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Robot Operating Systems
Saenz, Aaron. 2010. Robot Operating System Celebrates 3rd Birthday with Exponential Growth (video). November 8. singularityhub.com.

Select Bibliographies
Robotics' Textbooks - The MIT Press. 2010. Browse Robotics' Textbooks - The MIT Press. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Select Blogs
RobotEnomics. 2014. Tracking the march of the robot economy. http://robotenomics.com/.

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Select Books
Arkin, Ronald. 2009. Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots. ("My research hypothesis is that intelligent robots can behave more ethically in the battlefield than humans currently can. That’s the case I make." —Dr. Arkin, quoted in The New York Times, November 24, 2008). Chapman and Hall/CRC.

Asimov, Isaac. 1950. I, Robot. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot). Gnome Press.

Lin, Patrick. 2011. Robot Ethics: The Social and Ethical Implications of Robotics. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

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Select Humor
Kelly, Kevin. 2011. The 7 Stages of Robot Replacement. The Technium.

Robots Speak Out Against Asimov’s First Law Of Robotics. The Onion.

Select Idea Competitions / Conversations / Dialogues
Zero Robotics. 2010. Zero Robotics. (Zero Robotics is a student competition that takes "arena robotics" to new heights, literally. The robots are miniature satellites called SPHERES, and the final tournament is aboard the International Space Station!). Cambridge, MA: MIT.

Select Interviews
Breazeal, Cynthia. 2013. Will Man's Best Friend Be a Robot. Cambridge, MA: npr.org.

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Manaugh, Geoff. 2011. TIME, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND SPATIAL DEVICES. April 16. Los Angeles, CA: bldgblog.blogspot.com.

Select References
Ackerman, Evan. 2011. This Begging Robot Can Have All My Money. April 22. spectrum.ieee.org

Baker, David. MIT Media Lab's Androids are adding empathy to their armoury. November 12. wired.co.uk/

Bernstein, Ian. 2006. Beam-online - Robots - The Bug. beam-online.com

Blackman, Christine. 2010. Secrets of the gecko foot help robot climb. August 24. Stanford, CA: Stanford University News.

Brown, Mark. 2013. OCW brings educational opportunities to Sierra Leone: Student builds robot from old toy parts using course materials from 6.270. February 12. Cambridge, MA: MIT OpenCourseWare.

Calo, Ryan. 2011. Apps for Robots. January 23. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford Law.

Calo, Ryan. 2011. NEVADA BILL WOULD PAVE THE ROAD TO AUTONOMOUS CARS. April 28. Palo Alto, CA: blogs.law.stanford.edu

Calo, Ryan. 2010. Open Robotics. November 11. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford Law.

Calo, Ryan. 2011. Open Robotics. July 1. Ithaca, NY: blog.law.cornell.edu/voxpop.

Carey, Benedict and John Markoff. 2010. Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Ceurstemont, Sandrine. 2010. Life-drawing robot could teach us about art. April 1. New Scientist.

Chu, Jennifer. 2012. Mechanical engineers develop an ‘intelligent co-pilot’ for cars: Semiautonomous system takes the wheel to keep drivers safe. July 13. Cambridge, MA: web.mit.edu

Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg, Kasia. 2012. The World's Cutest Surveillance Robot Videographer. January 13. The Atlantic.

CmdrTaco. 2011. Robots Successfully Invent Their Own Language. May 18. hardware.slashdot.org

Coxworth, Ben. 2011. Quadruped CHEETAH robot to outrun any human. March 3. gizmag.com.

Creating a Better Chatbot Through Crowdsourcing. 2012. Creating a Better Chatbot Through Crowdsourcing. September 10. slashdot.org.

Dawson, Christopher. 2013. [http://www.zdnet.com/next-gen-lego-mindstorms-autodesk-huge-educational-potential-7000011293/ Next-gen LEGO Mindstorms + Autodesk = Huge educational potential - Summary: It's Valentine's Day. It's LEGO World. And I'm in love with the new Mindstorms EV3]. zdnet.com.

Dean, Cornelia. 2008. A Soldier, Taking Orders From Its Ethical Judgment Center. November 24. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Derndorfer, Christoph. 2011. Controlling LEGO WeDo robots via Scratch on an XO laptop. July 18. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

dougled. 2012. Machine-Guided Learning Matches Teachers In Study. May 23. news.slashdot.org.

