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Academia

• Sep 13 2008
  Keepon by David Goligorsky
  Academia, Aesthetics, Code, Design, Engineering, Experience Design, Interaction Design, Japan, Materials, Music, Product Design, Robots, Science, Software, video

  I subscribed to Ambidextrous, Stanford University's Journal of Design. The magazine is edited by the Stanford Design community and receives content from contributors around the world. It's a very well-done publication and I would recommend subscribing if you are a designer, engineer, scientist, anthropologist, interaction, UX, HCI, or really anything else because you're bound to find these articles worthwhile. Reading through issue nine, I was particularly impressed by a robot designed by Hideki Kozima in Kyoto and programmed at Carnegie Mellon by Marek Michalowski. It is known as Keepon (from Japanese kee for yellow and pon for bobbing). ...
  
  
• Sep 02 2008
  Stanford University gets $16 million for design research by David Goligorsky
  Academia, Design, Engineering, Inspiration, Product Design, Science

  On August 19th, Stanford University and the Hasso-Plattner-Institute announced a $16 million research partnership lasting 8 years and beginning this month. This news from Core77. This is particularly relevant to me as I am days away from starting a graduate degree at Stanford University for an MS Engineering in Product Design. Stanford's allocation of fiscal, academic, and spatial resources to design is apparent. Even as I walk around campus, I'm seeing construction for a 42,000 square foot center for Design to open next fall! The Joint Program in Design has in some ways defined the qualities of ...
  
  

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