Cornell Builds Autonomous UAV

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From Autonomous Vehicles That Crash To
Autonomous Vehicles That Learn

From Autonomous Vehicles That Crash To
Autonomous Vehicles That Learn 05/12/2004 12:53 PM
While some people considered DARPA's Grand Challenge race a flop when the autonomous vehicles failed to get very far, many involved thought that it was a good start, and with a little more time in the shop they could build autonomous vehicles that could successfully navigate the course. DARPA, however, seems to want to go in another direction. It seems like a bit of a kneejerk reaction away from where things were already headed, but now they say they want to focus on auton omous learning vehicles. The idea is that a smarter autonomous vehicle would learn to recognize a pothole and avoid it the next time one came around. All this really does, though, is add to the complexity of the vehicle, without necessarily leading to much benefit. Learning systems have a mixed history with most systems not doing all that well. To achieve this plan, though, DARPA plans to hold a series of races between a "learning" vehicle and a regular autonomous robotic vehicle, with the goal being for the learning vehicle to get much better each time. It's a little unclear if this new direction is separate from the regular autonomous Grand Challenge or an attempt to replace it. Still, some of those involved with the Grand Challenge say their systems will contain some amount of adaptive learning. However, the general consensus is that, for right now, it's more productive to focus on autonomous machines and let the humans do the learning.

http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/

http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/ 04/11/2005 03:00 PM
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History (HEARTH). From Cornell University, HEARTH is an internet resource collecting home economics texts from 1850 to 1950, including Meals that cook themselves and cut the costs, by Christine Frederick (1915), and The young woman's guide to excellence, by William A. Alcott (1852), as well as the Journal of Home Economics from 1909 to 1980.

Cornell University: Curious About
Astronomy? Ask An Astronomer

Cornell University: Curious About
Astronomy? Ask An Astronomer 09/12/2004 07:11 AM
Cornell University: Curious About Astronomy? Ask An Astronomer
http://curious.astro .cornell.edu/index.php

At this website, volunteers in the Astronomy Department at Cornell University provide great educational materials about astronomy for educators and students. Visitors can find links to outside resources which cover many different aspects of astronomy and space science. The site provides links to biographies of the scientists who answer the many questions received each week. Users can find a huge archive of questions and answers divided into four main categories: the solar system, universe, observational astronomy, and miscellaneous. Visitors can also view a list of all the questions or search the archives by key words. If individuals can't find answers to their questions at this site, they can send their questions to the scientists. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/]

Historic Fashion Collection from Cornell
Online

Historic Fashion Collection from Cornell
Online 11/01/2003 04:14 PM

Cornell News: Slime-mold beetle named
for Bush

Cornell News: Slime-mold beetle named
for Bush 04/14/2005 10:18 AM
The decision to name three slime-mold beetles after Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, however, didn't have anything to do with physical features, says Quentin Wheeler, a professor of entomology and of plant biology at Cornell for 24 years until last October, bu

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Copyfighters versus RIAA, MPAA, Napster
and Universal at Cornell this Thurs

Copyfighters versus RIAA, MPAA, Napster
and Universal at Cornell this Thurs 04/12/2005 03:56 AM
Cory Doctorow: This Thursday, my cow-orker Fred von Lohmann (who successfully argued the Grokster case in the Ninth Circuit) and Siva Vaidhyanathan (author of The Anarchist in the Library) will go to Cornell University to take on Alec French (Senior counsel, Government Relations, NBC/Universal), Cary Sherman (President, Recording Industry Association of America), Avery Kotler (Senior director, Business and Legal Affairs Napster) and Fritz Attaway (Executive VP and general counsel, Motion Picture Association of America) in a debate.

Now it may seem like Fred and Siva are a little overmatched here, what with the copyright maximalists being represented 2-1 to the copyfighters, but I figger it's a fair handicap: after all, the copyfighters have the unfair advantage of being truthful, reasonable, and committed to the public interest. Link (Thanks, Siva!)

Internet Business agrees 500,000 stg
credit equity line with Cornell Capital

Internet Business agrees 500,000 stg
credit equity line with Cornell Capital 08/09/2004 05:40 AM
Iii.co.uk - Mon Aug 9, 07:19 am GMT

Autonomous LAN Party

Autonomous LAN Party 01/01/2004 02:42 PM
ALP 0.96.10d released!

