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Microsoft unveils public robotics software

Microsoft unveils public robotics softwareThis is great news.I expect robot technology to skyrocket now.This will give new meaning ...... to BOTNETS!! HA! Sorry, couldn't resist.Picture all the hacked, trojan infested bots running amok, killing everything in their path ... oh the humanity!!This changes everything...First and foremost, this probably...

Tags: Robots, Linux, Web browsers, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., robotics, robot, robotics software

Discussion threads 2006-12-13

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The Use of Digital Manipulatives in K-12: Robotics, GPS/GIS and Programming

Faculty from 4-H Youth Development, Biosystems Engineering, and Education have collaborated to develop and implement an innovative robotics and geospatial technologies program, delivered in an informal learning setting of 4-H clubs and afterschool programs. Aimed at middle school youth, the program uses robotics and Global Positioning System GPS receivers and...

Tags: K-12, Youth, Robotics, Programming, Robots, GIS, GPS, Emerging Technologies, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2009-10-21

News to know: Apple WWDC, iPhone, Macs; Palm Pre; Google Apps; Facebook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Apple coverage: Ed Burnette: WWDC 2009 live Jason D. O'Grady: WWDC 09: the announcements (Updated 10x)...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Google Apps, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Sam Diaz, Cloud Computing, Pricing, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-06-09

News to know: Botnets; Adobe patch day; NetApp; Craigslist

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dancho Danchev: Inside the botnets that never make the news - a gallery Images: Inside the botnets that never make the news right ...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., NetApp Inc., Craigslist, Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Corp., Robots, GPS, Document Management, Storage, Emerging Technologies, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-21

Nanorobot for Brain Aneurysm

The idea of nanorobots floating throughout our arteries to fight diseases and deliver drugs is migrating from science fiction to medical fact, at least in virtual 3D simulations. Nanorobotics pioneer Adriano Cavalcanti and his colleagues report progress with their nanorobot control design NCD software which helps them simulate the behavior...

Tags: Gradient, Vessel, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology, Team Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-03-25

The Terminator scenario: Perhaps not so fictional after all

Sometime in the future--Military robots have joined forces and are targeting humans using Google Latitude. Tribes of robots have banded together in various metropolitan areas. Early reports indicate a programming malfunction.   Sounds like Terminator doesn't it? It could be real life some day if we don't...

Tags: Programming, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-20

Forget Yahoo, forget Dell: Should Microsoft buy Palm?

Forget Yahoo, forget Dell: Should Microsoft buy Palm?That would be a dumb idea......from the tech standpoint. If they are going to use Palm for the OS then they could simply take Android for free. Now of course this doesn't sit well with the marketing image that they have set forth...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Palm OS, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Wireless and Mobility, Dell Computer Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., Microsoft Corp., operating system, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-01-20

High School Robotics Team Wins the Judges Award at FIRST Robotics Competition

The FIRST Robotics Competition, FRC, is an international robotics competition for high-school-aged students. They had a grand Vision of what they wanted to accomplish with the Custom Dashboard. However, the visualization of data for real time systems is a challenging field for software development. The company deployed Perpetuum Software Instrumentation...

Tags: Robotics, Perpetuum Software, Robots, Emerging Technologies

Case studies 2009-01-01

How a High School Robotics Team Achieved Success Thanks to Perpetuum Software

One of the very cool aspects of the Kit of Parts, which all teams have to use, is the Operator Interface OI and the Robot Controller RC, which are connected via two-way wireless modems. The RC sends a data 26 byte packet 40 times a second back to the OI....

Tags: Robotics, Perpetuum Software, Operator Interface, Robot Controller, Robots, Team Management, Emerging Technologies, Management

White papers 2009-01-01

Sun releases VirtualBox 2.1

Andy Hall, Sun's Sr. Product Manager of VirtualBox, spent a while filling me on VirtualBox 2.1 the other day. He wanted to let me know that some significant milestones had been reached and tell me a bit about the new release. Significant Milestones First,...

