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Bukan cerita baru kalau orang menanyakan apakah hardware yang dimiliki dapat dikenali baik oleh Linux. Bukan cerita baru pula orang tidak berani menginstal Linux hanya karena ketakutan kalau-kalau hardwarenya ternyata belum didukung. Dan sudah cerita lama kalau hal yang satu ini digunakan oleh para saingan Linux untuk menjelek-jelekkan Linux. Dan kita tidak akan membiarkan itu terjadi, Sekali lagi, tidak akan.

Beberapa tahun yang lalu, setelah melewati usaha yang cukup rumit, akhirnya tibalah seperangkat komputer dengan CPU Intel Pentium 133 MHz di kamar penulis. Masih teringat bahwa RAM yang terpasang hanyalah 8 MB. Dan karena sistem operasi Microsoft Windows 95 sangat umum dipakai oleh teman-teman (beberapa sekolah masih berjaya dengan MSDOS 6 dan Microsoft Windows 3.1), maka penulis pun segera meminjam CD-ROM installer sistem operasi tersebut. Ada satu istilah yang sangat menarik: pnp atau plug and play. Teorinya, tancapkan saja hardware Anda dan hardware tersebut akan langsung bekerja. Karena ingin menikmati suara dan saat itu tidak memiliki sound card, maka langkah menghemat uang jajan pun segera dilakukan.

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Micro-Robot Capable of Working In The Body

Korean scientists have created the robots that are small enough to explore the human body and driven by the heart muscle.

Sukho Park at Chonnam National University, Korea, and colleagues have designed a micro-robots driven by the cell. Park team to make the robot with the heart muscle to grow the network from a mouse on the small-frame robots are made from polidimetilsiloksana (PDMS). PDMS is a polymer biokompatibel make robots that are suitable in pengaplikasian biomedik.

A special on robots this, Park said, is they do not require an external energy supply. But the cells of the heart muscle berelaksasi and berkontraksi that provide energy. Muscle cells get the energy own heart from a glucose culture medium. Cells that beat themselves, allowing the robot moves six feet.

This robot has three short front legs (400 micrometer long) and three feet behind the longer (1200 micrometer long), all mounted on a body segiempat. At the heart cells berkontraksi, feet behind the long bend into. This difference in friction between the front foot and back foot, pressing the robot move forward. The researchers measure the average speed of robots is about 100 micrometer per second.

Park said that robots like this crab can be used in the body cavity to clean up or clog the vessel, with a release agent solvent to clean the stoppage of them . Read More..

Grassroots Robotics

With financial support from the Indiana Department of Workforce Development (IDWD)—a state agency—IRE is able to provide free workshops and competitions that benefit teachers, students and schools. At the end of the three-day teacher workshops, the teachers get free software, curriculum guides and a VEX Starter Kit each to take back for use in their classrooms.

As part of the deal, teachers must field one or more student teams to compete in robot competitions held locally in the state. This has been a boon for the teachers because the students are extremely enthusiastic and highly motivated, and the resources for the new robotics programs are almost entirely paid for by the state, i.e., by taxpayer dollars. The IRE program costs teachers only two or three days of their time at a training workshop; the teachers and their school boards are not asked to pay for anything.

Backing for the IRE’s robotics programs has come from the IDWD because that agency is charged with ensuring a flow of technically trained graduates into the local workforce. IDWD partners in this program with Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana—a statewide college system that provides the facilities for the teacher workshops and that ultimately trains technical majors for Indiana industry.

class="style1">Everybody Wins

This expanding program is a win-win for all. It has long been recognized that robots are a learning accelerant—a catalyst that galvanizes students’ interest in STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and math). Because robots are entertaining and fun to build, operate and compete with, students progress more quickly in their studies and become more aware of technical career opportunities along the way. From the viewpoint of engineers, educators and government, this is of critical importance in a changing world in which our technological leadership is being challenged.