Emspak, Jesse. 2011 Robot Throws First Pitch At Phillies Game. April 20. ibtimes.com.

Fox, Zoe. 2011. Robot Plays Angry Birds. October 23. New York, NY: Mashable.com.

garymortimer. 2011. Natural Interaction With Flying Robots Via Kinect. July 02. hardware.slashdot.org.

Guizzo, Erico. 2011. Elfoid: A Pocket-Size Fetus-Like Robot Might Be Your Next Cellphone. March 3. spectrum.ieee.org.

Guizzo, Erico. 2011. Obama Commanding Robot Revolution, Announces Major Robotics Initiative. June 24. spectrum.ieee.org.

Harada, Cesar. 2011. Protei, Open Hardware Oil Spill Cleaning Sailing Robot. April. New Orleans, LA: kickstarter.com.

Hardesty, Larry. 2014. Herding robots: A new system combines simple control programs to enable fleets of robots — or other “multiagent systems” — to collaborate in unprecedented ways. February 12. Cambridge, MA: MIT News Office.

itwbennett. 2012. Fujitsu Building Robot To Pass Math Exams. September 10. hardware.slashdot.org.

itwbennett. 2011. This Robot Needs a Hug. May 14. hardware.slashdot.org.

Jeffries, Adrianne. 2014. The robots of the future won't look anything like the Terminator: Robots still aren’t ready to work beside humans, but perhaps a soft touch is the answer. April 16. theverge.com/2014/4/16/5617290/soft-robotics-is-booming.

kodiaktau. 2011. Experimenting With Robotic Movement. December 27. hardware.slashdot.org.

Lanier, Jaron. 2010. The First Church of Robotics. (Op-Ed). August 9. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Lin, Patrick. 2011. Drone-Ethics Briefing: What a Leading Robot Expert Told the CIA. Dec 15. The Atlantic.

Manaugh, Geoff. 2011. THE HOUSE OF MECHANICAL ANIMALS. July 19. Los Angeles, CA: bldgblog.

Manaugh, Geoff. 2011. THE ROBOT AND THE ARCHITECT ARE FRIENDS. March 6. Los Angeles, CA: bldgblog.

Manjoo, Farhad. 2011. [http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/robot_invasion/2011/09/will_robots_steal_your_job.html Will Robots Steal Your Job? You're highly educated. You make a lot of money. You should still be afraid]. September 26. Washington DC: Slate.

Markoff, John. 2013. [Japanese Team Dominates Competition to Create Rescue Robots http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/23/science/japanese-team-dominates-competition-to-create-rescue-robots.html]. December 22. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Markoff, John. 2013. Meet Google's new robots: BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat. Dec 14. New Dehli, India: Times of India.

mictvstation. 2011. Chinese Robots Play Ping Pong. YouTube.com.

mikejuk. 2011. Aldebaran Robotics To Open Source Nao Robot Control Software. May 15. hardware.slashdot.org.

mikejuk. 2012. Professor Resigns From Stanford To Launch Online Education Project. January 23. hardware.slashdot.org.

Miller, Claire Cain, and Nick Bilton. 2011. Google’s Lab of Wildest Dreams. November 13. New York, NY: The New York Times.

MrSeb. 2011. Robot Walks Like a Human, Requires No Power. October 25. hardware.slashdot.org.

Perry, Caroline. 2014. The 1,000-robot swarm: Through commands, autonomous devices arrange selves into vast, complex shapes. August 14. Cambridge, MA: news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/08/the-1000-robot-swarm/.

Perry, Caroline. 2013. Robotic insects make first controlled flight: In culmination of a decade’s work, RoboBees achieve vertical takeoff, hovering, and steering. May 2. Cambridge, MA: news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/05/robotic-insects-make-first-controlled-flight/.

Quick, Darren. 2011. Insect-inspired HECTOR walking robot. April 18. www.gizmag.com

Ramsey, Doug. 2013. Machine Perception Lab Shows Robotic One-Year-Old on Video. January 9. San Diego, CA: ucsdnews.ucsd.edu.

RedEaredSlider. 2011. Gecko-Inspired Robot Rolls Up Walls. November 03. hardware.slashdot.org.

Revkin, Andrew C. 2011. From ‘Wall-E’ to Fukushima, Robots Roam. April 17. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Robot biologist solves complex problem from scratch. 2011. Robot biologist solves complex problem from scratch. (with video). October 17. Kurzweil Artificial Intelligence.

