Providence Geeks » Education http://www.providencegeeks.com Digital Innovators in the City-State Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:20:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Robot Soccer! http://www.providencegeeks.com/2007/09/05/robot-soccer/ http://www.providencegeeks.com/2007/09/05/robot-soccer/#comments Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:50:17 +0000 Alex http://www.providencegeeks.org/2007/09/06/robot-soccer/ AIBO SoccerSeptember 7th – Chad Jenkins and his students are demonstrating a variety of robotic and data visualization experiments at the CIT.

On offer:
DLR Hand
smURV
AIBO Soccer
Teaching Robots
ChemPad
MathPad
Diagramming Tool
and Pizza!

Robotics & Graphics Open House
Interactive Demos – Free Pizza
Friday, September 7, 2007 at 12:00 Noon
CIT 4th Floor

]]> http://www.providencegeeks.com/2007/09/05/robot-soccer/feed/ 0 Rediscovered Map Exhibit at Brown http://www.providencegeeks.com/2007/03/21/rediscovered-map-exhibit-at-brown/ http://www.providencegeeks.com/2007/03/21/rediscovered-map-exhibit-at-brown/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:08:55 +0000 Alex http://www.providencegeeks.org/2007/03/21/rediscovered-map-exhibit-at-brown/ I came across a mention of this exhibit of rediscovered maps on the excellent blog The Map Room.

The collection represents the world throughout the time these maps were collected by Brown University. Two-thirds of the maps are from the 1800s and early 1900s, with a major focus on the United States and Europe. The local collection for southern New England is also noteworthy. Some of the more exceptional maps are a Nazi tourism map, a map cited by Herman Melville in writing Moby Dick, and an anti-slavery map donated to the Library by the family of an abolitionist who graduated from Brown in 1831.

There is a talk on April 5th, but the show runs though April 25th 2007 at Brown University’s John Hay Library.

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