5 New Papers on Autonomous Robots

5 New Papers on Autonomous Robots 02/10/2004 03:00 AM
Dave Hrynkiw sent us a link to the latest issue of the Kluwer Journal, Autonomous Robots. Normally a pay per-view journal, the January issue has been released for free. Papers in this issue include Evolvable Hardware in Evolutionary Robotics, A Set Theoretic Approach to Dynamic Robot Localization and Mapping, Bayesian Robot Programming, Mobile Robot Learning by Self-Observation, and A Color Vision-Based Lane Tracking System for Autonomous Driving on Unmarked Roads. (all in PDF format). Enjoy.

IBM aims to make chips more autonomous

IBM aims to make chips more autonomous 07/30/2004 02:02 PM
But will the new eFuse technology have Big Blue's chip saying "I, processor"?

Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots

Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots 06/15/2004 01:12 PM
MIT Press recently sent us their latest book on mobile robotics, Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots by Roland Siegwart of EPFL and Illah R. Nourbakhsh of CMU. The book provides a load of useful information on mobile robot locomotion and navigation issues. If you're struggling with the problem of how to make your robot get from point A to point B quickly and efficiently while avoiding obstcles, this book may have your answer. Read on for the full review.

Will There Be A Winning Autonomous Robot
in 2005?

Will There Be A Winning Autonomous Robot
in 2005? 06/05/2004 09:07 PM

Visual Searching by an Autonomous Robot

Visual Searching by an Autonomous Robot 04/20/2004 03:40 PM
When a robot needs to guard a region of space within a building, it's faced with solving geometric problems known as the Watchman Problem and the Art Gallery Problem. A new paper titled Online Searching by an Autonomous Robot (PDF format) describes the use of a KURT3D robot with a low cost 3D laser scanner to find realistic solutions to these problems. They test their work by putting the Linux-based robot through its paces in the great hall of Schloss Birlinghoven at Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems. Video of the robot in action and 3D scans are available on the website.

Autonomous Lawn Mower Competition

Autonomous Lawn Mower Competition 06/03/2004 12:31 PM
We just found out that the Institute of Navigation will be holding their first annual Autonomous Lawn Mower Competition on June 4th and 5th in Dayton, Ohio. With the competition just hours away, it's probably too late to get an entry together but you can still check the action at this year's event if you're in the area. In addition to looking for the faster autonomous lawn mower, robots will be judged on their construction cost and projected manufacturing costs of a production model.

No Autonomous Mining Robots, says Minsky

No Autonomous Mining Robots, says Minsky 04/16/2005 07:19 PM
According to a CNEWS story on the recent International Symposium on Mine Mechanization and Automation we are decades away from fully autonomous mining robots. Marvin Minsky, who addressed the conference, said that while it was possible such machines could be built, his forecast was gloomy: "There isn't anything in the laboratory right now that is very promising". He notes that one of the problems is that companies today are financially incapable of doing long term research and development because it doesn't turn a fast profit for the stockholders. On the upside, tele-operated mining equipment is feasible and may be a good intermediate step toward full autonomy.

AUTONOMOUS COMPUTING and AGENTS for
BUSINESS AUTOMATION

AUTONOMOUS COMPUTING and AGENTS for
BUSINESS AUTOMATION 01/16/2004 11:02 AM
NetLib Jan 16 2004 8:07AM GMT

NASA Autonomous Spacecraft Ready to Test

NASA Autonomous Spacecraft Ready to Test 04/04/2005 01:35 PM
A New Scientist article says that NASA hopes to launch a fully autonomous test vehicle on April 15th. The robot probe is called Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology (DART). DART's goal is to do what many robots here on Earth are doing these days: GPS-guided waypoint navigation. Over a 24 hour period DART will move through 52 steps of direction and velocity changes to approach an experimental satellite. GPS will be used to get to the general area and then a laser sensor system will be used to move within 5 meters of the satellite. For more information see NASA's DART factsheet (PDF format).

DARPA's Autonomous Vehicle Challenge Too
Popular?

DARPA's Autonomous Vehicle Challenge Too
Popular? 11/03/2003 04:44 PM
Tim writes "Mobilerobotics.org has an editorial accompanying a copy of a letter to one of the teams entering the DARPA Grand Challenge 1 million dollar ...

Open Source Autonomous Ground Vehicle

Open Source Autonomous Ground Vehicle 07/30/2004 03:29 PM
Open Source project created for DARPA Grand Challenge 2005

Autonomous Spacecraft DART Closes in on
Launch Date

Autonomous Spacecraft DART Closes in on
Launch Date 02/17/2004 09:56 AM
Space.com Feb 17 2004 2:07PM GMT

DARPA's Grand Challenge Autonomous Road
Race Much More Popular Than Expected

DARPA's Grand Challenge Autonomous Road
Race Much More Popular Than Expected 10/30/2003 11:46 PM
We wrote about DARPA's "Grand Challenge" road race when it was first announced and then a few months ago. In the meantime, it appears that it's really struck a nerve with a lot of people. DARPA says they've received 106 applications to participate, which is a lot more than they expected. They thought there would be much fewer (under 30) applicants, and that many wouldn't pass initial scrutiny. The plan was to announce the entrants by now, but with so many applications, the review process is taking much longer than expected. The Challenge, if you haven't been following the story, is to build a completely autonomous vehicle that can drive on-road and off, which will have to complete a 250 mile course, all by itself, that will only be revealed two hours before the race begins.

