Microchip (based in Arizona), produces all kinds of MIPS chips via their PIC32mx and PIC32mz lines. Microchip is one of the top embedded systems chip makers. They bought ATMEL, the makers of the ATMEGA chips found on the Arduinos, last year.
Get your facts straight. He was not "dismissed." He resigned from the UCL. He resigned from the Royal Society. Just as importantly, neither of those positions are real jobs. He's not losing any money from the resignations.
Tim Hunt clarified his original comments in a BBC interview immediately after the conference in Korea. He backed up the original claims by Connie St. Louis and the other witnesses that heard his talk. He confirmed what they had witnessed and reported.
Actually, Tim Hunt has spoken: listen for yourself. No accusation required. Those are his words. He's calling women in his lab "girls". That's sexist. And calling for segregation in the labs based on gender is also sexist.
Tim Hunt backed Connie St. Louis' report. He did so in a BBC interview recorded soon after the shit hit the fan on Twitter. That's the evidence, in full audible glory. He's not under duress. He's not being misquoted. It's 100% calm and collected Tim Hunt repeating his sexist comments. He's not joking as anyone with any first grade grasp on the English language can tell.
Only after it dawned on him that it was 2015 and that sort of stuff doesn't fly anymore that he changed his story.
Actually, he did double-down. Listen to how to says in the BBC interview...
"I did mean the part about having trouble with girls," he said. "It is true that people - I have fallen in love with people in the lab and people in the lab have fallen in love with me and it's very disruptive to the science because it's terribly important that in a lab people are on a level playing field."
He said it. He wasn't joking. He confirmed what the original witnesses in Korea said he said. He double-downed and wanted everyone, via the BBC, to know it.
He changed his story afterwards. And you're buying the revised story.
For those of you who doubt the veracity of Connie St. Louis' claims, they are backed up by credible witnesses (Deborah Blum and Ivan Oransky), including members of the Korean Federation of Women's Science and Technology Association. KOFWST released an open letter demanding an apology from Tim Hunt:
"At a luncheon hosted by the Korea Federation of Women’s Science and Technology Associations (KOFWST) during the World Conference of Science Journalists in Seoul on June 8, 2015, Nobel Laureate Sir Tim Hunt made some inappropriate remarks over which KOFWST would like to express its very strong regrets.... This unfortunate incident must not be portrayed as a private story told as a joke. We cannot accept sexist remarks that threaten to reverse the gains made towards equality for women scientists, and women in the wider society." (Press Release)
Furthermore, Tim Hunt's career isn't over because he lost his "honorary appointment" at UCL. For this of you who don't know, an honorary appointment is NOT a real job. It's a title without pay. In other words, it's not a real job. And the UCL Provost has reaffirmed the position that Tim Hunt's comments (UCL Provost Statement)
So Tim Hunt got called out on really stupid remarks and non-apology (“I did mean the part about having trouble with girls.”). He lost a title and his desk at UCL. Sounds about right. What's the lesson to be drawn here? It's time to get over your sexist attitudes about women in science. If that's lost on you, then, at the very least, keep your sexist comments to yourself.
The Scout II robot galloping work was improved upon with the PAW system. Even the PAW galloping trials (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRLJB3glQjQ) predates the Cheetah by eight years.
I've been buying ceramic cups from Starbucks for years... those cute "city" ones that they sell all over the world. They're all different sizes! There's no standard size for everyday cups. And even if there was some mythic standard cup, no manufacturer pays attention to it, so when it comes time to cooking in the kitchen the thing that any decent cook reaches for is... a "measuring cup". You know... the one that has "cups" and "milliliters" written on either side. That's what real people use to actually measure volume in the kitchen.
