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Biomimetics conference - 0 views

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BIO conference

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  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    吉林大学地面机械仿生技术教育部重点实验室
ESA ACT

European Control Conference 2007 (ECC'07) - 0 views

ecc07.ntua.gr/workshops.html

INF conference control interval

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  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    at least we can see how is important in (optimal) control using intervals
ESA ACT

Goedel and his Universe - 0 views

xxx.lanl.gov/0709.1387

phy math logic

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  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    written version of a nice talk on Goedel I heard at a conference. No knowledge about math needed.
ESA ACT

ESLAB 2009 - Conference Announcement - 0 views

www.rssd.esa.int/index.php

planetology exploration conference

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  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    someone should attend ... a pity that the new YGT will not be here yet ...
ESA ACT

Iain Couzin homepage - 0 views

www.princeton.edu/~icouzin

BIO swarm people

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  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    A biologist working on swarm behaviour of various types. Just gave a rather cool talk in Newton in the formation flying conference.
LeopoldS

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence - 2 views

www.aaai.org/home.html

AI

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  • LeopoldS on 18 Jan 13
     
    does any of you know the value/standing of this association?
  • Juxi Leitner on 19 Jan 13
     
    quite well-reputed, they were founded as the American Association for AI (and only recently cahnged it to be more international). They are partly organizing IJCAI and the AAAI conferences (mostly in the US), which are quite good. Symposia around specific topics are also done and at those mostly professors and researchers with high impact are going.
  • LeopoldS on 19 Jan 13
     
    Thanks Juxi. was contacted by one of the organisers for the Berlin edition of it in 2 years. looking at your answer, it seems having the ACT associated to it is not a bad idea. will check with the team. Would you yourself be interested?
Luís F. Simões

Billion-euro brain simulation and graphene projects win European funds - 1 views

www.nature.com/...cts-win-european-funds-1.12291

brain graphene

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  • Luís F. Simões on 24 Jan 13
     
    winners of the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagship competition (informally) announced
  • Ma Ru on 24 Jan 13
     
    Hopefully the money wasted on the brain project will be offset by the gains on graphene... When I heard the proposals presentations on fet11 conference back in 2011, the graphene project was my bet.. Although its motivations were mostly political ("everyone else is working on graphene so if Europe won't do something, we'll soon be far behind"), in contrast to other projects it appeared to have well defined tangible objectives and gave hope of actually delivering something.
jcunha

Advances in Robotics: Whiskered Robot, Haptic Jamming, and Humorous Humanoid - 4 views

spectrum.ieee.org/...video-friday-icra-stockholm

technology robots

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  • jcunha on 26 May 16
     
    The best robot prototype videos in ICRA conference. Nice whiskered robots and "self-supervised" self learning robot hands using CNNs.
Guido de Croon

Can we automatically gauge the quality of a research paper just by means of visual appe... - 2 views

vision.ucsd.edu/...gestalt.pdf

AI FUN

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  • Guido de Croon on 25 Jun 12
     
    We discussed a few times about whether it is possible to determine the quality of a paper by extracting visual features from the paper and then learning a mapping to a measure of quality such as the number of citations etc. This paper circulated at CVPR 2010, and does exactly that, mapping visual features to estimate whether it has been accepted for the main conference or the workshops.
Aurelie Heritier

Why NASA Should Nab an Asteroid - 2 views

www.popularmechanics.com/...should-nab-an-asteroid-9890621

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  • Aurelie Heritier on 21 Jun 12
     
    In his last dispatch from the recent AIAA Global Space Exploration Conference, veteran astronaut and PM contributor Tom Jones argues for NASA to undertake a mission to snare a nearby small asteroid and tow it into the orbit of the moon.
Thijs Versloot

Computer as smart as a 4-year-old? Researchers IQ test new artificial intelligence system - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...130715151059.htm

AI

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  • Thijs Versloot on 16 Jul 13
     
    Artificial and natural knowledge researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have IQ-tested one of the best available artificial intelligence systems to see how intelligent it really is. Turns out it's about as smart as the average 4-year-old, they will report July 17 at the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Conference in Bellevue, Wash.
Thijs Versloot

Hyperloop plan revealed by Elon Musk - 0 views

www.space.com/rloop-technology-revealed.html

technology transport

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  • Thijs Versloot on 13 Aug 13
     
    More details in the linked pdf file.. a low pressurized tube with pods floating on air cushions together with EM propulsion and braking.. cool, but probably not going to be build any day soon
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  • H H on 13 Aug 13
     
    The point of this was that California is already planning to build a train line the would cost ten times more than this and be maybe one quarter of the speed. If the plan is actually feasible with the budget, this could very well have a chance...
  • Luzi Bergamin on 13 Aug 13
     
