LogMeIn

Remote Helpdesk andIT Support
LogMeIn Rescue - Support remote PCs over the web without pre-installing software.
LogMeIn IT Reach - Securely manage & monitor hard-to-reach systems & servers over the web.
Remote Access
LogMeIn Pro - Securely access your PCs, hear remote sound, print from anywhere & share files.
Instant VPN
LogMeIn Hamachi - Instantly connect multiple computers in a VPN.
Backup
LogMeIn Backup - Secure and automatic backups to storage devices you control

www.logmein.com

Agent Technology

Systems, Tools, Languages, Standards, ...

FTP

Change FTP File Permission (CHmod)

The ALICE AI Funcation

The ALICE Artificial Intelligence Fundation

ChatterBox

http://www.sitepal.com/

Robocup

Robocup

Univrsity of Queensland team
University of Carnegie Mellon team

Components:

• Wireless module
  https://www.soanarplus.com/productSearch.do
  http://www.radiometrix.co.uk/products/bim2.htm
  http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=7815
• DC Micromotors
  http://www.erntec.net/content/products/?0,3,a001,47
  http://www.mechtex.co.in/ (DCCS28a 12VDC 120RPM Shaft 4 x 14mm Torque - 1kgcm)
• Wheels
  http://www.kornylak.com/wheels/omniwheel.html (RW29 model, 48 cm, $2.00)
• Battery (7.2V run at 1.9A for 1 hr)
  http://www.mashobbies.com.au/mashobbies/content/products/product.aspx?intProductID=4003
• solenoid
  SoanarPlus (SS0902, 12VDC 50W 24R 2KG)
• Motor Driver (min 2A)

Research Education Support Activities day

Communicating your research
Research Education Support Activities day
For Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Summary:

• Ulrichsweb.com is the authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types — academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed (refereed) titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world. http://ulrichsweb.com/
  In advance search section enter the topic keywords, tick the status: Active, Features: Refereed, and Serial Type: Academic/Scholarly.
• Research Quality Framework (RQF)
• ISI Web of Knowledge (Access through UniSA, check out the Impact factor of Journals which shows their prestige)
• Arrows (A world wide window on UniSA research)
• Web of Science
• Communicating the Research: Ezine (e.g. http://ezinearticles.com/)
• Augmented Reality Project (Wearable Computer Lab): http://tinmith.net/ & Hog3d
• Information Systems Lab

GORITE

Goal Oriented Teams (GORITE) is a Java platform for implementing Team Oriented designs. By the Team Oriented view of software systems, a running application consists of teams of performers, whose orchestrated operations bring about the application behaviour.
The Team Oriented paradigm is the very latest in software development paradigms, taking systems design to a new level. As design concept it extends Agent programming by including explicit modelling of the organisation of agents that comprise an application, whilst allowing for openness in actual composition.
The Team Oriented design approach is a lot more than a multi-agent approach, as it allows processes and data be attributed directly to teams. It implements an idealised abstraction where teams can operate separately from their members and regardless of having members. In principle however, a team's operation represents the agreed coordination of team member operations, and this only has a meaning with team members to coordinate.
The essence in GORITE Team Programming is to provide software solutions based on delegated autonomy at the architectural level.
GORITE example

CREATIVE PRODIKEYS WINS "BEST OF CES" AWARD AT CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW

World's First Music and PC Keyboard All-in-One Draws Huge Crowds at Creative CES Exhibit
LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Jan. 11, 2003 - Creative Technology Ltd. (Nasdaq: CREAF), the worldwide leader in digital entertainment products for PC users, announced today that the Creative Prodikeys has won the TechTV "Best of CES" award.
This award recognizes and honors the most outstanding new consumer technology products that debuted at the 2003 International Consumer Electronics Show.
The TechTV appointed panel of product evaluators selected winners according to their innovative appeal, usability, usefulness, and affordability. The Creative Prodikeys won for the Home Audio category, which evaluated consumer stereo and surround sound systems for the home, including speakers, receivers, amplifiers, tape, CD players, and more.
"This is our first major participation in the Consumer Electronics Show and we are able to draw huge crowds to our booth. The Creative Prodikeys demonstration area has been jam packed with people since the show began. There is a large amount of interest about all of our products at our CES exhibit," said Sim Wong Hoo, founder and CEO of Creative, and inventor of the Prodikeys. "Everyone at the show is talking about how easy and fun the Prodikeys makes it to create and share music. We are very excited to win this Best of Show award with our new category of interactive music entertainment."
The world's first PC keyboard and music keyboard all-in-one, the Creative Prodikeys is a full- featured, ergonomic 104-key PC keyboard integrated with 37 touch-sensitive music keys and easy to use music controls. The integrated design gives users the convenience to work and play music on one keyboard.
Priced at only US$99.99 and packaged with a free Sound Blaster sound card, the Creative Prodikeys includes comprehensive software that allows users to play, learn, create and even record and save music in digital audio formats. Be it jazz, dance or pop, users of all ages - novice to professional - can play music with the Impress, Easy Play, Learn and Perform modes.
The TechTV award for the Creative Prodikeys was announced on Saturday, January 11, 2003 at a gala awards ceremony at the Las Vegas Convention Center, where the show is taking place. CES attendees, show finalists, TechTV staff and talent, judges, and a host of media gathered at the event to witness the unveiling of this year's winners. Additional information on each of the winners can be found at www.techtv.com/ces. Additional information on the Creative Prodikeys is available at www.prodikeys.com.

Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot

Artery Scurrying Micro Robot

The boffins at Chonnam National University have created a microscopic robot to be used in medical procedures to clear blocked arteries. The minuscule robot has six legs and walks in the same manner as a crab. The researchers have discovered the robot is capable of traveling a whopping 55 yards in three weeks.
The tiny warrior, on reaching the designated location, is able to release stored drugs to disintegrate the blockage. The awesome medical tool doesn't even need a built-in energy source. The main body is rectangular, the three hind legs are longer than the three legs at the front, by attaching to heart muscle the legs bend at the time of cardiac contraction propelling the machine forwards. Sugars in the patient's blood provide an alternative energy source. (How crazy is that?!) Testing has not yet begun, but is due soon.
All in all, this paves the way for the fall of the human race. We've suspected for a while that robots would wipe us out, but we just didn't think it would be the nanobots that would do the trick. We honestly didn't.
http://www.worldhealth.net/p/biotechnology.html

ASIMO

Advanced Step in Inovative MObility
http://www.asimo.com.au/

ASIMO's technical guide

Reading XML Data into a DOM

Reading XML Data into a DOM

Open Source Version Control

Open Source Version Control (CVS)
CVS (Concurrent Versions System) is a version control system, an important component of Source Configuration Management (SCM). It is used for collaboration and version control. Using it, you can record the history of sources files, and documents. It fills a similar role to the free software RCS, PRCS, and Aegis packages. reference

WinCvs is not a replacement for CVS. WinCvs is a GUI front-end for a CVS commandline client.
Sophisticated graphical user interface helps to utilize full power of CVS for experts and quickly learn basics for beginers. For download and more info:
http://www.wincvs.org/
It is required to install Python to run the wincvs:
http://python.org/
For documention check this link:http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html
Also check out this website for more info and download: http://ximbiot.com/cvs/wiki/ Quick download link: http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/

CVSNT
Difference between WinCvs and CVS
WinCvs is not a CVS server! It can be used to run the client in :local: mode, so you could manage a single-user repository on your local machine all from within the WinCvs GUI, but as soon as your repository is going to be accessed by more than a single local user and/or from a different machine, you should look for a "real" CVS server. Currently the most advanced is the CVSNT project, which is available both for Windows and *ix operating systems. The "original" CVS project is maintained at http://www.cvshome.org/, where you could also find CVS servers and documentation for a plethora of other operating systems as well.
Difference of CVSNT with SVN

Subversion
The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community.
TortoiseSVN is a really easy to use Revision control / version control / source control software for Windows.

Java Database Connection

Setup Database Connection

Download Connector/J
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/5.1.html
unzip the package
Read the documentations

Summary
Modify the user environment variables CLASSPATH, to include the location of unziped file.
Use the following code
Code

JDBC Tutorial
For more information read the tutorials on sun website or the documentation in the Connector/J package.
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jdbc/

Special vest lets players feel video game blows

Virtual attacks in games can translate to physical sensations with new technology.

It will be launched with the first-person shooter game "Call of Duty".

Full story

Webhosting help

Webhosting FAQs
http://www.modwest.com/help/

Encode your PHP
http://www.sourceguardian.com/

Massive Software

Massive Software is the premier 3D animation system for generating crowd-related visual effects for film and television. Using Massive, an animator or TD designs characters with a set of reactions to what is going on around them.

The reactions of the characters determine what they do and how they do it. Their reactions can even simulate emotive qualities such as bravery, weariness, or joy. The agent reactions can control key-framed or motion captured animation clips called actions.

