reflections on the technium

For this installment of Brown Bag at the Movies we will be viewing (abstract below):

• Stuff Developers Say  1:48
  
• F-RAM-Based Semiconductor Solutions from Ramtron  6:53
  
• Split-Cycle Four-Stroke Engine from Scuderi Group – SAE 2012  7:13
  
• Programming For The Rest Of Us – Intel 2012 ISEF  2:27
  
• Intelligent Self-Assembling Systems Using Robotic Cells – Intel 2012 ISEF  6:48
  
• SparkFun Electronics and Open Source Hardware  2:36
  
• Two-Piston Single-Cylinder Engine from Pinnacle Engines – SAE 2012  6:30
  
• Rotating Rotary Engines from Doyle Rotary Engine – SAE 2012  6:06
  
• The Grail Engine from Grail Engine Technologies – SAE 2012  5:23
  
• Touring the International Space Station with NASA – ISS 2012  9:02
  
• The James Webb Space Telescope from Northrop Grumman – ISS 2012  13:47
  
• GPS Satellite Command, Control and Simulation from Braxton – ISS 2012  7:38
  
• Common Operational Environment Solutions from Kratos – ISS 2012  7:22
  

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CEP COMMENT:  

Seth Shostak: ET is (probably) out there — get ready
<http://www.ted.com/talks/seth_shostak_et_is_probably_out_there_get_ready.html>
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ABSTRACT

SETI researcher Seth Shostak bets that we will find extraterrestrial life in the next twenty-four years, or he’ll buy you a cup of coffee. At TEDxSanJoseCA, he explains why new technologies and the laws of probability make the breakthrough so likely — and forecasts how the discovery of civilizations far more advanced than ours might affect us here on Earth.

 Seth Shostak is an astronomer, alien hunter and bulwark of good, exciting science.

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