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  <A HREF="navigation.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Navigation">Navigation</A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Paris, February 6th, 2005</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Good afternoon Glub Students</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="451" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 HEIGHT= 587 WIDTH="445"><div> <B>While the treatment of this subject is preposterous, the basis is worth a bit of thinking.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I was amazed at the Olympic Games to learn that a trained athlete took one tenth of a second to react to the bang of the starter's gun.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>For a normal human, the reaction time would be around two to three tenth of seconds.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>As teacher, it was always a source of perplexity to observe that during discussions, when the brain had been able to work out a message, the hands would start moving and the mouth would start emitting the message nearly one tenth of a second later.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Further, while the whole message had been formed in the brain, it had to be digitalized into sounds, one by one, a long tedious procedure, the message being taken up in the same way by the recipient who now had to form in his recipient brain an image of what the emitter intended to convey, the received picture being of course different from the emitted message;</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>How can we survive with such a lousy communication system?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Or is the poorness of the communication system essential to our survival, we could never stand receiving exactly the intended message?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>If you really push me, I would state that I believe we do communicate on a level we are not aware of, and that talking, listening, looking, is just a support.</B></div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <B>I wish to thank you for having had the wisdom to attend one of the most important course of this University, not that I want in any way to pretend that I would as Professor of Human Anthropology want to suggest that I am superior to my Respected Colleagues, but it so happens that the subject demands an exceptional amount of CPU and Data Base access at the highest possible Broadband, which I happen to have been endowed with, no disrespect being intended for my respected Colleagues who do not have this.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Today's subject has no equivalent in the Glub world, therefore you are kindly to differentiate yourself from your Glub Entity and bubble yourself into whatever form you will wish, which will put you nearer to the situation experienced by the Humans.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Very niece Bubble you have made, Dear Freckled Glub Bubble, I especially like these bulges you have developed at the front and at the back, I did not quite follow how exactly you did it so possibly you could come to my Office this evening and demonstrate for me how you did it.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>You say the bulges are soft and warm, how interesting dear Glub.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>But you Ugly Fat Glub Bubble, I find those bulges you have endowed yourself in your lower part of the poorest taste, what use do you think such bulges could be to Humans? Really poor taste, I fear for your Academic Progresses.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Well students, now that you have taken your Bubble form, let us try to understand the problems of the Humans.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Students, you will find that very difficult to swallow (forgive me that human pun, of course it means nothing to you Glubs, except possibly Blond Glub who had some special training with me yesterday), Humans did not have any communication !!!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Indeed, a human was like a stone, no vibration at all was emanating from him.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Assistants, kindly bring it the first Stem Cell Produced Human Specimen.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Students, look at that Living Thing Human that we have produced for your studies. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Students, kindly tune in your Wi-Fi detector. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>What do you notice students?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Indeed you notice nothing. Except Ugly Bubble Glub who is kindly requested not to continue sending most disgusting vibrations to Blond Bubble Glub.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Students, there is nothing at all coming out of Humans, no vibrations what so ever.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Assistants, kindly take off the cap of the skull of the Human.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Have no fear students,  I have asked my Preparators to skillfully remove the top of the skull, add araldide to prevent any splashing and put back the skull cap.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Now students, look just a little knock with a hammer and pop, the top of the skull fall off.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>What do you mean, assistant, what you are supposed to do with the skull cap? Well, I do not know, why don't you give it to the Humans, it will kept him busy and perplexed for some time.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Assistants kindly zone in on the processing unit of the Human, students, this grey matter oozing some kind of grayish stuff, it is not as you could believe, the excretion centre, but believed to be the processing centre.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Well students, what do you see?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Yes, smallish looking dwarf bubble with the flat nose? You see a butterfly? Students, you know that you are not to get high on viruses and worms before entering my class. Assistants kindly Norton immediately that Glub student and put a McAfee wall around the other Glubs during that procedure. Disgusting! Never would it have happened in my days!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>So, Glub students, what do we see?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Indeed nothing!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>There is no transmitter, no Wi-Fi, no modem, no nothing, it is totally useless; apparently this processing unit the Humans have is only able to run around itself like a squirrel in a cage.