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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 …

I have a flashed Xbox 360 (1.51 but banned) and I want to sell it. I dont know the price though.

Heres what it has

Console:
Flashed (1.51) (banned) Xbox Elite
60GB Hard Drive
Nitro Fan
Blue Lights

Games:
Call of Duty 2
Call of Duty: World at War
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Dragon Age Origins
Tekken 6
Borderlands
Halo ODST
Halo Multiplayer
Harry potter 6
Prototype
Kane and Lynch
Fight Night Round 4
GTA Stories
F.E.A.R 2 Project Origins
Fable 2
Assassins Creed 2
Dead Rising
Operation Flash Point:Dragon Rising
Dead Rising
Gears of War 2
Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe
Shellshock 2
Smackdown VS Raw 2010
Skate 2
Burnout Ultimte
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
GTA IV
Left 4 Dead

Controllers:
1 White Wireless (Lights dont work)
1 Black Rapid Fire Wireless (Player 1 light not working)

Other:
5 CDs to be filled with latest games like Red Dead Redemption

A course I’m working on , modelling isn’t finished, neither is lighting just a test animation – I’m not great at animation within Maya – a few problems I would like help with if anyone can help ?? Using ‘High Quality Rendering – doesn’t seem to have the same problems when using ‘Default rendering’ ??? 1) The texture (which appears black is a bark chip material , but just shows as black?) 2) The lagoon material flashes to black when the camera pans over it? 3) One of the greens (holes) appears luminecent – (shows white in the clip) yet it’s the same grass material as the other holes? Any help would be very much appreciated. Cheers

Steven Pinker on the computational theory of mind and evolutionary psychology. Our mental faculties assume a world like that of our ancestors. Pinker describes some of the tricks our minds do, which helped us in the natural world, but can lead to maladaptive behaviour in the modern world. From a conference in 1998 called Der Digitale Planet (The Digital Planet, I guess), which also included Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Jared Diamond and Douglas Adams. Links follow: Douglas Adams: www.youtube.com Richard Dawkins: www.youtube.com Daniel Dennett: www.youtube.com Jared Diamond: www.youtube.com Found here (at the bottom): www.reitstoen.com Direct link to video (real media): www.web-for-vision.com

Rapid Prototype Testing of a longer tag inlay that lays flat in the track. In addition, an alternate reader antenna location was tested. The results of the two tests and the results are shown on this short video that demonstrate the solution design capabilities at ODIN.

Reverse engineering on UFO from History Channel. Scientist discussed about the technology and design on Alien’s vehicle. You should not miss this Great video!

I don’t care about software patents, I just want my hardware to work. I think the strategy of appeasement has failed. Linux doesn’t need an RMS, it needs an Osama Bin Laden.

Celebration movie for 10 years online ordering of rapid prototypes at Materialise Available online : Stereolithography, Selective Laser Sintering, Fused deposit Modeling, Polyjet

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…

I am trying to help a 14 year old in a volunteer program. There are no local programs for this age. He is very interested in learning how to design computer/video games and 3D art. Any suggestions on how to help him move in this direction?