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Can a robot be in a good or in a bad mood?

According to the Taranaki Daily News in New Zealand, the answer is yes. Engineers at Victoria University in Wellington have developed a robot which adapts its behavior according to its emotions. Marvin -- short for 'Mobile Autonomous Robotic Vehicle for Indoor Navigation' -- can express happiness, anger or frustration. As...

Tags: Victoria University, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille, New Zealand, Emotion, Marvin, Carnegie

Blog posts 2008-10-27

The Andrew Carnegie of our second gilded age

The Andrew Carnegie of our second gilded ageLump of Coal or Coke to build the next empireAlthough from the past, I do recall in my mind the perception of comparing Gates to Carnegie. I never realized the connection all this time, esp. given what you report (i.e. backgrounds, culture, beliefs,...

Tags: Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Robert Woodruff, Carnegie, Coke

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Carnegie's Crusher for combat

6.5 tons of robotic mayhemOn April 28, Carnegie Mellon's National Robotics Engineering Center unveiled this new unmanned vehicle to work on almost any terrain. It can carry more than 8,000 pounds of armor and payload and is powered by a lithium ion battery that's recharged by an onboard turbo diesel...

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Videos 2006-04-30

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Researchers tout 'wimpy nodes' for Net computing

Researchers believe some work can be managed with lower expense and lower power consumption using a cluster of servers built with lower-end processors and flash memory than with a general-purpose server. Mainstream servers are growing increasingly brawny with multicore processors and tremendous memory capacity, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon...

Tags: Researcher, Computing, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Wimpy nodes, Google, Intel, NetApp, netbooks, Stephen Shankland CNET News

News items 2009-10-19

SharePoint Statistics: The Real Reason Behind SharePoint's Price Tag

Governance and TrainingFrom my experience, the technology is not expensive, when compared to most DMS / ECM / portal solutions. The costs come later, further down the road, when mistakes have already been made and the reputation of the solution is allready marred.It's almost too easy to get a...

Tags: Collaboration, Content management, Groupware, Enterprise software, Microsoft SharePoint, SharePoint Statistics

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Ubicomp 2009 and the fusion of our digital and physical worlds

Recently, I used my newly downloaded Zipcar app on my iPhone to unlock and honk my booked vehicle from several yards away. It was more novel than useful, but a tall tale example of the countless invisible interactions we're having with sensing, inferring, and data transferring machines every day. It's...

Tags: Ubiquitous Computing, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-10-09

Open source loves profit

with M$ on the brink....OSS is the only way to make money from software.nah, socialism doesn't workIt doesn't at national level. It ain't in software industry as well.RE: Open source loves profitThe brink of what?re: aboveDo you even know what socialism is? It's not driven by money it must be...

Tags: European Socialists, socialism, socialist, Microsoft Corp., brink, OSS, open source

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Time to bone up on energy-aware Internet routing

Telecommunications companies have made call-routing as inexpensive as possible. So why shouldn't businesses finetune the most cost-efficient -- and energy-efficient -- path for data to travel their data centers and networks. There are several worth-reading blogs and articles floating around the blogosphere this week focused on the...

Tags: Energy, Internet, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-19

BizQuotes 1.0 (Mobile)

BizQuotes provides you business quotes from the world's most successful business leaders. With the touch of a button you can have business wisdom and principles from many great minds including Benjamin Franklin, Warren Buffett, Mark Twain, Ted Turner, Colin Powell, Henry Ford, Dale Carnegie, Stephen Covey, and Andrew Carnegie.

Tags: Mobile, Internet Inferno, BizQuotes, Internet, Leadership, Management

Software downloads 2009-07-24

Rhymes Terms Dictionary 1.0 (Mobile)

This rhyming dictionary is based on the public domain Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary. Contains 3 830 entries in 97 KB.About BDictyBDicty (pronounced "bee-dikti") is possibly the most popular dictionary reader for the Palm operating system, recently gaining popularity in the Pocket PC and Linux worlds as well.BEIKS Dictionary Reader...

