Modular Computers are Here!

// September 28th, 2012 // No Comments » // Computer Programming, computer science, Modular computers, Technology

Desktop computers are dead? We don’t think so. They’ve just been waiting for the Xi3® Modular Computers.
One of the biggest problems with desktop computers is that they have to be replaced every few years. They’re also expensive to operate, have roughly the same specs, look like each other, etc., etc. In other words, they’re expensive, boring, and extremely unfriendly to the planet. Not so with the award-winning Xi3 Modular Computer.
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An Interview with TerraCycle, Earth’s Best Hope!

// July 23rd, 2012 // No Comments » // Ecological, Environmental, Technology

An Interview with the Environmental Super-Hero Company, TerraCycle

What is Terracycle and what is its main mission?

TerraCycle makes products entirely from collected waste. TerraCycle aims to eliminate waste by creating collection and solution systems for anything that today must be sent to a landfill. With more than 20 million people collecting waste in over 20 countries TerraCycle has diverted almost two and a half billion units of waste and used them to create over 250 different products, some of which are available at major retailers. Since its start in 2001, TerraCycle is now one of the world’s fastest-growing green companies which works with the world’s largest CPG companies like Kraft Food, Nestle, Frito-Lay, Mars, L’Oreal and Kimberly-Clark.

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Has Anti-matter Been Mistaken as Dark-Matter; An Interview with Adam Freeman

// May 22nd, 2012 // No Comments » // anti-matter, astronomy, astrophysics, Science

An interview with an extraordinary man you’ve probably never heard of before; Adam Freeman.

The following is a thorough interview with Mr. Freeman the man who has been behind many technical endeavors. Later on in this interview Adam presents a new perspective on space travel, that if true, he believes can forever change humans role in exploring and colonizing other worlds.
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Willow Garage Announces Launch of Open Source Robotics Foundation

// May 9th, 2012 // No Comments » // computer science, Robotics, Science, Technology

New Board Members to Drive Adoption, Research and Education for Open Source Within Robotics
Menlo Park, CA – May 9, 2012 – Willow Garage today announced the formation of The Open Source Robotics Foundation, Inc. The OSRF is an independent, non-profit organization founded by members of the global robotics community. Their mission is to support the development, distribution, and adoption of open source software for use in robotics research, education, and product development.

In conjunction with the formation of the OSRF, the Board of Directors was also announced. The Board of Directors comprises a worldwide collection of educators, leaders and visionaries in the field of robotics, including:

Wolfram Burgard. Dr. Burgard is a professor at the University of Freiburg where he leads the Laboratory for Autonomous Intelligent Systems. His major research interests lie in mobile robotics, state estimation and control, as well as artificial intelligence. Burgard is an active member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and a lifetime member of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Dr. Burgard is a recipient of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

Ryan Gariepy. Mr. Gariepy is the co-founder and CTO of Clearpath Robotics. Clearpath Robotics specializes in the design and manufacture of robust and reliable unmanned vehicle solutions for industrial R&D. Gariepy’s belief in the need for a strong global robotics community resulted in Clearpath being the first field robotics company to fully adopt and support ROS. Mr. Gariepy manages Clearpath’s technology strategy and serves as the company’s lead system architect.

Brian Gerkey. Dr. Gerkey is Director of Open Source Development at Willow Garage. Since 2008, Gerkey has worked on ROS, which develops and releases one of the most widely-used robot software platforms. He is also founding and former lead developer on the open source Player Project. For his work on Player and ROS, Technology Review recognized Gerkey with the TR35 award in 2011. Dr. Gerkey will be CEO of the OSRF.

Helen Greiner. Ms. Greiner is a co-founder of iRobot and currently CEO of CyPhyWorks. She has also been honored as a Technology Review “Innovator for the Next Century” and has been awarded the DEMO God Award and DEMO Lifetime Achievement Award. Greiner serves as the elected President and Board Member of the Robotics Technology Consortium (RTC), a non-profit organization established to speed the creation and deployment of ground robotics technology.

Sam Park. Mr. Park is the executive vice president of Yujin Robot. At Yujin Robot he has directed the commercialization of educational and entertainment robots, elderly service robots and home cleaning robots. Yujin Robot is one of South Korea’s first generation of service robotics companies and also a leading voice in the Korean robotics community. Before joining Yujin Robotics, Mr. Park was an industrial robotics engineer at Motorola.

The first initiative of the OSRF will be participation in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. The DARPA Robotics Challenge will launch in October 2012 and offers a $2 million prize “to whomever can help push the state-of-the-art in robotics beyond today’s capabilities in support of the DoD’s disaster recovery mission.”

“It’s always been the intention of Willow Garage to create an independent body that can take our initial work in open source robotics and see it grow beyond the confines of a single organization,” according to Steve Cousins, CEO of Willow Garage. “The reality is that the popularity of open source robotics in general, and ROS specifically, has grown beyond our wildest expectations. Willow Garage will enthusiastically support the goals of the OSRF.”

About The Open Source Robotics Foundation
The Open Source Robotics Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization founded by members of the global robotics community. The mission of the OSRF is to support the development, distribution, and adoption of open source software for use in robotics research, education, and product development. The organization is based in Menlo Park, California. More information is available at http://www.osrfoundation.org and by following the OSRF on Twitter @OSRFoundation.

EdX Knowledge for All

// May 2nd, 2012 // No Comments » // Education, Technology

This type of collaboration gives me a chill down my spine for this is what humanity is all about. Acquiring knowledge and sharing that knowledge equally among all. Exactly what SwarmKnowledge is about and humanity is only able to do this because of the internet! This is the first step to becoming a Type 1 civilization according to Kardashev’s scale.

Yahoo!’s Mojito is an Open Source Javascript Framework for Web Developers

// April 12th, 2012 // No Comments » // Computer Programming, computer science, Technology, web apps

Yahoo!’s Mojito is an Open Source Javascript Framework for Web Developers who want to make web and mobile apps that can be either server-side or completely client-side and still functional.
If your familiar with Node.js and Javascript then most likely you can learn Mojito in no time at all!

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How Technology Will Reshape Education

// January 30th, 2012 // No Comments » // Education, Science, Technology

Thanks to advances in technology, the way we access and process information has been permanently changed. Information that would have taken hours to uncover only 20 years ago can now be accessed in an instant on a smart phone. The proliferation of tablet computing has only magnified this effect. Information is no longer regionally based or even tied to an electrical socket; it is literally in the air.

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An Interview with Jorgen Pedersen of the Robotics Company re², Inc.

// January 20th, 2012 // No Comments » // computer science, Robotics, Science, Technology

Peter: I see on your site that re², Inc. is a leading developer of Autonomous Robotic Manipulation and Intelligent Modular Manipulation Technologies could you explain to my readers exactly what these are?
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OmniTouch – Demo Video

// October 24th, 2011 // No Comments » // Computer Programming, computer science, Education, Science, Technology

Many of you may be familiar with Pranav Mistry’s Sixth Sense technology well Microsoft is making it happen! Don’t worry it wasn’t stolen from Pranav, he used to work for Microsoft and they helped him to make his dream a reality. You can look at a separate older Microsoft video depicting the use of sixth sense technology in their very cool future productivity video here.

Ray Kurzweil: The Six Epochs of Technology Evolution

// October 13th, 2011 // No Comments » // Biology, dna computers, dna programming, Health, quantum computers, Robotics, Science, Technology

Courtesy of BigThink.com; but what are your thoughts? Is Kurzweil way off, or right on? Is humanity’s evolution within our own technological hands? If so our definition of humanity may change drastically, but then again what was our shared definition of humanity to begin with?