The Wiixercise team gets mentioned in a Post-Gazette article on exercising with the Wii.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08135/881443-114.stm
Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) and Physics Professor Tiziana Di Matteo were honored with Carnegie Science Center Awards Friday, May 9. The Robotics Institute received the Chairman's Award, which is the program's highest honor.
"The Carnegie Science Awards program is truly a showcase of regional science and technology," said Joanna Haas, director of Carnegie Science Center. "Certainly, Carnegie Mellon plays a big role in the science/technology arena, and we are thrilled to be presenting our Chairman's Award to the Robotics Institute."
She added, "We're also very happy to be presenting awards to the Entertainment Technology Center in the Information Technology area and to Dr. Tiziana Di Matteo of Carnegie Mellon's physics department as Emerging Female Scientist."
Sponsored primarily by Eaton Corporation, the ceremony included a silent auction, dinner, awards presentation and science demonstrations.
Among the demonstrations presented by Carnegie Mellon were the GigaPan camera technology; Tartan Racing's driverless vehicle "Boss;" robot soccer; and quality of life technologies.
Other Carnegie Mellon projects spotlighted include Beat Bots; Snake Robots; and TeRK Flower.
Lee Gutkind, author of "Almost Human: Making Robots Think," was the keynote speaker. Gutkind's book offers a behind-the-scenes look at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute.
The awards were established in 1997 to recognize and promote outstanding science and technology achievements in western Pennsylvania.
While touring the ETC, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi literally bumped into Anthony Daniels, the actor behind Star Wars' lovable android C3PO. Take a walk down memory lane with Daniels, who talks about working on the films and his relationship with George Lucas.
Randy Pausch has been included in the Time 100 list of the most influential people of the year for 2007.
For more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748_1733756_1...
During Nintendo's annual fiscal report, Satoru Iwata, President and CEO of Nintendo, mentioned how much he liked the indie game World of Goo, which is being developed for WiiWare by 2D Boy. World of Goo got it's start when ETC Alum Kyle Gabler was a student at the ETC and created Tower of Goo for the Experimental Gameplay Project. Gabler has since founded 2D Boy to focus on independent game development and their first game is the wonderful and award-winning World of Goo.
Iwata praises World of Goo and it's prominently featured, with illustrative video, during the report. For more, check out the links below. Congratulations to Kyle and 2D Boy!
Webcast of the Nintendo Report
http://www.irwebcasting.com/080425/60/278760cef3/main/index_hi.htm
Transcript of the portion of the talk that mentions World of Goo
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/080425/06.html
2D Boy
http://www.2dboy.com/
