In this study, we present a method for emotion recognition in Virtual Reality (VR) using pupillometry. We analyze pupil diameter responses to both visual and auditory stimuli via a VR headset and focus on extracting key features in the time-domain, frequency-domain, and time-frequency domain from VRgenerated data. Our approach utilizes feature selection to identify the most impactful features using Maximum Relevance Minimum Redundancy (mRMR). By applying a Gradient Boosting model, an ensemble learning technique using stacked decision trees, we achieve an accuracy of 98.8% with feature engineering, compared to 84.9% without it. This research contributes significantly to the Thelxinoë framework, aiming to enhance VR experiences by integrating multiple sensor data for realistic and emotionally resonant touch interactions. NTRODUCTION In a poetic sense, the eyes have long been regarded as the "window into the soul" offering a glimpse into the depths of human emotions and experiences [1]. In the realm of modern technology, this poetic vision transforms into a scientific reality, particularly in VR. The "pupils" serve as gateways not just "to the brain" but to the autonomic nervous system which subtly dilates and contracts in response to our emotions [1].

Tilottama Goswami has received a BE degree with Honors in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur; and an MS degree in Computer Science (High Distinction) from Rivier University, Nashua, New Hampshire, United States. She was awarded a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Hyderabad. Presently, Dr. Goswami is Professor in the Department of Information Technology, Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India. She has, overall, 23 years of experience in academia, research, and the IT industry. Her research interests are computer vision, machine learning, and image processing.

SilverTech, a national digital marketing and technology agency, announced an official partnership with the technology provider, Akumina, of Nashua, New Hampshire. The Akumina platform is a modern Intranet & Employee Experience Platform (EXP). SilverTech will be utilizing the Akumina platform to deliver transformative workspace solutions and will offer clients a branded, hyper-personalized workplace experience that addresses the needs of Communications, IT, Human Resources, Content Managers, and Administrators. SilverTech digital strategists, user experience designers, and web developers will brand, customize, and implement Akumina's EXP platform and integrate it with client systems and data. "We've been helping our clients deliver exceptional customer experiences for over 20 years. We're really excited to partner with Akumina to help our clients now deliver exceptional experiences to their employees as well," said Derek Barka, CTO of SilverTech.

MANCHESTER, N.H. – Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang says it's "inappropriate" for 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to be "commenting directly" about her party's current contenders for the White House. Yang also called the push to eliminate private insurance by rivals Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, as part of their "Medicare-for-all" plans, "too disruptive." And the tech entrepreneur and 2020 longshot, who has seen his campaign soar in recent months, said that if he doesn't win the Democratic nomination, he'd "be open to" serving as running mate. Yang made his comments while taking questions from reporters Tuesday evening in Hollis, N.H., and Wednesday morning after headlining'Politics and Eggs,' a must stop for White House hopefuls campaigning in the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state. Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang signs the famed wooden eggs ahead of speaking at'Politics and Eggs' at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 His swing through the Granite State comes days after Clinton firmly inserted herself into the 2020 campaign – arguing without evidence that Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii is a "Russian asset," and mocking President Trump's direct interactions with foreign leaders.

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FedEx's robot has a top speed of 10 mph and can carry about 100 pounds. A company spokesman said its typical speed would vary depending on the route. The robot relies on sensors typically used on self-driving cars to identify and avoid pedestrians. The SameDay Bot is capable of climbing steps, but customers will need to be home to accept packages -- it won't leave a package on a doorstep or open a front gate. The robot is being developed by DEKA, the Manchester, New Hampshire engineering company owned by Segway inventor Dean Kamen.

"The financial markets are ahead of others in this," said John Micklethwait, the editor in chief of Bloomberg. In addition to covering company earnings for Bloomberg, robot reporters have been prolific producers of articles on minor league baseball for The Associated Press, high school football for The Washington Post and earthquakes for The Los Angeles Times. MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- Jonathan Davis hit for the cycle, as the New Hampshire Fisher Cats topped the Portland Sea Dogs 10-3 on Tuesday. Last week, The Guardian's Australia edition published its first machine-assisted article, an account of annual political donations to the country's political parties. And Forbes recently announced that it was testing a tool called Bertie to provide reporters with rough drafts and story templates.

"The financial markets are ahead of others in this," said John Micklethwait, the editor in chief of Bloomberg. In addition to covering company earnings for Bloomberg, robot reporters have been prolific producers of articles on minor league baseball for The Associated Press, high school football for The Washington Post and earthquakes for The Los Angeles Times. MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- Jonathan Davis hit for the cycle, as the New Hampshire Fisher Cats topped the Portland Sea Dogs 10-3 on Tuesday. Last week, The Guardian's Australia edition published its first machine-assisted article, an account of annual political donations to the country's political parties. And Forbes recently announced that it was testing a tool called Birdie to provide reporters with rough drafts and story templates.

Learning informative representations of data is one of the primary goals of deep learning, but there is still little understanding as to what representations a neural network actually learns. To better understand this, subspace match was recently proposed as a method for assessing the similarity of the representations learned by neural networks. It has been shown that two networks with the same architecture trained from different initializations learn representations that at hidden layers show low similarity when assessed with subspace match, even when the output layers show high similarity and the networks largely exhibit similar performance on classification tasks. In this note, we present a simple example motivated by standard results in commutative algebra to illustrate how this can happen, and show that although the subspace match at a hidden layer may be 0, the representations learned may be isomorphic as vector spaces. This leads us to conclude that a subspace match comparison of learned representations may well be uninformative, and it points to the need for better methods of understanding learned representations.

In a nondescript industrial park in Merrimack, New Hampshire, Jason Walker is putting the final touches on what he believes will become the iPod of working robots. Walker, 47, is co-founder of Waypoint Robotics, and the former lead quality and testing manager for the Roomba vacuuming robot. Waypoint, a tech startup about a year old, is housed in one cavernous room with high ceilings and a barebones office upfront filled with large, flat-screen monitors. Co-Founder and CEO Jason Walker is third from the left.Waypoints Robotics "We don't splurge on anything except screens and chairs," Walker says in the easy drawl of his native Kansas. Although he makes no claims to being another Steve Jobs, Walker does fervently believe that he and his small team are going to revolutionize robots in the same way Jobs revolutionized MP3 players.