I actually started with spoon size, not two-by-fours. What's a standard spoon size? I've got five or six different sized "table" or "soup" spoons in my kitchen, from different manufacturers. They all hold different amounts of liquid. It's arbitrary. As for two-by-fours, one of the reasons people in North America continue to stick to the Imperial System is because of the construction business. I constantly hear that we can't switch completely to metric in Canada because houses are built to the Imperial standard... i.e. because we use 2x4s and things like that. However, even the construction measurements are inconsistent. BTW, Kelvin and Celcius map one-to-one. There's no issue there.
Except that there is no such thing as a "standard" cup or spoon.
My current favorite is "two by four" pieces of wood. You'd think that the cross-section would be two inches by four inches. Wrong. It's 1.5 inches by 3.5 inches. Why? The lumber industry makes more money by selling you less wood and relies on you making centre-to-centre measurements. The problem with the Imperial system is that it is arbitrary and inconsistent. The metric system, on the other hand, is consistent and logical. It's also inherently multi-disciplinary. It's just easier.
On top of all that I wasn't aware that degrees and seconds were not metric. Speed is measured in m/s. Angles are often in degrees.
We were teaching with the hc11 until last year. Then we switched to the 9s12 (the update to the hc11) because Freescale lists the hc11 as "not recommended for new design". Luckily Technological Arts produces a 9s12-based board called the Esduino.... (http://www.technologicalarts.ca/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=50_166&products_id=566&osCsid=edd328ed0749eccb244643638daa2e95) hardware compatible with Arduino shields but let's us use HC11/9s12 teaching resources. Best of both worlds for teaching EE students.
In Europe there are some great bench-top and hand-held tools available from Proxxon. In North America Sherline tools are a little more expensive. Alternatives include: MicroMark and Mini-Mate tools (the Mini-Mate is especially designed for hobbyists and older kids. We've got one.
I was at the expo, and just got back from China today. One of the androids disappeared during the expo. Why? Supposedly, because the president of China wasn't too happy about the android looking like a popular politician.
Regardless, these androids are carnival mannequins with better fake skin. They are also victims of the "Uncanny Valley". At worst they look cheap, at best they're creepy. I got a picture taken with one. The developers refer to it as a "lover robot" and it would move its mouth while piping a Celine Dion song through a speaker. They spent way too much time adding fake nipples and revealing clothing.
"The lover robots like the real beautiful woman and handsome guy are primarily for family collection and appreciation. This is a huge market, for instance, recently Japanese will spend about 27 billion yuan on person-like robots each year, and the global consumption on such commodity is about 500 billion yuan. Comparing with these unmovable puppets, the lover robots are more realistic, charming, intimate, lovely, sexy and attractive."
A few years ago I checked in my GRiD laptop thinking that it would survive anything thrown at it. These laptops were supposed to be indestructible... the story goes that they've even survived falls out of helicopters. Mine had a smashed screen after Northwest was done with it. It turns out that the screen latch didn't lock properly.... In the end I got a rebate for my next Northwest flight in compensation... not a bad deal for a 386 laptop.:-)
One of the nice things about doing embedded development on Windows boxes is the availability of cheap parallel-port BDM/JTAG interfaces, like Macraigor's Wiggler. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an easy way to connect these to the USB ports of any Mac (the parallel port to USB converters that are used for printers reportedly don't work). I'm looking forward to the day that I can buy a cheap USB-compatible Wiggler that GDB can talk to.
Not a chance. Bush and his cronies unlawfully want one-sided markets for special interest business groups. That's why building homes in the US is so much more expensive -- the duties on Canadian softwood make it uneconomical for Home Depot to purchase. Why? Because American lumber companies can't compete with legally harvested Canadian wood. Bush only wants a free market when it's convenient.
My wife is just hoping that they release the iMac G5 in the iPod mini colours... she loves her tangerine iMac and loves the way this one looks but wants her next iMac to be something other than white.
I'm among a handful of Engineering students around McGill that uses Macs (probably half the profs at our facility do, though). What's holding up further adoption of OS X is this: lack of compatible engineering hardware and software. I'm talking about software like Solid Works, Pro/E, Protel and MSC.Adams and hardware like the JTAG debuggers ("wigglers" etc.) for embedded processor development. There are some decent GNU type pieces of software, but the commercially-supported stuff needs to be there, too. I use Matlab and Mathematica all the time, but I have to keep a PC around for the other stuff.
