US Digilent Design Contest

Digilent is proud to announce the 8th annual US regional Digilent Design Contest, to be held on May 6-7, 2012 in conjunction with the IEEE EIT conference in Indianapolis.

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Cloud Robotics Hackathon

Embrace the era of social machines by participating at the first Cloud Robotics Hackathon, a full weekend of hacking and learning about cloud-robotics and social machines. By using web services and readily available programming tools we invite hackers, programmers and tinkerers to create fun and useful robotic behaviours. Want to know more? See more information about the event, and register your teams or organize your local hackathon.

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R.I.P. Dick Tufeld

Best known for voicing the Robot from the Lost In Space TV series and the movie, as well as many TV show announcer spots, Dick Tufeld has died at 85. Tufeld was a cancer survivor and suffered from Parkinson’s disease. The news comes from fellow Lost in Space alum Billy Mumy’s Facebook page in which he said:  “Dick Tufeld was a really cool guy. He’s reunited with his wife Adrian now. R.I.P. Dick. You will be missed big-time.”

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Behavior Change — A Hallmark of Intelligence

February 2012
By Bryan Bergeron

Intelligence — broadly defined — is the ability to adapt. In nature, the simplest life forms adapt through swapping genetic material during reproduction and through genetic mutation. For example, if one bacterium out of 5,000,000 carries a mutation that enables it to detect and avoid a poisonous chemical, then the descendants of that bacterium may possess the same ability. Mutations allow for changes in behavior at the population level.

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