TheAmaze. 2012. Evolution Of Dance by NAO Robot. youtube.com

The Robot Swarm. 2012. The Robot Swarm. Cambridge, MA: Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard.

samzenpus. 2011. Robots 'Evolve' Altruism. May 04. science.slashdot.org

samzenpus. 2011. Wall-E Robot Made With LEGO Mindstorms. July 19. idle.slashdot.org.

Schroeder, Stan. 2011. Honda’s ASIMO Robot Gets Smarter, More Autonomous. November 08. mashable.com

Schwellenbach, Ashley. 2012. Speaking hypothetically: The future is here, and San Luis Obispo has a lot more to do with that fact than you might think. ("“I’m not advocating any of these scenarios,” Patrick Lin prefaces before rapidly painting a world in which robots guard our criminals and monitor prisoners’ vital signs while they are tortured, cyborg insects and robots the size of hummingbirds spy on civilians, and enhanced soldiers wage war for days, immune to hunger and sleep deprivation"). January 4. The Times.

sciencehabit. 2011. Winged Robots Hint At the Origins of Flight. October 18. science.slashdot.org.

SJ. 2011. butiábot: XO Linerider robot in action. May 7. Cambridge, MA: blog.laptop.org.

Soulskill. 2013. Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You. October 26. tech.slashdot.org.

Soulskill. 2011. Motorola Adopting 3 Laws of Robotics For Android?. February 14. mobile.slashdot.org

Soulskill. 2012. Strong AI and the Imminent Revolution In Robotics. June 23. tech.slashdot.org

Takahashi, Nobuhiro. 2011. Robotic "Tongue" Lets You French Kiss Over The Internet. May 3. idle.slashdot.org.

Technabob. 2010. robots ready to take over your home. September 2. Chicago, IL: technabob.com

thebchuckster. 2011. Japanese Military Invents Tumbling, Flying Sphere. July 16. hardware.slashdot.org.

Thompson, Derek. 2011. Who Is Safe From the Robot Revolution?. March 7. The Atlantic.

Three Laws of Robotics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

timothy. 2011. Ask Slashdot: Entry-Level Robotics Kits For Young Teenagers?. December 18. ask.slashdot.org.

timothy. 2011. German Aerospace Robot Plays Catch With Two Balls. April 30. hardware.slashdot.org.

timothy. 2011. Hobby Humanoid Robot KHR3HV Rides Bike At 10k/h. October 22. hardware.slashdot.org.

timothy. 2011. Robo-Gunsight System Makes Sniper's Life Easier. April 30. tech.slashdot.org

toygeek. 2012. Weebots: Driveable Robots For Babies Who Need Them. August 30. hardware.slashdot.org

Trout, Christopher. 2011. RoboEarth teaches robots to learn from peers, pour European fruit beverages (video). February 2. engadget.com

Ulanoff, Lance. 2011. “World’s First Spherical Flying Machine” Can Land and Fly Almost Anywhere. October 26. mashable.com.

Uruguayan Pupils Using Butiá Robots at the sumo.uy 2011 Event. 2011. Uruguayan Pupils Using Butiá Robots at the sumo.uy 2011 Event. olpcnews.com

wasimkadak. 2012. Robot Hand Beats You At Rock, Paper, Scissors 100% of the Time. June 27. hardware.slashdot.org

White, Charlie. 2011. Gang of Smart Mini-Copters Learns How to Build Stuff - VIDEO. January 16. Mashable.

White, Charlie. 2011. [http://mashable.com/2011/03/04/lifelike-robot/ Is This a Robot or Human? VIDEO]. March 4. (Geminoid) Mashable.

White, Charlie. 2011. Robots Gone Wild: The Most Elaborate Action Sequence Ever Filmed (VIDEO). January 28. Mashable.

Williams, Mary-Anne. 2010. What’s it like to be a robot?. September 5. Stanford, CA: blogs.law.stanford.edu.

Zothecula. 2012. Team Aims To Build Robot Toddler In Nine Months. December 31. hardware.slashdot.org.