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Well, students, you are really lucky that you have selected to attend my course and that my brother in law, however limited he may be in processing speed happens to have access to the budget of this University, and has granted us access to the museum pieces, instruments used by Humans which they would call encephalogram.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Assistants, hook up the encephalogram to the human brain.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Look students, there is some activity. This line you seen with peaks reflects the thoughts going through this Human Brain Processor. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>As you can see students, the line is rather dull and uninteresting.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Well, let us make one of these experiments which you delight in.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Assistants do bring in a minus Human Material</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Yes, here they bring in that minus human being.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Assistants, let me praise you, very good of you to cover the Minus Human being.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Well assistants, tear of the tissue covering of this minus Human Material, well, start with all this stuff covering the bulges, and students look at the encephalogram of the Plus Human.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Amazing, is it not, see how this line is going all wild in ups and downs and all shivering.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Obviously some kind of communication as taken place between the Plus Human and the double bulge Human. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>But what communication?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Well, my stupid brother in law, sorry I mean my Governor Brother in Law has also given us access to some primitive human equipments they called cam recorder. Cam because it was developed in a smaller University called Cambridge, don't worry, you will never hear about it again.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>So we have made a recording of this meeting and we shall look at it now.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Look at the Scene being replayed!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Assistants, kindly give us a replay of this scene</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Students look carefully, especially look at the slit in the Head of the Plus Human Material. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>What do you see students?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Yes blond tender Bubble Glub?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>You see a butterfly?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Assistants, quick, bring in the most power full disinfectant and analyze carefully the boot sector. That student is infected! Again students I must warn you against unprotected file sharing; disgusting!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Let us come back to our experiment. What do you see, look at the slit.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Do you see that it is moving?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Do see that this slit has some kind of vibrating membranes?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Yes, students, these Humans are communicating!!!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Fantastic, is it not!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>They use air vibrations to communicate.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Let us look at a recording or what the Plus Human is trying to vibrate to the Minus Human;</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Here, use your ear bulges and listen to the digitalized analyses, listen carefully.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><< HeyhottycanI buyyouadrink >></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Rather mysterious is it not, yet the Minus human appeared to understand something.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>We have been running this message through our most advanced decryption algorithms and we were finally able to crack this message, but I must warn you that it is even difficult to understand even when decrypted</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Here is the message</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><< Honey, move your blooming ass and bring me a hat, unless you prefer bald men.>></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Yes, students, this is the message;</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Obviously we are made to understand that both of this human materials are some kind of workers in agriculture and that they are discussing today's menu; why they would do that the first time they meet is a mystery.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>It is not made easier when you listen to the reply of the minus human being;</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><Youthinkyouaresmartyouassholewithyourheadoff;stufflikeyouwouldnotevenmakeasnackfore.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Well after decryption we got the following message:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Sir, there is a telex from Western union, would you like me to put it up yours or straight into your empty head?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Students we believe a telex must be some kind of food and that it can either be ingested by the down canal or by the upper opening. Still a lot of work remains to be done and if my stupid, I mean, my dear Governor brother in law would release the funds in time we could really get working.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Well, students, let us go back to basic science;</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>You see, the Humans could not communicate; yet they managed to exchange some very crude information.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Look now at the encephalogram.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Assistants could you please bring in that luggage full of green picture of my stupid, I mean dear Governor brother in Law</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Assistants do open it in front of the Plus Human being.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Watch carefully the screen!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>See how these pictures seem to create even a bigger cerebral activity in the plus Human being that the view of the bulges of the Minus Human; Why it should be, that is a mystery;</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Look carefully now.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>See how thee lines on the screen start forming some kind of image.