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That's an old, very debunked myth. Propane burns faintly invisibly, and yet most campers have seen a propane lantern (hydrogen's flame, by the way, isn't invisible (even in the visible spectrum), just very faint blue - the darker it is around the flame, the easier it is to see it.). The reason that propane lanterns are so bright has nothing to do with the light from the flame - it has to do with the heat from the flame heating up a mantle and making it glow. In the case of the Hindenburg, it was one big lantern-mantle.

I second the reccomendation. Either Croquet or just regular Squeak Smalltalk which includes the Alice 3D engine.

It can't be good to have a 8731x1276 GIF as a logo on their first page, especially when being slashdotted.

Anyway, if you want to know how this will come out (Death of Microsoft), go here: http://oak.psych.gatech.edu/~epic/ols-master.html.

Flash required, work friendly (but with sound)

jaz

You want a machine that understands sign language? Look here.

I'll name just one since you just need an example - http://www.cc.gatech.edu/news/palem.pdfpbits.

Stuff that the grandparent missed:
1. Quantam computing
2. Formal verification of systems: Born in 60s and 70s to likes of Djikstra and Lamport, revived in late 80s and early 90s, used in hardware design today. Still a lot to do for software design.

Yes, compilers, wired networks and OS have been pretty stagnant as far as research is considered - and thats what computer engineers think computer science is. And sci-fi fans add AI to the list.

Squeak has come up here a few times before. Squeak is an implementation of the Smalltalk programming language- the first fully OO language. It's where the WIMP (windows, icons, menus and pointers) GUI was invented, what Steve Jobs and his crew saw at Xerox Parc when they toured it.

Squeak has a lot of interesting media authoring capabilities in addition to the core language. In a lot of ways it's an OS running on top of whatever host OS you're running. It is completely binary compatible across platforms; not write once, debug anywhere like Java, but true cross platform compatibility with your binaries.

It runs on oodles of platforms: Linux/X11, Linux/DirectFB, Linux/SDL, Linux/SVGAlib, most any unix with X11, Mac OS X, Mac OS Classic, Windows XP/2k/ME/98/95, Acorn RiscOS, DOS, Pocket PC 2k/2k2/WM2003, WinCE 2.11-4.2, and probably a few more platforms I completely forgot. I develop for the Pocket PC in Squeak; I simply copy my image to my Axim via wifi and open it up- there's never any doubt as to whether or not it'll run ala Java.

Also see Squeak.org and the Squeak Swiki.

RFID tagged tools for disabled people, parents knowing where their children are, trackers which can help doctors see how their patients are doing, helping me finding my car keys - I could go on.

In fact, one of my classmates did a project on helping blind people get around doing their daily jobs using RFID tags. My school has a project called Aware Home, which is basically the idea of a home that can monitor the inhabitants - this combined with RFID tags can accomplish some pretty cool things.

ARRRRRGH!!! BANNER!!!! I remember that big, ugly whore of a database from my days at another unnamed university... oh hell, the Georgia Institute of Technology. In fact, after I saw your post, I logged into my banner account (I graduated in 1999) and checked out my grades... hah...

Meanwhile, a man swims across the Atlantic ocean at 80km/day, and a woman rows through the Pacific at 110km/day.

And remember the fly-eating robot which crawls 5m/day. I bet I could do better.

I won't welcome our new UAV masters until one of them completes the International Aerial Robotics Competition.

And if you ever want to visit all 24,978 "cities" in Sweden (maybe to sell something) this is the tour to take.

Actually, with a top projection system like this, the shadows are not a problem. (People are USED to not being able to see under their hands, not because of shadows, but because their hands block the view anyways...)

The problem with shadows comes up with vertical surfaces, but that too can be solved with "Virtual Rear Projection."

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/cpl/vrp/

http://oak.psych.gatech.edu/~epic/ols-master.html [flash] seems to be the general direction of things because of the so-called "blogosphere".

My own two cents? I think it goes back to journalistic integrity. I run a blog of sorts as well. Do I consider myself a journalist? No. Are there some bloggers who consider themselves journalists? Yes, but I wouldn't necessarily call all of them that.

We've got a discussion board and a good discussion about the issues involved here.
We're trying to take advantage of some new papers (pdf) that propose a better tire model than the older Pacejka. Check out the math heavy pdfs here and here.

We've got a discussion board and a good discussion about the issues involved here.
We're trying to take advantage of some new papers (pdf) that propose a better tire model than the older Pacejka. Check out the math heavy pdfs here and here.

'Cause when love is gone, there's always justice. And when justive is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi Mom! So hold me, Mom, in your long arms. So hold me, Mom, in your long arms. In your automatic arms. Your electronic arms. In your arms. So hold me, Mom, in your long arms. Your petrochemical arms. Your military arms. In your electronic arms.

For more information : Interesting Perspective But maybe highly inacurate but worth the look!

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There are possible risks with nanotechnology, especially since we don't have a full grasp of what the newly engineered particles can do.

