Origin of word Robot
1921 A.D.
Czech playwright Karel Capek creates the word "robot" to describe the automatons of his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots). The word is derived from the Czech word "robota", which originally referred to "compulsory work" but now more commonly means "drudgery".
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Thursday, December 25, 2003
Tuesday, December 23, 2003
Alan Turning publishes his landmark paper "On Computable Numbers," in which he outlines what is basically the modern computer.
Monday, December 22, 2003
"It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts."
...Millard Fuller
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
...John Burroughs
Sunday, December 21, 2003
1889 A.D.
At the Paris Universal Exhibition, a prototype talking doll, created in association with Thomas Edison, is exhibited.
Friday, December 19, 2003
Check out the link Stereo vision representation to have brief understanding of stereo vision.
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Nanodot is a Foresight Institute website having a lot of resources about comming technologies.
I went to a resort for 3 days for a professional skills course. But I think these kind of courses are just to make you remind what you should do and what you should not? Well I won't say that it was useless cause I enjoyed it, cause it was first time I stayed in a fivestar kinda place. Anyway I am the same what I was before and I know very well what I have to do and what not to.
Tuesday, December 09, 2003
Saturday, December 06, 2003
This one goes out to all my women,
my strong women,
Uh.
So amazing how this world was made,
I wonder if God is a women.
The gift of life astounds me to this day,
I give it up for the woman.
She's the constant wind that fills my sails,
Oh, that woman.
With a smile and a style,
She'll protect you like a child,
that's a woman.
She'll put a smile upon your face,
and take you to that higher place,
So don't you underestimate,
the strength of a woman.
The strength of a woman.
Woke up this morning,
got up with the scent of a woman.
So picture if you would what life would be,
... ain't much good without a woman.
She can nag and be a constant pain,
oh, that woman.
But those hips,
she's got me whipped,
And it's just too hard to resist,
what a woman.
She'll put a smile upon your face,
and take you to a higher place,
So don't you underestimate,
the strength of a woman.
The strength of a woman.
Tender lips that's so so sweet,
Gentle words she softly speaks,
Such an angel when we meet,
God bless the ground beneath her feet,
She can take you on a high,
be your comfort when you cry,
But if you look into her eyes you'll see,
The strength of a woman.
The strength of a woman
She'll put a smile upon your face,
and take you to a higher place,
So don't you underestimate,
the strength of a woman.
The strength of a woman.
...Shaggy's "Strength of a woman"
