July 1st 2008

B-2 Stealth Bomber crashes (that's $1.2 billion up in smokes)

Morning

• Ethics class: Thought we were going to discuss more on the other chapters but all we did was discuss the -isms. It was nice though. Makes me think I should take an ethics class when I get back to Puerto Rico.
  • For remembering purposes only: Write a 500-750 words code of ethics for Monday (if I hadn't seen Tom's blog, I might have forgotten to write about it)
• Luncheon lecture by Alexander Stoytchev (if I didn't write the name wrong): Good talk about robotics. Reminded me to look for these stories I saw a while back about robots (they're at the end of the page if anyone's interested). I was interested in searching about what kind of research some of those people did (especially the psych majors) so I'll have to look for them later. For remembering purposes only:
  • Piaget (1952)
  • Gibson (1979)

Afternoon

• Team meeting (we seem to have a lot of those lately)
  • Talked about the different classes we have up to now.
  • What order should we do things in.
  • Division of labor.
  • And other stuff. Everything has been updated to the team blog in case you're interested in reading about it.
• For now, I'll be working on reading Java code (the Sparsh photoviewer one) and finishing up my reading of the Java book Prasad lent me (that was lent to him as well). My actual work is on the SparshBaseplate program.

Random stories of the day:

• With ones related to robotics:
  • 2007 Robot of the Year "contest" w/ runner-ups
  • "Are you lost? robot scares more than helps

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