It's important to email and phone companies like MSC, Metrowerks, Macraigor, Green Hills, PTC, SolidWorks and get them onboard. I talked to the Green Hills folks the other day and said that OS X requests come in about once a month, whereas Linux/Windows feature requests come in about 20 times per day. That needs to change before more software will show up.
From what I understand, MMC cards are SPI compatible. The serial peripheral interface (SPI) is available on all sorts of microcontrollers, from the 8-bit HC11 to the 32-bit MPC565. A 2GB MMC card could be great for data-logging in an embedded system, a robot, etc.
My only question is whether this MMC-4 standard the article talk about sticks to the SPI standard.
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Microchip (based in Arizona), produces all kinds of MIPS chips via their PIC32mx and PIC32mz lines. Microchip is one of the top embedded systems chip makers. They bought ATMEL, the makers of the ATMEGA chips found on the Arduinos, last year.
Like the HP thunderbolt 3 dock? http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/...
Get your facts straight. He was not "dismissed." He resigned from the UCL. He resigned from the Royal Society. Just as importantly, neither of those positions are real jobs. He's not losing any money from the resignations.
Tim Hunt clarified his original comments in a BBC interview immediately after the conference in Korea. He backed up the original claims by Connie St. Louis and the other witnesses that heard his talk. He confirmed what they had witnessed and reported.
Actually, Tim Hunt has spoken: listen for yourself. No accusation required. Those are his words. He's calling women in his lab "girls". That's sexist. And calling for segregation in the labs based on gender is also sexist.
He was given that chance. On the BBC, right after the conference. Listen for yourself: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02tc22c.
He meant the sexist comments. And he used the BBC to assert this.
Tim Hunt backed Connie St. Louis' report. He did so in a BBC interview recorded soon after the shit hit the fan on Twitter. That's the evidence, in full audible glory. He's not under duress. He's not being misquoted. It's 100% calm and collected Tim Hunt repeating his sexist comments. He's not joking as anyone with any first grade grasp on the English language can tell.
Only after it dawned on him that it was 2015 and that sort of stuff doesn't fly anymore that he changed his story.
Actually, he did double-down. Listen to how to says in the BBC interview...
"I did mean the part about having trouble with girls," he said. "It is true that people - I have fallen in love with people in the lab and people in the lab have fallen in love with me and it's very disruptive to the science because it's terribly important that in a lab people are on a level playing field."
He said it. He wasn't joking. He confirmed what the original witnesses in Korea said he said. He double-downed and wanted everyone, via the BBC, to know it.
He changed his story afterwards. And you're buying the revised story.
For those of you who doubt the veracity of Connie St. Louis' claims, they are backed up by credible witnesses (Deborah Blum and Ivan Oransky), including members of the Korean Federation of Women's Science and Technology Association. KOFWST released an open letter demanding an apology from Tim Hunt:
"At a luncheon hosted by the Korea Federation of Women’s Science and Technology Associations (KOFWST) during the World Conference of Science Journalists in Seoul on June 8, 2015, Nobel Laureate Sir Tim Hunt made some inappropriate remarks over which KOFWST would like to express its very strong regrets. ... This unfortunate incident must not be portrayed as a private story told as a joke. We cannot accept sexist remarks that threaten to reverse the gains made towards equality for women scientists, and women in the wider society." (Press Release)
Furthermore, Tim Hunt's career isn't over because he lost his "honorary appointment" at UCL. For this of you who don't know, an honorary appointment is NOT a real job. It's a title without pay. In other words, it's not a real job. And the UCL Provost has reaffirmed the position that Tim Hunt's comments (UCL Provost Statement)
So Tim Hunt got called out on really stupid remarks and non-apology (“I did mean the part about having trouble with girls.”). He lost a title and his desk at UCL. Sounds about right. What's the lesson to be drawn here? It's time to get over your sexist attitudes about women in science. If that's lost on you, then, at the very least, keep your sexist comments to yourself.
