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Want a more positive (and pricey) teaching tool? Try the ER2 from Evolution Robotics (available this fall for roughly $2,000). This Jetsonsesque servant can read books placed in front of it, even upside down. It can also be programmed to play a CD just by looking at its cover or patrol the house, taking security snapshots. ER2 is the first consumer robot to move autonomously on the basis of its vision, so the cat can't trip it up. Stairs, alas, are still a problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Future | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave), two of which won Oscars. Here was the definitive English couple, manacled to each other for life: Wallace, a bachelor with a love for cheese and a weakness for inventing things that blow up, and Gromit, his silent pet, indentured servant and reluctant savior. Next year they'll star in The Great Vegetable Plot, Park's first feature film since the delicious Chicken Run in 2000. But now they can be seen, in byte-size form, on the Internet (at www.atomfilms.com) 10 savory japes with the general title Cracking Contraptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dog Bytes | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...friend and former blockmate Katherine A. Shackelford ’03 said Marinelarena was an exemplary public servant...

Author: By Romina Garber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lowell Marine Called To Serve | 1/15/2003 | See Source »

During the Commencement of 1959, then University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree, calling him a “great-hearted, staunch-minded servant of order and justice in our country and the world...

Author: By Laura L. Krug, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Public Servant, Overseer Dies at 93 | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

...leadership. When Kibaki was finally wheeled onto the stage in Uhuru Park - a car crash on the campaign trail has put the former economics professor temporarily in a wheelchair - the crowd let out a roar. "I promise not to let you down," he told them. "I will be your servant with all humility and gratitude." After a harsh appraisal of his predecessor, he spelled out his alternative. "There has been a wide disconnect between the people and government," he said. "Corruption will now cease to be a way of life in Kenya ? The era of anything goes is gone forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Second Chance for Kenya | 1/5/2003 | See Source »

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