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September 18, 2017

Randy Pausch – The Last Lecture

10 years ago, “Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.”

Randy’s Lecture

February 7, 2016

Disney-inspired scented candles make your home smell like the parks

Anthology Candles has created a line of Disney-inspired candles that will fill your house with the smells of the parks.

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January 29, 2015

Artificial Intelligence – Should we be concerned?

“A scientist’s drive for artificial intelligence, takes on dangerous implications when his consciousness is uploaded into one such program.” – IMDB on Transcendence

A recent movie, an open letter – Should we be concerned?

January 28, 2015

6 Inexpensive Materials, Dozens of Ideas

July 5, 2014

f.lux™ software to make your life better

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“Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie blue glow? Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen? During the day, computer screens look good—they’re designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn’t be looking at the sun. f.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer’s display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.” Just Get f.lux

March 25, 2014

What is Pearltrees?

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“Pearltrees is a free, visual and collaborative library that lets you organize web pages, files, photos and notes to retrieve and share them anywhere easily. Leverage Pearltrees’ community to discover amazing stuff related to your interests and enrich your account. Access anything you save in Pearltrees from all your devices.”

April 25, 2013

The Stanford University Learning Locomotion Project

The Stanford University Learning Locomotion Project.

“Overview

Legged robots, unlike wheeled robots, have the potential to access nearly all of the earth’s land mass, enabling robotic applications in areas where they are currently infeasible. However, the current control software for legged robots is quite limited, and does not let them realize this potential.

In the Learning Locomotion project, we seek to develop software that significantly advances the state of the art in robotic quadruped locomotion over rough terrain. To achieve this goal, we develop and apply novel control and machine learning algorithms.“

March 10, 2013