“A new way to allow simulated and real robots to take on a life of their own is under development by a German team with colleagues at Edinburgh University.”

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Call for papers for DIVISION SESSIONS for the 2009 Cultural Studies Association

Seventh Annual Cultural Studies Association Conference

Marriott (at the Plaza), Kansas City

April 16-18, 2009

Additional information about the CSA meetings can be found at:

http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/frame_home.htm

Division sessions are guaranteed acceptance for the conference.

Note the specific directions and different due dates for the various divisions.

NASA last week launched a new interactive Web site, jointly developed with the non-profit Internet Archive, which initially combines some 21 separately stored and managed NASA imagery collections into a single online resource featuring enhanced search, visual and metadata capabilities.

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“The big idea of giving PCs to poor children has been challenged by educators and business. Here, follow the misadventures of One Laptop per Child”

Business Week

What the Internet is doing to our brains

Article from the Atlantic

Chronicle of Higher Education

The Theory and Practice of Online Learning

Edited by Terry Anderson

“Every chapter in the widely distributed first edition has been updated, and four new chapters on current issues such as connectivism and social software innovations have been added. Essays by practitioners and scholars active in the complex, diverse, and rapidly evolving field of distance education blend scholarship and research; practical attention to the details of teaching and learning; and mindful attention to the economics of the business of education.”

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“Scholars are facing unprecedented Information Overload in their attempts to identify potentially relevant information sources. Electronic networks have not only expedited traditional forms of publishing but created new formal and informal opportunities for communication. Conventional methods of information management are reaching the limits of their effectiveness. To enhance access to information in the coming decades, systems that fully utilize the digital nature of a growing number of scholarly resources must be implemented.”

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“Every web surfer, in the course of his or her browsing, has been forced to stop and perform this weird little task: look at a picture of some wavy, ghostly, distorted letters and type them into a box. Sometimes you flub it and have to retype the letters, but otherwise you don’t think about it much. That string of letters has a name; it’s called a CAPTCHA. And it’s a test. By correctly transcribing it, you have proved to the computer that you are a human being…”

Time Magazine

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