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The metal head, a bit like a cadaverous automaton from Star Wars or a Terminator, is the creation of Kevin Warwick, a University of Reading cybernetics professor with a long...
Heads of Warwick Doom | Posted by joh at 01:00 PM on July 30, 2003
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The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. B. F. Skinner --Contingencies of Reinforcement (From Daily Philosophical Quotation)...
Thinking Men | Posted by joh at 09:17 AM on July 23, 2003
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Two airports have been alerted after a giant robotic balloon escaped from a science centre in South Yorkshire. Robot balloon escapes (thanks James) I wonder if it has gone in...
Escape Balloon | Posted by joh at 02:48 PM on July 16, 2003
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...the robotic drawing arm operates based on the neural activity of a few thousand rat neurons. Art. Rat-brain art. (via Boing Boing)...
Spicy Rat Brains do Art | Posted by joh at 01:00 PM on July 10, 2003
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That means we don't necessarily need to be doing what Kevin Warwick is. 'Natural-Born Cyborgs' Review (via Human Nature Daily) Very good to know. I'd hate to find I had...
Natural-Born | Posted by joh at 10:54 AM on June 23, 2003
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"It's soooo cute!" "And it has a wireless network cards up its bottom!" Fantastic....
Bottoms Up | Posted by joh at 12:27 AM on June 23, 2003
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Good: Getting to see an AIBO fall over while trying to punch a red box it thought was a football... Cute Robot. Bad: Hearing a presentation today where the presenter...
Good Bad | Posted by joh at 06:06 PM on June 11, 2003
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I think I may find my attempts to read Ulf's Home-Page of Programming Language Design would be aided by printing out this poster of Programming Languages through the ages (via...
Mother Tongue | Posted by joh at 08:25 AM on June 09, 2003
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Even the semantics of fundamental and nearly universal programming memes, such as the while loop and the finite precision integer, can be surprisingly difficult for students to comprehend. A while...
While | Posted by joh at 11:08 PM on May 22, 2003
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Are there other nano-goos out there? Why yes there are, thanks for asking. There's golden goo, nanobots designed to extract gold from seawater; khaki goo, nanotechnology used for military purposes;...
Gah Goo | Posted by joh at 10:20 AM on May 17, 2003
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First remote-controlled rats and now rat-brained robots. What is the world coming to?...
Rats Brains a plenty | Posted by joh at 08:27 AM on May 15, 2003
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"The worst fad has been these stupid little robots," said Minsky. "Graduate students are wasting 3 years of their lives soldering and repairing robots, instead of making them smart. It's...
Good for a giggle | Posted by joh at 05:59 PM on May 14, 2003
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Suppose that in mind are no magical arts ... If I knew how my brain produced thought, Not the feeling or skill, But the clockwork of will, How behaviour from...
A measure I need | Posted by joh at 04:48 PM on May 05, 2003
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Problems and Programmers is an educational software engineering card game. Featuring over 120 unique cards, it is intended to simulate the software development process from conception to completion. The game's...
Stevie's Problems | Posted by joh at 12:22 PM on April 25, 2003
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This competition is actually tempting me to re-open and refine my Norwegian vowel-teaching system... So. I need a better teaching system, better GUI, and better sound-samples. Sounds do-able. I'm not...
Competition Time? | Posted by joh at 11:03 AM on February 19, 2003
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