14 Jun 2012

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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11 Jun 2012

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.

11 Jun 2012

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.

8 Jun 2012

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
http://www.ace2012.info/

Submit your work here: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ace2012-nepal
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4 Jun 2012

ACE 2012 Nepal Official Hotel Information

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ACE 2012 Nepal Official Hotel Information

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Official hotel for ACE 2012 is the luxurious and stunning Crowne Plaza Kathmandu

Special prices have been negotiated for ACE participants.

Single Deluxe occupancy           – USD 130.00 per room per night             

Double Deluxe occupancy          – USD 140.00 per room per night             


The above rates are subject to 10% service charge and 13% VAT and further include buffet breakfast.

For those attending ACE on a budget (such as students and post docs), we are pleased that room sharing is available. Please either book together or inform at the booking you would like to room share (we will match you with a same sex ACE participant). Room sharing which will cost you USD 70 only.

To reserve please kindly send an email with heading “ACE 2012 Conference Booking” to the following email address:Sabina.dangol@scp.com.np – for extra safety please also do send the cc copy to the following email address:reservation@scp.com.np


We look forward to seeing you in Nepal!

3 Jun 2012

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Download all YouTube playlist videos in one step using a free software.

Recently I wanted to download YouTube videos for playing in a lecture. I found software which could do it one by one. However to download a playlist would take a long time. I came across a free tool which does the job very nicely. It is Free YouTube Downloader at this site: http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-YouTube-Download.htm

I tried it and it worked very easily and could output mp4 files and also automatically create an iTunes playlist of the downloaded video files. There is also an entire suite of free video, mp3 and image tools by the same company http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/free-dvd-video-software.htm – this is also very handy to have. I often find I have to spend time to find a tool to convert from one format to another and this suite could save a lot of time.

Here is a nice desktop tool that can download entire video playlists as well as individual Youtube videos in your computer in MP4, AVI and FLV format. You have to just paste the playlist Url and it will auto fetch all the videos in the playlist and save the videos in your computer in the format you want. (also read : Youtube Tricks ) Here are the complete steps involved to download an entire YouTube video playlist : 1. First Download and Install FreeYoutubeDownload. 2. Run the application and just paste the playlist url. 3. Select the folder where you would want to download the videos and hit the download button. All the videos in the playlist will be fetched one by one and then downloaded in your computer. The best thing about this free utility is that you can select the file formats (AVI, FLV and MP4).The only downside is that you cannot resume your download if you quit in the middle. Written by Amit Banerjee on Friday, November 6th, 2009

Download All the Videos of a YouTube Playlist

2 Jun 2012

Hybrid Reality – a new book out soon. Featuring Lovotics

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Hybrid Reality – a new book out soon. Featuring Lovotics

My good friend and fellow Young Global Leader Parag Khanna is about to release a book which sounds very exciting called “Hybrid Reality”. In this book he also writes about our Lovotics research. Check it out!

Hybrid Reality argues that what human civilization needs more than anything is not greater IQ or EQ, but TQ: technology quotient. In this Hybrid Age of disruptive technologies, accelerating change, and deep anxiety about the future, we explain how the “balance of innovation” has superseded the military “balance of power” as a measure of national potential, and provide a global tour of how the smartest countries, cities, and companies are harnessing new technologies to gain an edge. Each of us also needs better TQ to adapt to a future in which robots are normal social actors in our lives, healthcare becomes a vehicle for physical enhancement, academic pedigree dissolves in a global skills market, and virtual currencies enable tax-free transactions. Whether the future is a dystopian global class struggle over technology or a Pax Technologica of transparency, access and equity will depend on spreading TQ above all else.

 

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