April « 2007 « Sub Ubi

Hard drive! Mercy!

By matt, on April 29th, 2007%

So, in the midst of travel, taxes, and many other exciting things, I lost my hard drive two weeks ago. And not only that, but it was a surprise, overnight failure. Friday night it worked, Saturday it was dead, and I had no warning.

So, be warned, and backup! You can loose your HD at any time, . . . → Read More: Hard drive! Mercy!

Taxes

By matt, on April 10th, 2007%

For tax purposes, I need to know the start and end of every trip I made to the USA.

Why? And, mercy, I don’t have that information easily to hand. This is . . . → Read More: Taxes

Changed Locks

By matt, on April 9th, 2007%

Five or six weeks ago, the Estates department changed the lock on the outer door to our office suite. This was good, because our lock was mostly broken. It was bad, because we had to check keys in and out of the reception desk in the building foyer.

In the three weeks I was traveling, presenting at . . . → Read More: Changed Locks

Subsumption on the SRV-1

By matt, on April 8th, 2007%

I recently caught sight of the article Subsumption for the SR04 and jBot Robots over at the Dallas Personal Robotics Group’s webpage. What is sad is that the first thing that David Anderson goes into is technical details regarding their timing loop. Sadly, timing has nothing to do with implementing the subsumption architecture. Our recent [...] . . . → Read More: Subsumption on the SRV-1

Accounts gone

By matt, on April 4th, 2007%

If you are trying to reach me, please click the Contact link to the left, and find out how you can contact me.

As of Wednesday, my account at the University of Kent has been killed. I believe I now understand why, and it is the worst kind of “I’m just following policy” I’ve encountered in some . . . → Read More: Accounts gone

Our Google TechTalk

By matt, on April 4th, 2007%

On March 29th, we gave our first Google TechTalk!
You can hit the link to go to the Google Video site. So far, we’ve had quite a few views, and apparently, people enjoy it (according to the ratings, anyway). We had a hard time targeting the talk; we rewrote it several times before giving it, as [...] . . . → Read More: Our Google TechTalk

AAAI Robotics and Education 2007

By matt, on April 2nd, 2007%

We spent the first three days of last week taking part in the AAAI 2007 Spring Symposium. In particular, we joined the Robotics and Education track with about 50 others interested in using robotics to teach everything from introductory programming to vision, pathfinding/planning, decision making, and all the other tasty bits of artificial intelligence.

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We saw [...] . . . → Read More: AAAI Robotics and Education 2007

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