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Google Tech Talks March, 24 2008 ABSTRACT Yang Li – RESEARCH SCIENTIST Pervasive or ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) applications can support people’s everyday activities in the physical world by leveraging advances in sensor technologies and computing infrastructures. Designing ubicomp applications is challenging because our everyday activities are more complex, dynamic and less structured than the tasks supported by traditional desktop computing. Ubicomp design is difficult, time-consuming, and requires a high level of technical expertise, especially with sensor technologies. To address this, I created a set of rapid prototyping tools and frameworks. My early work with Topiary introduces high-level abstractions, such as maps and scenarios, for designers to easily model location contexts and specify location-based behaviors. Topiary also allows a design to be tested in the field via a Wizard of Oz approach, without deploying a location sensor infrastructure. My recent work is focused on activity-based ubicomp prototyping, a process for enabling long-term activities (such as keeping fit)—a larger unit for design than the tasks that are the focus of traditional design. To support such a process, I created activitydesigner, a system that allows designers to create functional prototypes of ubicomp applications based on field observations, and easily deploy and test these prototypes in situ. Speaker: Yang Li – RESEARCH SCIENTIST Yang Li is a research associate in the Computer …

This is a 3D model of a imac the 2008 Model, with some enhancements; a new curved back with semi rounded edges. Also included is the Apple Wireless Keyboard that has the Number Pad on the Right. Programs Used lightwave 3D – Modeling imovie 09′ – Editing Software If you like what you see please Rate, Comment and Subscribe There will be more like this as my School year goes on.

Who cares about which game you like more, which circumstance w/ powers would you want? I think most people would pick Alex for sheer “bad@ssitude”, but Cole would work great in the “real world” where you’d be the only super person, but let’s look at how each was created and what YOU would be if you chose their “origin.”

(! SPOILERS ! SPOILERS !)

Cole got his power from the ray sphere, a device which absorbs bio-energy from thousands of nearby people (killing them and causing a huge blast radius of damage, killing more people), and puts that power, in the form of electricity, into Cole.

Alex was a doctor of genetics that unleashed a deadly virus, but was immediately shot and killed. His freshly dead body fell on top of the virus, which took over and copied Alex’s body done to the genetic level, so it “thinks” it is Alex, with no memory. The character is a virus wearing the genes, body, and personality of a dead man.

Cole can use electricity for top human speed, climbing, strength and overall athletics, but Alex is Hulk-strong and durable. Both have rapid healing, but Alex can shapeshift, absorb the mass of others into himself, taking their abilities memories and looks. Alex can change into a humanoid with a tank shell, blade arms, claws, or a shield arm. Cole can shoot lightning, absorb and generate electricity, bind people with electrical “rope”, heal physical damage, absorb the memories of the recently deceased, electro glide (Alex can glide too), send a wave of electricity which damages as well as throws everything in its path up in the air, and he can throw timed charged electric grenades.

Anyway, if you pick Cole, you’d have to kill thousands of people, but if you chose Alex, you would not be YOU. You’d wake up with amnesia, with your personality but no clue who you were, a virus inside the shell of your former self.

I gues you could detonate the ray shere near a huge prison, or in a country that is a USA enemy. And I guess you could record hours and hours of video tape, recordings and journals to give your self after you are killed and exposed to the virus in an airlock to keep it contained just to you. that way when “you” wake up with no memory, your recordings could reorintate you to your new life.

Whatever, pick one and say why…

live.pirillo.com – Mike Sutter sent me an email, wondering what exactly 3D printing is, what it does, and how much it costs.

