From spike.jones at lmco.com Mon Sep 19 16:44:39 2005 From: spike.jones at lmco.com (Jones, Spike) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:44:39 -0700 Subject: [Exi-bay-chat] robot car guy to give a lecture tomorrow at ames Message-ID: <47BF60A2A5AB3C4898B67142F206446908F7A455@emss01m15.us.lmco.com> -----Original Message----- From: NASANEWS at mail.arc.nasa.gov [mailto:nasanews at mail.arc.nasa.gov] Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 11:02 AM To: ames-releases at lists.arc.nasa.gov Subject: NASA RESEARCH PARK TO HOST OPEN HOUSE, ROBOTICS LECTURE Michael Mewhinney/Nicholas A. Veronico Sept. 14, 2005 NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Phone: 650/604-3937 or 650/604-9000 E-mail: nveronico at mail.arc.nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: Dr. William "Red" Whittaker will be available for interviews on Sept. 20 from 4:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. PDT in Bldg. 23 at Ames Research Center's NASA Research Park. Please call 650/604-3937 to schedule an interview. In addition, NASA's Robotics Alliance Project will showcase student-built robots of all sizes from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. PDT in front of Bldg. 17 in NASA Research Park. To reach Ames, take the Moffett Field exit from Highway 101, drive east to the main gate and into NASA Research Park. NEWS RELEASE: 05-46AR NASA RESEARCH PARK TO HOST OPEN HOUSE, ROBOTICS LECTURE NASA Research Park at Ames Research Center will host an open house on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2005, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. PDT, and a free public lecture co-sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University West at 7 p.m. PDT, featuring a renowned robotics expert. Dr. William "Red" Whittaker, a leader in the field of mobile robotics, will discuss "Racing for the Future," and his team's efforts to win the $2 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Grand Challenge racing prize on Oct. 8, 2005. Special guest Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, is scheduled to introduce Whittaker. "NASA Ames Research Center has played a key role in the development of intelligent systems and smart spacecraft," said NASA Ames Director G. Scott Hubbard. "Each advancement in the technology of autonomous systems helps NASA realize the vision of using robots and humans together to explore our solar system and beyond." Prior to the lecture, NASA Research Park (NRP) will host robotic and NASA Research Park partner exhibits. NASA's Robotics Alliance Project will showcase speedy, student-built robots of all sizes from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. PDT. At 5 p.m., Carnegie Mellon University's West Coast Campus will demonstrate mini-robots running a course. Facility tours will be available for guests interested in locating in the NRP. All events take place outdoors at the parade ground in historic Shenandoah Plaza. Whittaker, Fredkin Research Professor of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, leads the Red Team's efforts to win the DARPA prize. The race requires an autonomous ground vehicle to complete a 175-mile course through California's Mojave Desert in less than 10 hours. The Red Team will compete with two entrants - Sandstorm (based on an ex-military 1986 Humvee) and HIGHLANDER (a 1999 H1 Hummer). "We're honored to have Red Whittaker discuss his work in autonomous vehicles, and in collaboration with NASA Ames, to participate in this research park event," said Jim Morris, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's West Coast Campus. NASA Research Park's goal is to enhance public and private partnerships aligned with NASA's mission. "Racing for the Future" is part of the NASA Research Park's Exploration Lecture Series, and is co-sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University and its West Coast Campus, located in the research park's Building 23. The NASA Research Park Lecture Series promotes NASA's vision for exploration and is co-sponsored by NRP and the SETI Institute of Mountain View, Calif. For more information about NASA Research Park on the Internet, visit: http://researchpark.arc.nasa.gov For information about NASA and agency programs on the Internet, visit: http://www.nasa.gov To follow the Red Team's Grand Challenge racing efforts on the Internet, visit: http://www.redteamracing.org -end- To receive Ames news releases, send an e-mail with the word "subscribe" in the subject line to: ames-releases-request at lists.arc.nasa.gov. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to the same address with "unsubscribe" in the subject line. Also, the NASA Ames News homepage at URL, http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/index.html includes news releases and JPEG images in AP Leaf Desk format minus embedded captions. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jims at eos.arc.nasa.gov Mon Sep 26 18:59:29 2005 From: jims at eos.arc.nasa.gov (Jim Stevenson) Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:59:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Exi-bay-chat] room in midtown Palo Alto Message-ID: <200509261859.j8QIxTxG028520@eos.arc.nasa.gov> room available for rent in house in mid town Palo Alto, with kitchen, laundry, and pool, $500 + $50 toward utilities, for a quiet neat stable conscientious person or couple. -- Jim Stevenson Ph.D experimental psychologist, conducting sonification research, & certified master Ericksonian clinical hypnotherapist. jims at eos.arc.nasa.gov (650) 604-5720 w a.m. p.s.t or leave message any time. ham call wb6yoy From kennita at kennita.com Tue Sep 27 10:18:47 2005 From: kennita at kennita.com (Kennita Watson) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 03:18:47 -0700 Subject: [Exi-bay-chat] Stanford Quads starting lessons this Sunday in Palo Alto, CA! Message-ID: Hello, everybody (apologies to non-local folks)! Anybody who knows me very well* knows that square dancing is one of my favorite activities. It's the best aerobic exercise I can still do**, and it's got enough brain work*** and fun mixed in that it doesn't feel like exercise. My favorite square dance club, with my favorite square dance caller (could the fact that he's a fellow MIT graduate have anything to do with it? Nah ;-) ) is having free intro nights for this year's lessons this Sunday, October 2nd, and the following two Sundays, October 9th and 16th, from 7 to 9 PM. I never tire of helping out at the beginner class, even though I dance Advanced and beyond now. I'll be there with you! The location is Fairmeadow School, 500 E Meadow. The Web site is http://www.stanfordquads.org Feel free to ask me questions, and to show up, announced or not, on any or all of the next three Sundays for the intro session. If nothing else, you can try something new, eat some intro-night snacks, walk some of them off, and marvel at how John (our caller) can keep track of what 40 or more people are doing at once. Hope to see you there! Cheers, Kennita *For those who don't, my Web site is http://www.kennita.com -- there, now you do ;-) . Yes, it's out of date; needle me enough and I'll get around to updating it. **With MS, I don't have very good balance, and I can't walk very fast or very far, so if I can do it, so can you (unless you require a cane or wheels to get around, of course). ***The brain work is the kind that I think makes the activity interesting to futurists, extropians, cryonicists, et al. It's very algorithmic, even procedural -- well-suited to the engineering mind -- but with enough connection to music to engage the right brain as well. BTW, alternative music at the proper tempo is welcome; I'd love to see some composers strut their stuff. From mark_galeck at pacbell.net Tue Sep 27 14:20:26 2005 From: mark_galeck at pacbell.net (Mark Galeck) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:20:26 -0700 Subject: [Exi-bay-chat] Stanford Quads starting lessons this Sunday in PaloAlto, CA! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <000001c5c36e$9bb079a0$0a716945@andromeda> Well, since Kennita is talking about _ |_|-dancing I thought I would post too, a shameless plug, to all the groups she posted that are recognisable to me. A physical activity too, and lead by yours truly to boot. For my 40-th birthday present, I got myself hired part-time as a fitness instructor at 24-Hour Fitness (which is the 500-pound canary of the fitness world, in other words, a fitness "Microsoft", with analogous strengths and weaknesses). I posted about this before - I have a 6:00 morning class in the Mountain View club - but I now I actually have a class at a humane time, 5:30 afternoon in the San Carlos club. You can print a guest pass if you are not a member and come along - if you print a pass you will likely have to talk to a marketdroid, but being a droid, they are easy to mentally subdue for your average extrope. Now, what I teach right now is not aerobics, so it does not compete with the _ |_|-dancing - my classes are "strength-endurance" classes - they do exactly what it says, and they are the best classes for the "strength" component of fitness - you need two of those, 1 hour each, a week, you are done