Gunter Oberdorster at University of Rochester http://www2.envmed.rochester.edu/envmed/tox/facult y/oberdoerster.html found that fullerenes caused "damage" to the brains of fish. Now a researcher from Rice recently gave a lecture here at the U of South Carolina and called some of that research into question, but still you have to wonder. Also, there is the problem of metals from nanopackaging surrounding chemo delivery particles http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/release.php?id=450 possibly collecting in the pancreas. Also research on some particles have suggested that they might cross the blood-brain barrier in humans. While this might be good for dealing with brain tumors http://www.nano.org.uk/thisweek78.htm it also raises the very real possibility that something we don't want in the brain might get there.

While I'm not all about regulating the nano-industry into oblivion, I would rather we treat it with much respect. I know that there is an "Asilomar" style conference on nano in the planning for either late this year or early next year partially sponsored by U of South Carolina http://www.nano.sc.edu/

Let's not assume anything is safe, after all, look what happened when nuclear power was tumpeted as the salvation discovery.

After having worked with ubiquitous computing for a while, I can tell you one thing -- that thing is too big and has very bad affordances for it to take off big time.

On the other hand, look at something that folks like Thad Starner or Steve Mann come up with - better affordances.

(Mann actually had a different helmet design and changed to the Eye-tap design)

Maybe you should look into NETI@home then.

Georgia Tech has had Biomedical Engineering offered as a major for a few years now. It's a pretty popular new major.

Recently there has been a discovery of a curious phenomenon deep in the deciduous woods of Southern Illinois. In the midst of the underbrush there is a clearing revealing a circle of short wooden tree-stump-like structures. In the middle of that circle there is a post-and-lintel structure. The entire circular configuration is oriented toward the exact point at which the sun rises on the day of the summer solstice.

Who built this structure? And for what purpose? To what end? A primitive calendar? A center of worship? A lost tribe?

Woodhenge: A mystery that continues to cloud the American brain.

This article left me rather insatisfied, so I looked for a better one. I found it here, a collection of papers on the subject, with real-world results, it seems. The first article is a nice overview, and there's some pics of odd-looking silicon. They have funding from DARPA, interestingly enough.

Google India launches Google India Code Jam 2005 with a payoff of Rs. 3lakh (roughly enquivalent to $20k (my estimate after adjusting for cost of living and annual salaries)). This contest is also being organized by TopCoder.

The Google India News page also links to this news article about Anurag Acharya, a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technlogy and the engineer behind Google Scholar. Incidentally, Krishan Bharat the Principle Scientist at Google who created Google News is also an IIT graduate.

http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/newsrelease/synje ts.htm This new technology seems to be promising.

I know mapquest is a nice site but I find that no one here mentioned http://map24.com/. I prefer it to mapquest and it seems to have some features that google does not yet have. But the google site is also excellent. Google scares me and I hate to think that every new place I go to with the assistance of google maps could be stored somewhere. The way google is growing we better think about our future: http://oak.psych.gatech.edu/~epic/

I think we just made another step towards Epic 2014

Here's another, slightly more criticial review from a blog specializing in game and narrative theories:
http://grandtextauto.gatech.edu/2005/01/25/a-theor y-of-fun-reviewed/

In the year 2014, The New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate's fortunes have waned. What happened to the news? And what is Epic?

It's fiction but what might happen when Google takes over?

ok, i'll give you that i've seen people get BS and MS degrees in CS at GT who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag, but the highest honors on my BS degree indicates i was setting the curve, not riding it.

also, the terms i use aren't obscure or fancy to the people i work with. they're everyday speak.

granted, my work with Boeing is a result of my advisor sweet-talking Boeing, but what led to my internship with NASA was a paper i wrote contradicting some presumptions made by a big shot working for NASA/JPL. The paper also discusses some hacks for improving speed, and adding flexability without hurting speed.

If discovering and implementing publication-worthy improvements to a piece of software that won an ACM Systems Software Award in 2001 is not enough evidence i can program, i'll just let you assume i'm a "bureaucrat".

hell, i'll assume you're just a mindless code monkey if you don't know any functional languages with static type checking and type inferencing.

Plurality voting suffers from th spoiler effect, which introduces inaccuracy amounting to about a 7% error on average, when it occurs, reaching as high as 23% in some U.S. elections.

Instant Runoff Voting has even been shown to produce the Condorcet winner more often in practice than the Condorcet method, because Condorcet voting be manipulated by strategic voting (i.e., marking whichever of the top-two candidates you do not want to win dead last after people you like even less.) These references explain why in detail:

John J. Bartholdi III, James B. Orlin, "Single transferable vote resists strategic voting," Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 8, p. 341-354, 1991

John R. Chamberlin, "An investigation into the relative manipulability of four voting systems," Behavioral Science, vol. 30, p. 195-203, 1985

Hannu Nurmi, "Comparing Voting Systems," D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, 1987.

