Pitt students get everything free (inluding Visual Studio.NET which is $119 at the CMU computer store). They can even download the stuff from the web!
Why CMU is too cheap to pay for a better agreement, I'll never understand! I guess they figure people willing to put out $32,000/year for school can pay $25 for MS office.
The Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at Carnegie Mellon University offers a two-year Masters of Entertainment Technology degree, jointly conferred by Carnegie Mellon University's College of Fine Arts and School of Computer Science. Carnegie Mellon is relatively unique among U.S. Universities in being able to offer this kind of degree, as we have both top-quality fine arts and top-quality technology programs.
The ETC also has an undergraduate course called Building Virtual Worlds - check out the class's final project.
What is wrong with the US military performing it's constitutionally mandated duty: defending the United States.
I don't understand how the US maintaining military superiority will "end the world as we know it."
If memory serves me correctly, it's always Europeans who keep trying to take over the world.
Ungrateful, anti-american fuckers like you really aggrivate me. Do you doubt for a minute that communist China or some other facist nation won't some day try to attack the US? Get real! I hope that when they do you're living in ground zero of their attack.
The US should have a strong military to defend and protect Americans. Period. The US government must remain soverign, never abdicating power to a higher authority - whether that authority be the UN, EU, or global opinion. We shouldn't give a flying fuck about what the French (or any other European nation) think about our defenses. They're our business, not theirs - and I'm glad the military (and the Bush Administration) aren't backing down.
This is really offtopic, but I'm going to ramble on anyway...
1. Comparing the US's attempts to enforce embargos on communist countries run by dictators to the EU's implied goal of protecting European businesses to the detriment of US business is COMPLETELY INVALID.
2. Take the GE/Honeywell merger for example. Historically, the litmus test for US regulators is whether how a merger/etc will impact consumers. The EU takes a totally different course - looking at how the merger will impact European businesses. See this article for more details. Historically, European companies held down by socialist governments can't compete on a level playing field with US companies. By blocking the GE/Honeywell merger the EU was protecting the largely government-financed Airbus.
3. If the Europeans want to go ahead with Kyoto, why haven't they ratified it?!?! If Kyoto is aimed at protecting the enviroment and not holding back the US economy why are third world countries like china exempt? Not one senator voted for the treaty. And it's good that they didn't - their job is to protect Americans and our interests - and Kyoto isn't in America's best interest.
How does my Sprint PCS Phone differ from a standard external modem?
Aside from the obvious difference that it's wireless, the biggest difference between your Sprint PCS Phone and an ordinary modem is that there's no modem in your Sprint PCS Phone, PC, or laptop - the modem actually resides within the Sprint PCS Nationwide Network. However, to your computer, your phone looks the same as an ordinary 14400 bps external serial modem. To you, the important difference is that your connection is wireless.
Altough I never had much luck with Sprint's (optional) compression/proxy software.
Just because US companies don't use GSM doesn't mean that US cell phone technology is five years behind GSM-using countries.
I've got a UK Orange mobile for when I travel in Europe, a SprintPCS phone for personal use, and a Nextel for work. Based on sound quality alone, US phone networks beat GSM hands down (at least Orange's network).
How about features? Can your precious GSM phone networks do Voicecommand or DirectConnect? I doubt it.
I think it's better to compare inter-country GSM roaming to interstate roaming in the US. My Sprint & Nextel phone work in almost every major market in the US (and Sprint even in Canada) - that's all that matters to most people in this country.
Altough Westinghouse has been in the media business since 1920 (first radio station in the country: KDKA Pittsburgh), they bought CBS in 1995, then sold off all of their industrial assets in 1997 - effectively becoming CBS.
In 2000, Viacom aquired CBS.
http://www.westinghouse.com/A1a4.asp
http://www.internetwk.com/intranet/west/his_brd. ht m
Carnegie Mellon Professor's Unique New vision Technology Will be used to Present Instant Replays in Super Bowl XXXV
Football fans tuning into this year's Super Bowl will be treated to a unique new view of the action during instant replays. CBS Television will be presenting them using a new technology, co-developed by CBS and Carnegie Mellon University computer vision expert Takeo Kanade.
"Eye Vision", as CBS calls it, involves shooting multiple video images of a dynamic event, such as a football game, from multiple cameras placed at different angles. The video streams from these cameras are combined by computer and the resulting images reach viewers in a 270-degree format that will make them feel as if they are flying throughthe scenes they see.
