Kid’s logic beats adult’s logic
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Kid’s logic beats adult’s logic. Just play as much as possible with your kids!
38 seconds of life wisdom from Bruce Lee
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38 seconds of life wisdom from Bruce Lee, from his only existing TV interview, 1971.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
ACE 2012 Keynote Speaker David Levy
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There are almost no limits to the potential of digital technology in the field of entertainment. Releasing all this potential will ultimately create robots who will be our friends, lovers and lifelong companions. The ACE Conference will help to push forward the frontiers of knowledge in this enormously exciting area of scientific research.
ACE 2012 Keynote Speaker David Levy (via aceconference)
Adrian David Cheok Young Global Leader at Yale University’s Jackson Institute. “Foundations for Leadership in the 21st Century: Global Issues.”
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Adrian David Cheok as one of the Young Global Leaders at Yale University’s Jackson Institute which hosted The Forum on Young Global Leaders
From October 23-25, the Jackson Institute hosted the Forum on Young Global Leaders for a discussion entitled “Foundations for Leadership in the 21st Century: Global Issues.”
Talks include “On Globalization” with former Mexican President and Jackson-affiliated faculty member, Ernesto Zedillo, and former Argentinian Minister of Economy and Jackson Senior Fellow, Domingo Cavallo, as well as “Social Entrepreneurship” and “Negotiation and Strategy” with Sharon Oster and Barry Nalebuff from the Yale School of Management.
The Forum on Young Global Leaders convenes future leaders from all regions of the world representing business, government, civil society, arts and culture, and academia and media.
Professor Aleh Tsyvinski, a former Young Global Leader himself, and Jackson Director James Levinsohn hosted the event.
ACE 2012: 9th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference incorporating DIMEA 2012
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ACE 2012: 9th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference incorporating DIMEA 2012 (7th Digital Interactive Media Entertainment and Arts Conference)
REMINDER: Papers Submission 15 June 2012
ACE 2012 is very excited to announce, the brilliant and eminent pioneer of computer chess, AI, and the cutting edge area of Love and Sex with Robots will be Keynote Speaker at ACE 2012 in Nepal. Make sure you are in Nepal to see what will be an amazing speech in an amazing location!
David Levy graduated from St. Andrews University, Scotland, in 1967, and then taught practical classes in computer programming at Glasgow University for four years, before moving into the world of business and professional chess playing and writing. He wrote more than thirty books on chess, won the Scottish Championship, and he was awarded the International Master title by FIDE, the World Chess Federation, in 1969. In 1968 David started a bet with four Artificial Intelligence professors that he would not lose a chess match against a computer program within ten years. He won that bet. Since 1977 David has been involved in the development of many chess playing and other programs for consumer electronic products. David’s interest in Artificial Intelligence expanded beyond computer games into other areas of AI, including human-computer conversation, and in 1997 he led the team that won the Loebner Prize competition in New York. His fiftieth book, Love and Sex with Robots, was published in November 2007, shortly after he was awarded a PhD by the University of Maastricht for his thesis entitled Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners. David is President of the International Computer Games Association, and CEO of the London based company Intelligent Toys Ltd. His hobbies include classical music and playing poker.
ACE 2012 is pleased to announce a special arrangement for publication of all conference papers (and other categories). In the theme of “entertaining the whole world” all papers will be published in the ACM Computers in Entertainment (CiE) website to promote free knowledge dissemination and interactive comments from peers around the world. Although authors will need to sign a copyright form with ACM, the papers will be FREE for download without charge to anyone in the world. Please see the CiE website at http://cie.acm.org
Venue: Kathmandu, Nepal, 5-7 November, 2012
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A big step to bring augmented reality to the mass market
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A big step to bring augmented reality to the mass market
This new web app is in my opinion going to be a game changer for augmented reality. Forget all the programming and learning about tracking. This app will allow the mass market to put augmented contents onto books and paper. From the start “Magic Books” were the dream of Augmented Reality researchers, and now we are basically at that point in mass market.
The Layar Creator. A self-service web application for publishers to
activate print pages with digital content.
The Most Interesting Issues for the 21st Century Straddle the Boundaries of Existing Fields
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Below is a copy of the statement that will appear in the brochure of Keio University, Graduate School of Media Design. I would appreciate your feedback and comments.
Using Marshall McLuhan’s definition of media as an extension of man, interactive media includes all the various forms in which humans can extend our senses and brains into the world. It includes new technologies that allow us to facilitate this new communications, and to create natural and humanistic ways of interfacing with machines, as well as other people remotely over distances using the full range of human gestures such as touch, sight, sound, and even smell. Thus, new media includes new ways of communication between people, between cultures and races, between humans and machines, and between machines and machines. The vision of new media will bring about radical developments in every aspect of human lives in the form of new kinds of symbioses between humans and computers, new ways of communication between people, and new forms of social organization and interaction.
