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spectrum.ieee.org 14y ago

The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix

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spectrum.ieee.org 14y ago

Steve Jobs in Four Easy Steps

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spectrum.ieee.org 14y ago

Behind Intel's New Random-Number Generator

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spectrum.ieee.org 14y ago

The Rescue of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

The Hacker Matrix

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

You've Never Seen a Robot Drive System Like This Before

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

What We Lose With the End of the Shuttle Program

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

Obama Commanding Robot Revolution, Announces Major Robotics Initiative

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

Separating Work, Friends, and Family on Facebook Isn't Easy

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

Fastest Single-Laser Data Transmission - 26 TB/sec

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

Under the Hood at Google and Facebook

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

Da Vinci Surgical Robot Folds, Throws Tiny Paper Airplane

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

Can Biometrics ID an Identical Twin?

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www.wired.com 15y ago

How Kickstarter Became a Lab for Daring Prototypes and Ingenious Products

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

Chip-Scale Atomic Clock

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

A Memory of Webs Past

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

Boston Dynamics Building Fast-Running Robot Cheetah, New Agile Humanoid

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

Paper Accelerometer Could Mean Disposable Devices

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

Digital Music Renaissance

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www.theinstitute.ieee.org 15y ago

The Motion Tech Behind Kinect

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

The President and the E-Word

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

Top 11 Technologies of the Decade

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

In the Politics of Innovation, Steve Jobs Shows Less Is More

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

Engineering Is Not Science

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www.theinstitute.ieee.org 15y ago

Bootstrap Your Startup to Success Without Venture Capital

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

A DIY Telepresence Robot

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

Darpa Seeking to Revolutionize Robotic Manipulation

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

Privacy on the Smart Grid

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

Humanoid Robots Rise. Now, Can They Walk?

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

Physics Projects Deflate for Lack of Helium-3

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From my understanding, the US requirement is due to Amazon Payments. It would be great if they could offer an alternative to those who are ineligible for Amazon's service. I'm not sure what incentive there is for Kickstarter to explore other options--they are likely happy to enjoy their current growth and success.

That said, as a backer of many Kickstarter campaigns from north of the border, it would be nice to be able to tap into their momentum with projects of my own.

I certainly do not. It is usually enough of a challenge to cover "overpage" charges that publishers charge when an accepted article runs over the "standard" length (usually 8 pages for a standard or regular article). Often times, the "extra" pages are introduced by additional text required to satisfy reviewers. One time I was requested to convert an 8 page article submitted as a regular paper into a short paper format (4 page limit), while adding a significant amount of new content. The result? A 7 page article that ended up costing $575 to publish. We won't even talk about charges for colour figures, which can run into the thousands.

Of course the money spent on overpage charges could be better spent on graduate student stipends, equipment purchases and maintenance, software licensing, attending conferences, and other expenses incurred by an active research program.

Other open journals, while still expensive, charge significantly less than what the IEEE is proposing. The challenge for academics is that, at least for now, IEEE journals are well regarded, well cited and considered to be a prestigious venue for publication.

Get yourself a password manager (such as 1Password) that will generate a unique password for every site and remember all of your login credentials for you. This has solved the problem for me.

I've noticed the same thing. While I understand the need to limit liability, I'm not happy about the bait and switch. I'm sure it doesn't build the goodwill that they were hoping for...

Good grant applications (especially large ones) take a considerable amount of time to put together. In general, you can't bang one out in a couple of days or even a week. Some large ones I've worked on have taken months to pull together. A few quick tips:

- Start as early as possible so that you can write, develop ideas, rewrite and rework.

- Find a mentor, preferably one in the same or related area who has a good record of success.

- Ask colleagues for copies of successful grant applications to the same programs.

- Have your mentor and other colleagues review your grant and provide feedback.

- Listen to advice from others, but ultimately trust your own judgement.

- Apply to as many programs as possible--you can't get funded if you don't apply.

- Don't get discouraged if you are not successful, as many programs have small (and ever dwindling) success rates.

- Reapply if turned down, being sure to address the concerns of the reviewers.

Nice! This is a perfect little utility for uploading files to a backup server. I regularly post family photos to a remote server via sftp. ExpanDrive has been my goto solution for ease of use, but OneWay presents even less friction. When my needs are a little more complex I tend to hit the command line.

I agree with the excellence of Founders. Many truly unique beers. I'm waiting for their wares to become available in Canada. Until then, I always search them out when visiting within their distribution area. Last found a some in St. Louis.

Stereolithography is usually fine for evaluating product form, but the cured polymers aren't (usually) functional. Fused deposition systems (from Stratasys) produce functional parts from ABS, similar in strength and workability (for drilling/tapping holes, finishing surfaces, etc.) to injection molded parts.

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And if that's not enough, it's free, in unlimited quantities, for those over 350 lbs.

  http://www.heartattackgrill.com/350.html

These lines resonated with me:

"We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It’s the other way around. Effort can trump ability—legs, in Saxe’s formulation, can overpower arms—because relentless effort is in fact something rarer than the ability to engage in some finely tuned act of motor coordination."

I would argue that this holds for many endeavors and should be kept in mind when facing daunting situations.