As mentioned a few comments below, affect/emotion detection can be useful for people with autism. Rana El Kaliouby has been working on a system that does exactly this in the Affective Computing group at the Media Lab. My understanding is that they have built it into an appliance which is robust to poor lighting situations, which is pretty impressive. There is also a great deal of interest in this in the human-robot interaction and human-computer interaction communities in general, so that robots and computer systems can respond more naturally to people in social situations.
Exactly-- why is the premise of the poster's question assumed to be true? There are a lot of foreign students in my graduate engineering school, but they're not a majority. What reason is there to believe that this is actually true?
Oh, slashdot, land of rumors and wild speculation.
That is absolutely not typical. Most of the law students I know are taking out huge loans, and the engineering school I'm in has the highest stipends of the entire university. It sounds like you have an advisor problem.
The signal is very noisy, especially when read through the skull. It's hard to get high-frequency information out of it, so they focus on low-dimensional data. It's not so much "reading" left or right, as training people to change their brain activity so that the system can read a simple value. There is a lot more high-frequency data when the sensors are applied directly to the brain, but that is a touch dangerous, and mostly only done in people with patients who have severe epilepsy to localize the source of the seizure.
My understanding is that without proper filtering, the strongest signal is often 60 hz coming from the power supply...
Because modern mobile robots are only minimally similar to Shakey-- the algorithms which make mapping and localization possible are statistical, rather than logical, and Shakey was logic-based system. Furthermore, Shakey wasn't a whole lot more than a physical incarnation of a blocksworld agent. In a sense, all modern mobile robots are distantly related to Shakey-- but only in the same sense as they're distantly related to Rodney Brooks' subsumption architecture robots.
I'm surprised this article is coming up as news; robots capable of mapping and localization tasks have been around for several years now, and there's a great deal of off the shelf software (open source and otherwise) capable of this.
I'm a student at Swarthmore, and, in fact, the one who disabled access to the Diebold documents SCDC was hosting at scdc.sccs.swarthmore.edu . It was very unfortunate that we had to; I wish the college hadn't forced us to. That said--
What's not clear from all of the news coverage, is that while the college is indeed having to shut down hosts on campus for the documents, ITS here and the college itself is supportive of the students involved who are talking with EFF. The Deans are being helpful in suggesting legal routes for SCDC, but the College itself does *not* have the resources to get involved in a legal battle. Swarthmore is a very small school(1400) students, and just doesn't have the resources that larger institutions would to put towards legal expenses.
PLEASE go easy on Bob Gross's email; the administration at Swarthmore is very responsive to student needs, but there are limits as to what can be done. They're not bad people; they're doing what's best for the school.
Is Diebold getting off easy from Swarthmore? That has yet to be seen.
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As mentioned a few comments below, affect/emotion detection can be useful for people with autism. Rana El Kaliouby has been working on a system that does exactly this in the Affective Computing group at the Media Lab. My understanding is that they have built it into an appliance which is robust to poor lighting situations, which is pretty impressive. There is also a great deal of interest in this in the human-robot interaction and human-computer interaction communities in general, so that robots and computer systems can respond more naturally to people in social situations.
Exactly-- why is the premise of the poster's question assumed to be true? There are a lot of foreign students in my graduate engineering school, but they're not a majority. What reason is there to believe that this is actually true? Oh, slashdot, land of rumors and wild speculation.
That is absolutely not typical. Most of the law students I know are taking out huge loans, and the engineering school I'm in has the highest stipends of the entire university. It sounds like you have an advisor problem.
The signal is very noisy, especially when read through the skull. It's hard to get high-frequency information out of it, so they focus on low-dimensional data. It's not so much "reading" left or right, as training people to change their brain activity so that the system can read a simple value. There is a lot more high-frequency data when the sensors are applied directly to the brain, but that is a touch dangerous, and mostly only done in people with patients who have severe epilepsy to localize the source of the seizure. My understanding is that without proper filtering, the strongest signal is often 60 hz coming from the power supply...
Because modern mobile robots are only minimally similar to Shakey-- the algorithms which make mapping and localization possible are statistical, rather than logical, and Shakey was logic-based system. Furthermore, Shakey wasn't a whole lot more than a physical incarnation of a blocksworld agent. In a sense, all modern mobile robots are distantly related to Shakey-- but only in the same sense as they're distantly related to Rodney Brooks' subsumption architecture robots. I'm surprised this article is coming up as news; robots capable of mapping and localization tasks have been around for several years now, and there's a great deal of off the shelf software (open source and otherwise) capable of this.
I'm a student at Swarthmore, and, in fact, the one who disabled access to the Diebold documents SCDC was hosting at scdc.sccs.swarthmore.edu . It was very unfortunate that we had to; I wish the college hadn't forced us to. That said--
What's not clear from all of the news coverage, is that while the college is indeed having to shut down hosts on campus for the documents, ITS here and the college itself is supportive of the students involved who are talking with EFF. The Deans are being helpful in suggesting legal routes for SCDC, but the College itself does *not* have the resources to get involved in a legal battle. Swarthmore is a very small school(1400) students, and just doesn't have the resources that larger institutions would to put towards legal expenses.
PLEASE go easy on Bob Gross's email; the administration at Swarthmore is very responsive to student needs, but there are limits as to what can be done. They're not bad people; they're doing what's best for the school.
Is Diebold getting off easy from Swarthmore? That has yet to be seen.