Finally, a helper robot. A new robot from Mitsubishi designed to care for the elderly: The robot is equipped with functions to help elderly people and those in poor health send an alarm to hospitals, security firms and relatives when an emergency happens. The Wakamaru responds to voice commands, and has a 10,000 word vocabulary […]

New mini-display for the Pocket PC. You can turn your PDA into a virtual reality machine now with this mini-display from Interactive Imaging Systems. The Second Sight M1100 attaches to a pair of glasses, making it seem as though you're looking at a full-sized screen, and connects to a Pocket PC via a Compact Flash […]

Just came across an interesting 'Power Law' paper, published by a team at NEC, which offers some thought-provoking data: “NEC researchers discovered that the degree of “rich get richer” or “winners take all” behavior varies in different categories and may be significantly less than previously thought.” The key is competitiveness: in very competitive scenarios (NEC […]

OSS Officially On Microsoft's Financial Radar Screen [Slashdot]; Microsoft: Open source could harm us[CNET News.com]. The software giant warns that the success of the open-source movement could hurt its sales, potentially forcing the company to cut prices and sacrifice both revenue and profits. Pity… [www.gulker.com – words and pictures from Silicon Valley] about time McSoft […]

this is fairly interesting report, if you are into science and technology funding structures and policy, i think you should read it.

CALL FOR PAPERS IASTED International Conference COMPUTERS AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION (CATE-2003) IASTED International Symposium on WEB-BASED EDUCATION (WBE-2003) June 30 – July 2, 2003 Rhodes, Greece http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2003/greece/cate.htm IMPORTANT DEADLINES Submissions due – February 10 , 2003 Notification of acceptance – March 15, 2003 Final papers due – April 15, 2003 Registration fee – […]

2003? Read what Brandon, Don, Elliott, Diana, and others predict for 2003 at www.eLearnMag.org.

Do you want to know more about or influence learning technology standardization in Europe? The latest eBrochure, number 5, is available online. It contains information about the activities of the CEN/ISSS Learning Technology Workshop.

First Call for Contributions and Participation The Third International DIVERSE Conference on Video and Videoconferencing in Higher Education University of Derby, June 30 to July 2, 2003 The DIVERSE conference has established itself as the leading international forum for discussion, dissemination and promotion of all aspects of video use in teaching, support of learning and […]

Red Hat Certification Program For Education [Slashdot] this could be good, i wish i was still able to take advantage of it.