Atair Aerospace Becomes the First
Company in the World to Demonstrate
Flocking and Swarming Capabilities on
Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Atair Aerospace Becomes the First
Company in the World to Demonstrate
Flocking and Swarming Capabilities on
Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 03/31/2005 03:03 AM
For the first time in history, autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have flown using flocking and swarming algorithms. “Flocking and Swarming” are two words used interchangeably to refer to modeled flight that is biologically inspired by the flight of flocking birds and swarming insects. [PRWEB Mar 31, 2005]

More Mac OS X Builds, 10.3.9, Tiger.

More Mac OS X Builds, 10.3.9, Tiger. 04/07/2005 07:16 AM
Appleinsider reports that Apple has seeded another build of Mac OX 10.3.9 build 7W94 which is expected to be released "imminently". Meanwhile, Appl...

New Safari builds

New Safari builds 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
Before Safari build 60 was released I saw all build 58, 59 and a bunch of earlier builds in my logs, mostly from apple.com IPs. $ grep Safari * | perl -pe 's/.*(AppleWeb.*)/$1/' | sort -u | tail -1 AppleWebKit/62 (like Gecko) Safari/62" Amusingly it's not from 17.* IP addresses (Apple), or even IPs that looks like they are from California. ThinkSecret posted a report about build 62 saying that it has tabs (yay). Maybe it leaked? ObSafari: Neato trick....

New Sunbird Builds Now Available

New Sunbird Builds Now Available 08/18/2004 06:17 PM

AMD builds one for video on the go

AMD builds one for video on the go 01/04/2005 06:46 AM
Computer Shopper Jan 4 2005 10:19AM GMT

IT growth builds to a peak

IT growth builds to a peak 09/14/2004 03:55 AM
Computer Weekly Sep 14 2004 8:15AM GMT

'Longhorn' Builds in Ease of Use

'Longhorn' Builds in Ease of Use 05/28/2004 12:28 PM

IBM Builds In PC Security (PC World)

IBM Builds In PC Security (PC World) 09/16/2004 07:32 PM
PC World - SafeKeeper module stores passwords, encryption keys in ThinkCentre desktops.

Google builds a browser

Google builds a browser 09/21/2004 06:19 AM
Strange stirrings at advertising broker

Xerox Builds Olympic Hub

Xerox Builds Olympic Hub 07/26/2004 05:49 AM
Xerox goes for Olympic gold by building a temporary Athens enterprise.

The Housing Bubble Builds

The Housing Bubble Builds 07/08/2004 02:12 PM
The real estate market remains strong despite rising interest rates.

AOL Builds Web, Audio Conferencing into
AIM

AOL Builds Web, Audio Conferencing into
AIM 06/10/2004 08:33 PM
AOL joins the trend toward making instant messaging an entry point to other communications services with its AIM Business Services and partnerships with WebEx and Lightbridge.

EchoStar Builds Momentum

EchoStar Builds Momentum 08/10/2004 12:24 PM
The satellite TV provider adds more subscribers than expected.

OpenScape builds presence

OpenScape builds presence 07/12/2004 02:19 PM
Siemens presents an update to its application for managing office communcations.

Automating Builds on Linux

Automating Builds on Linux 06/29/2004 05:32 AM
Why nightly builds improve code integrity and how to incorporate them into your product's lifecycle.

Talisma builds enterprise CRM

Talisma builds enterprise CRM 08/02/2004 05:36 PM
Comes as hosted solution or as a boxed application for in-house deployment.

Bassett Builds Strong Q2

Bassett Builds Strong Q2 06/28/2004 11:53 AM
The furniture manufacturer posts solid second-quarter results.

Optimized Firefox Builds

Optimized Firefox Builds 06/17/2004 11:38 AM
Via O. C. Henshawi: “If you are going to go to Firefox and want to get the most optimized version available, try the custom builds made by MOOX. This developer makes builds that are optimized for specific CPU architectures, as well as including patches the devs have not incorporated into source yet. Overall, MOOX builds test out approximately 25% faster than standard builds.”
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