The Scout II robot galloping work was improved upon with the PAW system. Even the PAW galloping trials (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRLJB3glQjQ) predates the Cheetah by eight years.
I've been buying ceramic cups from Starbucks for years... those cute "city" ones that they sell all over the world. They're all different sizes! There's no standard size for everyday cups. And even if there was some mythic standard cup, no manufacturer pays attention to it, so when it comes time to cooking in the kitchen the thing that any decent cook reaches for is... a "measuring cup". You know... the one that has "cups" and "milliliters" written on either side. That's what real people use to actually measure volume in the kitchen.
I actually started with spoon size, not two-by-fours. What's a standard spoon size? I've got five or six different sized "table" or "soup" spoons in my kitchen, from different manufacturers. They all hold different amounts of liquid. It's arbitrary. As for two-by-fours, one of the reasons people in North America continue to stick to the Imperial System is because of the construction business. I constantly hear that we can't switch completely to metric in Canada because houses are built to the Imperial standard... i.e. because we use 2x4s and things like that. However, even the construction measurements are inconsistent. BTW, Kelvin and Celcius map one-to-one. There's no issue there.
Except that there is no such thing as a "standard" cup or spoon. My current favorite is "two by four" pieces of wood. You'd think that the cross-section would be two inches by four inches. Wrong. It's 1.5 inches by 3.5 inches. Why? The lumber industry makes more money by selling you less wood and relies on you making centre-to-centre measurements. The problem with the Imperial system is that it is arbitrary and inconsistent. The metric system, on the other hand, is consistent and logical. It's also inherently multi-disciplinary. It's just easier. On top of all that I wasn't aware that degrees and seconds were not metric. Speed is measured in m/s. Angles are often in degrees.
We were teaching with the hc11 until last year. Then we switched to the 9s12 (the update to the hc11) because Freescale lists the hc11 as "not recommended for new design". Luckily Technological Arts produces a 9s12-based board called the Esduino.... (http://www.technologicalarts.ca/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=50_166&products_id=566&osCsid=edd328ed0749eccb244643638daa2e95) hardware compatible with Arduino shields but let's us use HC11/9s12 teaching resources. Best of both worlds for teaching EE students.
Subaru sells a number of engines that aren't used in their cars. We used a four-stroke Robin Subaru V2 EH65 on the University of Alberta's "Polar Bear" robot ( http://www.igvc.org/design/reports/dr24.pdf & http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9189202946151470237# ). Their "industrial" engine line can be found here: http://robinamerica.com/industrial.aspx
Hi, The Locomorph Group ( http://locomorph.eu/ ) is made up of science and engineering partners. The science partners (University of Antwerp and the University of Jena, where the dogs are being researched) are guiding the robotics research on shape-changing robots at Ryerson University (the only non-EU partner, located in Canada), the University of Zurich, the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne and the University of Southern Denmark. More stories on the project can be found here: http://idw-online.de/de/news379765 (in German) http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS_FP7&ACTION=D&DOC=2&CAT=NEWS&QUERY=0129d6293767:57a8:2486afcf&RCN=32339 (in English), http://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-l-ue-octroie-1-2-milliard-d-euros-a-la-recherche-en-robotique-et-dans-les-reseaux-31224.html (in French), http://www.jenapolis.de/69486/nicht-nur-spielzeug-wissenschaftler-demonstrieren-laufroboter/ (in German) There are also some informal photos from our meeting last week: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~jasmith/locomorph/photos/jena_2010/ Other photos can be found here: http://idw-online.de/de/image120758 http://www.jenapolis.de/69486/nicht-nur-spielzeug-wissenschaftler-demonstrieren-laufroboter/
In Europe there are some great bench-top and hand-held tools available from Proxxon. In North America Sherline tools are a little more expensive. Alternatives include: MicroMark and Mini-Mate tools (the Mini-Mate is especially designed for hobbyists and older kids. We've got one.
