Next generation sequencing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v

Hardware race simulator

An interesting home project hardware simulator. I know the dev from a company I worked on.


The story is here : http://hrsim.blogspot.com/





http://hrsim.blogspot.com/

Robot kojiro

Music theme

Music theme (while programmin' if you really need to be in tech chapter), so you can be relaxed and easily fall asleep ))

Cryptography

Another boring weekend with just some billiard with my friends. I missed goin' to club saturday night, oh well.
Oh yea, and 2 courses at University of Bucharest. , Distributed Programming and Cryptography(which turns out to be more than useful, right now)

The Universe

Not pron game(play it)

You should PLAY this game:)
http://notpron.org/notpron/levelone.htm

StanStanford software is gaining the sophistication to comprehend what humans write

Computer science and linguistics professor says software is steadily gaining the sophistication needed to comprehend what humans write and to help us sort through the chatter of information overload

Send sms in WM

If you need to send a SMS via an application in Windows Mobile .NET
try
{
SmsMessage sms = new SmsMessage()
{
Body = text
};
sms.To.Add(new Recipient(HQPhoneNo));
sms.RequestDeliveryReport = true;
sms.Send();

// MessageBox.Show("Message sent!");
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}

Social network sites, and code to post stuff on it

It's pretty easy to post messages on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace etc. They rely on
a REST server, and basically you make a HttpConnection and send POST or GET messages to an URL, which you can find on API description(e.g. http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json)


Twitter allows basic authentication(but in future, will no longer be supported), even though it's better to use oAuth.
On Facebook I'm pretty sure that all you can use it's oAuth

Here's some code for Twitter

public static String viewMyTimeline( String user, String pass)
{
String url ="http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json";
String responseM ="";
HttpConnection conn;
try {
//prepare a connection for the twitter API update method
conn = (HttpConnection)Connector.open(url);

conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
byte[] credentialsBytes = (user +":" + pass).getBytes();
String encoded= Base64OutputStream.encodeAsString(credentialsBytes,0,credentialsBytes.length,false,false);

conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic " + encoded);
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/xml; charset=utf-8");
System.out.println("respond message=" +conn.getResponseMessage());
System.out.println("-----------------------------" + conn.getResponseCode());
//get the response
InputStream is = conn.openInputStream();
int c;
StringBuffer buffer= new StringBuffer();
while ((c = is.read()) != -1)
{
buffer.append((char)c);
}
System.out.println("user=" + user);
System.out.println("pass=" + pass);
is.close();
responseM = buffer.toString();
System.out.println("response="+responseM);
conn.close();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{ System.out.println("" + ex.getMessage());

}
return responseM;
}


For facebook here's a snapshot to post a message

CEBOOK SET STATUS
public static String sendRequestStatus( String method,String api_key, String uid, String status, String secret ) {
HttpConnection conn = null;
String username =usernameF;
String password =passwordF ;
String message =status;

String response = null;
try {
Hashtable data = new Hashtable();
data.put("method", method);
data.put("v", "1.0");
data.put("call_id", "1");
data.put("api_key",api_key);
data.put("uid",uid);
data.put("status",status);
data.put("format", "JSON");
data.put("sig", getSignature(data,secret));

URLEncodedPostData encoder = new URLEncodedPostData(null, false);
Enumeration keysEnum = data.keys();
String coded="";
while (keysEnum.hasMoreElements()) {
String key = (String)keysEnum.nextElement();
String val = (String)data.get(key);
coded = key+val;
encoder.append(key, val);
}

conn = (HttpConnection)Connector.open("http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?");
conn.setRequestMethod(HttpConnection.POST);
conn.setRequestProperty(HttpProtocolConstants.HEADER_CONTENT_TYPE, HttpProtocolConstants.CONTENT_TYPE_APPLICATION_X_WWW_FORM_URLENCODED);
conn.setRequestProperty(HttpProtocolConstants.HEADER_CONTENT_LENGTH, String.valueOf(encoder.getBytes().length));

OutputStream os = conn.openOutputStream();
os.write(encoder.getBytes());

if (conn.getResponseCode() == HttpConnection.HTTP_OK)
{
StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
InputStream is = conn.openInputStream();
int c;

while ((c = is.read()) != -1)
{
buffer.append((char)c);
}

is.close();
response = buffer.toString();
}
} catch (Exception e) {
} finally {
if (conn != null) {
try { conn.close(); }
catch (IOException e) {}
}
}


Enough of this, I bored you enough:))

Robot provides 3-D images of dangerous location

http://news.mst.edu/2010/02/robot_provides_3-d_images_of_d.html

UWM engineer creates unique software that predicts stem cell fat

http://www4.uwm.edu/news/features/details.cfm?customel_datapageid_11602=2549675

Virtual museum

http://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2010/02/virtual-museum-guide.jsp

Can Mobile Phones Help People EatWell?