    A similar idea existed in Switzerland as well, it was called Swissmetro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissmetro) and intended to reach a ridiculously small top speed of about 500km/h. It had the same fate as Musk's idea will have soon: just a piece on the dump of history.
  • Thijs Versloot on 13 Aug 13
     
    It would be great indeed, but even though the cost of the high speed train is a factor 10x higher, the prototype nature and hence relatively lower TRL of this system will probably not have it favoured. Best chance is that he develops a working prototype, one that might not even transport humans at the moment and for short distances, then maybe the project can take off
  • H H on 13 Aug 13
     
    Actually, he was talking about a prototype: "I am somewhat tempted to at least make a demonstration prototype," Musk said in a conference call with reporters on Monday. "Perhaps I'll create a sub-scale version that's operating, and then hand it over to somebody else." "I think I'll probably end up doing that," he said. http://allthingsd.com/20130812/elon-musk-will-likely-build-his-own-hyperloop-prototype/
Beniamino Abis

The Wisdom of (Little) Crowds - 1 views

phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/...the-wisdom-of-little-crowds

BIO science math groups

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  • Beniamino Abis on 30 Apr 14
     
    What is the best (wisest) size for a group of individuals? Couzin and Kao put together a series of mathematical models that included correlation and several cues. In one model, for example, a group of animals had to choose between two options-think of two places to find food. But the cues for each choice were not equally reliable, nor were they equally correlated. The scientists found that in these models, a group was more likely to choose the superior option than an individual. Common experience will make us expect that the bigger the group got, the wiser it would become. But they found something very different. Small groups did better than individuals. But bigger groups did not do better than small groups. In fact, they did worse. A group of 5 to 20 individuals made better decisions than an infinitely large crowd. The problem with big groups is this: a faction of the group will follow correlated cues-in other words, the cues that look the same to many individuals. If a correlated cue is misleading, it may cause the whole faction to cast the wrong vote. Couzin and Kao found that this faction can drown out the diversity of information coming from the uncorrelated cue. And this problem only gets worse as the group gets bigger.
  • Dario Izzo on 02 May 14
     
    Couzin research was the starting point that co-inspired PaGMO from the very beginning. We invited him (and he came) at a formation flying conference for a plenary here in ESTEC. You can see PaGMO as a collective problem solving simulation. In that respect, we learned already that the size of the group and its internal structure (topology) counts and cannot be too large or too random. One of the project the ACT is running (and currently seeking for new ideas/actors) is briefly described here (http://esa.github.io/pygmo/examples/example2.html) and attempts answering the question :"How is collective decision making influenced by the information flow through the group?" by looking at complex simulations of large 'archipelagos'.
Nina Nadine Ridder

Failed strut caused SpaceX rocket blast: CEO Elon Musk - 3 views

phys.org/...t-spacex-rocket-blast-ceo.html

launchers SpaceX Falcon9 space_flight technology

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  • Nina Nadine Ridder on 21 Jul 15
     
    The SpaceX Falcon 9 explosion was caused by a failed strut that allowed a helium bottle to burst free inside the rocket's liquid oxygen tank, CEO Elon Musk said Monday. "One of those struts broke free during flight," Musk told reporters on a conference call to discuss the June 28 blast on what was supposed to be a routine cargo mission to the International Space Station.
  • Thijs Versloot on 21 Jul 15
     
    I guess this is how it starts as they mentioned they will inspect struts individually before each flight. Also for the space shuttle they believed a rapid inspection between launches would be feasible, but in the end there was a need for individual assessment almost. And we haven't even considered human spaceflight yet.
  • LeopoldS on 21 Jul 15
     
    as predicted, first failure, first inquiry board, first new safety procedures ... and certainly many more will follow and all will make sense but with the risk of loosing the competitive edge
Alexander Wittig

Picture This: NVIDIA GPUs Sort Through Tens of Millions of Flickr Photos - 2 views

blogs.nvidia.com/...flickr

AI

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  • Alexander Wittig on 21 Jul 15
     
    Strange and exotic cityscapes. Desolate wilderness areas. Dogs that look like wookies. Flickr, one of the world's largest photo sharing services, sees it all. And, now, Flickr's image recognition technology can categorize more than 11 billion photos like these. And it does it automatically. It's called "Magic View." Magical deep learning! Buzzword attack!
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  • LeopoldS on 21 Jul 15
     
    and here comes my standard question: how can we use this for space? fast detection of natural disasters onboard?
  • Alexander Wittig on 22 Jul 15
     
    Even on ground. You could for example teach it what nuclear reactors or missiles or other weapons you don't want look like on satellite pictures and automatically scan the world for them (basically replacing intelligence analysts).
  • Alexander Wittig on 23 Jul 15
     
    In fact, I think this could make a nice ACT project: counting seals from satellite imagery is an actual (and quite recent) thing: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0092613 In this publication they did it manually from a GeoEye 1 b/w image, which sounds quite tedious. Maybe one can train one of those image recognition algorithms to do it automatically. Or maybe it's a bit easier to count larger things, like elephants (also a thing).
  • jcunha on 23 Jul 15
     
