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Amazing that WPI hasn't recieved recognition here for the new major that's already in effect since late this fall (2004).

This program has been completely designed by the faculty at campus with input from student groups, alumni, and some industry contacts.

The first course under the new program started in B-Term (October - December).

http://www.wpi.edu/+IMGD if anyone cares.

It's not about piracy! The intention of laws like these is to turn everybody into lawbreakers, and make them subject to arrest and all the other fun and expensive things that happen as a result. This is helping to lead us into a worldwide prison society that will be needed to provide cheap labor as more people demand a desent(sp) living wage. So save all your(editorial yous. I only replied to you because you asked the question) moral huffing and puffing out there, and take a good look at what's really happening. These laws aren't pointless at all. They have a very important purpose.

http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Majors/IMGD/ Worcester Polytechnic Institute has a Interactive Media and Game Development major starting next year. They already have some classes available but the major wont be official until next year. One of the kids that I am living with next year is a CS/IMGD double major I think. This major seems to cover both the technical and design/story line aspects of gaming. They start off learning a base of both and then pick which direction they want to go in. Here is more information: http://www.wpi.edu/News/Releases/20045/imgd.html

http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Majors/IMGD/ Worcester Polytechnic Institute has a Interactive Media and Game Development major starting next year. They already have some classes available but the major wont be official until next year. One of the kids that I am living with next year is a CS/IMGD double major I think. This major seems to cover both the technical and design/story line aspects of gaming. They start off learning a base of both and then pick which direction they want to go in. Here is more information: http://www.wpi.edu/News/Releases/20045/imgd.html

Worcester Polytechnic Instute offers a B.S. degree in "Interactive Media and Game Development". The program is jointly administered by the Computer Science Department and Humanities and Arts Department, and focuses on both the technical and artistic sides.

It's not quite AI, yet Google comes closer to realizing the fantasy of Isaac Asimov's Multivac than anything else I've experienced before. It's very weird: the impression that Google gives is that it does NOT understand your question, yet it DOES manage to find the answers you want.

Yeah, some of the answers are funny. I did a search for "anime" near my house, and discovered (as I basically already knew) that the closest places are in Boston. (And, no, that's not my house in the center. I actually panned and zoomed there 'cause I was playing with the map first.)

The fact that WPI, a college in Worcester, came back twice (once for an article on a parking ban as "Worcester City Of: Streets" and once for their Science Fiction Society as WPI: Massachusetts Academy) is kind of... freaky.

It's not quite AI, yet Google comes closer to realizing the fantasy of Isaac Asimov's Multivac than anything else I've experienced before. It's very weird: the impression that Google gives is that it does NOT understand your question, yet it DOES manage to find the answers you want.

Yeah, some of the answers are funny. I did a search for "anime" near my house, and discovered (as I basically already knew) that the closest places are in Boston. (And, no, that's not my house in the center. I actually panned and zoomed there 'cause I was playing with the map first.)

The fact that WPI, a college in Worcester, came back twice (once for an article on a parking ban as "Worcester City Of: Streets" and once for their Science Fiction Society as WPI: Massachusetts Academy) is kind of... freaky.

It's not quite AI, yet Google comes closer to realizing the fantasy of Isaac Asimov's Multivac than anything else I've experienced before. It's very weird: the impression that Google gives is that it does NOT understand your question, yet it DOES manage to find the answers you want.

Yeah, some of the answers are funny. I did a search for "anime" near my house, and discovered (as I basically already knew) that the closest places are in Boston. (And, no, that's not my house in the center. I actually panned and zoomed there 'cause I was playing with the map first.)

The fact that WPI, a college in Worcester, came back twice (once for an article on a parking ban as "Worcester City Of: Streets" and once for their Science Fiction Society as WPI: Massachusetts Academy) is kind of... freaky.

PDP-10 rules!

I believe there were some mistakes in the MIT data.

I believe the whole thing is a load of crap. After getting tons of 404s from the links in the article, I managed to find the info on WPI. According to Forbes, WPI doesn't offer online classes, doesn't have a computer ethics policy, doesn't provide multimedia equipment, doesn't stream its radio station...

Five minutes at their web site reveals information that Forbes couldn't find. And people get paid to do this? I'm in the wrong racket...

