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Mensch und Computer 2006 – Tuesday after lunch

Posted on 5. September 2006 by kenn-blog

Todays invited talk was by Matthias Rauterberg from University of Eindhoven , he reported on a new project in which he tries to create the western equivalent on the ZENetic computer which is called ALICE. As ZENetic tries to demonstrate … Continue reading →

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Mensch und Computer 2006, Tuesday Sessions

Posted on 5. September 2006 by kenn-blog

Today, I will be presenting our WInspect Glove in the poster session. Irma Lindt from the Fraunhofer FIT is presenting a pervasive game called “epidemic menace“. This is part of an EU integrated project called Iperg The game has stationary … Continue reading →

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Mensch und Computer 2006, Monday

Posted on 5. September 2006 by kenn-blog

This week, I’m at the Mensch und Computer Conference. It’s taking place at the Fachhochschule Gelsenkirchen. An interesting presentation yesterday came from Daniel Michelis who presented the urban installation magical mirrors in Berlin.

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Terror : Angst essen Denken auf

Posted on 22. August 2006 by kenn-blog

ZEIT online – Deutschland – – – Terror : Angst essen Denken auf An overview of the german press on Anti-Terrorism-Measures. Most newspapers are calling for more surveillance and security measures and only few are thinking about the effectiveness of … Continue reading →

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Uni Freiburg Rescue Robots: autonomous climbing and visual odometry

Posted on 18. August 2006 by kenn-blog

Alexander Kleiner from the AI working group at Uni Freiburg has posted some cool videos of their robots on their website. You can see them here. It shows a tarantula robot climbing over various obstacles and using visual odometry to … Continue reading →

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Updating my thinkpad…

Posted on 18. August 2006 by kenn-blog

I tried to update my thinkpad because of this bug. And while doing so, I wondered if the .cab I downloaded actually installed properly. So I chose to updat the AccessIBM software to the newest version to automatically upgrade all … Continue reading →

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