Teachers progress in their professional development and the performance of their schools is recognizably enhanced. The Ivy Tech campuses where the workshops are held benefit through a strengthened working relationship with the teachers who are educating the students who will soon be going to college. Even hobbyists in general benefit because the program heightens the demand for robotics technologies that squarely overlap with those enjoyed by hobbyists of all ages; in other words, the robotics market itself is expanding as a result of the IRE initiatives.

The Leaders behind the IRE

Dan Ward is the Design Technology Program chairman at Ivy Tech, the only community college system in Indiana. Dan and his brother, Luke, an assistant professor at Ivy Tech, have been pioneering IRE robotics educational programs since 2000 with the goal of inspiring high school students to pursue technical careers. Kyle Wiley, assistant professor at Ivy Tech, joined their team, and what they have achieved in two short years is nothing short of phenomenal. Their accomplishments could serve as a role model to change the landscape in technical education nationwide to our country’s benefit. In fact, Dan and his IRE associates have been contacted by educators in several states who wish to replicate the successes spearheaded there in Indiana.

When did you first launch a robotics program in Indiana, and how did that come about?
Dan: I was on a visit to the Indiana Statehouse to give a robotics demonstration to our legislature. I was there with my brother, Luke, who works with me on grant projects. We were trying to convince the state legislature that it was a good idea to fund educational robotics. To set the context, the Indiana Workforce Development agency has been a big supporter of FIRST in our state. We were there with our FIRST machines, probably 10 teams. We were offering quite a show, making a lot of noise; a lot of robots were moving around.
The people from Workforce Development had heard we were coming and stopped by and asked what was the biggest hurdle in getting more schools involved with robotics programs like FIRST. I said, “training.” That’s the first hurdle; the second is money. They asked, “What is the best way to solve this?” And I told them “Let us train them. We will use your funding and give the teachers the equipment they need so that they won’t have to get it from their school.”
They then asked how much it would cost; now, I was on the spot. I turned to my brother and we whispered back and forth and then I turned around and said that it would cost in the vicinity of X dollars. Based on that, they figured that their cost per teacher would only be around $300 for three days of training and all of this equipment. They had never seen anything like it and asked me to commit this to writing in a proposal. This was on a Tuesday, and I said I could have it to them by Friday, so I spent a couple of sleepless nights putting the proposal together.

What happened next?
Dan: The following week was business as usual until Wednesday, when we jumped in the car to drive to Atlanta for that year’s FIRST national competition. While we were there, my cell phone rang; it was our school business office manager at Ivy Tech, who said that a check had shown up with my name on it and that it was for a substantial sum of money, and nobody knew what it was for. The DWD thought the proposal was such a good idea they jumped on it in less than a week! When that later played out, we actually surpassed our first year’s projected numbers; we came in under budget.

class="response_title">Robot:When and where are the workshops held?
Dan: Teacher workshops are held in the summer, June through August, on Ivy Tech campuses around the state. We have a 10-week window to hold eight workshops.

Robot: Can you characterize the process of writing a grant? What do you put into it?
Dan: Those in a position to allocate money want to see sustainability; that’s first. The grant writer must say that with the history here, there is this much more we can do, and that it will be self-perpetuating—that we have people who are involved and that they are going to stay involved. That’s the important part. Even if you don’t have it at the moment, you have to prove that it will be sustainable in the end.

Robot: How many have you trained, and when did your workshops begin?
Dan: The first year, we trained 35. That was a proof of concept on an old grant. We did that on donations; I put a little money into it. We scraped and got the information together. We had really good luck. The teachers really seemed to enjoy it.
The next time around, summer of 2006—and that is the same time as we partnered with the Workforce Development people—we had 121 participants. That was without advertising—just word of mouth. We had requirements defining what we could use the money for. We were able to get 121 people representing 102 high schools.
In 2007, we did a little marketing and sent out some emails. The Department of Education had a mailing list, and the science technology teachers received this on their list serve as well. I think word of mouth did more for us than any other channel, quite honestly. At this point, we have trained 560 teachers—560 robots have been delivered into teachers’ hands.

class="response_title">Robot:What exactly do teachers get in these workshops?
Dan: All have been given free VEX Starters, current Autodesk Inventor software, a DVD with a curriculum that we have developed over the years and robot project and competition notes. This is provided in Microsoft Word format so that they can edit it. They also build a robot during the workshop and compete with it on the third day .

