{"id":370,"date":"2007-10-03T02:42:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T07:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robocup.bowdoin.edu\/blog\/2007\/10\/03\/bits-and-bytes-wednesday-oct-3rd\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T02:42:19","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T07:42:19","slug":"bits-and-bytes-wednesday-oct-3rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/asides\/bits-and-bytes-wednesday-oct-3rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits and Bytes &#8212; Wednesday, Oct. 3rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamilton.ie\/rick\/rick.html\">Rick Middleton<\/a>, everyone&#8217;s favorite Kalman Filter guru from the NUbots, is now @ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuim.ie\/\">NUIM<\/a>, the National University of Ireland Maynooth, and has brought RoboCup with him.  They are aiming to get into the Nao league.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamilton.ie\/rick\/NUIMRoboCup.zip\">Here&#8217;s a link<\/a> [100mb] to a presentation he&#8217;s given along with some clips.  As he says on his website, the NUbots have placed in the top three since they joined 2002.  That&#8217;s pretty sweet.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of NUbots,  I&#8217;ve had the pleasure to hang out with Mike Quinlan out here in Silicon Valley.   One thing he mentioned was that at his new lab, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.utexas.edu\/~AustinVilla\/\">UT Austin<\/a>, they have enough room for the new 5&#215;7.5m field and enough Aibos to invite to a tea party.  That&#8217;ll certainly be an advantage for them this year.<\/li>\n<li>One of the things the 4LL (now SPL) prided itself with when each league gave a brief demonstration (gong show!) was the history kept on its site.  Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tzi.de\/4legged\/bin\/view\/Website\/History\">here it is<\/a> &#8212; and it&#8217;s got some pretty sweet stuff.<\/li>\n<li>Is &#8216;Bits and Bytes&#8217; too lame of a name?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Middleton, everyone&#8217;s favorite Kalman Filter guru from the NUbots, is now @ NUIM, the National University of Ireland Maynooth, and has brought RoboCup with him. They are aiming to get into the Nao league. Here&#8217;s a link [100mb] to a presentation he&#8217;s given along with some clips. As he says on his website, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}