Saturday, April 21, 2012

21st Century Technology: IBM PureSystems

"PureSystems represents IBM’s first major step in defining a new era of computing. The result of a $2billion effort involving thousands of IBMers, PureSystems is the first system to integrate server,storage, networking, and platform middleware resources into a secure and simple-to-manageenvironment. This new class of systems features built-in expertise, essentially the aggregation,delivery, and automation of decades of IBM’s client engagements, established best practices,innovative thinking, and industry leadership. Expert integrated systems combine the flexibility of a general purpose system, the elasticity of cloudand the simplicity of an appliance tuned to the workload – fundamentally changing the experience andeconomics of IT."
Source: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/presskit/37378.wss
More(video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2_oiXggw4Q


Wednesday, April 4, 2012

ACCErobot-Anthropomimetic Robot

Eccerobot is the first "Anthropomimetic" Robot (University of Sussex).
The EU-funded Eccerobot (Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered Robot) Project  - http://eccerobot.org/

Ref.
- http://eccerobot.org/
- http://www.sussex.ac.uk/newsandevents/?id=4366
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMUXoFWAX9k&feature=player_embedded (video)