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MIT’s Friendly Robotic Weatherman

by John P.

WeatherI know my buddy Hrafn over at Inkblot Earth is going to get a kick out of this (he’s an AI expert)… I just got finished getting the local weather update from MIT’s artificial intelligence weather forecaster, Jupiter.

All you do is give Jupiter a call on your phone and ask him for the forecast. He reads it off to you, and you’re on your merry way. Especially useful if you’re traveling somewhere and don’t want to have to find an Internet connection to look it up on the Web. I even made a recording so everyone could listen to a sample…
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MIT Offers All Courses Free Online

January 25, 2007

MIT’s OpenCourseWare project aims to offer the complete course material for every class online, free of charge. President Susan Hockfield offers this explanation: “OpenCourseWare expresses in an immediate and far-reaching way MIT’s goal of advancing education around the world. Through MIT OCW, educators and students everywhere can benefit from the academic activities of our faculty [...]

Art and Technology – Absolutely Compatible!

January 11, 2007

Here is an excellent example of technology being employed to create new forms of art the world has never seen. Of course, it’s brought to you by the geniuses over at the MIT labs, and it’s an invention called the I/O brush.