Sam Merrill, "Making Multicandidate Elections More Democratic," Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1988. (Calls IRV 'Hare')

For those who are interested, there is a flash animation of the possible evolution of google. Its quite possible, also makes you think. http://oak.psych.gatech.edu/~epic/

The amazing thing is how well Moore's law has stood up against repeated Malthusian forecasts of its demise. One still presumes that the fences of quantum uncertainty, relativistic delay, and heat production will prevent Moore's law from continuing number of device doubling indefinitely, without major paradigm shift (async to beat the clock?reversible to beat heat & entropy? optical? quantum?), but mere technological advances may continue far beyond my Malthusian imagination.

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Cole's Law -- Finely Sliced Cabbage with dressing.

I'm working on the Aerial Robotics Team at my college. We compete in the International Aerial Robotics Competition and this year the prize for successfully completing the mission is $40,000. It's interesting that although we are competing with the other teams, we are also all very cooperative. Teams that have solved some of the problems we are working on are more than happy to tell us about there solution and how we could implement the same thing. Competition does not rule out cooperation.

I use whatever serves the task at hand best.

At the moment, I'm working on something called Godel for automated formalisms of set-theory proofs in something called Otter - however, both do not work very well on Mathematica in Linux and hence am on Windows.

If Linux served a particular need better, I'd use Linux. A computer is a tool, nothing more.

and from looking at TFP, it looks easy enough to do those "coil" layouts on a regular printed circuit board. TFAseems to have given away the rest: Use a rare-earth magnet encased in titanium for strength at the very high RPM's generated by a dental drill.

That soldering job (the six wires coming off the board) looks horrible. My worst SMT soldering looks better than that.

and from looking at TFP, it looks easy enough to do those "coil" layouts on a regular printed circuit board. TFAseems to have given away the rest: Use a rare-earth magnet encased in titanium for strength at the very high RPM's generated by a dental drill.

That soldering job (the six wires coming off the board) looks horrible. My worst SMT soldering looks better than that.

Here are links to more articles:

Space Daily
GaTech
A Student's description

Here are links to more articles:

Space Daily
GaTech
A Student's description

It's about time somebody jumped on all these "liberal bias" claims. The "bias" argument is a distraction, and an excuse to avoid actually having to prove what you're saying.

See Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit for a good description of logical fallacies, including the one mentioned in the parent post.

http://www.artfiles.org/mozilla.org/firefox/releas es/1.0/(Germany)
ftp://ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp/Mozilla/firefox/releases/1 .0/
http://ftp.kaist.ac.kr/pub/mozilla/firefox/release s/1.0/
ftp://ftp.kaist.ac.kr/pub/mozilla/firefox/releases /1.0/
ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mozilla/firefox/releas es/1.0/
http://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mozilla/firefox/relea ses/1.0/
http://sunsite.rediris.es/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/ releases/1.0/
ftp://sunsite.rediris.es/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/r eleases/1.0/
ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/mozilla/firef ox/releases/1.0/
ftp://mozilla.isc.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rele ases/1.0/ (US)
ftp://trillian.cc.gatech.edu/pub/mozilla.org/firef ox/releases/1.0/
ftp://mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu/pub/mozilla.org/fir efox/releases/1.0/
ftp://mozilla.oregonstate.edu/pub/mozilla.org/fire fox/releases/1.0/
http://mirrors.kernel.org/mozilla/firefox/releases /1.0/ (US)
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/mozilla/firefox/releases/ 1.0/ (US)

Mirrors:

http://64.12.168.21/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releas es/1.0
http://207.200.85.49/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/relea ses/1.0/
http://trillian.cc.gatech.edu/pub/mozilla.org/fire fox/releases/
http://mozilla.osuosl.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/ releases/1.0/
http://mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu/pub/mozilla.org/fi refox/releases/

Official Torrent:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rel eases/1.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%201.0.exe.to rrent

Well, many schools have programs specific to this area.

One of my Masters is in the HCI Program at the GVU Center at Georgia Tech, with specialization in the CS track.

CMU, Stanford, Berkeley, NYU, UWash etc are some other schools with such programs.

Well, many schools have programs specific to this area.

One of my Masters is in the HCI Program at the GVU Center at Georgia Tech, with specialization in the CS track.

CMU, Stanford, Berkeley, NYU, UWash etc are some other schools with such programs.

Yeah, it's likely it'll take a long time to fix it.

Gerald Tenenbaum (the guy who pointed out the mistake) is quite well known, so if he feels that this affects the paper badly, it's probably quite true - and it maybe a while before people get around coming up with an alternative.

(I know this because Tenenbaum is known to my advisor, Jean Bellissard.)

Well, mine did finish downloading, so here you go -

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~metlin/LunarEclipse-10-2 004.wmv

I would appreciate it if you'd be easy on the server, though =)

And btw, it's quite a cool video, but it would have been cooler still if it were more of a close-up. At that distance, it looks a little obscure.

well then ur a fucktard cuz you can get the iso here, here, and here. And if you'd like, you can even look at this HTML page on Suse's website which shows you the same links.

maybe you should become better informed before you start bitching about something that is clearly the result of your stupidity. loser.