Welkom op de website van Roderik Emmerink. Ik heb hier informatie geplaatst over mijn opleiding Computational Intelligence and Robotics, en mijn voormalige opleidingen Kunstmatige intelligentie en Elektrotechniek, verder vind je op de website informatie over mijn interesses, en niet te vergeten hou ik je op de hoogte van mijn overtuigingen en belevenissen.
And the cat came back. Not on its own though. My father found it high in a tree not able to leave it on its own. With our ladder in the dark we finally got her out of the pine tree. Well, a good end to the story because the fact that it was gone …
Since some months we have new cats. They are called Drouwe and Droppie. They are very playful and very keen on food. As most young cats I suppose. Especially Drouwe 'mews' a lot to get food as if he is starving. Unfortunately Droppie did not return home since yesterday night. So if you see her, …
5 November I graduated for my MSc Computational Intelligence and Robotics course together with Chaekith and Jonathan. On the photo you see me in my graduaton dress with Chaekith next to me. The ceremony was a nice experience.
Although my father is not in very good health he still decided to join us for some days to England so that we could be present there altogether. We did not stay in Leicester itself but at a farmer's B&B. A good choice, nice rooms, and an excellent typical English breakfast of choice (see the photos that come soon).
Weet je wat pas echt handig is? Juist ja, een wasmachine op je WC. Dat is precies wat Sevin Coskun in Turkije heeft bedacht, wel ja eens een keer niet de japanners voor de verandering. Niet alleen bespaard het je ruimte in de badkamer, het is bovendien milieuvriendelijk doordat het waswater wordt herbruikte voor het doorspoelen van het toilet. Bovendien is het makkelijker inladen daar je niet hoeft te bukken om bij de klep te komen, wel moet je je was natuurlijk niet in de toiletpot laten vallen, alhoewel, daar zit natuurlijk ook waswater in.
The second semester has been cleared by me, seem to be the only one so far, and the last (third) semester has started. The third semester has the final project. In this project I proposed to make a dating web site that makes use of artificial intelligence. The AI is used in the matching system. …
A bit more then a month ago, just before the intelligent mobile robots exam, Chaekith and I, went on a trip to Brighton. Brighton is small city in the south of England with a nice beach and the well know Brighton Pier. On the Pier there were different types of entertainment. So there was a carnival in the end, though quite expensive, some gambling halls, vending stores and terrace to sit and watch over the sea.
Robotics have come a long way, but they still often miss that innate, nervous sense of reluctant touch. Intel researchers have achieved something similar with a robotic hand that uses electrolocation to create a robotic hand conform to the shape of an object before interacting with it. Shown at Research@Intel Day, the hand uses fish-like …
What are Genpets? I don't know. You tell me.
Genpets seems to create a reaction wherever they go. While in the store window of Iodine Toronto, the shop owner began sleeping in the store at night for security reasons.
Many nights, people would bang at the windows furiously. Some in protest of the small Bio-genetically engineered creatures trapped in plastic, some wanting to wake them up or buy them. Hordes of teens wanting a bioengineered pet met confused, baffled, or even shocked looks from parents.
Some Parents even caught on to see where things were leading. That while something like this bothered them, it did not bother their children. For an upcoming generation, through our own marketing techniques, life has become a disposable commodity.
It’s easier to dismiss Genpets as a hoax or exaggeration when you’re not faced with a wall of them. The experience of a grainy photo is different than standing face to face with a breathing, sleeping creature.
The question surrounding bioengineering is not in it's positive or negative ramifications, or where it can take us; it is whether or not we are ready to go there.
Het was weer eens in het nieuws, ons donorsysteem. Nog niet eerder zo in opspraak geweest als na de donorshow van BNN. Een systeem dat wat mij betreft op de schop moet. Mijn idee was dat iedereen (die meerderjarig is) verplicht moet registreren wat zijn/haar zienswijze is omtrent haar organen. En dat zou m.i. goed kunnen gebeuren door dit iedere keer bij het afhalen of verlengen van het identiteitsbewijs te moeten aangeven. Volgens mij is het nl. een gemiste kans dat er nog zoveel mensen zijn die het niet registreren en waarbij voor de zekerheid dus maar van orgaan- of weefseldonatie wordt afgezien. Echter de minister, Ab Klink, bracht naar voren dat uit onderzoek bleek dat het aantal donoren niet zou toenemen bij verplichte registratie en wil daarom het systeem niet aanpassen. Ik ben daar erg sceptisch over en zo ook Dagblad de Pers...
Since September I work for Amgate where I recently started to develop iPhone apps. To get an impression you can visit the Amgate App Center.
Soms wens je je dat je nooit die cursus logica had gevolgd.
Since September 2007 I am doing the MSc Computational Intelligence and Robotics course in Leicester. This is somewhat similar to artificial intelligence, but it is slightly more focussed towards applications of AI and less focussed on the research towards human intelligence. Moreover I have applied for the RobotChallenge in Vienna. The picture shows the robotdog AIBO, which I will probably use in the competition.
In the week of new year (2005/2006) we were (Sylvia and I) in Zell am Ziller for wintersports. The skiing area, Zillertal Arena, was very good, we visited the different subareas on different days. During the week I nearly skied all the slopes once. Rob Muntz (environmental knights) also visited the Zillertal, het points at the environmental effects related at global warming as a result of skiing. Well as long as skiing is possible and affordable you can still find me annually on the skiing slopes. The photos will soon be added to the website.
Roderik (I), Sylvia and Tanja went for wintersports in Lenggries. Information regarding wintersports, hotel and so forth can be found at wintersport page.
The photos of the holiday can be found at the photo page.
Yearly in between christmas and new year I enjoy solving the Dr. Denker rebus puzzle. Like every year the puzzle consisting of of 40 rebusses could be found in the Dagblad van het Noorden (regional newspaper targeting the north of The Netherlands). U can find the puzzle of 2007 on the website. On the blog you can exchange your findings regarding the puzzle of 2007.
Christmas eve, a moment to look out for, the national science quiz. Yearly 20 extraordinary multiple choice questions that are open to a lot of discussion and reconsideration are published in news papers and television guides. The atmosphere of the quiz including its experiments is a feast, currently with Denvis, not bad, but the absurdistic presentation of Wim T Schippers is unsurpassed. Its a shame he won't pick it up again after the sad event some years ago of the premature publication of the questions.
One day... Roderik prepares a slice of bread. He takes two slices of bread from the bread cabin and tops them with a delicious coloured hail topping. Well Roderik, that will be feast!
Sure, that is feast. Roderik takes the slices one by one and enjoys the hail topping. Roderik is happy, because when his mom will return she does not have to complain that he is eating too less.
With the top management of Archytas, Marinus, and I, Roderik, we've been to the 'Design your own future' event at Philips in Eindhoven. Philips strategy is to rule the market with their connected planet concept and with e-ink (but actually Sony will bring that to the market). Photography was not allowed, and of course there was (free) beer available...
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