What happens if you have to reinstall the OS? Can you install the OS from the external drive?
I was at the expo, and just got back from China today. One of the androids disappeared during the expo. Why? Supposedly, because the president of China wasn't too happy about the android looking like a popular politician.
Regardless, these androids are carnival mannequins with better fake skin. They are also victims of the "Uncanny Valley". At worst they look cheap, at best they're creepy. I got a picture taken with one. The developers refer to it as a "lover robot" and it would move its mouth while piping a Celine Dion song through a speaker. They spent way too much time adding fake nipples and revealing clothing.
The product brochure by the "Beijing Yuanda Superman Robot Science A Company of Limited Liability" states:
"The lover robots like the real beautiful woman and handsome guy are primarily for family collection and appreciation. This is a huge market, for instance, recently Japanese will spend about 27 billion yuan on person-like robots each year, and the global consumption on such commodity is about 500 billion yuan. Comparing with these unmovable puppets, the lover robots are more realistic, charming, intimate, lovely, sexy and attractive."
A few years ago I checked in my GRiD laptop thinking that it would survive anything thrown at it. These laptops were supposed to be indestructible... the story goes that they've even survived falls out of helicopters. Mine had a smashed screen after Northwest was done with it. It turns out that the screen latch didn't lock properly.... In the end I got a rebate for my next Northwest flight in compensation... not a bad deal for a 386 laptop. :-)
One of the nice things about doing embedded development on Windows boxes is the availability of cheap parallel-port BDM/JTAG interfaces, like Macraigor's Wiggler. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an easy way to connect these to the USB ports of any Mac (the parallel port to USB converters that are used for printers reportedly don't work). I'm looking forward to the day that I can buy a cheap USB-compatible Wiggler that GDB can talk to.
The fact is if you support W then you:
1. Agree in free markets...
Not a chance. Bush and his cronies unlawfully want one-sided markets for special interest business groups. That's why building homes in the US is so much more expensive -- the duties on Canadian softwood make it uneconomical for Home Depot to purchase. Why? Because American lumber companies can't compete with legally harvested Canadian wood. Bush only wants a free market when it's convenient.
My wife is just hoping that they release the iMac G5 in the iPod mini colours... she loves her tangerine iMac and loves the way this one looks but wants her next iMac to be something other than white.
- UNESCO/GAB
Toolkit on Gender Indicators in Engineering, Science and Technology
- Comp Sci and Women (Yale)
- Gender and the Workplace
- Gender and Innovation Stats - DTI
Some further thoughts: here.It would also be really interesting to see what can be found in the Engineering Trends databases
I'm among a handful of Engineering students around McGill that uses Macs (probably half the profs at our facility do, though). What's holding up further adoption of OS X is this: lack of compatible engineering hardware and software. I'm talking about software like Solid Works, Pro/E, Protel and MSC.Adams and hardware like the JTAG debuggers ("wigglers" etc.) for embedded processor development. There are some decent GNU type pieces of software, but the commercially-supported stuff needs to be there, too. I use Matlab and Mathematica all the time, but I have to keep a PC around for the other stuff.
It's important to email and phone companies like MSC, Metrowerks, Macraigor, Green Hills, PTC, SolidWorks and get them onboard. I talked to the Green Hills folks the other day and said that OS X requests come in about once a month, whereas Linux/Windows feature requests come in about 20 times per day. That needs to change before more software will show up.
From what I understand, MMC cards are SPI compatible. The serial peripheral interface (SPI) is available on all sorts of microcontrollers, from the 8-bit HC11 to the 32-bit MPC565. A 2GB MMC card could be great for data-logging in an embedded system, a robot, etc.
My only question is whether this MMC-4 standard the article talk about sticks to the SPI standard.