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Google Awarded Patent For Autonomous Vehicle.

By Eugene Barsky on December 16, 2011

From ASEE Daily briefing:   BBC News (12/16) reports, “A US patent for self-driving cars has been awarded to Google.”

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Engineering Failures – Leaning Big Ben and Co.

By Eugene Barsky on October 24, 2011

From today Economist‘s blog: THE British Parliament’s Clock Tower (more commonly known as Big Ben) is leaning north-west by 0.26 degrees, or 17 inches (43.5cm), according to documents that were recently made public. But Big Ben isn’t alone; architects have been correcting the Leaning Tower of Pisa since the 1170s when it was still being [...]

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Stanford Researcher Explains How Google’s Self-Driving Vehicle Works.

By Eugene Barsky on October 20, 2011

From ASEE daily briefing: Popular Science (10/20, Kane) reports, “Sebastian Thrun, a Stanford professor and head of the project, and Google engineer Chris Urmson, delivered a keynote speech at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in San Francisco, explaining how the” Google’s self-driving fleet of Priuses work. “The ‘heart of the system’ [...]

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APSC 150 – Wed, 2 February, 4:30pm – 5:00pm in FSC 1005

By Eugene Barsky on February 1, 2011

Heidi Schiller and I will be offering an APSC 150 class on Wed, 2 February, 4:30pm – 5:00pm in FSC 1005. The library class page is here – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/ereserve/er-coursepage.cfm?id=2411

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APSC 262 – Tue, 1 February, 11am – 12pm in MCLD 228

By Eugene Barsky on February 1, 2011

Teaching APSC 262 class – Tue, 1 February, 11am – 12pm in MCLD 228. Library course page is here – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/ereserve/er-coursepage.cfm?id=2500

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APSC 150 – Engineering Cases – Wed, 26 January

By Eugene Barsky on January 25, 2011

APSC 150 students will see us on Wed, 26 January, 8:30am – 9:00am and Wed, 26 January, 3:30pm – 4:00pm for a short class talking about researching engineering failures. Here is the library class page – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/ereserve/er-coursepage.cfm?id=2411

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APSC 201 and APSC 176 sessions this week

By Eugene Barsky on January 17, 2011

This week APSC 201 and APSC 176 students will see Kevin Read, Heidi Schiller , Andre Iwanchuk and myself coming to their classes to talk libraries. We will show the major engineering databases, ebook packages and talk about evaluating engineering information. We have booked six (6) sessions this week…see you in one of those!

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UBC Students’ Lunar Excavator for the NASA Centennial Challenge

By Eugene Barsky on December 10, 2010

Here is an interesting students project from UBC: Design and Tele-Operation of a Lunar Excavator for the NASA Centennial Challenge. Taylor Cooper, Amy Cheng, Ian Phillips, Andre Wild, and John Meech, ASCE Conf. Proc. 366, 95 (2010), DOI:10.1061/41096(366)95. The desire to colonize the moon has prompted an examination of ways to mine lunar regolith to [...]

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Google Translate – Useful Tool or Gibberish Generator?

By Kevin Lindstrom on November 19, 2010

Putting Google to the Test in Translation An article posted in the March 9, 2010 issue of the New York Times compares how well Google Translate, Yahoo Babel Fish and Microsoft Bing Translator compare against the skills of a human translator. Google has poured resources into improving its automatic translation service. Some of these systems [...]

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Enhancements to the Compendex Database

By Kevin Lindstrom on November 5, 2010

Articles in Press are now available in Compendex. “The section “Articles in Press” contains peer reviewed accepted articles to be published in this journal. When the final article is assigned to an issue of the journal, the “Article in Press” version will be removed from this section and will appear in the associated published journal [...]

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