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Do you see that?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Yes, twisted students what do you say you seen?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>A butterfly!!!!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Twisted Blob Glub, what did you say your name was? Rorschach? What kind of name is that? I really feel sorry for the software engineer who created you.</B></div> <div> <B>(</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="http://www.rorschach.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.rorschach.com/"><B>www.rorschach.com/</B></A></FONT><B>)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Now, let us be serious, see how the view of these greenbacks is creating an image in the confused grey matter of his brain.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Do you see how the brain is digitalizing?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Why the brain immediately connects this information to Huge Red Sport Cars and over developed Malibu Beach Red Undressed Minus human material, this must be due to some malfunction of this old equipment.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>See how the information is digitalized and now the muscles of the steak which is inside his mouth start making vibrations.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>What does he try to vibrate?  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Assistant, what does the screen say?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>SoftyyourealsorrynowthatyoudidnothookupwitmebutnowlikeyouIcangetdozensjustwhistling.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Again a mystery; </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Well, better run it through that useless computer we borrowed from my stupid Brother in Law and which I shall give in back with a virus such as he has never seen!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Assistants, what did he vibrate?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><<The fox ran over the meadow where the red cow was mowing>></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>You sure assistant that this is what the human vibrated?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Oh well, we shall never understand this strange world.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Oh, look, as I was getting distracted by sciences, apparently the minus upper bulge minus Human has decided that she must rub with the Plus Human who has lost his head, but why he is stuffing all these greenbills into her upper bulge dress is a mystery, possibly it could be some nutrient that helps during rubbing?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Well, students, I feel a bit tired now, so let us all go back into matrix and enjoy a few integrates and derivatives.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Good night students, and try not to dream of butterflies this night.</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="495" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 HEIGHT= 57 ><NOBR><bR> <div> <B>BE PATIENT. THEY ARE COMING, FASTER THAN YOU BELIEVE</B></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="492" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFCC33 HEIGHT= 1192 WIDTH="486"><div> <B>WHAT'S NEXT </B></div> <div> <B>For Simpler Robots, a Step Forward</B></div> <div> <B>By ANNE EISENBERG </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Published: February 24, 2005</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/24/technology/circuits/24robo.html?th" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/24/techno"><B>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/24/technology/circuits/24robo.html?th</B></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>ASHINGTON</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>THE moment of truth had come for the knee-high robot standing on its improvised runway at a hotel news conference.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Reporters circled it, their microphones and cameras trained on the machine as it tried to start up. Then a curious 13-year-old boy who had joined the throng reached out, poked his fingers between the robot's metal legs and gave them an exploratory push.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B> </B></div> <div> <B>With that, the robot, built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, lived up to its nickname, the Toddler. It rocked gently until the poking stopped, steadied itself and marched firmly across the level surface, a tabletop propped up on cinderblocks.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>If two-legged robots are ever going to walk among people, they may look a lot like this sturdy machine and two others, introduced Feb. 17 on the makeshift catwalk at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The robots - the others were built at Cornell and at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands - are designed in a way that differs significantly from standard creations. One of the robots moves so efficiently that in the future it may be able to amble along for a day, not the 20 or 30 minutes most robots now manage without recharging or refueling.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>"And our robots walk far more naturally," said Andy Ruina, a professor at Cornell who took one of the robots to the meeting and whose nephew Josh Bennett, of Chevy Chase, Md., did the unscripted poking.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The design may be important not only for future energy-saving robots, but also for intelligent prostheses - leg and foot replacements for amputees.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dr. Ruina's robot and its companions from Delft and M.I.T. are descendants of some early ramp-walking machines, mechanical devices that have been around for a century. These contraptions - toys like waddling penguins and later two-legged robots - were not powered in any way. Instead, they relied on gravity and the mechanics of objects in motion to walk stably down sloping surfaces.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Modern versions of the machines, called passive-dynamic walkers, have been built for decades and have long been thought useful models of human locomotion, Dr. Ruina said. But in the past the machines were not able to walk on level ground.</B></div> <div> <B>Now the researchers from the three universities have shown that the classic passive-dynamic walking machines need not depend on gravitational power. Instead, they have put small motors on their robots and shown that they can walk on level ground. The robots' workings are described in detail in the journal Science.</B></div> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>