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November 20, 2008

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October 07, 2008

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[Additions to the MIT Libraries: Computer Science and Computer Engineering] Barker Library - STACK Q310.J65 2008.

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January 25, 2007

"You are the platform"

[Sentient Developments] A number of years ago Norton had a magnet implanted in the tip of one of her fingers -- an idea that was pioneered by the likes of Jesse Jarrell and Steve Haworth. She started to sense electro-magnetic fields, she could feel her laptop's hard drive spinning, she could could tell if an electrical cord was live, and feel running motors and security devices.

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September 07, 2006

Roy Ascott

[omnispace] Since the 1960s, UK educator, artist and theoretician Roy Ascott has been one of Europe's most active and outspoken practitioners of interactive...

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Discursions II @ the Institute for the Future of the Book

[blogs | varnelis.net] Read more about Discursions, II the project on the Architecture Machine Group that the NetLab is taking on in collaboration with the Institute for the Future of the Book at their site.

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May 04, 2006

22 - Loops and Flows

[Pulse] Evelyn Hutchinson fitted notions of metabolism more elegantly into ecological studies. And in the 1950s his student Howard Odum would begin the work of actually mapping energy flows through natural systems.

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Randomly-generated ’scientific paper’ accepted

[ Technoccult: fringe culture scrapbook] Sick of receiving spam emails requesting submissions to the 2005 World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics - which charges $390 for each attendee - students Jeremy Stribling, Daniel Aguayo and Maxwell Krohn of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrote a program to generate a nonsense paper.

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December 24, 2005

Neuroscientists break code on sight

[AiKnowledge.::I Think, I Do, Therefore I Exist::.] n the sci-fi movie "The Matrix," a cable running from a computer into Neo's brain writes in visual perceptions, and Neo's brain can manipulate the...

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November 19, 2005

Fly My Pretties, Fly

[After Gutenberg] So, a marriage of an Animatronic Monkey Head with a Playground Patrol Droid and faster than you can say “Monkey Clutching Gorts” you have got a Flying Monkey

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Robotic Jacket

[AiKnowledge.::I Think, I Do, Therefore I Exist::.] A robotic jacket that helps stroke victims recover from partial paralysis could be ready to wear in the near future. The device-essentially a...

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October 14, 2005

Ecology and Emotion

[After Gutenberg] German model posed on Chinese EV A Toyota news release about an active steering mechanism that “seamlessly controls vehicle movement from before the point at which the vehicle becomes unstable” illustrates some of the features to be emphasized by concept vehicles at the 39th Tokyo Motor Show. Note: The press release informs, “This year, the Toyota exhibit retains the same theme as last year”””Ecology & Emotion”””featuring its initiatives for creating vehicles that pursue both environmental consideration and the essential emotional appeal of a car”¦” We may be at a particular juncture for personal transportation, to which I have alluded previously.

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October 11, 2005

SUBDUE

[After Gutenberg] Distinguished Chair Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering Colorado State University With a learning algorithm helping to secure Stanley first place in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, my scanning now picks up references to learning machines such as the story from the Shorthorn. DARPA has funded a data mining project at the University of Texas - Arlington.

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October 09, 2005

Prefered by Bots Everywhere

[After Gutenberg] The media has latched on to the fact that a Volkswagen Touareg beat out two Hummers, a Ford Escape Hybrid and a monster truck at the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. While it was the artificial intelligence developed by the Stanford team that excelled, it is ironic that the winner is a favorite vehicle among the Birkenstock-clad, treehugging, granola-eating, soccer mom set.

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September 28, 2005

Ready! Fire!

[After Gutenberg] Slashdot, “where roboguard shoppers look for Calvin's Christmas gift ideas“, tell us about a quintessential sentry gun that uses an airsoft gun, some hobby servos and a webcam. A camera automatically identifies and tracks targets.

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September 25, 2005

Hydraulic Accumulators

[After Gutenberg] The DSG is essentially two gearboxes in one, combining the comfort of an automatic with the agility and economy of a manual unit. The six-speed, transversely mounted DSG has two wet clutches (offering a higher thermal load tolerance than dry clutches) with hydraulic pressure regulation.

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September 20, 2005

Rig for Silent Sunning

[After Gutenberg] Well, a clever team of researchers at the Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute has added photovoltaics (PVs) and created a new acronym: SAUV, which stands for Solar-powered Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. According to physorg.com “the SAUV weighs 370 pounds, travels at speeds of up to 2 miles per hour, and is designed to dive to depths of 500 meters.” Yes, that is a pretty limiting speed, on the one hand;

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September 11, 2005

Automated Autonomy

[After Gutenberg] If you didn’t know this already, one of my pet ideas is “Peeping Blimp“. Thus, I was happy to see at robots.net that NASA is developing an autonomous...

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September 03, 2005

Pull Those Old Sound Files Off the Net

[After Gutenberg] robots.net was a bit unkind, “Wakamaru looks like a cross between a Dalek, a traffic cone, and a duck.” A story about this home robot appearing in an AARP feature story gave me pause to reflect on...

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August 30, 2005

Temptation on the Streets of Cordoba

[After Gutenberg] Blobject is a Spanish based company in CÃ³rdoba, which has launched the world first tourism service using electric cars equipped with a GPS assisted computer. This service provides multimedia information on existing points of interest in the city of Cordoba.

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August 26, 2005

Bat-Bot

[After Gutenberg] (Just what Peeping Blimp or other robots on patrol need for those low light situations, eh?) One of the project partners of the Bat-Bot, developed by IST project CIRCE (Chiroptera Inspired Robotic Cephaloid Experiments), developed a broadband transducer that could both transmit and receive acoustical energy across the entire 20 to 200 kHz spectrum.

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August 22, 2005

Don’t Swat at It!

[After Gutenberg] If you swat at it, you may get a whole swarm after you, not to mention someone from the Navy asking, “Citizen, why did you crush that million dollar prototype?” Robots.net points to a post by Roland Piquepaille about a flying robot guided by indoor vision. “It’s not always easy to explore small buildings in dangerous areas and even more difficult to see what might be hidden in a cave or a tunnel.

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