USA Today notes in its Jan. 23 article that viewers and referees "will be able to see rotating . . . stop-action shots from simultaneous angles. The resulting pictures will demonstrate conclusively whether passes were caught and if the ballcarrier was down before the fumble,out-of-bounds or over the goal line."
The action at Super Bowl XXXV will be captured by more than 30 cameras, each poised some 80 feet above the field at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla. Each camera, with computer-controlled zoom and focus capabilities, is mounted on a custom-built, robotic pan-tilt head, which can swing the camera in any direction at the command of a computer. These camera heads are controlled in concert so that cameras point, zoom and focus at the same time on the same spot on the field, where some action (touch down or fumble) is occurring.
The system operates in the following way: One of the camera heads is designated as the master camera. A human cameraman operates a movable pan-tilt tripod, attached to a flat liquid crystal display (LCD) tv screen on which the video from the master camera is constantly displayed. The pan-tilt tripod is equipped with sensors to constantly measure its angle. The master camera head moves by mimicking the motion of the tripod as the cameraman moves it to capture a moving object on the field on his LCD TV screen.
In the meantime, information collected from the master camera's pan-tilt angles, zoom and focus is fed to a computer, which quickly computes the appropriate control signal for each of the remaining cameras. This causes all of them to converge on the same target and capture its image from a variety of angles.
Live action on the football field is continuously captured up to 30 times per second by the video cameras. The video of each camera is synchronized and time stamped so that all the views at the most critical and interesting moments can be played back in sequence, as if a viewer had flown around the action.
Kanade will explain his technology in an interview from Tampa, which will air during the Super Bowl Pre-Game Show. He notes that the "Eye Vision" demonstration that will appear on Super Bowl Sunday is only a small part of this new technology, which he calls "Virtualized Reality" opposed to virtual. reality, and is the product of more than six years of research.
For Virtualized Reality to achieve its full impact, the set of captured, multiple video images must be processed beyond the play back. The detailed geometrical information about a scene--the shapes of targets and background--is extracted by computer, which enables a person to choose how to view a scene, even from a perspective that was actually not shot by any camera.
To bring this concept to life, Kanade and his students built a "3D room" equipped with more than 50 video cameras and experimented by filming people involved in a variety of sports activities. He also spun off a company named Zaxel Systems, Inc., for commercialization of the technology. Much of this work can be viewed at the Virtualized Reality Web site: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/project/Virtu alizedR/www/VirtualizedR.html
In contrast to virtual reality, in which synthetic environments are created, Virtualized Reality, and to a lesser extent, Eye Vision, are based on events taking place in the real world, which are captured and processed by computer manipulation. "Because our models are derived from real images," Kanade says, "the models look much more real than typical virtual worlds."
Kanade says the output from these multiple cameras shooting a scene together from many angles actually can create totally new views that were not captured by any camera. As this technology develops, he believes it will create a completely new way to view sports and entertainment events. People will be able to customize the perspective from which they watch--e.g. from that of a particular player or the ball.
Kanade is the director of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. He has been a leader in the development of video-based vision systems used in the university's autonomous vehicles and exploration robots. His team has developed a vision-based autonomous helicopter,which ultimately may be able to aid in search and rescue operations, fire fighting and inspection tasks. He is also a pioneer in medical robotics and computer-assisted surgery, working with surgeons and medical professionals to develop smart tools capable of performing medical procedures better than a physician or machine could do alone.
Kanade earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in electrical engineering from Kyoto University, Japan. He has been on the Carnegie Mellon faculty since 1980 and director of the Robotics Institute since 1991. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Most recently he received a $100,000 award from the NEC Foundation for C&C Promotion for "fundamental and broad contributions to the development of multimedia through the advancement of robotics and computer vision."
I'd have to say that the best teachers I've ever had don't care about the money - they'd work for $1 a year.
My CS teacher in high school (also taught me calc) was the best teacher I've ever had. Even though he was teaching to three levels of CS kids at once (Intro [Pascal] / Basic [C++] / Data Structures [C++]), I learned so much from him. He would stay and work with students as late as possible, and he taught himself C++, then Data Structures when kids were demanding a more advanced courses. He could be a researcher or a professor, but instead he's doing what he loves, teaching high school students. A good programmer does NOT make a good teacher.
