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News & Observer: Embracing Open-Source Computing

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 21, 2002

[ Thanks to Ernest
Pecounis
for this link. ]

“To understand why N.C. State University is a hotbed for
open-source computing, watch eight duck-shaped robots learn to
recognize one another as they navigate a maze in a campus lab.

“Half the robots are green; the rest are red. Each uses a camera
eye to avoid the maze’s black walls, to find same-color robots and
to wheel away from different-color robots.

“They report what they see through a wireless network that NCSU
students and professors can tap into anywhere. To change the
mission — say, to have the green robots cozy up to the red ones —
a student can type commands into a computer that will transmit them
back to the robots…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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