Traditional human communications has rich communication exchange using body gestures, the physical environment, and touch. Humans use all the senses simultaneously for environmental sensing, and emotional feeling communication. In the hyperconnected digital era, we thus need to create fundamentally new forms of media to connect humans in the physical world through the virtual world, through meaning and nonverbal communication to increase the sense of telexistence using all the senses. This will allow more opportunities for people to make meaningful exchanges using media in both the physical and virtual world.
I wish to develop new technologies related to multimodal sensing and actuation to give the user more definition in their augmented experience in the mixed reality environment. It is a field, which still presents great technical challenges.
To understand the new developments in media requires creativity and diversity in background and skills. Furthermore the most interesting problems in the 21st century are highly complex and are at the borders of disciplines. Therefore KMD is aptly placed to produce leaders in creative thinking for society.
ACE 2012: 9th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference incorporating DIMEA 2012
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ACE 2012: 9th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference incorporating DIMEA 2012 (7th Digital Interactive Media Entertainment and Arts Conference)
Papers Submission 15 June 2012
ACE 2012 is pleased to announce a special arrangement for publication of all conference papers (and other categories). In the theme of “entertaining the whole world” all papers will be published in the ACM Computers in Entertainment (CiE) website to promote free knowledge dissemination and interactive comments from peers around the world. Although authors will need to sign a copyright form with ACM, the papers will be FREE for download without charge to anyone in the world. Please see the CiE website at http://cie.acm.org/
Venue: Kathmandu, Nepal, 5-7 November, 2012
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Announcing New Journal. LOVOTICS – Academic Studies of Love and Friendship with Robots
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Adrian David Cheok, Japan
HONORARY EDITOR
David Levy, UK
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Maarten Lamers, The Netherlands
Dongman Lee, Korea
Hooman Samani, Singapore
Thanos Vasilakos, Greece
Fons J. Verbeek, The Netherlands
Aims and Scope
The journal Lovotics, Academic Studies of Love and Friendship with Robots, publishes original, rigorously peer reviewed research papers on innovative ideas and concepts, new discoveries and improvements, as well as novel applications, by leading researchers and developers regarding the latest fundamental advances in the core technologies that form the backbone of Lovotics, distinguished developmental projects in the area, as well as seminal works in aesthetic design, ethics and philosophy and studies on social impact and influence pertaining to Lovotics.
This journal aims to provide an overview of the current state of the Lovotics research community, how the field and related technologies are set to evolve in the future, and their impact on culture and society at large.
Topics of interest for the scientific papers and letters include but are not limited to:
- Human-robot relationship
- Affective and cognitive sciences for interactive robots
- Context awareness, expectation and intention understanding
- Design methodologies and aesthetics of designing interactive robots
- Bio-mechatronics, neuro-robotics, and neurological aspect of Lovotics-based emotions
- Artificial emotions and emotion synthesis
- Scientific aspects of love
- Affective computing and emotional intelligence
- Human factors and ergonomics in human-robot interactions
- Intelligent control and artificial intelligence for robotics
- Knowledge representation, information acquisition, and decision making
- Learning, adaptation and evolution of affection and intelligence
- Interaction and collaboration between robots, humans and environments
- Multimodal perception and communication within Lovotics robots
- Ethics of Lovotics
- Social acceptance and impact in the society
- Cultural implications of human-to-robot love and robot co-relations
- Compliance, safety and compatibility in the design of social robots “living” with humans
- Considerations of security, safety and compatibility regarding human-robot co-inhabitants
- Software architecture and development tools for Lovotics
- Human-robot interaction and robot-robot interaction
- Models of human and animal social behavior as applied to robots
- Evaluation and measurement of love
- Philosophical ramifications of love between humans and robots
- Methodologies of verbal and kinetic reaction systems
- Tangible Interfaces for transferring affection
- Embodiment: How robotic affection can be transferred through technological mediation
- Invoking human emotions from non-human partners
- Behavioral studies of human and robot behaviors
Submission
Manuscripts should be submitted by one of the authors of the manuscript either through the online Manuscript Tracking System or by email to lt@ashdin.com. Only electronic PDF (.pdf) or Word (.doc, .docx, .rtf) files can be submitted. There is no page limit. Only electronic submissions are accepted to facilitate rapid publication and minimize administrative costs. Submissions by anyone other than one of the authors will not be accepted. The submitting author takes responsibility for the paper during submission and peer review.