Zyga, Lisa. 2012. Communication channel between cells and machines paves way toward bio-hybrid robots. November 29. phys.org

http://blogs.law.stanford.edu/robotics/2012/07/14/calpoly-talk-about-robots-privacy-filmed-by-robot/

http://blogs.law.stanford.edu/robotics/2012/07/14/drones-panel-at-stanford-law-review/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2laujomh0JY

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/print-your-own-robots-0403.html

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/07/23/1615213/us-regaining-manufacturing-might-with-robots-and-3d-printing

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/07/24/2225234/irobots-robot-doc-is-ready-to-heal-you

http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/07/30/1626217/electronic-sensor-rivals-sensitivity-of-human-skin

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/07/31/1447239/giant-mech-robots-from-japan

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/07/30/238253/xrl-hexapod-robot-gets-a-tail-learns-to-use-it

http://www.scoop.it/t/cool-stuff-from-research/p/2307397957/cardboard-robot-open-smart-phone-camera-crane-robotic-arm

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/08/09/1234223/war-by-remote-control-with-military-robots-set-to-self-destruct

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/08/10/1954233/meet-darpas-new-militarized-earthworm

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/08/07/2242245/this-is-what-wall-streets-terrifying-robot-invasion-looks-like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JL04JJjocc

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/08/17/2127226/surfing-robot-tracks-great-white-sharks

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/08/17/1528221/flexible-robot-can-change-colors

http://andrewmcafee.org/2012/08/mcafee-robots-technology-employment-statistics/

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/08/21/236202/cheap-four-fingered-robot-hand-edges-closer-to-human-dexterity

http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/08/22/0311210/earths-corner-of-the-galaxy-just-got-a-little-lonelier

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/08/23/2227226/robot-learning-to-recognize-itself-in-mirror

http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/08/27/1929224/robots-to-go-spelunking-in-martian-caves

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/08/29/154255/wave-glider-robot-helps-forecast-hurricane-isaacs-path

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/09/04/2034225/social-robots-may-gain-legal-rights-says-mit-researcher

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/bWOUS5rfmmA/uk-paraplegic-woman-first-to-take-robotic-suit-home

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/09/06/2225249/the-algorithmic-copyright-cops-streaming-videos-robotic-overlords

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/09/07/0228253/darpas-robo-cheetah-is-now-faster-than-usain-bolt

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/09/12/2113210/whats-next-for-irobot

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/09/18/1253224/meet-irobot-founder-rodney-brookss-new-industrial-bot-baxter

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/09/24/207219/toyota-unveils-helpful-human-support-robot

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/09/25/0142236/robot-snakes-to-fight-cancer-via-natural-orifice-surgery

http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/10/01/2127200/researchers-using-ai-to-build-robotic-bees

http://www.ted.com/talks/rodney_brooks_why_we_will_rely_on_robots.html

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/09/07/1432218/austrian-professor-creates-kindle-e-book-copier-with-lego-mindstorms

http://allthingsd.com/20130906/how-a-man-in-austria-used-legos-to-hack-amazons-kindle-e-book-security/

https://www.academia.edu/359332/Double_Nerve_Intraneural_Interface_Implant_on_a_Human_Amputee_for_Robotic_Hand_Control

Select Robotics' Hardware
Mindstorms NXT. 2010. Lego Mindsorms NXT. (Lego Mindstorms is a line of programmable robotics/construction toys, manufactured by the Lego Group. it comes in a kit containing many pieces including sensors and cables).

Select Textbooks
Siegwart, Roland and Illah R. Nourbakhsh. 2004. Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Select Video and Audio
Alahmadi, Muhammad. 2014. ICS381 Module02 Intro to AI. Saudi Arabia: scribd.com/doc/205331969/ICS381-Module02-Intro-to-AI.

Bilton, Nick. 2011. Your Very Own Cookie-Baking Robot. August 3. New York, NY: bits.blogs.nytimes.com.

Breazeal, Cynthia. 2011. Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots. TED Talk.

Darling, Kate. 2013. re:publica 2013 - Kate Darling: Robot Ethics. May 9. Berlin, Germany: re:publica.

Eisenberg, Anne. 2012. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/business/single-incision-surgery-via-new-robotic-systems.html [When Robotic Surgery Leaves Just a Scratch]. November 17. New York, NY: nytimes.com.

Elliott, Amy-Mae. 2010. Top 10 Robot Videos on YouTube. May 16. Mashable.com

Evans, Henry and Chad Jenkins. 2013. Henry Evans and Chad Jenkins: Meet the robots for humanity. Los Altos, CA: TEDxMidAtlantic.

Fischer, Markus. 2011. A robot that flies like a bird. Monterey, CA: Ted Talk.

