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December 2010

  1. Robotics

    1. Robotics, developed by the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, PA introduces the world of intelligent machines- how they work, who builds them, and what they do- and organizes the exhibit around themes such as sensing, thinking and acting. Robotics includes more than 30 different hands-on activities and appeals to people of all ages.


  2. Argonne National Laboratory

    Argonne is one of the U.S. government's oldest and largest science and engineering research laboratories -- the largest in the Midwest. For the past half-century, the University of Chicago has overseen operation of Argonne for the United States Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies. Argonne has five major mission areas, each of which fulfills important governmental and Department of Energy responsibilities, as well as provides important benefits to our society at large. They are: Conducting basic scientific research to further our understanding of the world we live in. Argonne conducts basic experimental and theoretical scientific research in the physical, life, and environmental sciences; Operating national scientific facilities to help advance America's scientific leadership. Argonne operates world-class research facilities like the Advanced Photon Source; Enhancing the nation's energy resources to ensure America's energy future. Argonne is working to develop and evaluate advanced energy technologies; Developing better ways to manage environmental problems. Argonne is at the forefront in developing new ways to manage and solve the nation's environmental problems and to promote environmental stewardship; National Security has increased in significance in recent years for the nation and for Argonne research. Argonne capabilities developed over the years for other purposes are helping counter the threats of terrorism.


  3. Autonomic Computing - IBM Research

    Build computer systems that regulate themselves much in the same way our autonomic nervous system regulates and protects our bodies. This new model of computing is called autonomic computing. The good news is that some components of this technology are already up and running. However, complete autonomic systems do not yet exist. This is not a proprietary solution. It's a radical change in the way businesses, academia, and even the government design, develop, manage and maintain computer systems. Autonomic computing calls for a whole new area of study and a whole new way of conducting business. We urge you to explore this site and download the full text of autonomic computing manifesto to learn more about autonomic computing and its implications for business and academia. We invite you to help launch the next era of computing.


  4. Berkeley Expert Systems Technology

    Berkeley Expert Systems Technology (BEST) lab is an Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems and Information Technologies laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of California at Berkeley, directed by Professor Alice Agogino.


  5. California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

    To help ensure that California maintain its leadership in the rapidly changing telecommunications and information technology marketplace, the University of California campuses at San Diego and Irvine have created the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Cal-(IT), pronounced cal-eye-tee squared). Our institutes mission is simple: Extend the reach of the Internet throughout the physical world. Cal-(IT) teams UCSD and UCI faculty, students, and research professionals with leading California telecommunications, computer, software, and applications companies to conduct research on the scientific and technological components needed to bring this new Internet into being. Institute applications researchers are conducting their studies in living laboratories to investigate how this future Internet will accelerate advances in environmental science, civil infrastructure, intelligent transportation and telematics, genomic medicine, the new media arts, and educational practices.


  6. CalTech Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering

    Vision. Olfaction. Hearing. Touch. Learning. Decision making. Pattern recognition. These are all things that even simple biological organisms perform far better and more efficiently than the fastest digital computers. The scientists and engineers at the Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering (CNSE) are working to translate our understanding of biologic systems into a new class of electronic devices that imitate the ways animals sense and make sense of the world.


  7. International Council of Societies of Industrial Design

    The design of many common (and some uncommon) objects is something that most people don't think about on a regular basis. Even very successful designs can go unnoticed, and only a few industrial designs have been elevated to iconic status. Creating better design is the focus of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid), and their work takes place in over 50 countries and they present close to 150,000 designers. First-time visitors to the site may wish to look over their "Galleria" area. Here they can view innovative designs for desktop computers, vacuum cleaners, and ceiling fans. Moving on, the "Education" area features articles on design and design education, along with information on upcoming student design competitions. The site is rounded out by a selection of design case studies and documents which highlight issues such as copyright control.


  8. Center for Bits and Atoms - MIT Media Lab

    The Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) is a campus-wide program involving faculty from the Departments of Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, Biology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Mechanical, Electrical, and Biological Engineering, as well as the Media Laboratoryall working at the boundary between physical science and computer science. The research program spans from the experimental investigation of molecular mechanisms to digitize fabrication (analogous to the earlier digitization of communications and computation), to the theoretical study of mathematical principles to program enormously complex engineered systems, with practical application in personal fabrication around the world. CBA was launched in 2002 by a $13.75 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which has enabled the creation of a unique facility for input and output from nanometers to meters. Along with the NSF support, CBA receives funding from partner government agencies and from its industrial sponsors.


  9. Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society

    Centered at UC Berkeley, CITRIS incubates research on problems that have a major impact on the economy, quality of life, and future success of California: conserving energy; education; saving lives, property, and productivity in the wake of disasters; boosting transportation efficiency; advancing diagnosis and treatment of disease; and expanding business growth through much richer personalized information services. Solutions to many of these problems have a common IT feature: at their core they depend on highly-distributed, reliable, and secure information systems that can evolve and adapt to radical changes in their environment, delivering information services that adapt to the people and organizations that need them. It is this feature that is at the heart of the initial research agenda for CITRIS.


  10. Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)

    The Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) is a collaborative undertaking among organizations in the commercial, government, and research sectors aimed at promoting greater cooperation in the engineering and maintenance of a robust, scalable global Internet infrastructure. CAIDA provides a neutral framework to support cooperative technical endeavors.