We didn't do AP. We do The University of PittsburghCollege in High School Program. It's much more effective, multiple tests and mastery programs are assigned over the year, rather than a one shot deal like the AP test. You end up with actual Pitt college credit, not a goofy AP score. [the Data Structures course at my old high school isn't supported by Pitt]
Carnegie Mellon took my Pitt credits just like they take AP scores, to get out of 15-111/15-112 - I placed into 15-113. (Currently introductory CS courses are taught in C++)
My Sprint phone doesn't have that problem. Voicemail indicator turns on and my phone beeps immediately after someone leaves a voicemail. Every time. (Pittsburgh market)
I've had a Sprint phone for almost a year. I'd agree that they make more mistakes than my last carrier (Bell Atlantic Mobile/Verizon) - but the customer service people are all very friendly and willing to help. I've yet to encounter a rude representative (or customer advocate or whatever). The morons at BAM were such asses that I couldn't believe they had customers. At least that's my experience in the Pittsburgh market.
AIM is a little hard to use on a phone without T9 entry - but it's still pretty cool.
Sprint just introduced this My Music thing just recently. Apparently they're providing 2GB of MP3 storage for use with a Samsung Uproar phone. I don't know how they're planning on streaming to the phone - best data rate I can get with my SCH 3500 is 14.4.
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And CMU's agreement sucks compared to Pitt's...
Pitt students get everything free (inluding Visual Studio.NET which is $119 at the CMU computer store). They can even download the stuff from the web!
Why CMU is too cheap to pay for a better agreement, I'll never understand! I guess they figure people willing to put out $32,000/year for school can pay $25 for MS office.
But Carnegie Mellon (also mentioned in the article) does: Entertainment Technology Center
The Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at Carnegie Mellon University offers a two-year Masters of Entertainment Technology degree, jointly conferred by Carnegie Mellon University's College of Fine Arts and School of Computer Science. Carnegie Mellon is relatively unique among U.S. Universities in being able to offer this kind of degree, as we have both top-quality fine arts and top-quality technology programs.
The ETC also has an undergraduate course called Building Virtual Worlds - check out the class's final project.
What is wrong with the US military performing it's constitutionally mandated duty: defending the United States.
I don't understand how the US maintaining military superiority will "end the world as we know it."
If memory serves me correctly, it's always Europeans who keep trying to take over the world.
Ungrateful, anti-american fuckers like you really aggrivate me. Do you doubt for a minute that communist China or some other facist nation won't some day try to attack the US? Get real! I hope that when they do you're living in ground zero of their attack.
The US should have a strong military to defend and protect Americans. Period. The US government must remain soverign, never abdicating power to a higher authority - whether that authority be the UN, EU, or global opinion. We shouldn't give a flying fuck about what the French (or any other European nation) think about our defenses. They're our business, not theirs - and I'm glad the military (and the Bush Administration) aren't backing down.
Pittsburgh isn't that depressing, and it's not always cloudy...
Besides, CMU's giving up on the grand plan of a west coast campus - at least for now:
CMU's westward expansion bogs down in slow economy
Here's another recently released study on cell phone use while driving:
CMU research has implications for talking on phone while driving
This is really offtopic, but I'm going to ramble on anyway...
1. Comparing the US's attempts to enforce embargos on communist countries run by dictators to the EU's implied goal of protecting European businesses to the detriment of US business is COMPLETELY INVALID.
2. Take the GE/Honeywell merger for example. Historically, the litmus test for US regulators is whether how a merger/etc will impact consumers. The EU takes a totally different course - looking at how the merger will impact European businesses. See this article for more details. Historically, European companies held down by socialist governments can't compete on a level playing field with US companies. By blocking the GE/Honeywell merger the EU was protecting the largely government-financed Airbus.
3. If the Europeans want to go ahead with Kyoto, why haven't they ratified it?!?! If Kyoto is aimed at protecting the enviroment and not holding back the US economy why are third world countries like china exempt? Not one senator voted for the treaty. And it's good that they didn't - their job is to protect Americans and our interests - and Kyoto isn't in America's best interest.
Just called VoiceStream's techsupport (1-800-256-9991). DataStream is 9.6, not 19.2 - which is worse than the 14.4 offered by Sprint or Verizon.
Nope.
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Unlimited Omnkisky service is as cheap as $29/month.
http://www.omnisky.com/products/serviceplans.jhtm
I use it with my Visor, and it's a little slow but still usable.
Same thing with my Samsung SCH-3500 - acts like a plain 14.4 modem. I've had great luck with coverage in Pittsburgh and NY.
From the Sprint Wireless Web Connection FAQ:
How does my Sprint PCS Phone differ from a standard external modem?