I believe there were some mistakes in the MIT data.

I believe the whole thing is a load of crap. After getting tons of 404s from the links in the article, I managed to find the info on WPI. According to Forbes, WPI doesn't offer online classes, doesn't have a computer ethics policy, doesn't provide multimedia equipment, doesn't stream its radio station...

Five minutes at their web site reveals information that Forbes couldn't find. And people get paid to do this? I'm in the wrong racket...

I believe there were some mistakes in the MIT data.

I believe the whole thing is a load of crap. After getting tons of 404s from the links in the article, I managed to find the info on WPI. According to Forbes, WPI doesn't offer online classes, doesn't have a computer ethics policy, doesn't provide multimedia equipment, doesn't stream its radio station...

Five minutes at their web site reveals information that Forbes couldn't find. And people get paid to do this? I'm in the wrong racket...

I believe there were some mistakes in the MIT data.

I believe the whole thing is a load of crap. After getting tons of 404s from the links in the article, I managed to find the info on WPI. According to Forbes, WPI doesn't offer online classes, doesn't have a computer ethics policy, doesn't provide multimedia equipment, doesn't stream its radio station...

Five minutes at their web site reveals information that Forbes couldn't find. And people get paid to do this? I'm in the wrong racket...

Bitch-be-gone? (Warning: 25MB video)

In one of his comments he mentions having an e-mail address @wpi.edu.

One of WPI's claims to fame is that its students do not have to take any English courses.

Right now, Internet2 can download the entire Library of Congress in about 20 seconds.

I'm not aware of any PIAA for publishers, but somebody is going to have a problem with this. And by the time this actually happens, I bet there will be an Internet4 that can do it all in 20ms.

This link gives the full interpreter as well as the lessons.

The Tea Programming language.

"There is no speech-recognition system available for Linux, which is a big gap."

Um, Sphinx 2 (a predecessor of Sphinx 4) has been around for quite some time now. Like Sphinx 4, it's speaker-independent. Unlike Sphinx 4, it's a C library, and is thus easily interfaced with other languages (insert shameless plug for a simple Python interface for Sphinx 2 I wrote).

Yes, about 10 years ago, WPI used to do this in their Software Engineering class. However, they stopped doing this a year after I took the course, due to time constraints (we have 7 week terms).

Basically, what we had to do was generate a requirements document for the other development team to follow, and then they would develop the software per our requirements. We had to do the same thing with another group's set of requirements.

The aim of this was not to teach about outsourcing so much as it was to teach about generating a good set of requirements and learning how to interpret what the customer wants. These are skills you use regardless of whether you are outsourcing or insourcing.

+shameless plug How about PostScript Wumpus? -shameless plug

Here's an F-14 creating a sonic boom overhead in some type of airshow.

http://users.wpi.edu/~jbendor/F-14%20Sonic%20Boom. mpg

You're right. What I should of said is that efficiency is a logistic function. You can read about the difference between exponential, logarithmic, and logistic functions here.

Michael.

As a fraternity man myself, I can tell you that the sort of girls that drink beer are not the sort you want at your party...

Then again, I go to WPI...

My university,Worcester Polytechnic Institute required that we take seven (7) math courses to meet the math requirment for a degree. The courses I took are:

Calculus I-IV
Discrete Math (counted as CS credit though)
Linear Algebra and Matrices
Statistics
Probability in Applications

These courses helped out a lot when I took my higher level systems courses, especially networks and distributed computing. I would agree that computer science isn't "all about programming" and someone even equated programming to knowing lab equipment for chemistry, but that's took simple of an analogy because software is one of the main things we produce. A builder needs to know how to use a hammer to build a house, and without that knowledge he's not a builder.

Nitrogen is environmentally safe, too, but I don't plan on drinking a glass of it. Then again, this guy did, and (barely) lived to tell about it.

Robert C (Uncle Bob) Martin and others (even the RUP people - nowadays part of IBM, Rational - themselves) have argued that XP can be seen as a (lightweight) subset of RUP.

Martin wrote about XP vs RUP in 1998 (gg PDF-as-HTML). Martin calls/~ed it "dX" ("dX: A minimal RUP process"). Gary Pollice, former Rational 'Evangelist', have also explored RUP and XP common ground (gg PDF-as-HTML). Google for more.

