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Four-legged DARPA robot trots into uncanny valley

March 18, 2008 – 4:08 pm

DARPA-funded quadruped robot BigDog has officially descended into the uncanny valley.
Congrats to DARPA for fifty years of disruptive technology development. The DARPA scientists I have met and worked with have to a person been fascinating individuals working on very tough problems. I don’t always support the military end goal that DARPA projects seek to [...]

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Envisioning the future of Bombay’s slums

March 4, 2008 – 3:31 pm

Urban Typhoon is a participatory urban planning workshop on the future of the Koliwada region of Dharavi, Mumbai’s staggeringly large and impossibly dense million-resident slum.
The objective is to produce creative alternatives for the future of a neighborhood threatened by a redevelopment plan of the government as well as a multimedia testimony to the unique [...]

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Transforming transportation

March 4, 2008 – 1:36 pm

Shai Agassi is an entrepreneur who has struck a multi-million dollar deal with Renault/Nissan and the Israeli government to bring electric cars to Israel (and eventually the world…) through his startup Better Place.
Pete Leyden from the New Politics Institute outlines Agassi’s transformative vision and announces that Agassi will be speaking at an upcoming NPI [...]

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Venice and Dhaka: Canaries in the Climate Change Coal Mine

October 29, 2007 – 7:22 pm

Traveling to the Maldives a few weeks ago, I was thinking about possible climate change mitigation efforts there. If the sea level rises even a matter of inches, there will be a dramatic effect on some of the low-lying islands in the Maldives — many of which are essentially glorified sandbars or coral atolls barely [...]

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