Aside from the obvious difference that it's wireless, the biggest difference between your Sprint PCS Phone and an ordinary modem is that there's no modem in your Sprint PCS Phone, PC, or laptop - the modem actually resides within the Sprint PCS Nationwide Network. However, to your computer, your phone looks the same as an ordinary 14400 bps external serial modem. To you, the important difference is that your connection is wireless.
Altough I never had much luck with Sprint's (optional) compression/proxy software.
Just because US companies don't use GSM doesn't mean that US cell phone technology is five years behind GSM-using countries.
I've got a UK Orange mobile for when I travel in Europe, a SprintPCS phone for personal use, and a Nextel for work. Based on sound quality alone, US phone networks beat GSM hands down (at least Orange's network).
How about features? Can your precious GSM phone networks do Voicecommand or DirectConnect? I doubt it.
I think it's better to compare inter-country GSM roaming to interstate roaming in the US. My Sprint & Nextel phone work in almost every major market in the US (and Sprint even in Canada) - that's all that matters to most people in this country.
AOL is not POP3 or even IMAP.
Your analogy makes no sense. We weren't destroying anything by going to the moon (as throwing a brick in a window destroys something).
It's flying over Hawaii as mentioned in the story. Read the story before you make a stupid-ass anti-goverment comment.
Besides, no one is forcing people to work on this specific plantation.
Some of Verizon's territory can switch to Worldcom... Check it out: http://www.mciworld.com/for_your_home/products_ser vices/local/index.shtml
TV, radio, and newspapers require significant capital investments which restricts new competitors.
The internet almost levels the playing field for newcomers - allowing them to rapidly reach a large audience with minimal investment.
I wonder if the net will provide an outlet for truely independent journalism?
Or, will outlets like Slashdot challege the validity/bias of traditional media companies?
Maybe if this isn't the case now, it might be in ten or twenty years.
Altough Westinghouse has been in the media business since 1920 (first radio station in the country: KDKA Pittsburgh), they bought CBS in 1995, then sold off all of their industrial assets in 1997 - effectively becoming CBS.
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In 2000, Viacom aquired CBS.
http://www.westinghouse.com/A1a4.asp
http://www.internetwk.com/intranet/west/his_brd
You might be thinking of The Day After - a made for TV movie about the day after a nuclear attack on the US.
This drives me insane. I see people use MSN this way all the time.
Any HCI people out there who can explain this irrational illogical behavior?
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
CMU experts helping CBS's 30 robotic cameras to work as one
From CMU's Internal BBoard
u alizedR/www/VirtualizedR.html
Carnegie Mellon Professor's Unique New vision Technology Will be used to Present Instant Replays in Super Bowl XXXV
Football fans tuning into this year's Super Bowl will be treated to a unique new view of the action during instant replays. CBS Television will be presenting them using a new technology, co-developed by CBS and Carnegie Mellon University computer vision expert Takeo Kanade.
"Eye Vision", as CBS calls it, involves shooting multiple video images of a dynamic event, such as a football game, from multiple cameras placed at different angles. The video streams from these cameras are combined by computer and the resulting images reach viewers in a 270-degree format that will make them feel as if they are flying throughthe scenes they see.
USA Today notes in its Jan. 23 article that viewers and referees "will be able to see rotating . . . stop-action shots from simultaneous angles. The resulting pictures will demonstrate conclusively whether passes were caught and if the ballcarrier was down before the fumble,out-of-bounds or over the goal line."
The action at Super Bowl XXXV will be captured by more than 30 cameras, each poised some 80 feet above the field at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla. Each camera, with computer-controlled zoom and focus capabilities, is mounted on a custom-built, robotic pan-tilt head, which can swing the camera in any direction at the command of a computer. These camera heads are controlled in concert so that cameras point, zoom and focus at the same time on the same spot on the field, where some action (touch down or fumble) is occurring.
The system operates in the following way: One of the camera heads is designated as the master camera. A human cameraman operates a movable pan-tilt tripod, attached to a flat liquid crystal display (LCD) tv screen on which the video from the master camera is constantly displayed. The pan-tilt tripod is equipped with sensors to constantly measure its angle. The master camera head moves by mimicking the motion of the tripod as the cameraman moves it to capture a moving object on the field on his LCD TV screen.
In the meantime, information collected from the master camera's pan-tilt angles, zoom and focus is fed to a computer, which quickly computes the appropriate control signal for each of the remaining cameras. This causes all of them to converge on the same target and capture its image from a variety of angles.
