Ned Gulley's Blog. Resident buzzwords: wise crowds, accelerated design, swarm robotics, synthetic biology.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 24th, 2008
From my earliest TV-watching years, I remember we had a movable antenna on the roof that you could orient based on which channel you wanted to watch. You had your pick of three or four channels, depending on your appetite for static and snow. By the time we got cable TV, thereby enabling our local [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 13th, 2006
We’re definitely entering a new realm with robotics. Before robotic motion was always painfully awkward and stilted, not something you would ever mistake for the smooth motion of an animal. But these days you can find plenty of examples of remarkably fluid “un-robotic” behavior. Things will progress very rapidly from here. The YouTube video below [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2005
Jon Udell’s Heavy Metal Umlaut video is being passed around a lot these days, and with good reason. He took a quirky page out of Wikipedia, coupled it with some quick and dirty video manipulation from Camtasia, and made a compelling illustration of how the Wikipedia actually works. Here’s the current Wikipedia entry that initially [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 2nd, 2005
This has been around since last summer, apparently, but if you haven’t seen it it’s worth the time. It’s a very slickly produced short video (Flash animation) put out by the ACLU that shows how information and identity might be abused in the near future. ACLU pizza video That’s one expensive pizza. (via Jon Udell)
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 29th, 2002
More joys of the Astronomy Picture of the Day, a.k.a. APOD. I think this must be one of the best (and most cost effective) public relations efforts ever managed by NASA. I used to work at NASA Ames Research Center, and I remember how important PR was, given their steady diet of taxpayer’s cash. It’s [...]
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