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Where Robot Cars (Robocars) Can Really Take Us

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I've been blogging from time to time about driverless cars or autonomous vehicles for some years now. Brad Templeton it seems devotes his entire life to the subject, with an excellent website and blog on the subject of "robocars" - highly recommended if you are interested in this topic. Incidentally, I've put a deposit down on a Tesla 3 and looking forward to trying out it s autopilot on NZ roads. I'm expecting delivery in 2018. from The Universal Machine http://universal-machine.blogspot.com/ Put the internet to work for you. Turn off or edit this Recipe Recommended for you ...

New BBC documentary about Ada Lovelace

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The BBC have just released an excellent new documentary about the Victorian computer pioneer and visionary Ada Lovelace called: Calculating Ada: the Countess of Computing . It's available on YouTube and the BBC's iPlayer. from The Universal Machine http://universal-machine.blogspot.com/ Put the internet to work for you. Turn off or edit this Recipe Recommended for you

AKUEB Computer Science XII

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muhammaduwais.mcs@gmail.com XII AKUEB Computer  Science PAF Chapter Robotics Event Online Test for Chapter-wise MCQs Chapter-Wise CRQs and ERQs Samples To the Point SLO Notes AKUEB Chapter 8 Basics of Database Chapter 9 Design and Creation   Chapter 10 Data Manipulation  Chapter 11 Quries,Forms and Reports Chapter 12 Introduction to C Chapter 13 Creating C Programs Chapter 14 Fundamentals of C Chapter 15 Conditional Statements Chapter 16 Functions Chapter 17 Filing Match your answer to know the correct one: 1st Shift AKUEB Computer Science XII Midterm PI Answer Key 2nd Shift AKUEB Computer Science XII Midterm PI Answer Key Practical Work Samples Download (SIS) Some important topics notes: SQL Statements  Validation Rules for Access 2010 Important Questions C Language Print the format (Program) C Language 20 Practicals Updated 2017   C Filing Weak and Better Responses Goods and Bad Sample 2018 AKUEB  Practicals XII  Sample AKUEB Paper Practica...

Happy birthday World Wide Web!

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The WWW is 25 years old! The first web page at CERN , created by the web's inventor Tim Berners-Lee went online 25 years ago. That means that for many of this blog's younger readers you can't imagine a world without the web. Trust me, it was a very diff erent place. The Telegraph newspaper has published a good history of the development of the web. from The Universal Machine http://universal-machine.blogspot.com/ Put the internet to work for you. Turn off or edit this Recipe Recommended for you

Seymour Papert, 88, Dies

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The New York Times reports that: " Seymour Papert, a visionary educator and mathematician who well before the advent of the personal computer foresaw children using computers as instruments for learning and enhancing creativity, died on Sunday at his home in Blue Hill, Me. He was 88. His death was announced by the Logo Foundation , a nonprofit educational organization that he co-founded. His wife, the Russia scholar and author Suzanne Massie, said the cause was complications of a series of kidney and bladder infections. " Logo was one of the first computer languages I learned and I fondly remember watching that turtle draw it's way across the screen. Thanks to my colleague, Mark Wilson , for noticing this. from The Universal Machine http://universal-machine.blogspot.com/ Put the internet to work for you. Turn off or edit t...