Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Research
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This project is really interesting – the creation of a virtual choir. The original idea can be found here – Virtual Choir Project II: Lux Aurumque – Blog – Eric Whitacre The lead into the project can be found here – The Virtual Choir – Eric Whitacre (with links through to the media resources produced)…
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A couple of related articles about encoding ethics into software: Terminate: The Machine’s Guide to Ethics – Robots – io9 Remote-control warfare: Droning on | The Economist
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3D printing has always intrigued me, but potentially using a 3D printing system to make replacement body parts is really interesting. See Printing body parts: Making a bit of me | The Economist.
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Interesting article over at Robots Teach Korean Students English – Robots – io9 on the deployment of 1000s of robot language teachers to assist in the learning of English in South Korean schools and pre-schools. I’m wondering why they’ve embedded this approach in a humanoid form, rather than through an animated avatar on the cellphone…
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Heidi over at When Religion Meets New Media: CFP on book on Church and New Media has an informative blurb on the call of papers for a new edited book looking at a variety of approaches to religion and the internet. I’ve cribbed some of it below – but drop by her site for the…
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This looks interesting. A shame that I won’t be able to get to it. Hopefully something similar turns up when I get some sabbatical time. Theology After Google | Transforming Theology
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Terry Pratchett on why ‘assisted death’ should be seriously considered – see Terry Pratchett: my case for a euthanasia tribunal | Society | The Guardian. Of all the topics in ethics class last year, this one was the one most hotly debated by the students. Touches nerves on so many levels, I think, and not…
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Quick visit to Christchurch for an ICBC meeting. Main item on the agenda was discussion of the following: ERMA200223 – Application to develop in containment genetically modified goats, sheep and cows to produce human therapeutic proteins, or with altered levels of endogenous proteins for the study of gene function, milk composition and disease resistance You…
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You see this sort of thing in the overseas press from time to time (after all it seems to be obligatory to run a robot story every week or so), but it’s not often you see a robot healthcare story in the NZ context. See Robot to work at rest home.
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Derek points to this : Derek’s Blog » The complete guide to Google Wave. Looks like it might be useful reading once I have some time to play with my Google Wave account.