with taking care of your muscles. And very important - unlike aerobics, or _ |_|-dancing, "strength-endurance" classes are easy, you can follow the whole thing right from the beginning, no experience needed. If Kennita can do _ |_|-dancing, she can grok this in a milisecond. And, I always change the routine and music, every class, so there is no boredom. (In a few weeks I will probably be staring a Step class, that's aerobics, but I am not yet ready). Mark -----Original Message----- From: exi-bay-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:exi-bay-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Kennita Watson Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 3:19 AM To: ducklingslist at yahoogroups.com; aardvarkon at yahoogroups.com; bafuture at yahoogroups.com; extropians at yahoogroups.com; exi-bay chat; macdude at yahoogroups.com; PolyBurn at yahoogroups.com; sfrm-discussion at yahoogroups.com; alcor-north at alcor.org; mitcnc-social at mit.edu; kabuki-west at postmodern.com Subject: [Exi-bay-chat] Stanford Quads starting lessons this Sunday in PaloAlto, CA! Hello, everybody (apologies to non-local folks)! Anybody who knows me very well* knows that square dancing is one of my favorite activities. It's the best aerobic exercise I can still do**, and it's got enough brain work*** and fun mixed in that it doesn't feel like exercise. From mark_galeck at pacbell.net Tue Sep 27 14:27:57 2005 From: mark_galeck at pacbell.net (Mark Galeck) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:27:57 -0700 Subject: [Exi-bay-chat] Stanford Quads starting lessons this Sunday in PaloAlto, CA! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <000401c5c36f$a83551e0$0a716945@andromeda> I forgot to mention days, 5:30pm Wed, 6:00am Fri Mark From spike.jones at lmco.com Tue Sep 27 15:01:20 2005 From: spike.jones at lmco.com (Jones, Spike) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:01:20 -0700 Subject: [Exi-bay-chat] Stanford Quads starting lessons this Sunday in PaloAlto, CA! Message-ID: <47BF60A2A5AB3C4898B67142F206446908F7A47C@emss01m15.us.lmco.com> -----Original Message----- From: exi-bay-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:exi-bay-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Mark Galeck Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 7:20 AM To: 'ExI regional: SF bay area, US '; bafuture at yahoogroups.com; extropians at yahoogroups.com; alcor-north at alcor.org Subject: RE: [Exi-bay-chat] Stanford Quads starting lessons this Sunday in PaloAlto, CA! Well, since Kennita is talking about _ |_|-dancing _ |_|-dancing? I thought she was talking about ^2 dancing, or dancing*dancing. spike From kennita at kennita.com Thu Sep 29 23:22:29 2005 From: kennita at kennita.com (Kennita Watson) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:22:29 -0700 Subject: [Exi-bay-chat] Stanford Quads starting lessons this Sunday in Palo Alto, CA! In-Reply-To: <47BF60A2A5AB3C4898B67142F206446908F7A47C@emss01m15.us.lmco.com> References: <47BF60A2A5AB3C4898B67142F206446908F7A47C@emss01m15.us.lmco.com> Message-ID: On Sep 27, 2005, at 8:01 AM, Jones, Spike wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > Well, since Kennita is talking about > _ > |_|-dancing > > > _ > |_|-dancing? I thought she was talking about ^2 dancing, or > dancing*dancing. > > spike > Not too far off... Think set theory, not mathematics. ____ Actually, it pretty quickly gets to ---- dancing and -------- dancing and |||| dancing \ / | | /\ /\ and / \ dancing and ------ dancing and \/ \/ dancing | | - - and ------ dancing and my ascii formation drawing isn't - - the equal of depicting others, and ascii isn't the equal of depicting the various symmetries involved anyhow. Come try it; it's a great way to spend a Sunday evening! Remember, Sunday October 2, 9, 16 at Fairmeadow School, 500 E Meadow (corner of Cowper), Palo Alto, CA. From bronto at pobox.com Thu Sep 29 23:39:38 2005 From: bronto at pobox.com (Anton Sherwood) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:39:38 -0700 Subject: [Exi-bay-chat] Stanford Quads starting lessons this Sunday in Palo Alto, CA! In-Reply-To: References: <47BF60A2A5AB3C4898B67142F206446908F7A47C@emss01m15.us.lmco.com> Message-ID: <433C7B3A.7050509@pobox.com> > Spike wrote: >> _ >> |_|-dancing? I thought she was talking about ^2 dancing, or >> dancing*dancing. Kennita Watson wrote: > Not too far off... Think set theory, not mathematics. Or to put that another way: think group theory, not arithmetic. -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/ "How'd ya like to climb this high *without* no mountain?" --Porky Pine