Tags: Mobile, Entertainment, BEIKS LLC, Pocket PC, Advertising & Promotion, Palm OS, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Hardware, Marketing, Software

Software downloads 2009-07-08

(Images: Carnegie Mellon's car navigation system)

(Images: Carnegie Mellon's car navigation system)Carnegie mellon's car navigation systemIsn't this the robocar that won over the other robocar on the desert?

Tags: car navigation system, Carnegie-Mellon University

Discussion threads 2009-06-23

Carnegie Mellon wins the Urban Challenge

Carnegie Mellon wins the Urban ChallengeCarnegie Melon & Urban ChallengeIndividual winner aside, the contest proved a success for DARPA and for the advancement of robotics technology.RE: Carnegie Mellon wins the Urban ChallengeI want to know what particular chevy parts they modify. I saw the race on Youtube last month,...

Tags: Robots, Carnegie-Mellon University

Discussion threads 2009-06-18

Outcome Based Social Networks: Yet Another CRM at the Speed of Light Excerpt

I'm going to finish the book today. CRM at the Speed of Light, 4th edition will be done by the time that the day ends - though I suspect a lot sooner.  It's going to be a 750 page tome - mostly print, some supplemented electronically, on CRM 2.0 -...

Tags: Network, Outcome, YouTube Inc., CRM, Outcome Based Social Networks, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Agriculture ripe for change with robot farmhands

Farmers across the developed world did away with the backbreaking part of the work during the 19th century with the introduction of equipment like tractors and combines. Now, evolving technology is poised to make industrial agriculture greener and more efficient with the use of robots. [caption id=""...

Tags: Laser, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Google chief Eric Schmidt's Carnegie Mellon commencement speech (video)

Google chief Eric Schmidt's Carnegie Mellon commencement speech videoGoogle chief Eric Schmidt's commencement speechHere is what I sent to 60 of my colleaguesHi Remember when you were in college - how the commencement speech wasimportant to you? Here is one of the best 2009 Commencement speeches. http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=18293 It is just...

Tags: Corporate communications, video, commencement speech, Google Chief, Eric Schmidt, Carnegie-Mellon University, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-05-23

Google chief Eric Schmidt's Carnegie Mellon commencement speech (video)

Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered the commencement speech at Carnegie Mellon. He talks blogs, Tweets, how friend is now a verb and innovation. Via: Carnegie Mellon on Twitter. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Carnegie-Mellon University, Video, Corporate Communications, Blogging, Leadership, Strategy, Marketing, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-18

An Empirical Evaluation of PhishGuru Embedded Training

Wombat's PhishGuru embedded training system teaches users to avoid falling for phishing attacks by delivering a training message when the user clicks on the URL in a simulated phishing email that it delivered to users' inboxes. It validated the effectiveness of this approach in a series of laboratory and real-world...

Tags: Training, Wombat Security Technologies, Wombat, Phishing, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Human Resources

White papers 2009-04-01

From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture

This is the 41st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots (2) In its present form this commitment to publication and peer review, originally derived from the core academic and scientific approach giving rise to the science...

Tags: Noorda, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Social Plagiarism? Might Be, But SOOOO Stupid

Brent Leary is not only one of the more influential guys in the world of CRM but he is one of the nicest. He is a bright, insightful fun-loving and well-respected CRM guru who understands especially how the small business needs to use CRM and Social CRM.  He has a...

Tags: Campaign, Barack Obama, Social Media, Small Business, CRM, Brent Leary, LaFarce, Stevens, Dale Carnegie 2.0 President-elect Obama, Taxes, Web 2.0, Free Trade, Public Relations, Financial Planning, Finance, Internet, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-30

Audio CAPTCHAs easy to crack, according to researchers

A great story over at Ars Technica today details the efforts of the Carnegie-Mellon University team behind the reCAPTCHA service, who has turned its attention to the audio CAPTCHAs used by the visually impaired. These audio CAPTCHAs consist of a string of spoken characters, typically masked and distorted by...

Tags: CAPTCHA, Audio, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-08