Many of the countries with the strictest gun control have the highest rates of violent crime.
Australia and England, which have virtually banned gun ownership, have the highest rates of
robbery, sexual assault, and assault with force of the top 17 industrialized countries.

In America, a gun crime is recorded as a gun crime. In Britain, a crime is only recorded when there
is a final disposition (a conviction). All unsolved gun crimes in Britain are not reported as gun crimes, grossly undercounting the amount of gun crime there. To make matters worse, British law enforcement has been exposed for falsifying criminal reports to create falsely lower crime figures, in part to preserve tourism.

No need to worry, these are absolutely safe. Even if you break open the capsule containing the Tritium (3H) and ingest the whole lot, there will be no need to fill out a will. The amount of 3H in these devices is limited to less than 25 millicuries and at a committed effective dose of 64 millirem per mCi you could only possibly be exposed to a REM or 2 in the absolute worse case scenario. The yearly limit for radiation workers set by the DOE is 5 REM, so I think you will be OK!! :-)

Well, I'm a CS/ECE double major freshman at Worcester Polytechnical Institute and suggest you look into WPI as a school. The Computer Science department is highly respected among the other big-wigs in CS, such as MIT. As far as Internet2, well, we have that set up here and are a major contributor to the Internet2 community. In fact, we are helping other universities, including MIT, as well as government institutions in setting up Internet2. Check us out at wpi.edu. Alright, /plug.

Actually, if there had been more controls on Goddards work, he might not have almost burned down one of the halls a my alma matter... And yes, I was an aerospace engineering student at the same school where Goddard graduated.

Here are your links regarding the post of historical retort:

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Treaty of Versailles

Napoleon poisoned

Battle for Saipan-Japanese were no pushovers

Presidential Election of 1876

British burn Washington D.C. in 1814"

George Washington hammers the Brits

Also, please note that British propaganda against Napoleon was at least as strident as the American propaganda against Saddam Hussein.

This is a perect example of a dialog-box language barrier: Firmware Update
My only option was to click 'OK', and to my surprise the drive still works.

Awesome. So now we at WPI might actually have a current and low cost linux distro available in our campus bookstore, instead of the 2 year old corel linux distro. Thank you SuSE + Red Hat.

Very nice.

I've seen similar displays called Radial, Space-Filling (RSF) visualizations.

A paper was presented at InfoVis2002 on InterRings (PDF) that might be of interest.

Regards,
Chris.

I'd think copying the VGA output would produce a nicer result, personally. If LCD monitors can use standard VGA to create a pixel-based display, it's gotta be possible to steal the screen that way too.

I've been in several classes at my school that require research projects of one sort or another. If the professor thinks it's important enough, he takes a day off so a librarian can come in and teach us the basics of researching. The major topic is how to find stuff on the web (including an overview of the various paid databases the school has access to), and how to know if you can trust the info when you find it.

Most of this I had already learned in highschool, but there were certainly people in those classes who were clueless when it came to doing any kind of real research.

That really has to be seen to be believed. There are more hotfixes off the top of the screen, too...

In my neck of the woods (New England), the Hay Library at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island is well worth a visit. They have a bunch of unique MS collections ("manuscript," not "Microsoft"), including an unrivalled selection of H. P. Lovecraft. They also have a huge collection of comic books donated by a professor from my alma mater.

In Worcester, Massachusetts is the The Higgins Armory Museum, which features the collection of arms and armor accumulated by John Woodman Higgins. It is, as the curators will happily tell you, the only museum in the Western Hemisphere dedicated to arms and armor.

Also, probably not worth a visit, but interesting to note if you happen to be passing by, the Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts was made by evacuating and flooding four towns. If you hear anyone talking about the Lost Towns, that's what they mean. Always creeps me out to drive past it.

-Carolyn

Fortunately, I've switched to Mozilla since then :)

(And yes, that's a direct screenshot. No editting - just trying to read at threshhold -1, nested, on a 400+ comment story.)

That's true. It happened at our annual nitrogen ice cream fest.

