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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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