Cody Taylor

The 30-year-old computer programmer hoped to sell enough copies of the game that the couple wouldn’t have to put their home on the market. That was more than 0,000 ago.

lwbrown writes with this excerpt from Government Computer News about a concept being explored at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: “UNTAME is the product of a long-term program by the division’s Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Group to develop futuristic security functionality for increasingly large, complex environments. The cybots differ from traditional software agents in that they form a collective and are aware of the condition and activities of other cybots in the collective. ‘You give it a mission and tools to work with, such as mobility and intrusion sensors, and it uses those tools and cooperates with other cybots to accomplish the mission,” said Lawrence MacIntyre, one of the project’s developers.'”

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These Revio programmable light switches by FirstHand Design go beyond high tech. There’s a simple rubberized knob up front to turn on and dim the lights, but there’s a lot more tech underneath. The capacitive touch panel controls four zones with four scenes each…

Brietech writes “Ever wanted to own your own supercomputer? This guy recreated a 31-processor SIMD supercomputer from the early 1980’s called the ‘Non-Von 1’ in an FPGA. It uses a ‘Non-Von Neumann’ architecture, and was intended for extremely fast database searches and artificial intelligence applications. Full-scale models were intended to have more than a million processors. It’s a cool project for those interested in ‘alternative’ computer architectures, and yes, full source code (Verilog) is available, along with a python library to program it with.” Hope the WIPO patent has expired.

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Jamie stumbled upon a writeup for all you astronomy and photography buffs out there (Perhaps my Dad or Uncle Jim are reading ;). From the writeup “The “blind astrometry server” is a program which monitors the Astrometry group on Flickr, looking for new photos of the night sky. It then analyzes each photo, and from the unique star positions shown it figures out what part of the sky was photographed and what interesting planets, galaxies or nebulae are contained within. Not only does the photographer get a high-quality description of what’s in their photo, but the main Astrometry.net project gets a new image to add to its storehouse of knowledge.” Check out the Astrometry.net site for many cool pictures.

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