Hicks, Rob Warren, II and Ernest L. Hall. 2013. A Survey of Robot Lawn Mowers. Cincinnati, OH: Center for Robotics Research, University of Cincinnati.

Hill, David. 2013. BOSTON DYNAMICS’ HUMANOID ROBOT, ATLAS, IN LATEST VIDEO. July 15. singularityhub.com.

Jansen, Theo. 2007. Theo Jansen creates new creatures. Monterey, CA: TED Talks.

Karuppuswamy, Jaiganesh, Vishnuvardhanaraj Selvaraj, Meyyappa MurugappaGanesh and Ernest L Hall. 2013. Detection and Avoidance of Simulated Potholes in AutonomousVehicle Navigation in an Unstructured Environment. Cincinnati, OH: Center for Robotics Research, University of Cincinnati.

Khar, Rishi T., Ernest L. Hall. 2013. Calculation of the shortest-time path for traversal of an obstacle course by a robot. Cincinnati, OH: Center for Robotics Research, University of Cincinnati.

Knight, Heather. 2011. Heather Knight: Silicon-based comedy. TED Talk.

Liao, Xiaoqun, Jin Cao, Ming Cao, Tayib Samu and Ernest Hall. 2013. Computer Vision System for an Autonomous Mobile Robot. Cincinnati, OH: Center for Robotics Research, University of Cincinnati.

Mashable Video. 2011. Smarter, Better, Faster: Alderbaran Releases NAO Next Gen Humanoid Robot - VIDEO. December 12. Mashable.com.

O'Dell, Jolie. 2011. Intel Shows Us the Digital Future of Lego. January 11. mashable.com

Pachal, Peter. 2012. Watch the Robot-Bashing Short Movie Jim Henson Made for AT&T in 1963 - VIDEO. January 24. mashable.com

Placide, Krislyn. 2012. MIT Researchers Create The Swiss Army Knife Of The Robotics World: While engineering programmable matter, they also invented a motor that holds its position without power. November 30. popsci.com.

RHex the Parkour Robot. 2013. RHex the Parkour Robot. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Youtube channel.

Robot Violinist. 2007. Robot Violinist. Youtube.com

Saenz, Aaron. 2010. Land Crawler eXtreme is the Freakiest Riding Robot We’ve Seen (video). November 22. singularityhub.com

Saenz, Aaron. 2010. Videos of Robot Controlled By Rat Brain – Amazing Technology Still Moving Forward. October 6. singularityhub.com

Schroeder, Stan. 2011. Finally, a Robot That Can Make You a Sandwich - VIDEO. December 13. mashable.com.

Searle, John. 2013. John Searle: Our shared condition -- consciousness. Meyrin, Switzerland: TEDxCERN.

T8 the Bio Inspired 3D Printed Spider Octopod Robot. 2013. T8 the Bio Inspired 3D Printed Spider Octopod Robot. Robugtix.

Toyota's Violinist Robot in China "New 2010". 2010. Toyota's Violinist Robot in China "New 2010". youtube.com

Wood, Robert and Sam Felton. 2014. Self-folding robots. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Youtube channel.

Wu, Steve. 2011. Panel Discussion at Association of Defense Counsel (ADC) – DEC 9, 2010. February 19. Stanford, CA: Stanford Law School.

Law and Robotics

Calo, Ryan. 2011. Ethics@Noon: Robots & Privacy. March 11. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford Law School.

Calo, Ryan. 2010. Robots: The Law - mp3. Stanford, CA: www.robotspodcast.com/podcast.

Darling, Kate. 2013. [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2013/11/darling Science fiction or reality? A discussion of near-term ethical, legal, and societal issues in robotics]. November 19. Cambridge, MA: cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2013/11/darling.

Kaminski, Margot. 2014. Robotic Surveillance: Authorship or Intrusion?. January 28. Cambridge, MA: cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/01/kaminski.

Lego

Denmead, Ken. 2013. YouTube Musician Pixietea Covers Marry You With a Lego Mindstorms Back-up Band. San Francisco, CA: wired.com.

Ganapati, Priya. 2010. Machine Made of Lego Builds Anything You Want — Out of Lego. October 20. wired.com/gadgetlab

Jennings, Mike. 2010. The genius of the Lego Printer: video. June 2nd. UK: pcpro.co.uk.