The guy in the story was a friend's roomate at the time. This article from the school newspaper goes a bit more into the medical treatment of liquid nitrogen ingestion.

Yea, it happened at WPI a couple years ago.. here's the press release.

--matt

Yea, it happened at WPI a couple years ago.. here's the press release.

--matt

The last sentence of both news articles suggests that this broadband-optimized TCP system could be used by corporations like Disney to provide video-on-demand. (If they're talking to Microsoft, on the other hand, the result will just be a modification to the TCP/IP stack in Windows(r), which doesn't care at all what kind of data it's transmitting)

That's just wrong, at least according to the ways media companies have traditionally desired their materials to be broadcast over the internet. They typically use streaming protocols, which not only gives the user one-click startup, but also makes it non-trivial to keep a local copy of the file (enhancing the corporation's feeling of control).

However, a well-designed streaming protocol won't use TCP at all. TCP hides many characteristics of the network from the application software, and to stream properly it needs to know as much as possible. One example of why TCP is bad for streaming: in streaming, you try to keep advancing time at a constant rate. Once 156 seconds of playing have elapsed, you want to be showing video from exactly 156 seconds into the source file. If at 155 seconds some packets were dropped, you should just skip over them and continue onward. TCP, however, will always try to retransmit any lost packets, even if that means they'll arrive too late to do any good. TCP has no knowledge that packets may expire after a fixed time, but a custom-built UDP protocol can be aware of that constraint.
(Here's a reference on preferring UDP in video streaming)

On the other hand, maybe a corporation will realize that properly controlled non-streaming playback can provide a better end-user experience (guaranteeing, for example, that once playing starts, network failures will never interrupt it). In that case, they might either try to push Microsoft to integrate this faster TCP/IP into Windows(r), or more interestingly, implement it themselves in customized player software.

It's possible to implement a protocol equivalent to TCP on top of UDP, with only a tiny constant amount of overhead. So a programmer for realplayer, quicktime, or mplayer might be able to add the techniques from this research to his own code, even without support in the operating system.

Yeah, I'm someone at WPI - I doubt my name'll help much - Dan Potter. I think you were playing Dark Cloud in Founders 315 or whatever (across from 312, where I was for C and D term this year). I don't have any pictures of myself (right now), and am too lazy to search for one (that doesn't look horrible).

I don't remember everyone that was there, but several people were there end of D-term 2001, and somehow the topic of body image came up. Started at the pool tables, and moved to the fountain, if that helps.

Then I wound up taking a year off (2002, actually - not enough money), and was back this year to see you play Dark Cloud :). Hopefully I'll be graduating 2004, assuming everything goes well.

Hope that helps - if not, I'll get around to finding a picture or something...

I'm just larger-than-average.

I doubt that... if anything, I'd say average - I dunno, though (not having taken an exaustive survey or anything...)

What the hell is wrong with you? She looks like she's in pretty decent shape to me. A lot better than I was at 18, or even 15. I'm sorry that curves turn you off. I'm even more sorry that you help to perpetuate the idea that women have to starve themselves and work out obsessively to be beautiful.

If you think she's a fat cow, I'd hate to know what you think about me. (I was 17-18 when these pictures were taken.)

But if starved chicks are the only ones attractive to you, I guess you've been single for a while now, huh?

If anyone asks you questions about anime, please misdirect them. As anime becomes more popular, I fear it will go the way of all things that become popular. Increase in quantity and decrease in quality. Espcially if it becomes something to push in the Amercian market.

Anime has no shortage of quantity, and 90% of that quantity is crap - just like every other genre. The only difference is that we non-japanese folks only see the best stuff at the top of the pile, since that's most likely to be profitable. If anime gets more popular, it'll only mean that companies will try and bring over more "fringe" stuff to satisfy the fans. I've been a fan of anime since the days of Mazinger and would be happy to see more product, even if not all of it is to my taste.

Cute, but yeah it does.

Done it. Here's the one I worked on back in the early days of college: The Button It's 8 LEDs and a button connected to a paralel port (The button is attached to the select line... We got 9 uses out ouf ours!). When the button is pressed some scripts are run on the host that update this website, turn on the LEDs and other things. What the LEDs do is controlled by this web form.

This story is so 1996.