Each year, on the date that Second Life came out of beta (June 23rd 2003), Residents and Lindens have gathered to celebrate the amazing world. This year's theme is “Celebrating the cultural diversity of Second Life”.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Second Life getting ready for its 5th Birthday!
Monday, May 19, 2008
'Second Life' and AI Research
Meet Edd Hifeng, a creation of artificial intelligence (AI) by researchers at Rensselaer Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning Laboratory, who endows him with a limited ability to converse and reason. It turns out "Second Life" is more than a place where pixelated avatars chat, interact and fly about. It's also a frontier in AI research because it's a controllable environment where testing intelligent creations is easier.
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3G iPhone... Apple keeping it under wraps?
Don't expect Apple to talk about it these days. Any acknowledgement by the company that a 3G iPhone is coming will cause sales of existing iPhones to plummet. Why spend $400 or $500 on an iPhone now when there's a faster, cooler one just around the corner?
No wonder Apple is keeping quiet while iPhone rumors swirl. Taiwanese manufacturer Hon Hai has reportedly received an order to make a "more advanced version" of the iPhone. A Bank of America analyst says the 3G iPhone will be here by summer, and predicts that Apple will produce 8 million in the third quarter alone. Apple has said it wants to sell 10 million iPhones in 2008.
All this discussion of a new iPhone could put a damper on sales of the current models. That's why you won't hear any 3G talk coming from the company until the phone is ready for the stores -- and then the Apple hype machine will kick in.
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Keys to Rescuing Ailing Projects
Here is an interesting article on keys to rescuing ailing projects and steps to explore some of the reasons why projects derail and how to use four vital success measures to revive them. More Details
Sunday, May 18, 2008
What is PhotoSynth?
A Photosynth experience begins with a bunch of digital photos. They might all have been taken by one person, or they might be a mixture of images from many different cameras, shooting conditions, dates, times of day, resolutions, and so on.
Each photo is processed by computer vision algorithms to extract hundreds of distinctive features, like the corner of a window frame or a door handle. Photos that share features are then linked together in a web. When the same feature is found in multiple images, its 3D position can be calculated. It's similar to depth perception - what your brain does to perceive the 3D positions of things in your field of view based on their images in both of your eyes. Photosynth's 3D model is just the cloud of points showing where those features are in space.
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