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[News] Openness/Freedom Spreads to Data, Humanoid, and Sony Products

  • Subject: [News] Openness/Freedom Spreads to Data, Humanoid, and Sony Products
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:44:30 +0000
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Open data on international development: let us know what you think!

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| Last autumn we released the first draft of a 
| working paper on opening up data related to 
| international development. The report covers 
| how to legally and technically open up aid 
| data, as well as recommendations for how to 
| make aid data easier to find and reuse.
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http://blog.okfn.org/2010/02/15/open-data-on-international-development-let-us-know-what-you-think/

Humanoid robots to gain advanced social skills

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| Led by Radu Horaud, Director of Research at 
| INRIA, the three-year project, which has 
| attracted 2.6m euros in European Commission 
| funding, builds on the POP project (see 
| Wired's December report), which provided 
| proof-of-concept for the idea that combining 
| auditory and visual information improves a 
| bot's ability to pick identify human 
| speakers in the midst of background noise.
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http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-02/12/humanoid-robots-to-gain-advanced-social-skills.aspx

MWC: Sony Ericsson pushes for open source, mobile content creation - based around social communities

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| The entire thing will be based around open 
| source content, or so claims Christopher 
| David. 
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http://www.gomonews.com/mwc-sony-ericsson-pushes-for-open-source-mobile-content-creation-based-around-social-communities/


Recent:

Fuji Soft humanoid robot

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| Fuji Soft has just introduced its first
| commercial bipedal humanoid robot that will see
| its official name and price unveiled early next
| year. For those who have tight purse strings,
| fret not - Fuji Soft maintains that their robot
| will be highly affordable.
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http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/12/fuji_soft_humanoid_robot.html
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