PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A team of four computer science students from Portland State University won the Cornell Cup USA, a national competition for computer-aided inventions.
The project they displayed earlier this month at Walt Disney World can be used to identify pills. It scans a pill, then searches a database of 18,000 pills for a match. The answer pops up in less than 14 seconds. The invention could be used by doctors or others who need to identify a pill in an emergency.
The Oregonian reports (http://is.gd/6QBUns ) the winning team is made up of four Intel scholarship winners from Vietnam. After they graduate next month they’ll return home and work for Intel in Vietnam.
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Information from: The Oregonian, http://www.oregonlive.com