Google Tech Talks March, 24 2008 ABSTRACT Yang Li – RESEARCH SCIENTIST Pervasive or ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) applications can support people’s everyday activities in the physical world by leveraging advances in sensor technologies and computing infrastructures. Designing ubicomp applications is challenging because our everyday activities are more complex, dynamic and less structured than the tasks supported by traditional desktop computing. Ubicomp design is difficult, time-consuming, and requires a high level of technical expertise, especially with sensor technologies. To address this, I created a set of rapid prototyping tools and frameworks. My early work with Topiary introduces high-level abstractions, such as maps and scenarios, for designers to easily model location contexts and specify location-based behaviors. Topiary also allows a design to be tested in the field via a Wizard of Oz approach, without deploying a location sensor infrastructure. My recent work is focused on activity-based ubicomp prototyping, a process for enabling long-term activities (such as keeping fit)—a larger unit for design than the tasks that are the focus of traditional design. To support such a process, I created activitydesigner, a system that allows designers to create functional prototypes of ubicomp applications based on field observations, and easily deploy and test these prototypes in situ. Speaker: Yang Li – RESEARCH SCIENTIST Yang Li is a research associate in the Computer …

i want to build a device like you saw in the movie,”contact” with jodie foster. can anyone tell me how to build this so i can extradimensionally travel. when you use your pineal gland in your head, you travel interdimensionally.

i want to take my body with me. so i need to build a machine modeled after the pineal gland so i can travel between time and space.

What is the best free 3D CAD Design Software for a mechanical student to be installed and learned?

I would like to know what type of paper you use for 3D orgami to make the little triangles with pockets that you connect to make something really cool. I know how to fold it and all that stuff, but I don’t know what type of paper to use. I made one with regular paper like printer paper , but I don’t know if I used the right paper.
PLEASE HELP
THANK YOU =)

Google Tech Talks March, 24 2008 ABSTRACT Yang Li – RESEARCH SCIENTIST Pervasive or ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) applications can support people’s everyday activities in the physical world by leveraging advances in sensor technologies and computing infrastructures. Designing ubicomp applications is challenging because our everyday activities are more complex, dynamic and less structured than the tasks supported by traditional desktop computing. Ubicomp design is difficult, time-consuming, and requires a high level of technical expertise, especially with sensor technologies. To address this, I created a set of rapid prototyping tools and frameworks. My early work with Topiary introduces high-level abstractions, such as maps and scenarios, for designers to easily model location contexts and specify location-based behaviors. Topiary also allows a design to be tested in the field via a Wizard of Oz approach, without deploying a location sensor infrastructure. My recent work is focused on activity-based ubicomp prototyping, a process for enabling long-term activities (such as keeping fit)—a larger unit for design than the tasks that are the focus of traditional design. To support such a process, I created activitydesigner, a system that allows designers to create functional prototypes of ubicomp applications based on field observations, and easily deploy and test these prototypes in situ. Speaker: Yang Li – RESEARCH SCIENTIST Yang Li is a research associate in the Computer …

Google Tech Talks March, 24 2008 ABSTRACT Yang Li – RESEARCH SCIENTIST Pervasive or ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) applications can support people’s everyday activities in the physical world by leveraging advances in sensor technologies and computing infrastructures. Designing ubicomp applications is challenging because our everyday activities are more complex, dynamic and less structured than the tasks supported by traditional desktop computing. Ubicomp design is difficult, time-consuming, and requires a high level of technical expertise, especially with sensor technologies. To address this, I created a set of rapid prototyping tools and frameworks. My early work with Topiary introduces high-level abstractions, such as maps and scenarios, for designers to easily model location contexts and specify location-based behaviors. Topiary also allows a design to be tested in the field via a Wizard of Oz approach, without deploying a location sensor infrastructure. My recent work is focused on activity-based ubicomp prototyping, a process for enabling long-term activities (such as keeping fit)—a larger unit for design than the tasks that are the focus of traditional design. To support such a process, I created activitydesigner, a system that allows designers to create functional prototypes of ubicomp applications based on field observations, and easily deploy and test these prototypes in situ. Speaker: Yang Li – RESEARCH SCIENTIST Yang Li is a research associate in the Computer …