However, videoconferencing for parrots sounds like something straight out of Python. (Monty, not the language).
It's genuine, trust me. It was one of the pet projects of Irene Pepperberg (http://web.media.mit.edu/~impepper/) - there are some brief details here (http://web.media.mit.edu/~impepper/petprojects/interpet/interpet.pdf) (PDF).
I agree that the Media Darling crown has effectively been taken from the Media Lab by Google, but I think that's partly because Google's work is more directly applicable to the majority of users, rather than being the product of a postgraduate students fever dream.
Hmmm. MIT Media Lab : computer science research institutions :: Kevin Warwick : computer science researchers. Discuss.
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Date: 2005-09-16 10:29 am (UTC)It's genuine, trust me. It was one of the pet projects of Irene Pepperberg (http://web.media.mit.edu/~impepper/) - there are some brief details here (http://web.media.mit.edu/~impepper/petprojects/interpet/interpet.pdf) (PDF).
I agree that the Media Darling crown has effectively been taken from the Media Lab by Google, but I think that's partly because Google's work is more directly applicable to the majority of users, rather than being the product of a postgraduate students fever dream.
Hmmm. MIT Media Lab : computer science research institutions :: Kevin Warwick : computer science researchers. Discuss.