Tags: Software, Innotek VirtualBox, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., Virtual Machine, Desktop Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-12-22

Semantic and Epistemological Continuity in Educational Robots' Programming Languages

The object of this paper is to analyze some new open-source software for the programming of educational robotic kits which can accompany the student from pre-school to high school. The authors propose the development of a learning environment which operates on two levels: the physical level, with the planning and...

Tags: Programming Language, Personalization, Programming, ROBOETHICS, Robots, Development Tools, Emerging Technologies, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2008-11-04

Yes folks, the cloud and parallel processing need killer apps

Microsoft's research chief Craig Mundie outlined his view of where computing is headed over the next decade or so and here is a big takeaway: The cloud and multiprocessor computing could use a few good killer applications. Mundie was speaking at the Technology Review Emerging Technology conference....

Tags: Killer Application, Parallel Processing, Computing, Craig Mundie, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-25

News to know: RIP enterprise data center; Red Hat breach; Google

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Dion Hinchcliffe: Are we ready to declare the "time of death" for the enterprise data center? Joe McKendrick: Is SOA an elixir or real fix for 'medieval'...

Tags: Google Inc., Red Hat Inc., Palm Inc., Video, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Corporate Communications, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Open Source, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Interpreting Images With MRDS Services

Most people do not realize how difficult it can be to process a digital image and extract meaningful data, such as information required to drive a robot or operate an embedded platform. Humans see the world as a series of concrete images, but robots using a web cam see it...

Tags: Robots, Emerging Technologies

White papers 2008-08-21

'Sensing' more about what's coming in Windows 7

'Sensing' more about what's coming in Windows 7Windows sensors will bring a new management interfaceto set them up, and then they'll crash unexpectedly, and make things stop responding.There'll be a "grandfather" sensor which automatically reboot the machine, and does some protocol sniffing on your box, to make sure that Microsoft...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, sensor, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

Apple's <i>Grand Central</i> threat to Microsoft

Apple's Grand Central threat to MicrosoftNecessary motivationIt could go something like this ...1. Software company APPLE realises it will get good press and follow-on sales by harnessing computing power in existing multi-core CPU's. If only they had better integration with the hardware ...2. GPU Hardware companies (ATI, NVIDIA) realise they...

Tags: BTW Windows, Apple Inc., multi-core, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-17

Robofish teams of underwater robots

Many of today's underwater robots need to periodically come up to the surface to communicate with their human supervisors. But researchers at the University of Washington UW have developed a new kind of underwater vehicle. The Robofish can work cooperatively with each other. 'The Robofish, which are roughly the size...

Tags: Team, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-07

Deliver Next-Generation SOA Apps With Microsoft Robotics Development Studio

The software development world has evolved quite a bit over the last 20 odd years. The author went from object-oriented development to component-oriented development and now to service-oriented development. Each step along the way, the current programming methodology has borrowed useful ideas from its predecessor and tried to improve upon...

Tags: Robotics, Development, Jupitermedia Corp., Microsoft Corp., Object-oriented, Software Development World, Software Development, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Development Tools, Robots, Software/Web Development, Emerging Technologies

White papers 2008-06-05

A robotic brain-computer interface

California Institute of Technology Caltech engineers have developed a robotic device able to act as a brain-computer interface. This is the 'first robotic approach to establishing an interface between computers and the brain by positioning electrodes in neural tissue.' According to the researchers, their approach 'could enhance the performance and...

Tags: Algorithm, Electrode, California Institute Of Technology, Positioning, Telecom & Utilities, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-21

Nanorobots to improve health care

Using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases is not a new idea check here or there. Of course, nanorobots floating inside our bodies to improve our health are still years away. However, an international team of American and Australian researchers is developing a nanorobot hardware architecture for medical defense...

Tags: Software, 3D, Protein, Biomedical, Health Care, Hardware Architecture, Healthcare, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-19