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Archive for April, 2007


SMB File Sharing to a Windows Vista Ultimate PC from OS X 10.4

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

After upgrading the computer that holds the majority of the files on my network to Windows Vista Ultimate, I had a few problems accessing it from the Mac running Tiger. Turns out some of the network security options and authentication defaults have changed between XP and Vista.
As Mac OS X 10.4.9 does not appear to [...]

Google TechTalk: Concurrent Runtimes and Little Robots

Monday, April 9th, 2007

As part of the Transterpreter California roadshow, Matt, Christian and myself gave a Google TechTalk on Thursday 29th March. We started out with background and an introduction to the occam-pi language, a coverage of parallel models and then progressed to cover the application work from my CPA 2006 paper, Robot Control using the Subsumption Architecture. [...]

2007 AAAI Spring Symposium: Robots and Robot Venues

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Along with Matt and Christian, I was able to attend and take part in the ‘Robots and Robot Venues‘ track at the AAAI Spring Symposium at Stanford in Palo Alto, California. It proved to be an extremely interesting three days, spending time around others working with educational robotics platforms and gaining an insight into some [...]