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MindMentor, the first robot psychologist

MindMentor, the first robot psychologistFirst? robot psychologist?The claim of "first" in the headline in patently false. Everyone knows that Joe Weizenbaum built the first one -- "ELIZA" in 1966. You should do some fact checking...RE: MindMentor, the first robot psychologistWhy would you do a whole article on this...

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Discussion threads 2008-03-11

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On stupid mascots and closed source browser plugins

Everyone's been harping on Google this week with the release of Chrome, so I thought I would be different -- today I'm going to give Adobe some love. Because I bet they feel left out. Adobe's Flash and Acrobat Reader plugins are some...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Web Browser Plug-in, Adobe Acrobat, Web Browser, Plug-in, Flash, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Is Cuil killing the Internet?

While the world gets excited over Google's new open-source browser, Chrome, a new story is emerging about one of the Web's next-generation utilities: Cuil, the search engine heralded as a "Google killer," might just be taking out the entire Internet, one site at a time. As...

Tags: Site, Cuil, Internet, Robots, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-09-02

News to know: Google Chrome; CAPTCHA breaking; StatusHQ

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Google to launch browser to target IE; Is Firefox a target or tag-team partner? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is Google Chrome an IE/Firefox/Opera/Safari killer? Ryan Naraine: Google Chrome, the security...

Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Inc., Web Browser, Web Browsers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Linux, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-02

I think I like Sid the Science Kid

PBS has a new show, Sid the Science Kid, handled in large part by Jim Henson's daughter. This digital puppetry was given a fairly luke-warm review by the New York Times: His show, done in that hyperactive style that adults have determined is what the very...

Tags: SID, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Follow that robot!

Three years after the development of robots that act like rats, UC Davis engineers have designed a control system for robots allowing them to pick up on cues that the leader is about to turn, predict where it is going and follow it. This system mimics the human ability to...

Tags: Cue, Leader, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-09-01

Intel's research into robotics

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, the company's Justin Rattner and Joshua Smith talk about advancements in robotics. The research involves dexterous robots with new sensory abilities. In the demo, Rattner grabs an apple from the grasp of a robot hand that can sense objects purely by changes...

Tags: Robotics, Intel Corp., Robots, Emerging Technologies, Intel

Videos 2008-08-22

News to know: Open source court victory; Surveillance; SAP; VMware

Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Police Surveillance: Go Snoop, Yourself Olympics Victor: NBC, Over YouTube Lessig blog: Huge and important news: free licenses upheld NYT: Ruling Is a Victory for Supporters of Free Software Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Open Source, SAP AG, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Defcon, 3G, Notebooks, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-08-14

Exclusive: A robot with a biological brain

Exclusive: A robot with a biological brainThe begining of the Cylon race? nt:(probably meant "you're" funnyDoesnt' change my opinion at all.Well, if this isn't the most immoral thing ever...it's gotta be kinda close.Cool but. could open a can of worms later...Did anyone else get a chill up the back of...

Tags: Robots, biological brain, robot

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

Exclusive: A robot with a biological brain

University of Reading scientists have developed a robot controlled by a biological brain formed from cultured neurons. And this is a world's premiere. Other research teams have tried to control robots with 'brains,' but there was always a computer in the loop. This new project is the first one to...

Tags: Project, Brain, Multi Electrode Array, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-08-13

News to know: Microsoft's Fiji; Apple; Green IT

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft finally speaks out on 'Fiji' Zack Whittaker: Windows Fiji: a world class failure Gallery: Windows Fiji - Screenshots right Gallery: Windows Fiji - Setup Garett Rogers: Google Translate for iPhone has...

Tags: apple iphone, larry dignan, green it, apple inc., microsoft corp., microsoft windows, e-mail, operating systems, software, online communications

Blog posts 2008-08-11

Robot submarine to dive deep in the Caribbean

According to BBC News, a new UK autonomous underwater vehicle AUV, Autosub6000, will soon start to explore the world's deepest undersea volcanoes located in the Caribbean. Autosub6000 has a range of up to 1,000 kilometers and has a maximum operating depth of 6,000 meters. It is 5.5 meters long, has...

Tags: researcher, meter, british broadcasting corp., species, autosub6000, nocs, robots, engineering, emerging technologies, roland piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-08-10

It's not good for everything, therefore it's not good for anything

It's not good for everything, therefore it's not good for anythingScientific vs. Data Processing: Did you just switch sides?Even in a research institute, most of the people will use boring finance and word processing applications that are well supported on all the major computing platforms. On the other hand, niches...

Tags: INTERNET, Desktops, Operating systems, nich, Sun Ray, mission critical, institute, PC, Sun Microsystems Inc., research institute

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

News to know: iPhone Dev Camp; So long computer science; Intel

Notable headlines: Andrew Mager: Touring iPhone Dev Camp 2 Live: Day 2 from the iPhone Dev Camp 2 Hands full? Get the iPhone arm Video: Spectrum ZX game montage Dion Hinchliffe: Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Comcast Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Computer Science, Broadband, Computer, Intel Corp., Robots, Corporate Governance, Digital Cameras, Federal Government, Monitors & Displays, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Government, Hardware, Components, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-04

Robot buoy to track oil spills

Yesterday, Japan Today reported about a prototype of robotic buoy developed at Osaka University to fight sea pollution in the event of an environmental disaster caused by an oil spill. The current prototype, dubbed SOTAB (short for 'Spilled Oil Tracking Autonomous Buoy') is a 110-kilogram GPS-equipped robot. The cylindrical buoy...

Tags: Oil, Buoy, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-08-03

A robot that really will make you smile

And I mean it -- literally. An article from Vaughan Today, Canada, reports about robots which help straighten smiles. According to this paper, 'Dr. Kevin Davis and his team are the first and only in Canada to offer SureSmile, a high-tech, digital method of producing precision braces.' Davis says that...

Tags: Brace, Vaughan Today, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-08-01

Toyota tinkers with baby Segways

Toyota on Friday announced that it is tinkering with a robot called the Winglet, which technically is "a personal transport assistance robot ridden in a standing position." Translation: Toyota may be eyeballing Segway's turf. The automaker said in a statement that the Winglet is still being refined,...

Tags: Toyota Motor Corp., Robots, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-01

Microsoft mashes up multiple natural-user-interface inputs

Microsoft mashes up multiple natural-user-interface inputsPlease, Mary JoKeep us posted on how the "receptionist robot" works out, would you? Let's just say I'm a skeptic about that one.I thought once B.G. (who was really pushing all this "natural" interface stuff) was out of the picture, more realistic minds would prevail....

Tags: Keyboards, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja

Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninjaLiberties"Mr. Future President, while you’re at it, could you also do something about all of the civil liberties we’re losing because of the ‘war on terrorism’? That’d be great. Thanks!"that is the point of Cyber Czar - censor what...

Tags: SECURITY, cyber-security measure, comprehensive cyber-security measure, Obama, cybersecurity

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

PicsGet (exe)

There are millions of free pictures on the Internet, when we found a site that contain thousand of free pictures that we interest in and we want to save them to hard disk, we must click through hundred of pages click each picture to save it, it will spend many...

Tags: Picture, Wsgsoft, PicsGet, Internet, Robots, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-07-17