Human Nature and Technology

Social Robots!

Posted by eripsa on July 29th 2007 to Videos, Robots

There’s a huge article in this week’s NYT Sunday Magazine on Social Robots!

They link to a bunch of videos of some of MIT’s fancy new robots, including Leo, who is pretty freakin awesome.

Deep Packet Inspection

Posted by eripsa on July 27th 2007 to Internet

Read this excellent article on the current status of packet inspection on the Internet. The technology they have available to get rid of net neutrality is quite powerful, and really really scary.

Deep packet inspection meets ‘Net neutrality

March to Enslavement

Posted by eripsa on July 20th 2007 to Uncategorized

Why is no one using this site?!?!?!?!?

Posted by eripsa on July 15th 2007 to Videos

In response to the lack of participation on this site, I’m giving you all an assignment.

Explain at least two things wrong with this video:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/19

Here’s how the brain works

Posted by eripsa on July 15th 2007 to Videos

And why we will build intelligent machines:

Watch this.

More info here.

Welcome HTEC A 07

Posted by eripsa on July 13th 2007 to Internet, Class

This is YOUR blog, just like this is YOUR internet. You can use this blog by registering with the link in the sidebar. You can make your own posts, or you can just leave comments in other posts. There is a lot of stuff here, please make use of it!