Learning by doing it on your own

Doing Your Own Benchmark

Learning automation by doing it – a case-study

1 Celina P. Leão , Production and System Dept., Minho University, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal, [email protected] 2 Pedro M. Silva , Industrial Electronics Dept., Minho University, Campus de Azurem, 4800-058 Guimaraes, Portugal 3 Paulo C. Oliveira, Industrial Electronics Dept., Minho University, Campus de Azurem, 4800-058 Guimaraes, Portugal 4 Nuno C. Carvalho, Industrial Electro...

On scratching your own itch

Following Massimo Banzi’s comment that the Arduino development board might be seen as a means of ‘scratching your own itch’, this paper explores the concept of affect in relation to physical computing, and investigates the ways in which cybernetic and networked objects could be said to enact a series of process-philosophical and object-oriented tensions. In so doing it addresses the cultural sa...

Who owns your DNA? who will own It?

Q uietly and doggedly, a race is going on in laboratories around the world—the race to determine who will own human heritage. calls the US and British sequencing teams chasing the full sequence of the human genome at breakneck speed. On the other side is the private sector, most notably Craig Venter, PhD, chief scientific officer of Celera, a genomics company. Each group has the same mission: t...

Do it your own (DIY) Jeopardy Question Answering System

The evolution and maturity of semantic technologies techniques and frameworks are bringing functionalities which were once considered academic or prototypical into real-life applications. Products such as IBM Watson [1] and Siri are examples of applications which are heavily leveraged on state-of-the-art semantic technologies. These systems provide a synthesis of the functionalities which are a...