Reading, Writing, and Robots: kids build bots at CeBIT

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Reading, Writing, and Landscaping

Reading, Writing, and Landscaping 06/03/2004 10:37 AM
I guess this article about teacher pay relative to other professions shouldn't be a surprise .. part-time jobs .. more» .. more

motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/05/teachers.html
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Integrating Reading and Writing of
Documents

Integrating Reading and Writing of
Documents 07/24/2004 01:00 AM
Integrating Reading and Writing of Documents by P. J. Brown and Heather Brown
http://jodi .ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i01/Brown/

Abstract
Computer users have become accustomed to the writing of documents being regarded as a separate activity from the reading of documents. We believe that this division is unnecessary and limits the effectiveness of virtually every computer user. It is time for a rethink of underlying concepts. A key concept for integrating reading with writing is a general mechanism for annotation. This general mechanism can be combined with hyperlinking to create a single unifying super-concept that provides a base for integrating reading and writing. The paper explains the underlying ideas, and describes the results of a small experiment that supported the viability of the super-concept. We believe that the super-concept might possibly provide the foundations for a revolution in thinking about documents, which would benefit everyone. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide.

Python and XML: Writing and Reading XML
with XIST

Python and XML: Writing and Reading XML
with XIST 03/17/2005 04:21 AM
In Uche Ogbuji's latest Python and XML column he introduces XIST, which has been called "object-oriented XSLT for Python" -- a framework for manipulating XML Pythonically.

Internet mentors get students reading,
writing

Internet mentors get students reading,
writing 02/01/2005 09:14 PM
Knoxnews.com - Tue Feb 1, 08:56 am GMT

What webl0ggers are reading this summer
(Phil Gyford: Writing)

What webl0ggers are reading this summer
(Phil Gyford: Writing) 07/10/2004 04:58 AM
Speaking of which

gyford.com/phil/writing/2004/07/09/what_webloggers_.php
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Robots Raised My Kids

Robots Raised My Kids 06/05/2005 10:46 PM
Now, I've got a long history of loving robots, and I'm always glad to point Andre to another robot story that he should be aware of, so it's with great pleasure that I call your attention to Chris Anderson's example of how robots are raising his children. And my sellout...

Pocket Reference, Writing for Others,
and New Kids

Pocket Reference, Writing for Others,
and New Kids 06/17/2002 07:56 AM

Kids Understand The Difference Between
Texting And Writing

Kids Understand The Difference Between
Texting And Writing 12/24/2004 12:18 PM
For years, now, we've been hearing horror stories about how kids who are growing up learning "txt spk" on instant messenger programs and via phone SMS messages are hurting their ability to write proper English. There was never actually any evidence of this -- other than some anecdotal horror stories. Also, as we pointed out, there's nothing wrong with understanding txt abbreviations as long as the person knows what is appropriate at the right time. It's like knowing two different languages -- which most parents and teachers consider to be a good thing. Thus, the focus shouldn't be on freaking out about kids learning to tap away in abbreviated format, but in making sure they know what's appropriate for what venues. Supporting this theory is a new study suggesting that kids who text have comparable writing skills to those who don't. The study was quite small, and the methodology could clearly be questioned -- but it is some initial evidence that kids are smart enough to understand when text talk is appropriate and when it's not. Much more interesting, though, was the finding that those who used messaging regularly also wrote more concisely. While the article suggests this is a downside, being able to write concisely is a useful talent. If text messaging helps people better organize their thoughts this way, perhaps it's a benefit.

Writing Articles To Build Your Online
Presence - A Beginner's Guide

Writing Articles To Build Your Online
Presence - A Beginner's Guide 06/24/2005 05:45 PM
Stickysauce Jun 23 2005 5:19PM GMT

Storming Robots Learning Center, Helping
to Build a Generation with Robotics
Science as Part of Its Culture

Storming Robots Learning Center, Helping
to Build a Generation with Robotics
Science as Part of Its Culture 07/17/2004 03:20 AM
Storming Robots Robotics Learning Center is the first learning center in New Jersey offering multi-disciplinary Robotics programs for youth, as well as the LEGO MINDSTORMS Center provides hands-on LEGO robots workshops. Its programs aim to inspire children's interests in robotics and science technologies by developing their intellect in fundamental engineering concepts, mathematics, strategic thinking, and problem solving. [PRWEB Jul 17, 2004]

Reading bl0gs, writing bl0gs

Reading bl0gs, writing bl0gs 06/06/2004 06:45 PM
Kansas City Star (subscription),MO-9 hours ago• BlogPulse.com offers a blog search engine. Just type in keywords of interest. Or use Google to search for “blog” and keywords of interest. ...

Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary
Reading in America

Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary
Reading in America 07/09/2004 01:22 PM
download a .pdf of the actual study on reading .. report

nea.gov/pub/ReadingAtRisk.pdf
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Jeff's Robots- toy robots & tons of
robotics links!

Jeff's Robots- toy robots & tons of
robotics links! 01/26/2004 10:19 AM
§¨§¨€Œ¨§Š€Œ‡§ ˆ …„‡§ŠŠ ¨‡ ƒ„ ˆ¨§ª .. An uber-nerd's robot collection .. Jeff's Robots .. robots .. +

jeffbots.com
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Live from CeBIT: Siemens CeBIT Videos

Live from CeBIT: Siemens CeBIT Videos 03/14/2005 06:03 PM

Yesterday's sunny, breezy day has been sandwiched between wet, hateful storms, where each sloshing stomp between buildings gives the clouds opporunity to pry open my orifices and dillute the pneumonia sauce already boiling in my lungs. As a reprieve, I have been hiding in Siemens New Media trailer, where I've watched them edit together a bunch of movies documenting Siemens' CeBIT stuff, which they are posting to their site under 'Highlight of the Day' > 'video clips.' (It's a Flash pop-up site, which sucks, but alles kla.)

Disclaimer: I'm here as a guest of Siemens. Nobody told or even asked me to link this, but I wanted to point it out—because I'm a total whore and an ethics-free journalist and you should probably write something really damning and personally insulting on your blog exposing your mom our moral turpitude—and also because I've seen how hard they've been working on it and it's been interesting to see it come together.

Kids Have a ‘Doggone’ Good Time with
Launch of RAGGS Kids Club Band Video
Series

Kids Have a ‘Doggone’ Good Time with
Launch of RAGGS Kids Club Band Video
Series 08/10/2004 03:43 AM
[PRWEB Aug 10, 2004]

Research And Markets: Will Personal
Robots Become The Norm? Take A Look At
The Market For Personal Robots In Japan

Research And Markets: Will Personal
Robots Become The Norm? Take A Look At
The Market For Personal Robots In Japan 12/17/2004 06:40 PM
Research and Markets has announced the addition of Next-Generation Personal Robot Market 2004 to their offering. [PRWEB Oct 18, 2004]

Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as “Smart Zone Kids” Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom.

Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as “Smart Zone Kids” Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom. 12/22/2004 01:28 AM
Wholesale-Telecom is now offering an Internet browser that protects children and teenagers from online pedophiles and inappropriate content The browser is totally interactive for parents to customize to their preference. [PRWEB Dec 10, 2004]

Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as "Smart Zone Kids" Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom

Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as "Smart Zone Kids" Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom 12/30/2004 05:15 AM
Wholesale-Telecom is now offering an Internet browser that protects children and teenagers from online pedophiles and inappropriate content The browser is totally interactive for parents to customize to their preference. [PRWEB Dec 30, 2004]

Ithaki 4 KiDs MetaSearch Engine for Kids

Ithaki 4 KiDs MetaSearch Engine for Kids 06/22/2005 02:48 AM


Ithaki 4 KiDs MetaSearch Engine for Kids
http://kids.ithaki.net/

Ithaki 4 KiDs helps you to find the best sites just for kids via searching in real time several search engines for kids like DmozKids, Yahooligans, FactMonster, ArtKIDSRule, AolKIDS, AwesomeLibrary & KidsClick!. Ithaki is a metasearch engine, it finds quickly the best web sites because it searches at once the top search engines and guides for kids, then ranks the results according to an internal ranking to make sure you get the exactly what you're looking for. This will be added to the search engines section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides.

MP3 Players Aren't Just For Kids; In
Fact They're Barely For Kids

MP3 Players Aren't Just For Kids; In
Fact They're Barely For Kids 12/19/2004 03:47 PM
The common bit of wisdom is that MP3s are a young person's technology. It's the teens and the folks just coming out of college that are the MP3 generation, after all, so they'd be the most likely to own an MP3 player, right? Not at all, apparently. A new study says that 90% of MP3 player owners over 34 years old. While this may have something to do with the high price of many of the best MP3 players, the numbers still don't seem right. It would be interesting to see the methodology behind this study. That's not to say that those over 34 aren't likely to own an MP3 player, but it's hard to believe that 90% of MP3 players go to those 35 and older.