  11. Digital Life Consortium - MIT Media Lab

    Digital Life (DL) is a Media Lab consortium that conducts basic research on technologies and techniques that spur human expression as well as social and economic activity. It operates in close collaboration with industrial and research partners to explore ideas in the context of their use, recognizing that change occurs when the magic of invention is driven by existing or emergent human behavior. Currently, the program has three broad directions: [1] Organic Networks, which combines a re-examination of the physics of radio to construct viral communications systems with the intelligence at the ends. The grassroots nature of these systems allows people to innovate both locally and organically, much as the PC migrated innovation from the mainframe to the individual; [2] 10X, which considers technologies that can improve human activity by an order of magnitude, including bionics, robotic and cognitive assistants, and human learning. 10X envisions intimately connected analytical and mechanical systems working with, as well as for, human interests; and [3] Common-Sense Computing, which is an attempt to reinvigorate artificial intelligence by developing a cognitive architecture that can support many features of human intelligent thinking. From this base, we aim to develop systems that are robust to changing environments, assumptions, and problems.


  12. Honeybee Robotics

    In the heart of New York Citys Little Italy, Honeybee Robotics creates robots, flight subsystems, automated drills and other machines destined for work on Earth, Mars, and beyond. Founded in 1983 as a systems integrator using off-the-shelf robots, the company quickly gained a reputation for its innovative design skills and creative problem solving. Honeybee received its first NASA contract in 1986 and has subsequently worked on more than 90 others in addition to completing projects for the Department of Defense and companies such as Coca Cola, Con Edison, 3M, Nike, and IBM. Honeybee is a privately held company that is headquartered in New York City. Honeybee Chairman, Stephen Gorevan, was named Co-Investigator for the Athena Science Payload on NASAs 2003 Mars Exploration Rover Mission. He will be stationed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, along with five other Honeybee engineers, to operate the Rock Abrasion Tool for the length of the mission. Honeybee Robotics is a NASA-approved provider of space flight hardware.


  13. Lemelson-MIT Program for Inventors

    The Lemelson-MIT Program celebrates those inventors who have turned their ideas into accomplishments. We foster an enthusiasm for asking and answering the questions that change lives. Learn how our acclaimed awards and outreach programs inspire the next generation of inventors, and explore our unique Invention Dimension. Includes the Inventor's Handbook.


  14. Robotics Research at Johns Hopkins University

    Our research group addresses design, analysis, simulation, and implementation of novel robotic devices. Research issues include: efficient formulation and representation of robotic manipulator kinematics and dynamics, real-time simulation of complex mechanical systems, design of novel surgical instrumentation, computer control of electro-mechanical devices, development of novel sensing algorithms and devices, particularly vision and haptics, design of "smart" electro-mechanical systems, geometrical issues in manufacturing, and analysis of "minimalist" robots for dedicated industrial tasks.


  15. Scalable Computing Laboratory - Ames Laboratory

    The Scalable Computing Laboratory (SCL) was created in 1989 as a joint effort of the Department of Energy (DOE) through Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University (ISU) through the Center for Physical and Computational Mathematics (CPCM). The mission of the Scalable Computing Laboratory is to improve parallel computing through clustering techniques for use in scientific and engineering computation. We deliver supercomputing power at a fraction of the cost of traditional supercomputers.


  16. Sensory Communication and Microsystems Laboratory

    Research in the Sensory Communication and Microsystems Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University is multidisciplinary and ranges from new technologies and devices to mixed analog/digital circuits, architectures, and algorithms for sensory microsystems with applications in sensor networks. We work closely with the Adaptive Microsystems Laboratory the Computational Sensory Motor Systems Laboratory and the Center for Language and Speech Processing as well as industry and other research groups outside jhu.


  17. Social and Information Sciences Laboratory at CalTech

    The Social and Information Sciences Laboratory - SISL - studies how markets and other social systems aggregate large amounts of information that is widely distributed. Researchers in SISL are also working to design new and improved markets, network protocols, sensor systems, and political processes. One of the novel aspects of SISL research concerns understanding how humans interact with technology and what that implies about the design of the technology. Since such systems involve both human behavior and technology, SISL brings together researchers from the social sciences, engineering, and applied and computational mathematics.


  18. WebUse - Scientific Research on the Internet

    Funded by The National Science Foundation, the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland is developing a set of resources to further the scientific study of the impact of the Internet on Societies. Central to this is understanding the transformative effectboth positive and negativethat the Internet has on human behavior and how the emerging persistent behaviors enable and constrain activities, understanding, knowledge, and culture.


  19. FreeVideoLectures

    This is a comprehensive site providing Video lectures, lessons, Audio lectures, podcasts, free online classes, courses, animations, interactive online tutorials and Text materials like ebooks, Lecture notes, slide presentations on new technologies in the fields of Electronics, Communications, Computer Science, Networking and Mechanical Engineering, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and more.


  20. Center for Biological Circuit Design at CalTech

    The CBCD is developing new ways to design, build and analyze biological circuits. Biological circuits control information flow in biological systems, and as such are a core area of Information Science and Technology. We combine the experimental biologist's desire to abstract the key principles from the richness and diversity of biological circuits, the physicist's sense of measurement and of simple underlying mechanisms, and the engineer's aesthetic of "to build is to understand." The study of circuits cuts across vast areas of biology, from biochemistry, biophysics and genetics, to cell and developmental biology, to neurobiology and ecology. Understanding how to design and build circuits is crucial for the next generation of bioengineering.


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