Open source robot: your next personal assistant
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| Imagine a robot that hands you a beer and then cleans your kitchen and living
| room. That's what a start-up called Willow Garage in Menlo Park, Calif., is
| busy developing. But the company isn't going it alone: Willow Garage is an
| open source project that wants as much outside participation as possible.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/030608-open-source-robot.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Open Source Powers 1 of 9 Elite Stage 6 Hospitals
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| Midland Memorial Hospital is recognized as one of 9 US Hospitals to achieve
| Stage 6 adoption of Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model.
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http://linuxmednews.com/1204835553
Even AOL /pretends/ to be open...
AOL Opens AIM for Open Source
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| For the last two years, AOL has been promoting its OpenAIM initiative as a
| vehicle to enable developers to build their own AIM (AOL Instant
| Messenger)-based clients. But there were issues with documentation that got
| in the way of some projects.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3732331/AOL+Opens+AIM+for+Open+Source.htm
Related:
Personal robots coming, study finds
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| The personal robot market will be worth $15 billion annually by 2015,
| according to an ABI report. Most personal robots shipping today use
| proprietary OSes, although Linux is slowly migrating from the commercial to
| the consumer robot market, according to an ABI analyst.
|
| [...]
|
| One of the reasons for moving to Linux cited by the contestants was the fact
| that Sony's groundbreaking Aibo, which offered one of the most hackable APIs
| among personal robots, was being discontinued.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5330328149.html
A review of robotics software platforms
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| Today's nascent robotics market has engendered about 10 general purpose
| software development frameworks, including nine that support Linux. This
| article surveys seven of them, before wrapping up with an analysis of market
| trends likely to shape the robotics software landscape of tomorrow.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5739475111.html
First Public Release of CLARAty Software
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| With this release, a total of 44 CLARAty modules (~100K lines of code) are
| now available under the JPL Open Source License. This release is intended to
| share with the robotics community some of the core robotic modules which were
| jointly developed with NASA Ames Research Center, Carnegie Mellon, and
| University of Minnesota. This first release represents about 10% of all
| CLARAty modules and 30% of the generic modules planned for future release.
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http://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/news/newsStory.cfm?NewsID=69
We, Robots: Open Source Robotics
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| Now Orocos is nothing like, say, the Linux kernel, which after
| some configuration and adding a number of tools, runs on pretty
| much any 32-bit and quite a few 64-bit architectures once would
| care to think of. Indeed, Orocos is likely to use the Linux kernel
| itself via a real-time interface to talk to hardware.
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http://www.tuxdeluxe.org/node/183
New robot dog runs Linux, thrives on orders
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| The matt-black Bj is a Linux-powered platform intended for investigating
| robotics and artificial intelligence. As such, it's really a research device,
| although iXs does offer it for sale.
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http://www.tech.co.uk/gadgets/future-tech/news/new-robot-dog-runs-linux-thrives-on-orders?articleid=1334414696
Leading Hospital Relies on Red Hat Solutions for Improved Reliability and
Patient Care
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| Red Hat Enterprise Linux now runs on 40 BIDMC servers, 11 of which are
| installed in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cluster that hosts Intersystems Cache
| and the hospital's proprietary Triple A applications, those that are most
| mission-critical for patients.
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http://www.centredaily.com/business/technology/story/393977.html
Hospital software vendor McKesson uses Linux to heal IT budgets
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| At first, convincing hospital executives to go with McKesson's Linux-based
| applications was difficult because of fears that Linux wouldn't be as
| reliable as Unix, which had been in their IT shops for years, Simpson
| said. "It took some time for them to understand that open source is safe,
| that open source has support," he added.
|
| The deal with Red Hat "really kicked the program into gear," he said,
| allowing McKesson to offer its software with Red Hat Enterprise Linux in a
| top-to-bottom package for mission-critical hospital IT systems.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9052142&intsrc=hm_list
Is Linux enough for open source medical advocates?
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| The change occurs on the back-end, where Linux is the OS, and where customers
| may even choose MySQL or Ingres as their database technology.
|
| McKesson says 75% of its roughly 2,500 hospital customers have embraced the
| change, with Oracle as the company’s current database of choice. “The best of
| both worlds” the company says.
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http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=564
Red Hat enters healthcare sector
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| Red Hat Software Services, provider of Linux and open source technologies, is
| foraying into the Indian healthcare sector.
|
| Red Hat's Global Support Services vice-president Lain Gray said the company
| plans to facilitate the sharing of patients' data and history within various
| hospitals to promote better healthcare services.
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http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/dec/06yup.htm
Leading Healthcare Technology Provider Chooses Red Hat
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| Sage Software provides integrated electronic health records, electronic
| data interchange (EDI) applications and practice management systems to
| more than 20,000 ambulatory care practices throughout North America.
| These systems enable physicians and practice managers to better
| manage their practices and improve profitability.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070123/20070123005179.html?.v=1
Computer Programs and Systems, Inc. Announces Migration of CPSI System to Linux
Operating System
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| Computer Programs and Systems, Inc., a leading provider of healthcare
| information solutions, today announced the migration of the CPSI healthcare
| information system to the Linux operating system.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071115/20071115005804.html?.v=1
McKesson First to Offer Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform
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| As a leading provider of technology solutions to the healthcare
| industry, McKesson has been at the forefront of innovative
| technologies, deploying many of its advanced Horizon Clinicals
| applications on Linux running on Intel-based hardware. Hospitals
| with these deployments have already realized cost savings of up
| to 60% compared with traditional system deployments.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070226/20070226005175.html?.v=1
IBM and Convergence CT Team to Provide Clinical Data Warehousing for
Healthcare and Life Sciences
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| The IBM BCU is a fully integrated and scalable data warehouse
| solution for Linux that combines software, server, and storage
| resources to maximize business intelligence and information
| management performance for enterprises.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070228/0221247.html
Editor's Corner (on Open Source in Healthcare)
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| Suggesting that a private healthcare provider switch from
| proprietary software to open source-based applications is one
| thing. But when an official affiliated with as august a body as
| the United Nations suggests that all member countries adopt open
| source for their healthcare applications, that's a much bigger deal.
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http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/editor-s-corner/2006-10-09
Linux in Healthcare
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| Linux in healthcare is a tale of things seen and unseen. Linux/Open
| Source have enjoyed tremendous popularity in embedded systems and
| networks for major technologies used in healthcare that healthcare
| providers may not even be aware of.
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http://www.linux-mag.com/id/3215/
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