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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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Transparent Battery Could Bring Us to See-Through Phones.

By Eugene Barsky on July 26, 2011

From the ASEE daily update – First Bell: On its website, MSNBC (7/26, Roach) reports, “Imagine a smartphone that looks like a piece of clear plastic, lighting up to display contacts, a game, the weather, or email from a friend. That future may be upon us thanks to a new, transparent and flexible lithium-ion battery.” [...]

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Kilobots demonstrate some interesting swarm behaviors

By Eugene Barsky on June 17, 2011

From ASEE update: Popular Science (6/16, Dillow) reports on Kilobots, small robots designed by Self Organizing Systems Research Group at Harvard that according to the article “demonstrate some interesting swarm behaviors, even if they’re not necessarily ‘doing’ anything yet.” The article features a video of the small robots performing a variety of tasks. The robots [...]

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UBC Mining Team Wins SME Mine Rescue Competition

By Eugene Barsky on March 11, 2011

Congratulations to the NBK Team for winning the Mine Rescue Competition at this years 2011 SME Annual Meeting & Exhibit and CMA 113th National Western Mining Conference “Shaping a Strong Future Through Mining” in Denver, Colorado! http://mining.ubc.ca/news.php?action=fullnews&id=141&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NbkMiningEngineering+%28NBK+Mining+Engineering%29

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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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Studying the evolution of culture via Google Books

By Eugene Barsky on December 20, 2010

A very interesting read in the last week’s Science – http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6011/1600.full?rss=1 The first explorations of the Google Books data are now on display in a study published online this week by Science (http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1199644). The researchers have revealed 500,000 English words missed by all dictionaries, tracked the rise and fall of ideologies and famous people, and, [...]

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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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CPSC 430 class on Thu, 4 November, 2:30pm – 3:30pm

By Eugene Barsky on November 2, 2010

CPSC 430 students will see me on Thu, 4 November, 2:30pm – 3:30pm talking about various computer science research sources for their assignment…in DMP 301… Library course page for this class is here – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/ereserve/er-coursepage.cfm?id=2388

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LEED certification for wood products

By Eugene Barsky on October 26, 2010

The New York Times (10/23, Rudolph) “Green” blog reported that this week “select members of the United States Green Building Council will begin casting ballots on whether to overhaul how the organization awards sustainability credits for wood products.” Currently, “only wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council qualifies for so-called LEED credits.” If the new [...]

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