is called Biomimetic Systems. It was the result of the thesis work by a former BU grad student Socrates Deligeorges. I have seen the robot in action and it is pretty awesome!
From TFA...
"Tracks sold over the Internet usually go for about 99 cents. About 70 cents of the sale price goes to Sony. The bands are getting about 4 1/2 cents per song, according to the suit, rather than the approximately 30 cents they claim is rightfully theirs."
I just wanted to mention here about lala. It is like an online used-record store. Each album costs only a dollar and 20% of the proceeds of every trade goes to the artist. It is a much cheaper way to find music *and* pay artists instead of these record-companies.
Ha Ha, I've always wondered about how bad non-indians are at pronouncing Indian names when compared to the other way round, you guys just don't get it... do you!! (btw, I'm indian)
I feel the current system is not good enough. More thought should go into this. Just to give two exaples - the lawyer who patented the wheel and some attempts by people in the west to patent traditional knowledge known for generations in India.
There are many good human speech models out there (e.g. DIVA from http://speechlab.bu.edu ). The bird brain research is interesting but one can take the comparison between birds and humans only so far. For example, it is quite well known that sound localization mechanisms in bird and mammalian brains are entirely different.
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is called Biomimetic Systems. It was the result of the thesis work by a former BU grad student Socrates Deligeorges. I have seen the robot in action and it is pretty awesome!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RjrEQaG5jPM
I just wanted to mention here about lala. It is like an online used-record store. Each album costs only a dollar and 20% of the proceeds of every trade goes to the artist. It is a much cheaper way to find music *and* pay artists instead of these record-companies.
By the way, mine is first post too.
Ha Ha, I've always wondered about how bad non-indians are at pronouncing Indian names when compared to the other way round, you guys just don't get it... do you!! (btw, I'm indian)
I feel the current system is not good enough. More thought should go into this. Just to give two exaples - the lawyer who patented the wheel and some attempts by people in the west to patent traditional knowledge known for generations in India.
Don't tell me you guys actually expected Microsoft to come up with something good ;)
There are many good human speech models out there (e.g. DIVA from http://speechlab.bu.edu ). The bird brain research is interesting but one can take the comparison between birds and humans only so far. For example, it is quite well known that sound localization mechanisms in bird and mammalian brains are entirely different.