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Launch of BirdPlanner.com
Published on 23 Feb 2008 at 3:32 am.
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Filed under Birds, Ecology, Solutions, Wildlife.
I am pleased to publicly announce the launch of BirdPlanner.com
I have been working on this project for one year now, and it is now ready for public consumption. The site enables bird watchers and ecotourists to create a list of the birds that live at any location in the Western Hemisphere. If you are travelling and […]
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CLARAty Reusable Robotics Software
Published on 10 Jan 2008 at 3:49 am.
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Filed under Computation, Exploration, Intelligent Systems, Robotics, Software, Solutions, Space, Technology.
CLARAty (Coupled-Layer Architecture for Robotic Autonomy) is a framework for reusable robotics software. It was developed in part by my former colleagues at NASA Ames Research Center in collaboration with Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Minnesota (my alma matter).
They are in the process of making the framework and several modules publicly available.
Videos of […]
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One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
Published on 23 Dec 2007 at 1:50 pm.
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Filed under Entrepreneurship, Internet, Inventions, Social Justice, Solutions, Technology.
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) association aims to provide one laptop to every school-age child in the developing countries of the world with the goal of improving education around the world. The program was developed by Nicholas Negroponte who was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory. His goal was to develop a $100 […]
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The Freesound Project
Published on 19 Dec 2007 at 3:16 am.
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Filed under Acoustics, Internet, Research, Solutions.
Today Roger Pink pointed me to The Freesound Project, which is an online database of sounds. These sounds are free to be used by anyone in accordance with the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project makes these sounds accessible by keyword search.
Recently, the Music Technology Group of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona received […]
Trying FEEDJIT
Published on 19 Nov 2007 at 9:57 pm.
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Filed under Internet, Inventions, Software, Solutions, Technology.
I stumbled on this live traffic monitor called FEEDJIT today while visiting the Church of the Spaghetti Monster…
They also have a map that displays where the traffic is coming from.
Pretty cool, huh?
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
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