Robopsychology, Linux, Apache, and IIS.
Baby Robot learns like a human.
This was an interesting article I read during the past week. The immediate thought that ran through my mind as soon as I read the title was – Dr.Isaac Asimov's “I, Robot”, and Robopsychology. Also, the movie “I, Robot” based on Asimov’s book also comes to mind. Will Robopsychology and the development of robots lead us to the situation which is illustrated in the movie? Well, this could be the first step – a robot learning to interact with the human world just like a baby learning to interact with other human beings, and learning its way around the world. The robot called ‘BabyBot’ has been programmed to experiment with objects and learns the best possible way to make use of these objects. A very interesting and mind twisting phenomenon is that this ‘Babybot’ has an in-built desire to physically experiment with objects in its close vicinity, it tries different strategies to achieve the best fit. Although we can marvel at the vast improvements and developments in Robotics and Robopsychology, it does send a chill down my spine. Whether it will be useful or destructive, we can only wait and watch with bated breath.
In other news, I was surprised to read ‘Windows Guru’ & Microsoft evangelist, Vladimir Mazek’s extensive use of Linux (CentOS Linux 4.3 to be precise) as a front end to host his blog. Vladimir says his choice of Linux is based purely on cost. Added features like seamless portability and reliance might be added later (I hope so)…
Another piece of good news – Apache has now become the leading developer of SSL servers on the Internet. I was pleasantly surprised when I read this on securityfocus. In a report released by Netcraft, Apache has cornered a 44% share of the market. Some people were surprised that Microsoft’s IIS was placed second. Too bad…It had to happen….
These are my thoughts for the weekend, actually the ones I could write down and put it up on this blog.
Hope you guys had a nice weekend!!!
This was an interesting article I read during the past week. The immediate thought that ran through my mind as soon as I read the title was – Dr.Isaac Asimov's “I, Robot”, and Robopsychology. Also, the movie “I, Robot” based on Asimov’s book also comes to mind. Will Robopsychology and the development of robots lead us to the situation which is illustrated in the movie? Well, this could be the first step – a robot learning to interact with the human world just like a baby learning to interact with other human beings, and learning its way around the world. The robot called ‘BabyBot’ has been programmed to experiment with objects and learns the best possible way to make use of these objects. A very interesting and mind twisting phenomenon is that this ‘Babybot’ has an in-built desire to physically experiment with objects in its close vicinity, it tries different strategies to achieve the best fit. Although we can marvel at the vast improvements and developments in Robotics and Robopsychology, it does send a chill down my spine. Whether it will be useful or destructive, we can only wait and watch with bated breath.
In other news, I was surprised to read ‘Windows Guru’ & Microsoft evangelist, Vladimir Mazek’s extensive use of Linux (CentOS Linux 4.3 to be precise) as a front end to host his blog. Vladimir says his choice of Linux is based purely on cost. Added features like seamless portability and reliance might be added later (I hope so)…
Another piece of good news – Apache has now become the leading developer of SSL servers on the Internet. I was pleasantly surprised when I read this on securityfocus. In a report released by Netcraft, Apache has cornered a 44% share of the market. Some people were surprised that Microsoft’s IIS was placed second. Too bad…It had to happen….
These are my thoughts for the weekend, actually the ones I could write down and put it up on this blog.
Hope you guys had a nice weekend!!!
posted by Anonymous at 8:44 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home