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Friday, August 08, 2008 6:15 AM

Friday Misc Links – August 8 2008

Found a few good nuggets to share with people. Robots If you are in to robots or know someone who is I saw this announcement from the Microsoft Robotics team blog . The RoboChamps Amazed Challenge is over and the winners have been announced. However,
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Friday, May 16, 2008 1:08 PM

Links from my talk at Stevens Institute of Technology

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/16/links-from-my-talk-at-stevens-institute-of-technology.aspx'; Yesterday I gave one of the keynote talks at Stevens Institute of Technology’s second annual high school computer science workshop
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Friday, April 25, 2008 4:01 PM

RoboChamps – Online, Virtual Robot Competition

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/04/25/robochamps-online-virtual-robot-competition.aspx'; Most robotic competitions are fairly expensive to enter. The hardware is expensive, hard to assemble and tends to break at the worst possible
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 7:24 AM

When One Thing Leads To Another

The laws of unintended consequences seem to live in computer science and software development. Most good software products seem to wind up being used in unexpected ways. More than that one thing seems to always lead to another and not always in expected
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Friday, March 28, 2008 9:40 AM

Five Questions with Dean Kamen

Dean Kamen is probably best known either for FIRST Robotics or for inventing the Segway device. But he has invented a lot more than that and his robotic arm is showing some amazing potential to replace human limbs. He's also got an invention that creates
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:51 AM

Summer Robotics Workshops for Faculty

I see that IPRE ( Institute for Personal Robotics in Education ) is running a pair of faculty workshops this summer. We're offering two IPRE Summer Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement Workshops ( K-12 teachers also invited! ). In these workshops we will
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 5:17 AM

Build, Craft, Hack, Play, Make!

It looks like Maker Faire is starting to ramp up for this coming May. I'm trying to see if I can justify a trip out to California for it this year. Last year a couple of my friends worked the event showing off some really cool stuff and had a great time.
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Thursday, December 27, 2007 7:12 AM

Updates on Beginning Programming Languages

I would imagine that a lot of people are looking for interesting things to do with brand new computers this week. Some people are (I hope) looking for ways to teach young people about programming. Or perhaps you are looking for your self regardless of
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Saturday, December 15, 2007 3:51 PM

Robotics and .NET Fundamentals Series

Sometimes it really pays to have smart friends and let them figure things out for you even if you don't really plan it that way. Early this week a received a brand new robot in the mail. I've been waiting for it for a while. The problem of course is that
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 4:56 AM

Tandy Trower on Microsoft and Robotics

Tandy Trower is the General Manager of the Microsoft Robotics Group. A 26-year veteran of the company Tandy was hand picked by Bill Gates to get Microsoft serious about robotics. His is the team that created the Microsoft Robotics Studio. Recently Tandy
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 4:11 AM

WiiMote (Wii game controller) and Microsoft Robotics Studio

I've written before about the Wii controller with links to software that allows a programmer to use a WiiMote with a Windows computer over at Coding 4 Fun . (Note that the code has been updated since that original post.) The latest cool thing I have seen
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 5:03 AM

New Community Site for Robots in Education

RobotEvents.com is a new community portal for robotics and technology in education. Highlights include links to various robotic competitions for school students, lists of workshops and camps and discussion forums. Their mission: RobotEvents.com exists
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Friday, September 21, 2007 6:24 AM

New Robotics Curriculum from Microsoft Robotics Studio

Recently the Microsoft Robotics Studio team released a seven unit introductory course in robotics. I borrowed a bit of the overview and posted it here. Robotics Introductory Courseware Overview The robotics introductory courseware is a set of labs that
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Thursday, September 20, 2007 6:59 AM

2007 FIRST Women in Science and Technology Forum

While FIRST is best known for there amazing robotics competitions they have been running an annual event to encourage young women to enter the science and technology fields for a number of years now. This may be mostly of interest to people, especially
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 11:00 AM

The Problem with Games in Computer Science Class

Leigh Ann Sudol is one of those exciting and energetic teachers that make one ask "where were teachers like that when I was a student." She's awfully smart and has taught computer science both in high school and more recently at Carnegie Mellon University.
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