    In HiPEAC (High Performance, embedded architecture and computation) conference I attended in the beginning of this year there was a big trend of CUDA GPU vs FPGA for hardware accelerated image processing. Most of it orbitting around discussing who was faster and cheaper with people from NVIDIA in one side and people from Xilinx and Intel in the other. I remember of talking with an IBM scientist working on hardware accelerated data processing working together with the Radio telescope institute in Netherlands about the solution where they working on (GPU CUDA). I gathered that NVIDIA GPU suits best in applications that somehow do not rely in hardware, having the advantage of being programmed in a 'easy' way accessible to a scientist. FPGA's are highly reliable components with the advantage of being available in radhard versions, but requiring specific knowledge of physical circuit design and tailored 'harsh' programming languages. I don't know what is the level of rad hardness in NVIDIA's GPUs... Therefore FPGAs are indeed the standard choice for image processing in space missions (a talk with the microelectronics department guys could expand on this), whereas GPUs are currently used in some ground based (radio astronomy or other types of telescopes). I think that on for a specific purpose as the one you mentioned, this FPGA vs GPU should be assessed first before going further.
  • Paul N on 29 Jul 15
     
    You're forgetting power usage. GPUs need 1000 hamster wheels worth of power while FPGAs can run on a potato. Since space applications are highly power limited, putting any kind of GPU monster in orbit or on a rover is failed idea from the start. Also in FPGAs if a gate burns out from radiation you can just reprogram around it. Looking for seals offline in high res images is indeed definitely a GPU task.... for now.
  • jcunha on 31 Jul 15
     
    The discussion of how to make FPGA hardware acceleration solutions easier to use for the 'layman' is starting btw http://reconfigurablecomputing4themasses.net/.
Nina Nadine Ridder

Robots collaborate to deliver meds, supplies, and even drinks - 2 views

phys.org/...8-robots-collaborate-meds.html

AI technology robots

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  • Nina Nadine Ridder on 11 Aug 15
     
    At the recent Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) conference, a CSAIL team presented a new system of three robots that can work together to deliver items quickly, accurately and, perhaps most importantly, in unpredictable environments. The team says its models could extend to a variety of other applications, including hospitals, disaster situations, and even restaurants and bars.
LeopoldS

NASA - NASA IT Summit - 2 views

www.nasa.gov/...index.html

it nasa inf technology conference

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  • LeopoldS on 11 Aug 10
     
    who of you IT guru's are going to stay up late to follow some of the presentations live?
  • LeopoldS on 12 Aug 10
     
    nobody interested? Ed? Francesco? Dario?
santecarloni

NASA - NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery; Science Journal Has Embargo... - 1 views

www.nasa.gov/...HQ_M10-167_Astrobiology.html

ET astrobiology space

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  • santecarloni on 01 Dec 10
     
    I will put it on my calendar...
pacome delva

981.pdf (Objet application/pdf) - 6 views

www.seo.nl/...981.pdf

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  • pacome delva on 14 Dec 09
     
    Where do you want to go to do academic research and still have a decent salary ? certainly not sweden, France or Germany... prefer the UK, US or the top... Switzerland !
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  • Luzi Bergamin on 14 Dec 09
     
    Where do you want to go to do academic research and still have fun? Where can you really do research instead of becoming an overpaid secretary? If you want to get rich go and work in investment banking...
  • pacome delva on 14 Dec 09
     
    well.. i'd better live decently than get rich... which is not possible in Paris (take 1680 euros for one family and a 1000 euros rent, minus all normal expenses (health, car, insurance, ...), it's difficult to finish the month...) Without mentioning that in France you would become an underpaid secretary...!!! My ex phd director is a professor and she doesn't even have a secretary to manage the 150 applications to the master she is in charge... My experience would rather say that the salary and the time you have for research are quite decorrelated.
  • Luzi Bergamin on 14 Dec 09
     
    Sure, 44k for a full professor, that's a bad joke! Just my experience from conferences: high saleries do not make good research, I rather suspect there's something like an optimal salery. People with too high saleries often seem to feel obliged to make much noise (whatever the reason might be), the result is not research but PR campagns.
  • pacome delva on 14 Dec 09
     
    I agree ! Just a correction, net salary for a full professor starting in France: 36456 euros/year... For a McF (equivalent junior prof.): 20160 euros/year, and of course a shitload of admistrative tasks and teaching. I don't know why i still dream to have a position...?
Nina Nadine Ridder

Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | Military agency studying space garbage service - 5 views

www.spaceflightnow.com/...12debris

space_debris Catchers_Mitt

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  • Juxi Leitner on 15 Dec 09
     
    that Prof. Klinkrad that gave the space debris lecture here was there as far as I know (at the conference/meeting mentioned)
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