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Image via Wikipedia http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/08/more_robots.html Scientists, students and corporations continue their work around the world in the field of robotics, persistently improving and redefining their capabilities, interfaces and roles in society. Unmanned vehicles fly above war zones, telerobotics give humans a broader virtual presence and humanoid robots gain more parity with humans, refining their movements and responses. Collected [...] Image via Wikipedia This was an interesting piece from the University of Washington about the environmental factors which subtract female students from Computer Science and I would suggest Engineering as well. Joel Schwarz joels@u.washington.edu Photo by Sapna Cheryan Just the appearance of science fiction memorabilia, computer game boxes and junk food in a classroom or workplace is [...] Wired has a great engineering and technology list appropriate to the day called This Day in Tech. Check out the site and see a plethora of information from a variety of past years and experiences. Today I was using Engineering.com which has a lot of free tools, an extensive engineering library, directories, and as a result is a online destination for engineers. If nothing else, browse the library, and don’t miss the article on the hovercraft as fall is approaching and as an engineer you don’t expect to use [...] The public is invited! I believe we are going to attend some of these events. Call us if you are interested in getting together in Seattle at one of these. CSE Distinguished Lecturer Series Thursday, 10/01/2009, 3:30 p.m. in the Allen Center Atrium Tuesday, 10/06/2009, 3:30 p.m. in the Allen Center [...] I ran across an updated career search feature for Careers After College from the Princeton Review, and although you have to register (but can deselect the usual suspects that will email you everything) you can get to a short list of questions to identify a range of careers. The point to taking the quiz isn’t [...] Re-Make America Following on President Obama’s call to “begin again the work of remaking America”, Maker Faire 2009 will be organized around the theme of Re-Make America. Held in the San Francisco Bay Area on May 30-31, Maker Faire celebrates what President Obama called “the risk takers, the doers, and the makers of things.” The fourth [...] |
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