Presents For Bad Kids Head To eBay,
Rather Than Kids

Presents For Bad Kids Head To eBay,
Rather Than Kids 12/27/2004 04:42 AM
Well, normally, people wait until after they've received presents to dump them on eBay. However, one father who felt his three sons were being particularly bad lately decided that to punish them he's putting their presents up for sale on eBay. To be honest, this sounds like a bit of a publicity stunt -- and it seems likely that, now that this is getting attention, that casino that seems to be buying e very random quirky auction item will snap this one up. Update: Whoops. It's apparently already happened. Indeed, the casino in question has d ecided to buy the undelivered presents. This is sort of an update on our story last year about how sellers were increasingly looking to use eBay as a publicity generating tool. It appears that's now being used by buyers to generate publicity, as well.

Bad Writing = Good Writing?

Bad Writing = Good Writing? 10/30/2003 11:56 PM
Bad Writing = Good Writing? The academic journal Philosophy and Literature used to hold a "Bad Writing Contest" to ridicule dense, unreadable academic prose... but a new book argues headache inducing sentences are necessary to express subtle theoretical points.

Bad, Bad Bots

Bad, Bad Bots 12/19/2004 03:37 PM

IRC bots

IRC bots 05/14/2004 03:25 PM
So cial Network Bot.

 IRC Junkie reports of PieSpy 0.4.0:

Those who like toys, or are interested in social networks will like this bot. It is a “social network bot“ which renders diagrams that show the social structure of a channel.

“I’ve just released PieSpy version 0.4.0” PieSpy coder Paul Mutton said to IRCJunkie. “It will probably never reach 1.0, as
that’s just the way I version things :)”

This new version contains the tracking of nick changes, “which was the most popular feature request” , and faster rendering of the images showing the social networks.

“You can now apply different weightings to each of the heuristics that are used to infer relationships and the source code has been refactored so it is now very easy to make your own inference heuristics” , Paul adds.

You can find PieSpy here.

O’Reilly will release a book shortly by Paul Mutton, “IRC Hacks, 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools”.

[The Social Software Weblog]

This fits in well with the hecklebot and dashboard - two other kind of botty IRcy thingies.

The Bots Are All Right

The Bots Are All Right 04/11/2004 06:24 PM
Some Creative Commons-licensed, political-mash music from "the Internet's first virtual band."

Bluetooth Bots

Bluetooth Bots 09/02/2004 05:14 PM
A David Pescovitz article in the TheFeature.com describes the use of the Bluetooth protocol in robotics. Among the robots mentioned are a bio-inspired, vision-based robot blimp from the Autonomous Systems Lab of the EPFL and the Seiko-Epson mini helicopter robot that we reported on last month. Ironically, support for Bluetooth, which has never achieved much popularity, was dropped by Ericsson recently.

Wired bots.

Wired bots. 04/19/2004 04:28 PM
Tutorial: make your own AIM/MSN chat bot with Perl .. programming involved in Building an AIM bot .. Roll your own IM Bots

wiredbots.com/tutorial.html
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Booth Bots?

Booth Bots? 07/26/2004 11:08 PM
Instead of booth babes, geeks at the 2004 AAAI National Conference may be seeing booth bots. Robots particpating in the annual Robot Competition and Exhibition will be required to work in the vendor booths at the convention as part of the contest. The robots will have to register themselves for the conference, find their assigned booth, and interact with human particpants doing things such as escorting them to destinations within meeting hall. Each robot will also have to arrive at a pre-scheduled time and location to present a talk to the humans. A CMU press release says that Grace and George, a pair of social robots developed by researchers at CMU and two other labs, will be working the show.

Pandora Bots

Pandora Bots 11/01/2003 07:27 AM
Pandora Bots
http://www.pandorabots.com/

Welcome to pandorabots.com, the place where you can create and unleash virtual personalities. Pandorabots.com is an experimental software robot (bot) hosting service based on the work of Dr. Richard Wallace and the A.L.I.C.E./AIML free software community (www.alicebot.org).

