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Rantings in the digital wind as your Grot Shop of the information age. "I didn't get where I am today without recognising a completely useless machine when I see one" - C.J.
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IBM sets academic initiative. GRAPEVINE, TEXAS -- IBM at the Rational Software Developer User Conference on Tuesday here detailed an initiative to collaborate with educators to teach students open standards skills to enable them to keep pace with changes in IT. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Open Group urges developers to declare independence. Open standards and interoperability consortium The Open Group is calling on software developers and the IT industry at large to declare their independence from proprietary technology, in what the group is touting as a virtual call to arms against closed standards. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Robot librarian. Researchers at Universitat Jaume I in Spain are designing a robot librarian of sorts. The three-wheeled bot listens for verbal book requests, heads to the approximate location of the title on a shelf, and uses digital cameras to read the spines. The toughest challenge is engineering a grasper with "fingernails" to pull out the book, Professor Angel del Pobil told the BBC:
"It is mimicking the way we manipulate our hands. We have constant feedback from tactile sensors, so it is moving very slowly. In the first experiments, the books really got damaged because it was pressing too hard. Now it touches gently."
Link [Boing Boing]
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