http://digitallounge.gatech.edu/healthandeducation/index.html?id=4151

Android Developers Challenge 2,

For those interested in Android development and also a challenge and to compete:

http://code.google.com/android/adc/

First http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

For eclipse install the plugin, and an example of Java Android Application

package com.example.helloandroid;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.*;
import android.view.*;
import android.view.ViewGroup.LayoutParams;



public class HelloAndroid extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */


LinearLayout mLinearLayout;



public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

// Create a LinearLayout in which to add the ImageView
mLinearLayout = new LinearLayout(this);

// Instantiate an ImageView and define its properties
ImageView i = new ImageView(this);
i.setImageResource(R.drawable.guitar2_bg);

i.setAdjustViewBounds(true); // set the ImageView bounds to match the Drawable's dimensions
i.setLayoutParams(new Gallery.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));

// Add the ImageView to the layout and set the layout as the content view
mLinearLayout.addView(i);


setContentView(mLinearLayout);
}
}



Also a nice breakthrough new in this area:

http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/24624/?a=f

New advance in the study of Alzheimer's disease

http://www.uab.es/servlet/Satellite/latest-news/news-detail/new-advance-in-the-study-of-alzheimer-s-disease-1096476786473.html?noticiaid=1266391646189

Payment cards, not so safe

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/189203/researchers_find_huge_weakness_in_european_payment_cards.html

Similar 3d virtual reality project we are implementing at University Of Politehnica Bucharest (http://3d.pub.ro )
Here's a nice article

http://chronicle.com/article/After-Frustrations-in-Secon/64137/

Interactive board games will come to life

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35204735/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/

The Dozens of Computers That Make Modern Cars Go (and Stop)

The electronic systems in modern cars and trucks — under new scrutiny as regulators continue to raise concerns about Toyota vehicles — are packed with up to 100 million lines of computer code, more than in some jet fighters.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/technology/05electronics.html

http://cordis.europa.eu/ictresults/index.cfm?section=news&tpl=article&BrowsingType=Features&ID=91143

avatar

http://chronicle.com/article/And-the-Academy-Award-Goes-to/64005/

The Future of Gaming: The Hot Potato Experience

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24783/

Mind-control mobile-phone games

Mind-control mobile-phone games(Awsome)

http://www.theengineer.co.uk/news/mind-control-mobile-phone-games/1000766.article

I worked with Cristi and this is his blog :) http://mitisorpoienaru.blogspot.com/

Ipad gadget

2010, and a more personal touch

This is NOT a quote, just MY personal remark( the author of the blog). Even though at technology we keep improving, when it comes to human-nature nothing ever gets improvement. The human nature is some-how constant, the needs are the same, but we visualise at totally different . Honesty is a good quality, but even on quality people is missing :) . I understand the reasons, but when the truth is right in front of you, why bother lying?
Anyway, I start working again from January, doing research and development of software and equipment in the medical sector. It's very interesting and I'm learning a lot in the medical department, but also in software development in critical areas, such as this.
I feel this year is going to be a great year, despite it's prediction.
I wish you a great year, for 2010!

COMMERCIAL PROFILE - SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND: The Neonatal Brain Research Group has made great advances in detecting and monitoring newborn babies at risk of brain injury


http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/innovation/2010/0108/1224261838362.html

The most valuable machine you own may be between your ears. Work done at Microsoft Research is using electroencephalograph (EEG) measurements to “read” minds in order to help tag images. When someone looks at an image, different areas of their brain have different levels of activity. This activity can be measured and scientists can reasonably determine what the person is looking at. It only takes about half a second to read the brain activity associated with each image, making the EEG process much faster than traditional manual tagging. The “mind-reading” technique may be the first step towards a hybrid system of computer and human analysis for images and many other forms of data.

http://singularityhub.com/2010/01/10/reading-your-mind-to-tag-images-and-work-with-computers/

Consortium of European researchers, coordinated by the Computer Vision Centre (CVC) of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), has developed HERMES, a cognitive computational system consisting of video cameras and software able to recognise and predict human behaviour, as well as describe it in natural language. The applications of the Hermes project are numerous and can be used in the fields of intelligent surveillance, protection of accidents, marketing, psychology, etc.


http://www.uab.es/servlet/Satellite/latest-news/news-detail/new-computer-vision-system-for-the-analysis-of-human-behaviour-1096476786473.html?noticiaid=1263281686625

Software reveals the inner workings of the human genome

The approximately 30,000 genes discovered in the human genome are far fewer than the 50,000 to 140,000 scientists had expected to find. Furthermore, some simpler organisms have more genes—or proportionally more—than do humans. The rice genome contains 50,000 genes and the fly 14,000, to cite two examples.

http://www4.lehigh.edu/news/newsarticle.aspx?Channel=%2fChannels%2fNews%3a+2009-2010&WorkflowItemID=6e02d85f-3715-4afa-a8db-4cc52906a197

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2010/01/123_59116.html

So this is from the other, a nice song . I don't regret anything

Ellen's Speech

Motivational and inspiring, but also funny.