013113WarmUp

Ever hear of BigDog? How about Petman?


Read about it @

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/12/darpa-ls3/

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/10/bigdog-20/

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/army-headless-robot/

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013013WarmUp

Ever think of an idea that could change the world?

Well, here's 7 of them:

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/01/ff-seven-big-ideas/

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0129WarmUp

Some interesting tech news for today:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2414817,00.asp

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2013/01/ipad-goes-big-128gb-version-of-apples-tablet-starts-at-799/

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012813WarmUp

Welcome to Computer Programming class. We build software here!

So let's read about one person's idea about how it should be done:

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/01/code-bugs-programming-why-we-need-specs/

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011813WarmUp

Google has a new capability--ngrams!

The amazing application announced yesterday that allows you to easily analyze “the 500 billion words contained in books published between 1500 and 2008 in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese and Russian.

Take a peek @

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

Some interesting articles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/books/17words.html?_r=1&hp

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_visualization_tool_from_google_with_data_from.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+readwriteweb+(ReadWriteWeb)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=google-books-culture

http://peterpappas.blogs.com/copy_paste/2010/12/how-to-quantify-culture-google-ngram-viewer-explore-500-billion-published-words.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/vampire-vs-zombie-comparing-word-usage-through-time/68203/

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_fascinating_word_graphs_from_200_years_of_googl.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+readwriteweb+(ReadWriteWeb)

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011713WarmUp

Ever dream of being a transportation engineer? This little app may help:

http://www.traffic-simulation.de/


How about a doctor? Look at these:

http://tr.anest.ufl.edu/simulations/cv/

and

http://www.simanest.org/

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011513WarmUp

CES just ended for 2013.

Take a look some of the innovations:

http://ces.cnet.com/

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/01/the-best-of-ces-2013/

Leave a comment about your favorite.

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