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• 'Simpsons,' 'Futurama' writers to share math jokes

  - 2005-10-16

  "The Simpsons" and "Futurama" can teach you a thing or two about math. That's right. Math. The animated shows contain hundreds of references to math in all its forms, including addition, subtraction, long division, and calculus. Several of the shows' writers...

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• Foundations of Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems

  BNET - 2003-02-17

  The paper focuses on four areas of research. Hybrid systems theory: The focus here is on scaling up pioneering approaches that integrate physical modeling with computational systems. Model-based design: The main effort here is to develop a set of models with solid mathematical foundations that allow for the systematic integration...

  Tags: Software, University Of California At Berkeley, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Robots, Research & Development, Management, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations

• Bad robot! Once again, it's forks on the left

  - 2000-10-23

  BERKELEY, CALIF -- A graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley developed technology that could revolutionize the restaurant industry -- tables that set themselves. Wired magazine reported that Dan Reznik, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science, invented a table with a vibrating surface that reportedly can move...

  Tags: HARDWARE, Manufacturing, Mice, PRODUCTIVITY, Robots, University of California at Berkeley