My supervisor asked me to fill out a career map, complete with long-term and short-term goals.  Since I don’t have aspirations to become a manager, I thought I’d more clearly define my user interface design goals.

Since that long-term bit is in there, I thought I’d see if I could factor in artificial intelligence.  Not necessarily the personal, ( Read more... )

Laser outline-based motion capture works without ping pong ball markers.  Also captures secondary motion of clothes.


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Via Danny:

" The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, on Monday issued a call for research proposals to develop the National Cyber Range, or NCR, a virtual network environment for cyberwar simulation.

In other words, Darpa wants to build something along the lines of The Matrix, Star Trek's holodeck, or a Snow Crash-style Metaverse to ( Read more... )

From Jon:
"Russia’s Red Army Choir sings “Sweet Home Alabama”… I shit you not."
http://www.tothepointnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3114&Itemid=76

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/nbb421/student2003/epl8/Blank%20Page%202.htm 

NY MOMA Exhibit
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/


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Rocket Action!
Budget Price!

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This pic is from last year's event.  Yes, that's a chick dancing with a glowing hoola-hoop in front of NASA:


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