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ISLAM IS BEAUTYFUL

Did you feel in life is how beautiful Islam? If not, how I felt that a Muslim living under the auspices of religious past. All the guide of life in the Al-Quran. This is the real source of happiness creator of the universe and all its contents, including humans.


Unfortunately, many people still dig various science is not useful in the search for happiness. Human search for diamonds in the earth in the light of diamonds are in the room. Human resources do not find happiness from the place.

Islam as a peaceful means, then peace will be achieved in the embrace of Islam wholeheartedly. They never felt that in the shade enjoying the world of Islam because Islam consider the eye. Syumuliatul Islam is not felt in himself.

For example, the beauty of Islam can be felt in peribadahan. How beautiful harmony with human nature in the context of Him. Sun has been working for years to Launch Almighty Creator, with rises in the east and sinking in the West. Sun still accompany every thing every day. He was never absent. Loyalty being named the sun rise this gratitude will feel themselves in favor of worship Him.

When bow down in prayer feels once syahdunya umbrella in the beauty of Islam peribadahan every day. But of course this can feel happy for them direngkuh believe 100 percent that will guide the content of the life of Islam . Read More..

Health Information Technology Home

Health information technology (Health IT) allows comprehensive management of medical information and its secure exchange between health care consumers and providers. Broad use of health IT will:

• Improve health care quality;
• Prevent medical errors;
• Reduce health care costs;
• Increase administrative efficiencies;
• Decrease paperwork; and
• Expand access to affordable care.

Interoperable health IT will improve individual patient care, but it will also bring many public health benefits including:

• Early detection of infectious disease outbreaks around the country;
• Improved tracking of chronic disease management; and
• Evaluation of health care based on value enabled by the collection of de-identified price and quality information that can be compared.

Making Health Information Technology Personal

Health information technologies can be tools that help individuals maintain their health through better management of their health information. Health IT will help consumers gather all of their health information in one place so they can thoroughly understand it and share it securely with their health care providers so they get the care that best fits their individual needs.

Health IT can help to improve public health one individual at a time by building partnerships between health care consumers and providers across the country.

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Internet Push Interest Read Child

Internet usage by children increasingly common. Some parents also fear that the turbulence preoccupied donated their Internet, they no longer enjoy reading books that are science warehouse.

However, according to a new study, in the dimentahkan. As quoted detikINET from SeattlePI, Thursday (12/6/2008), the Internet had a facility to enrich the experience of the children to read.


Jakarta - The use of the Internet by children increasingly common. Some parents also fear that the turbulence preoccupied donated their Internet, they no longer enjoy reading books that are science warehouse.

However, according to a new study, in the dimentahkan. As quoted detikINET from SeattlePI, Thursday (12/6/2008), the Internet had a facility to enrich the experience of the children to read.

In the study, titled'2008 Kids & Family Reading Report 'is, 62 percent of toddlers surveyed prefer reading books on paper rather than on a computer screen. The majority of respondents also said they are still pleased to read the book even though also like to access the Internet.

Children are more often using the Internet to find the intricate details about the books they need. So, the virtual world seemed so one of the driving factors for them to enjoy reading.

While two-thirds of respondents aged children 9-17 years of activities to enrich their books on the internet. For example, they want to share experience with other readers book online.

This study was conducted by the Scholastic book company with Yankelovich, the market research bureau in the United States. Read More..