Live action on the football field is continuously captured up to 30 times per second by the video cameras. The video of each camera is synchronized and time stamped so that all the views at the most critical and interesting moments can be played back in sequence, as if a viewer had flown around the action.
Kanade will explain his technology in an interview from Tampa, which will air during the Super Bowl Pre-Game Show. He notes that the "Eye Vision" demonstration that will appear on Super Bowl Sunday is only a small part of this new technology, which he calls "Virtualized Reality" opposed to virtual. reality, and is the product of more than six years of research.
For Virtualized Reality to achieve its full impact, the set of captured, multiple video images must be processed beyond the play back. The detailed geometrical information about a scene--the shapes of targets and background--is extracted by computer, which enables a person to choose how to view a scene, even from a perspective that was actually not shot by any camera.
To bring this concept to life, Kanade and his students built a "3D room" equipped with more than 50 video cameras and experimented by filming people involved in a variety of sports activities. He also spun off a company named Zaxel Systems, Inc., for commercialization of the technology. Much of this work can be viewed at the Virtualized Reality Web site: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/project/Virt
In contrast to virtual reality, in which synthetic environments are created, Virtualized Reality, and to a lesser extent, Eye Vision, are based on events taking place in the real world, which are captured and processed by computer manipulation. "Because our models are derived from real images," Kanade says, "the models look much more real than typical virtual worlds."
Kanade says the output from these multiple cameras shooting a scene together from many angles actually can create totally new views that were not captured by any camera. As this technology develops, he believes it will create a completely new way to view sports and entertainment events. People will be able to customize the perspective from which they watch--e.g. from that of a particular player or the ball.
Kanade is the director of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. He has been a leader in the development of video-based vision systems used in the university's autonomous vehicles and exploration robots. His team has developed a vision-based autonomous helicopter,which ultimately may be able to aid in search and rescue operations, fire fighting and inspection tasks. He is also a pioneer in medical robotics and computer-assisted surgery, working with surgeons and medical professionals to develop smart tools capable of performing medical procedures better than a physician or machine could do alone.
Kanade earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in electrical engineering from Kyoto University, Japan. He has been on the Carnegie Mellon faculty since 1980 and director of the Robotics Institute since 1991. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Most recently he received a $100,000 award from the NEC Foundation for C&C Promotion for "fundamental and broad contributions to the development of multimedia through the advancement of robotics and computer vision."
I'd have to say that the best teachers I've ever had don't care about the money - they'd work for $1 a year. My CS teacher in high school (also taught me calc) was the best teacher I've ever had. Even though he was teaching to three levels of CS kids at once (Intro [Pascal] / Basic [C++] / Data Structures [C++]), I learned so much from him. He would stay and work with students as late as possible, and he taught himself C++, then Data Structures when kids were demanding a more advanced courses. He could be a researcher or a professor, but instead he's doing what he loves, teaching high school students. A good programmer does NOT make a good teacher.
We didn't do AP. We do The University of Pittsburgh College in High School Program. It's much more effective, multiple tests and mastery programs are assigned over the year, rather than a one shot deal like the AP test. You end up with actual Pitt college credit, not a goofy AP score. [the Data Structures course at my old high school isn't supported by Pitt]
Carnegie Mellon took my Pitt credits just like they take AP scores, to get out of 15-111/15-112 - I placed into 15-113. (Currently introductory CS courses are taught in C++)
Carnegie Mellon has a decent sized Wireless LAN.
To obtain a lease from the DHCP servers you have to be a registered device on the network.
This approach seems to work well enough along with secured client applications (AFS, IMAP, etc via Kerberos [kclient]).
IPSec isn't really needed.
CMU has a rather large wireless network on campus and they rely on the application providing security, not the network medium.
Wireless Andrew FAQ
My Sprint phone doesn't have that problem. Voicemail indicator turns on and my phone beeps immediately after someone leaves a voicemail. Every time. (Pittsburgh market)
I've had a Sprint phone for almost a year. I'd agree that they make more mistakes than my last carrier (Bell Atlantic Mobile/Verizon) - but the customer service people are all very friendly and willing to help. I've yet to encounter a rude representative (or customer advocate or whatever). The morons at BAM were such asses that I couldn't believe they had customers. At least that's my experience in the Pittsburgh market.
AIM is a little hard to use on a phone without T9 entry - but it's still pretty cool.
Sprint just introduced this My Music thing just recently. Apparently they're providing 2GB of MP3 storage for use with a Samsung Uproar phone. I don't know how they're planning on streaming to the phone - best data rate I can get with my SCH 3500 is 14.4.