Web 2.0

Web 2.0- The term 2.0 comes from the software industry.Like software, the new generation of the Web includes new features that was not available in the past.Web 2.0 does not refer to a specific version of the Web.

Some examples of features that are apart of Web 2.0 are listed below:

Blogs - also known as Web logs, these allow users to post thoughts and updates about their life on the Web.

Wikis - sites like Wikipedia and others enable users from around the world to add and update online content.

Social networking - sites like Facebook and MySpace allow users to build and customize their own profile sand communicate with friends.

Web applications - a broad range of new applications make it possible for users to run programs directly in a Web browser.

Rodney Brooks says robots will invade our lives

In this TED video Rodney Brooks showed the intelligence, interactions and emotions of robots. For example  when the KISMET robot was told he was doing bad, he lowered his head in shame. When the robot was having a conversation with another person he was focused and followed the eye direction of the human and kept up with the conversation while making eye contact. Two piece of  information i found interesting is the fact that a robot can keep up a conversation and not just drop out of it or get confused but can actually say real English words. The emotions that the robot showed was very interesting to me, considering the fact that a robot is a man-made machine but can show emotion like any other human is very interesting to me. It show happiness and shame like any other human in this world. They are just like humans in a way. But one question remains: will these robots try to take over our lives? Once they figure out they are more devolved than us, in certain ways. Well that is something that we will have to wait to find out.
 

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How To Live With Robots-
http://www.ted.com/playlists/17/how_to_live_with_robots.html



Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots

http://www.ted.com/talks/cynthia_breazeal_the_rise_of_personal_robots.html

THE HUMANIODS ARE HERE!!!

Kasper

Bigdog

Asimo

Robonaut

CB2

Justin

HRP-4C

Beem-B

Twendy one

Kapian

CIROS

ATLAS

All About Robots

10 Different Robots 

1) industrial robots- are robots used in industries and are mainly used in a manufacturing environment. These robots preform task such as welding,painting, material handling and others.

2) Domestic and house hold robot- are robots your use at your house. This type of robots includes many different devices such as robotic vacuum cleaners, robotic pool cleaners, sweepers, gutter cleaners and other robots that can do different chores.

3)Medical robots - are robots used in medicine and medical institutions. Such as - surgery robots. Also, some automated guided vehicles and maybe lifting aides. 

4)Service robots - are robot that can gather different data togther, robots made to show off technologies, robots used for research, etc. 

5)Military robots - are robots used in military. This type of robots includes bomb disposal robots, different transportation robots. Often robots created for military purposes can be used in law enforcement, search and rescue and other related fields. 

6)Entertainment robots - are robots used for entertainment. It can be toy robots such as robosapien or the running alarm clock and real heavyweights such as articulated robot arms used as motion simulators. 

7)Space robots - are robots used in space. This type would include robots used on the International Space Station, Canadarm that was used in Shuttles, as well as Mars rovers and other robots used in space. 

8)Hobby and competition robots - are robots that you create. Line followers, sumo-bots, robots made just for fun and robots made for competition.

9)Robot kits-Robotic kits like Lego Mindstorms, BIOLOID, OLLO from ROBOTIS, or BotBrain Educational Robots can help children to learn about mathematics, physics, programming, and electronics.

10)Soft Robots-Robots with silicone bodies and flexible air muscles, electroactive polymers, and ferrofluids, controlled using logic and neural networks, look and feel different from robots with rigid skeletons, and can have different behaviors.

LINK
http://www.allonrobots.com/types-of-robots.html

INTRO TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

1) Artificial Intelligence is the intelligence of machinery and robotics. It basically is the science and engineering of intelligent machines such as, robots, phones, laptops etc. 

LINKS TO AI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence/
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/whatisai/node1.html

2a) 5 devices that use AI are

• 1. Cell Phones
• 2. Gaming Consoles
• 3. Computers
• 4. GPS (Cars)
• 5. Robots

b)Technology in 2030 will be very advanced because by then there will be more features and new uses of technology. Cellphones, Computers, and other things that use technology will be more creative and will have more features in them, everything will be changed by then. No one would probably remember the greatest phone of our time, iPhone, there would probably be other phones that have greater features. 

10 Interesting I.T Jobs

10 jobs that are related to information technology that I am interested in.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY JOB LIST

1. Lead applications developer

2. Applications architect

3. Messaging administrator

4. Data modeler

5. Network manager

6. Senior IT auditor

7. Senior Web developer

8. Business intelligence analyst

9. Help desk (Tier 2)

10. Staff consultant

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The Origins of Halloween

Typical Halloween activities include include trick-or-treating attending costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films. The word "Halloween" comes from the word All-Hallows-Eve wich mean All-Saints-Day, becuase it was the one day where spirit scould walk on Earth and communicate with the living. Halloween is celbrated on October 31st while All-Saints-Day is celbrated on the following day, November 1st. UNICEF stands for United Nations Children's Fund. Halloween is related to UNICEF beacuse UNICEF has a fund rasing program called trick-or-treat, this program has raise over $188 million dollars (US). Three Halloween related attractions are Fright Night, which is a night full of scary events such as the deaad, wizards and much much more. Ghost Ride at Stanley Park in another famous attraction, it is a ride on a train through the forest where no one knows whats awaiting for them. Another Halloween arttaction is Potters which is a haunted house with creepy dead things waiting in it to scare you. BOO!