Characters that perform on their own in this way are referred to as agents. Massive is a system for designing and running such agents. When scaled up into the hundreds - or hundreds of thousands - the interaction within the crowd that emerges from these individuals is highly realistic. By building variation into an agent, the Massive artist can populate a scene with individuals who are unique in everything from physical appearance to how they respond.

The intuitive node-based interface of Massive Prime™ allows artists to interactively create AI-enabled agents. The Brain Editor AI toolset gives artists the freedom to build custom responses for the specific behavior they want to simulate, without any programming.

The Motion Tree workflow and integrated Action Editor allow key-framed or motion-captured animations to be linked to the brain.

Hanson Robot Speaks, Learns and Interacts with People and Environment Driven by Academy Award-Winning Massive Artificial Intelligence Software.
Hanson says one of the robot Zeno’s biggest advancements is that its brain synchs wirelessly to a PC running a variant of Massive Softwar.

Latex

Miktex is the underlying programme which converts your typing into a nice, professional looking document.

Winshel is a free multilingual integrated development environment (IDE) for LaTeX and TeX. The program includes a text editor, syntax highlighting, project management, spell checking, a table wizard, BibTeX support, Unicode support, different toolbars and user configuration options. It is not a LaTeX system; an additional LaTeX package is required.

To view your results on screen you need Ghostscript and Ghostview . These can be downloaded at
Ghostscript exe file
Ghostview exe file

These must be installed in the above order.

TeXnicCenter is a feature rich integrated development environment (IDE) for developing LaTeX-documents. This can be used instead of Winshel.

Download the setup file and run it. The setup will ask you to link it to Miktex.

In order to link it to Miktex select the Miktex/bin folder inside the folder where Miktex is installed.

Here's a good link for Installing tips.

BibTeX is a tool for formatting lists of references. The BibTeX tool is typically used together with the LaTeX document preparation system. BibTeX makes it easy to cite sources in a consistent manner, by separating bibliographic information from the presentation of this information. This same principle of separation of content and presentation/style is used by LaTeX itself.

• Bibliographic information
• General information about BibTeX

JabRef is an open source bibliography reference manager. The native file format used by JabRef is BibTeX, the standard LaTeX bibliography format.

UnrealEngine2 Runtime

UnrealEngine2 Runtime

Robocup Soccer Simulator

RoboLog website
Robocup Soccer Simulator
The RoboCup Soccer Simulator is a research and educational tool for multi-agent systems and artificial intelligence. It enables for two teams of 11 simulated autonomous robotic players to play soccer (football).
Download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sserver/

Robocup Soccer Simulator official website

Nero 2.0 machine learning game

Nero
Neuro-Evolving Robotic Operatives, or NERO for short, is a unique computer game that lets you play with adapting intelligent agents hands-on. Evolve your own robot army by tuning their artificial brains for challenging tasks, then pit them against your friends' teams in online competitions!
NERO is a result of an academic research project in artificial intelligence, based on the rtNEAT algorithm. It is also a platform for future research on intelligent agent technology. The NERO project is run by the Neural Networks Group of the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. To learn more about NERO, check the About page and the illustrative videos. To try out NERO, download the game binary and run the tutorial. To use NERO in your research or teaching, contact NERO team.
http://nerogame.org/

In most modern video games, character behavior is scripted; no matter how many times the player exploits a weakness, that weakness is never repaired. Yet, if game characters could learn through interacting with the player, behavior could improve as the game is played, keeping it interesting. This paper introduces the real-time Neuroevolution of Augmenting Topologies (rtNEAT) method for evolving increasingly complex artificial neural networks in real time, as a game is being played. In fact, rtNEAT makes possible an entirely new genre of video games in which the player trains a team of agents through a series of customized exercises. To demonstrate this concept, the Neuroevolving Robotic Operatives (NERO) game was built based on rtNEAT. In NERO, the player trains a team of virtual robots for combat against other players’ teams. This paper describes results from this novel application of machine learning, and demonstrates that rtNEAT makes possible video games like NERO where agents evolve and adapt in real time. In the future, rtNEAT may allow new kinds of educational and training applications through interactive and adapting games.
Real-time Neuroevolution in the NERO Video Game

rNeat algorithm
http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/soft-list.php

Building Websites with Plone

http://oszone.org/

JDBC

Tutorial for JDBC

Linux and Windows

Linux and Windows

Robocode

http://robocode.sourceforge.net/

Animation Design

http://www.rsp.com.au/news.htm

http://www.animallogic.com/#Home

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