Happy New Year, everyone! As we kick off 2012, here’s an interesting story — in the December Communications of the ACM — about how low-cost robots stand to impact science moving forward: A new generation of inexpensive robots could make the machines ubiquitous, opening up robotics to new areas of research, says James McLurkin, assistant professor of computer science and director of the robotics lab at Rice University. “I wanted to have something the research community could use to do research,” McLurkin says. “In order for this to have an impact, it has to be low cost.” McLurkin studies multi-robot systems in which swarms of robots work together to perform at ask, like searching a building for […]
Computing Community Consortium Blog
The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
Archive for January 3rd, 2012
