Robot Vision using Math from Fly Eyes
Try saying that really fast 10 times!
Author Archives: Stacey Armstrong
CS News – New Google Programming Languages
Google Releases Go and Noop Programming Languages
It was just a matter of time.
Hofstadter Speaking at Rice
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~events/pls/Hofstadter.shtml
It was asked that I post that Douglas Hofstadter was speaking at Rice on the 17th of November. This looks like a cool presentation.
http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/hofstadter/
Information on an awesome book by Hofstadter.
http://www.amazon.com/Godel-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden/dp/0465026567
CS News – More News on Robotics
US and Australia – MAGIC Robotics
Yes! Have we not all seen Terminator or Star Wars?
Beware those crafty robots and their plots of doom!
CS News – Election Cryptography
Ciphers and Codes are awesome examples of Computer Science in action.
This article is a great real life example.
CS News – AI Spacesuits
Astronauts are already cool and now they have suits with built-in laptops and iPods.
Where do you sign up to be an astronaut?
I am going to see if these suits are on eBay.
This article is also another great example of Science and Computer Science working together.
CS News – CS as a Science
Professor Working to Advance CS as a Science
“The problem with computer science is that a few people think it equals programming. It’s the same as someone thinking that all of mathematics is algebra,” said Snodgrass, the principal investigator on the grant. “But that doesn’t emphasize the great ideas behind computer science, and that’s what we want to bring out in this grant.”
I agree 100% with this quote from the article.
I love to write code, but computer science is way more than just programming.
Alice 3.0
Alice 3.0 is moving along.
I used Alice 3.0 in my AP CS classes last year and plan to use it again this year.
Alice 3.0 does a great job of helping students visualize arrays and for each loops.
CS News – Supercomputers and Black Holes
CS News – Robotic Perception
This is pretty interesting.