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Augmented / Virtual Reality
GestureTek, creates interactive displays for TV weathermen, museums, and hotels using three-dimensional cameras that can distinguish the hand movements of users. From a soft punch up into the air to turn on the TV, to a twist of the hand to change channels, or raising the volume with an upward pat, these simple gestures can be detected by the cameras and interpreted by specially-designed computer chips.
Posey is a computationally enhanced poseable hub and strut construction kit that can be used as an interface to applications running on a host computer. Its optocoupled ball and socket joints transmit local topology information and determine the roll, pitch and yaw of connections. Zigbee transceivers in each hub communicate this data wirelessly back to the host computer.
You Are the Controller .
Introducing Project Natal, a revolutionary new way to play: no controller required. See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak you and your friends can jump into the fun -- the only experience needed is life experience.
Skape provides B2B professionals with presentational 3D city and mapping data as well as high accuracy building data.
In order to help us give you the best possible service, we commissioned over 80 interviews with organisations using geo-information products (2D or 3D). These included:
Computational Linguistics Natural Language Interaction
Athree-year project focused on the problem of real-time understanding of spontaneous speech in the context of advanced telecom services.
The main objective of LUNA is the creation of a robust natural spoken language understanding toolkit for multilingual dialogue services, able to carry out human-computer communication with a good degree of user satisfaction.
The aim of the project is study and develop automated reasoning techniques for both offline and online tasks associated with ontologies, either seen in isolation or as a community of interoperating systems, and devise methodologies for the deployment of such techniques, on the one hand in advanced tools supporting ontology design and management, and on the other hand in applications supporting software agents in operating with ontologies.
Education
Want to know how to write programs for the iPhone and iPod touch? Beginning this week, a Stanford computer science class on that buzzworthy topic will be available online to the general public for free.
The 10-week course, iPhone Application Programming , is a hot ticket. It begins today and videos of the classes will be posted at Stanford on iTunes U two days after each class meeting (http://itunes.stanford.edu ). Copies of the slides shown in class will be available there as well.
Moodle is an Open Source Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It has become very popular among educators around the world as a tool for creating online dynamic web sites for their students. To work, it needs to be installed on a web server somewhere, either on one of your own computers or one at a web hosting company.
Haptics Touch - Based Interaction
GestureTek, creates interactive displays for TV weathermen, museums, and hotels using three-dimensional cameras that can distinguish the hand movements of users. From a soft punch up into the air to turn on the TV, to a twist of the hand to change channels, or raising the volume with an upward pat, these simple gestures can be detected by the cameras and interpreted by specially-designed computer chips.
You Are the Controller .
Introducing Project Natal, a revolutionary new way to play: no controller required. See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak you and your friends can jump into the fun -- the only experience needed is life experience.
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Submitted by Greg on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 2:00am
An online veracity alert system that "sniffs" through what you are reading online. If anything smells fishy – perhaps questionable poll results or references to “death panels” it blows a whistle and says, “This is disputed. Here’s the evidence.”
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Technology
GestureTek, creates interactive displays for TV weathermen, museums, and hotels using three-dimensional cameras that can distinguish the hand movements of users. From a soft punch up into the air to turn on the TV, to a twist of the hand to change channels, or raising the volume with an upward pat, these simple gestures can be detected by the cameras and interpreted by specially-designed computer chips.
You Are the Controller .
Introducing Project Natal, a revolutionary new way to play: no controller required. See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak you and your friends can jump into the fun -- the only experience needed is life experience.
Skape provides B2B professionals with presentational 3D city and mapping data as well as high accuracy building data.
In order to help us give you the best possible service, we commissioned over 80 interviews with organisations using geo-information products (2D or 3D). These included:
Tools
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
Want to know how to write programs for the iPhone and iPod touch? Beginning this week, a Stanford computer science class on that buzzworthy topic will be available online to the general public for free.
The 10-week course, iPhone Application Programming , is a hot ticket. It begins today and videos of the classes will be posted at Stanford on iTunes U two days after each class meeting (http://itunes.stanford.edu ). Copies of the slides shown in class will be available there as well.
Skape provides B2B professionals with presentational 3D city and mapping data as well as high accuracy building data.
In order to help us give you the best possible service, we commissioned over 80 interviews with organisations using geo-information products (2D or 3D). These included:
Free online file conversion
The ZigBee Alliance is an association of companies working together to enable reliable, cost-effective, low-power, wirelessly networked, monitoring and control products based on an open global standard.
Operating Systems
Haiku is an open source operating system currently in development that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the Be Operating System, Haiku aims to become a fast, efficient, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful system for computer users of all levels.
Programming
Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.
Clojure is a dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine. It is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming. Clojure is a compiled language - it compiles directly to JVM bytecode, yet remains completely dynamic. Every feature supported by Clojure is supported at runtime.
An Open Source , simple, fast and powerful programming language, easy to learn and to feel comfortable with, and a scripting engine ready to empower mission-critical multithreaded applications. Falcon provides six integrated programming paradigms: procedural, object oriented, prototype oriented, functional, tabular and message oriented.
Submitted by Greg on Mon, 08/31/2009 - 1:00am
GarageGames was founded by 4 industry veterans in 2001 with the goal of disrupting the games industry with quality development tools and upsetting the dominant retail / publisher distribution model.
An open-source systems programming langauge from Google.
Go promises fast compiles, clean syntax, garbage collection, dynamic memory acces, without pointers, type methods: a dynamic language with the speed and safety of a static one.
Athree-year project focused on the problem of real-time understanding of spontaneous speech in the context of advanced telecom services.
The main objective of LUNA is the creation of a robust natural spoken language understanding toolkit for multilingual dialogue services, able to carry out human-computer communication with a good degree of user satisfaction.
Posey is a computationally enhanced poseable hub and strut construction kit that can be used as an interface to applications running on a host computer. Its optocoupled ball and socket joints transmit local topology information and determine the roll, pitch and yaw of connections. Zigbee transceivers in each hub communicate this data wirelessly back to the host computer.
Submitted by Greg on Sat, 12/12/2009 - 1:00am
ROS is an open-source, meta-operating system for your robot. It provides the services you would expect from an operating system, including hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management.
A real time audio synthesis programming language
Web Development
Submitted by Greg on Tue, 08/25/2009 - 1:00am
Moodle is an Open Source Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It has become very popular among educators around the world as a tool for creating online dynamic web sites for their students. To work, it needs to be installed on a web server somewhere, either on one of your own computers or one at a web hosting company.
The aim of the project is study and develop automated reasoning techniques for both offline and online tasks associated with ontologies, either seen in isolation or as a community of interoperating systems, and devise methodologies for the deployment of such techniques, on the one hand in advanced tools supporting ontology design and management, and on the other hand in applications supporting software agents in operating with ontologies.
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Submitted by Greg on Mon, 01/05/2009 - 5:00pm
News and information about the Sun-Earth environment