<http://www.raspberrypi.org/>
What’s a Raspberry Pi?
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming.
The classic operating system turns 40
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… legal wrangling over intellectual property claims to various parts of Unix and Linux have continued over the years, often involving byzantine corporate relations. By 2004, no fewer than five major lawsuits had been filed …
As a programmer and Unix historian, I can’t help but find all this legal sparring a bit sad. From the very start, the authors and users of Unix worked as best they could to build and share, even if that meant defying authority. That outpouring of selflessness stands in sharp contrast to the greed that has driven subsequent legal battles over the ownership of Unix.
<read all at http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-strange-birth-and-long-life-of-unix/0>
An educational design language is a notation system for creating educational designs, e.g. courses, modules, or scenarios.
An educational design language is “ a tool that designers use to communicate designs, plans, and intentions to each other and to the users of their artifacts” (Botturi, 2006: 268). “Notational systems, used in mature fields of study, are closely related to design languages. The future of a technological field depends on the ability to communicate ideas and changes with others in the field. Instructional technology is one field that can benefit from a notation system enabling designers to duplicate, execute, and communicate their ideas” (Waters & Gibbons 2004: 57).
See also: educational modeling language, design pattern and pedagogical vocabulary. These entries partly look at the same issue under a different perspective.
<read more at http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Educational_design_language>
Are you an audio or music researcher based in the UK?
Register here and set up your own projects. (Why?)
Each project hosted here can hold software code, papers you are writing, or anything else you want to organise. A project can be public or private, and you can share them with your collaborators at your own institution or elsewhere.
You’re also welcome to register if you are based outside the UK but are working with UK researchers.
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This repository service is operated by SoundSoftware.ac.uk, hosted by the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London, and funded by the EPSRC.
<more at http://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/>
The Software Carpentry project has assembled a bibliography of research related to software engineering and computational science, to go with their existing reading list.
The bibliography lists over a hundred publications in software engineering as applied to scientific software development and reuse.
This is a useful addition to the existing Software Carpentry Reading List, an excellent list of (often very readable) software engineering books, ideal to settle down with on a long winter’s night.
<read more http://soundsoftware.ac.uk/software-carpentry-bibliography>
We haven’t even managed to save up for one of the original Naos, and now Aldebaran Robotics has come out with an entirely new, entirely more awesome version. Sigh. Yay.
So, what do you have to look forward to? We got a preview last year, but here’s the skinny:
But wait! There’s more!
“On top of this new hardware version, we shall be delivering new software functionalities like smart torque control, a system to prevent limb/body collisions, an improved walking algorithm, and more. We have capitalised upon our experience and customer feedback in order to deliver the most suitable and efficient platform. In terms of applications especially at high-school level, we are focused on educational content, while, when it comes to improvements in personal well-being, we are working on developing specialized applications,” explains Bruno Maisonnier [founder of Aldebaran Robotics].
But wait! There’s EVEN MORE! Pay special attention to the protective falling posture at 2:30:
<more at http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/new-next-gen-nao-is-now-the-new-nao>
Perceptual Evaluation methods for Audio Source Separation
This course is designed to introduce you to a range of skills that will enable you to write effectively in an academic context. This is often an area that new academics like you are most concerned about. That their scholarly presentation may not do full justice to the depths of their knowledge and learning
More? See <http://www.ewriting.org.uk/>
This section gives you lots of advice on good writing, helping you to avoid making some of the most common mistakes of usage. Do you worry about the correct use of hopefully, for example, or wonder what the difference is between affect and effect or flaunt and flout? Are you uncertain about whether to say different from or different than or if you should say ‘a historic event’ or ‘an historic event’?
More? See <http://oxforddictionaries.com/page/improveenglish/improve-your-english>
By Patrick Thomas, Anthony Breitzman / November 2011
The U.S. economy might be sputtering along, but its engines of innovation are still growling like a hemi, according to our latest Patent Power scorecards. [Download the PDF of all the Patent Scorecards.] Apple was the biggest mover on this year’s scorecards, surging from 14th place in the 2009 Electronics scorecard to first place in 2010, and the company is now ranked ahead of industry giants Hitachi, Panasonic, Canon, and Sony.
Apple’s commitment to innovation can be seen in both its number of patents, and the quality of these patents. In 2010, Apple was granted a total of 566 U.S. utility patents, a fivefold increase over the 110 U.S. utility patents it was granted in 2006. And this number does not include patents it acquired from elsewhere—for example, as part of the consortium that recently purchased the Nortel Networks patent portfolio. Rather, these are patents that issued under Apple’s name or the names of its subsidiaries, and so are largely the results of internal research efforts.
Even after such rapid growth, Apple’s patent portfolio is still dwarfed by those of others on the Electronics scorecard. Panasonic was granted 3132 U.S. utility patents in 2010, the most of any electronics company, followed by Hitachi (2924), Canon (2715), and Sony (2417). So how does Apple’s comparatively small portfolio come out on top? The answer is that Apple’s patents score much higher than the other companies’ patents for both Pipeline Impact (they are cited as “prior art” 70 percent more frequently than average) and Pipeline Generality (they are 37 percent more generally applicable than average). This puts Apple first among all electronics companies in 2010 in terms of overall Pipeline Power.
For a full explanation of how the scores are calculated, see “Patent Power.”
Apple is not alone among its competitors in attempting to develop a robust patent portfolio. Since the Nortel Networks Corp. patent auction, much has been written about a developing patent race among Apple and its competitors. For example, after losing the auction, Google quickly started buying patents from IBM, looked at acquiring patent-intensive InterDigital, and has agreed to buy Motorola Mobility, a move seen by many as driven by the latter’s extensive patent portfolio.
Yet the patent race is not based solely on acquisitions. Like Apple, Google has dramatically increased its own patent production in recent years and is second to Yahoo on the 2010 Communication/Internet Services scorecard. In 2010, Google was granted 283 U.S. utility patents, compared to only 28 in 2006. Over the same period, Research in Motion saw its number of U.S. utility patents increase from 101 to 529. It will be interesting to see how this race develops as these companies, which have until recently largely eschewed patents, endeavor to build ever stronger patent portfolios to protect their innovations, both through acquisitions and internal research.
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