoven
Imagine a concert hall and a stage, with a symphony orchestra that has performed Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth symphony, with the addition of electric instruments and loudspeakers. Imagine, if you will,...
View ArticleThreatened language
There are roughly 1000 southern Sámis living in Norway, and perhaps the same number in Sweden. They are widely spread and many make their living from traditional reindeer husbandry and live a...
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The future factory
Real Madrid and Chelsea football clubs train using the interval 4X4 method developed by NTNU Professors Jan Helgerud and Jan Hoff. It has been ‘One Hundred Innovative Years’ since the Norwegian...
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The archbishop’s mint
Medieval Trondheim, early 1500s: A mint master and his apprentice have been up since the break of dawn. As the day drew to its end, they sat at a bench in the workshop, ready to strike coins. They have...
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Plug-ins for the brain
A new beginning with a brain implantWould you give your ageing dad a new sense of location, swapped in for the nerve cells that were affected by the onset of dementia? When short-term memory fails,...
View ArticleNew honorary doctorates
Music at NTNU has always had an international bent, and foreign musicians regularly work with the university’s Department of Music and its various performance groups and ensembles. Last autumn, the...
View ArticleLimits
THE TRONDHEIM ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS: Elizabeth Higson is an undergraduate who works primarily with photography and film. She often explores feelings about the limitations of the body and our way of...
View ArticleMeditation and BA47
BA47 is the name of a specific area of the brain in the right and left prefrontal areas of the brain’s cerebral cortex. Brain researchers at NTNU have discovered that Acem meditation, in which the...
View ArticleSmartphone Scrabble
NEW BUSINESS: A couple of years ago Håkon Bertheussen left NTNU with a degree in computer engineering. Now he has a full-time job running Bertheussen IT, his own company in Trondheim, which developed...
View ArticleWorld premiere and honorary doctorate
Violin virtuoso Anne-Sophie Mutter was awarded an honorary doctorate by NTNU in 2010, in conjunction with the university’s centennial celebration. But Mutter’s demanding tour schedule made it difficult...
View ArticleLanguage is in our biology
A good working memory is perhaps the brain’s most important system when it comes to learning a new language. But it appears that working memory is first and foremost determined by our genes. Whether...
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The beauty of the battlefield
Every night at 8 p.m., Belgium’s Menin Gate resounds with the fanfare “The Last Post”. This tribute to fallen soldiers was played for the first time here in 1928 to honour the soldiers who died in the...
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Viking raids protected precious artefacts
A gold object exhumed in 1961 from a Viking grave in a coastal town in Romsdal, central Norway, appears to have been a part of a crozier – one from northern England. That’s the conclusion reached by...
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It’s called a goat boat, but it’s no goat
There is excitement in the air at the Norwegian Marine Technology Research Institute’s Ship Towing Tank. Two types of traditional Norwegian boats – one called a “geit boat”, literally goat boat, and...
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Archaeology without a shovel
Geophysical methods are becoming more and more common in archaeology in Norway. But how common are these methods actually? NTNU University Museum and the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage...
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A symphony of stars
The music is so in tune with the sky that you can actually hear the Northern Lights in the piece. “Humans have always used the stars to navigate,” says Brandtsegg, and welcomes us into his office. You...
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The hidden companies
They are the hidden companies. They are there when Israel wants to import Iranian oil or newly independent states want to sell ore from mines they have forcibly taken from private firms and...
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