Here the report by Danish Nadeem:

…Today I watched [DFKI] winning 3:1 against Fraunhofer Institute [IESE] in Football.Much thrill could be sensed in second half of the game, when 2 spectacular goals were made by dfki team, offcourse some credit goes to pro-DFKI wind

[short video]

And another one by Martin:

KI schlägt SE

Gunnar attacks Baumann with real science, Baumann striking back with computational culture. Both armed to the teeth with deadly MacSaber powerbooks.

this MacSaber application sure is an argument for buying a new powerbook. read my previous post on that.

To 'do an Amir'
To con money out of someone, lie or be otherwise dishonest, only to face ritual humiliation on a worldwide scale.

read the whole story on news.

and, if you dare, look at the original site by the laptopguy. Although Jesus says: never do bad things to fight bad things.

Honda has published a history of their Asimo robot series, very interesting and a nice background on research: boys, it takes time to make something good.

read ASIMO here!

that inspired me te brushup the image by them and compare it to current semantic desktop proceedings. If we compare the state of ASIMO with semantic desktop, it would look like this:


robotics is sometimes as ambitious as semantic web. It hink the current Semantic Desktops look like early ASIMO prototypes while end-users expect them to look like Microsoft Software, like people expect robots to look like Enterprise's 'Data' and robots look like metal with motors.
there is hope though, that we will be faster with semantic desktop than with humanoid robots

On 17th May, Jean Rohmer gave a talk on Artificial Intelligence and his Semantic Desktop implementation, Ideliance, at DFKI.

See the previous blog entry. Now we have the slides of his talk to be published. Note that the Ideliance slides are similar to the slides he presented at the ISWC2005 workshop on the Semantic Desktop.

• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE: My point of iew
• Lessons for the future of Semantic Desktops
  learnt from 10 years of experience with IDELIANCE

The second slides show a nice screenshot of Ideliance (page three), how Jerome Euzenat and Ireland are connected. You will find many known names there.

Useless desktop manager/motion sensor hack for MacBook Pro

http://blog.medallia.com/smack

via icq from Matthew, thx!

Kurzer Bericht zur ESA Party:

• sehr gute party!
• Danke an die ESA Bewohner fürs Organisieren, kochen, Bier ausschenken und die Cocktails.
• photos und videos hier:

Photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leobard/tags/esa/

Video:

old news but nice news. The german music money company gema talks about putting black boxes into clubs to record what is played and then move money to the original artists.

original post on drmotte's weblog
http://www.drmotte.de/wordpress/?p=169

Gunnar celebrates Norwegian constitution day, which is 17th of May!

Note the flag and the stripe on his chest. cool.

Wikipedia explains this behaviour by the following historical incident:

After Denmark-Norway was attacked by England, it entered into an alliance with Napoleon, and in 1814 found itself on the losing side in the Napoleonic Wars and in dire economic conditions. The Dano-Norwegian Oldenburg king was forced to cede Norway to the king of Sweden. Norway took this opportunity to declare her independence, adopted a constitution based on American and French models and elected the Danish crown prince Christian Fredrik as king on May 17, 1814.