From any browser, you may create, design and publish your own software robots – and make them available to anyone via the Internet. Click here to sign-up for an account to begin creating your own virtual robots. If you already have an account, please sign-in below with your email address and password.

PassMark PerformanceTest 5.0 build 1013
& BurnInTest 4.0 build 1012

PassMark PerformanceTest 5.0 build 1013
& BurnInTest 4.0 build 1012 04/21/2004 06:10 AM

PassMark PerformanceTest 5.0 build 1026
& BurnInTest 4.0 build 1017

PassMark PerformanceTest 5.0 build 1026
& BurnInTest 4.0 build 1017 09/07/2004 08:55 AM

Will Segways become battlefield bots?

Will Segways become battlefield bots? 12/07/2003 10:53 PM

AOL launches program for AIM bots

AOL launches program for AIM bots 09/20/2004 07:09 AM
America Online Inc. (AOL) is launching a program Monday to promote and facilitate the creation of what it calls AIM Robots for its AIM instant messaging system.

Bots and Humans Play Together

Bots and Humans Play Together 01/01/2004 12:20 PM
Bots and Humans Play Together
http://snipurl.com/3m2e

Joining a pickup ball game is a good way to get to know people. It might also be a good way for humans and robots to learn to work together. To that end, CMU researchers are putting together mixed teams for soccer, with the Segway scooter as the common denominator.

Bots-Only Poker Tournament

Bots-Only Poker Tournament 06/17/2005 03:45 PM

If our las t post on bots in online poker is any indication, a lot of you might be interested in this LA Times Article:

The march of the machines will be celebrated in Las Vegas next month with the world's first money tournament for robots — and the $100,000 prize is drawing a handful of coders out of anonymity.

The emerging technology does more than raise the stakes for real people and online casinos. It also raises fundamental questions about how far computers have come in mimicking and improving on human behavior, and about how far they can go in the future.

The article goes on to quote some AI folks stating that getting a computer to master poker will probably drive AI forward far more than a computer winning chess or backgammon, since it's such a psychological game, and involves understanding human patterns.

Sadly, this poker tournament will not include my favorite parts of a local Texas Hold'em tournament. Namely, eating too many chips and laughing so hard that I nearly fall out of my chair.

Via Waxy.

Adam-Bots Programmer CD

Adam-Bots Programmer CD 09/16/2004 09:09 PM
Welcome, initial status report

Hackers Use People as Bots

Hackers Use People as Bots 01/29/2004 02:49 AM

Cory Doctorow describes how some creative hackers are using people as bots to workaround 'captchas', images of distorted text, which is used to protect against bots by websites such as Hotmail and Register.com.

The ingenious crack is to offer a free porn site which requires that you key in the solution to a captcha -- which has been inlined from Yahoo or Hotmail -- before you can gain access. Free porn sites attract lots of users around the clock, and the spammers were able to generate captcha solutions fast enough to create as many throw-away email accounts as they wanted.

The darkside aside, I am impressed by their ingenuity.  But then I guess it is easy to think outside the box if you were never inside the box to begin with.

400,000 Vacuum Bots by 2006?

400,000 Vacuum Bots by 2006? 11/11/2003 01:16 AM
CNN has an article touting Hitachi's vacuum robot. Yeah, yeah, "big deal" I said to myself. But, what was really interesting to me; was that in the article it states that a UN study says that the vacuum cleaner robot sales are to soar to over 400k units by 2006. I'm aware that this has been reported before and also again back in the past, but when the numbers hit me... Wow! But, me without a robot vacuum company and in 2006 there'll be sales of 400k vacuum robots! That really... [no... I refrain]. Despite their high price tag, (well, actually the price of at least one isn't so bad) it appears that people love their home vacuum bots, and time is getting scarce. There could be also be as many as 125k lawn-mower bots, and up to 1.5 million robot toys like Sony's AIBO robotic dog in just a couple years. Wow, big numbers, I know, but still the magnatitude finally hit me and I guess I was a little stunned, and maybe it WAS a little surprising to me. Is it just me? I guess it's time for me to dust off my vacuum bot designs and get on the bandwagon - there's money to be made and time's a wastin.

Birth of the Bluetooth Bots

Birth of the Bluetooth Bots 09/02/2004 06:44 AM
The Feature Sep 2 2004 9:49AM GMT
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