Imagineering Institute is searching for the next Malaysian J-Pop sensations. If you’re a female between 17-25, able to sing and dance, fluent in Malay and English language and a Malaysian citizen we want you.
Submit your photo (Head and Full body) with a clear video recording of you singing (NO longer than 3 minutes) to iqmal@imagineeringinstitute.org.
www.eeweb.com is a very useful website to find the latest news and resources on electronic and electrical engineering. It has a premier electrical/electronic engineering community for hardware designers, electronics enthusiasts and hobbyists.
“Kids Love Robots!” Join us from 11:30 am Sunday July 13th to build and play with Japanese robots at Southbank Center in London, part of the Japanese Tanabata day at the Southbank Festival of Love. The workshop is organized together with Hiroshi Ishiguro lab in Japan, and supported by Daiwa Foundation, Embassy of Japan in UK, and Japan Society London.
http://www.japansociety.org.uk/34844/tanabata-at-southbank-centre/
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Sayonara Japan, Sayonara Keio. It has been so wonderful! Thank you to my wonderful students, colleagues, and friends. See you in London!!!
I am very happy to announce that I will be joining City University London as Professor of Pervasive Computing, in the School of Informatics.
I was very excited with the great vision and passion to be a world leading research university, and a world leader in quantum step research and innovation.
It was a great honor to be able to join City University London in their quest to be a world leader by 2016, and I was impressed with the resources and funding they are putting into this goal.
I am very excited to be part of a movement, part of a radical positive change. I am looking very much looking forward to a new adventure in London.
The City Vision 2016
A leading global University committed to academic excellence, focused on business and the professions and located in the heart of London. We are proud of the quality of our education, research and enterprise and are ranked within the top 2% of universities in the world [Times Higher Education World University Rankings].
“Being a Professor Will No Longer Be a Viable Career.” | History News Network
In the near future there will be no place for average Professors and average universities. The internet will mean everyone from Boston to Botswana can directly get the worlds best education from Harvard, MIT, Yale, etc. On the other hand there will be new leaders who are internet age universities who embrace the internet (like Amazon of universities). The academics who are trying to fight this new reality are like the record companies which tried to fight music going on line.
Guest Blogger Fan Yang on Adrian Cheok | TCCHawaii.org
Online chat with only voice or video is outdated! Now you’re able to hug, kiss, smell, or even taste your buddies remotely! Following Adrian, we experienced a fascinating multisensory tour.
The tour started with his early study, the Real World Pacman. With a pair of glasses, real humans become Pacman picking up cookies on the real world streets. But this is just a warm-up. Buckle up, more surprises are coming!
Following the first sense, sight, one of Adrian’s students using sound transformed a regular umbrella into a katana! Different sound effects are displayed by swinging the umbrella in different ways. Certain movement combinations can trigger special sound effects, such as explosion. Added only sound, an umbrella can have much more fun!
The presentation gradually came to its upsurge when the sense of touch was brought up. With a jacket, or just a ring, you can give your loved one a remote hug. As reported by IEEE Spectrum, Adrian is making a huggable Internet! In fact, it’s not just huggable, but also kissable! Kissenger really blew away everybody’s mind last night.
The tour didn’t stop at the sense of touch. It continued blowing everyone further away by digital smell and electrical and thermal taste.
Now with these possibilities, how can we incorporate all five senses into online teaching and learning? Maybe an online “better kisser” course is a good start? 
The stimulated audience had very inspiring and funny chats too. This session is definitely this year’s “must attend” one! The public can access a recording of the session here: http://squirrel.adobeconnect.com/p86lgb32brf/