Lego British Bird Series. 2012. Lego British Bird Series. UK: lego.cuusoo.com

Liszewski, Andrew. 2013. Lego Mischief Machine Automatically Folds and Throws Paper Airplanes. gizmodo.com.

LEGO robo tech gets upgrade with new Mindstorms. 2013. LEGO robo tech gets upgrade with new Mindstorms: LEGO releases the third generation of LEGO Mindstorms, the autonomous robotics platform for use in classrooms and at home. January 17. video.foxnews.com.

LinuxOnEveryDesktop. 2012. Make Your Own LEGO Curiosity Rover. August 12. science.slashdot.org/.

Personal Robots

Select Websites
Cornell University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (CUAUV). 2013. Cornell University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (CUAUV). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University.

THE PEOPLE’S BOT. 2014. THE PEOPLE’S BOT: ROBOTIC TELEPRESENCE FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD. (The People’s Bot is an experiment in using robots for the public good, to broaden access to physical events. Too often, people with limited resources, kids, or long-distance travel get excluded from key meetings & opportunities). thepeoplesbot.com/.

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Admissions at World University and School
Admissions' Department: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School

Flyer seeking degree-oriented, WUaS students: 'Quaker-informed World University & School seeks friendly, undergraduate students for free, online, Greatest Universities-centric, bachelor’s degrees to apply in the autumn of 2013, for matriculation in autumn 2014' - http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSFriendsFlyerforProspectiveStudentApplicants.pdf - and accessible here, also - http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSNoticeArchive.html. WUaS holds open, electronically-mediated, hour-long, monthly business meeting on the second Saturdays at 9 am Pacific Time, in the manner of Quakers - email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com if you'd like to participate.

Blog at World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/

Bookstore / Computer Store (New & Used) at World University and School
Bookstore / Computer Store (New & Used) at WUaS: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_%28New_%26_Used%29_at_WUaS

with educational electronics, as well; with musical instruments; value pricing ... 2% below market, consistently; available via mail and electronically;

Calendar (Schedule what you'd like to teach)
Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/

Join the World University and School Google + Group to add to its wiki-like calendar to teach an open, free class or course, converse about ideas, and jam (e.g. musically or theater improvisation): https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/.

Careers
Career counseling: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Career_counseling

Finding / creating a job you really love: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Finding_/_creating_a_job_you_really_love

WUaS Job hunting: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Job_hunting

Counseling
Counseling: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Counseling

Coordinates
... in a virtual world

Credits
Many thanks to each of you!

Please feel free to hyperlink your name to a location of your choice (or tell WUaS where to link to - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com). Please do not hesitate to let WUaS know if you think that somebody (including yourself) has been forgotten, now or in the future; please include a URL, which is, of course, one main way identity created on the internet.

Digital To Do
Android

Brainwave device / Headset

Broadcast to radio frequency

Broadcast to TV

Create EMail group for page

Digital Text to Audio file format (Browse Aloud / Read Aloud?)

Google Glass

MIT OCW Mirror Site Instructions: http://ocw.mit.edu/about/mirror-site-program/mirror-site-instructions/

Oculus Rift

Print

Publish to DVD

Recommend

Send to phone

Tablets

Translate

Videophone

Free Degrees / Credit
MIT OCW Audio Video Courses: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/

Admissions at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School

Conference Method of Teaching and Learning: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning

The College at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School

Ph.D. Degrees at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ph.D._Degrees_at_World_University_and_School

World University Law School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School

World University Medical School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School

World University Music School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School

WUaS International Baccalaureate Diploma and Programme: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme (beginning with United Nations' languages - Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Russian, Spanish)

In Google Earth
Google Earth.

In Virtual World
(Search on the word 'lists' here, too: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds)

3D Learn. 2013. http://www.learningin3d.info/

Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). 2012. http://www.activeworlds.com

Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/

Minecraft. 2012. www.minecraft.net

Edusim. 2013. http://edusim3d.com/

Gifted Kids.ie. 2013. http://www.giftedkids.ie/daynuv.html

ISTE – SIGMS. 2013. http://sigms.iste.wikispaces.net/secondlifeplayground2010

Kaneva. 2014. http://www.kaneva.com/

Open Cobalt. 2013. http://www.opencobalt.org/

OpenSim. 2012. http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page (http://www.scribd.com/doc/57959626/OpenSimulator-School-Quick-Start-Guide)

Open Croquet. 2012. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenCroquet and http://www.opencroquet.org/

Open Wonderland. 2012. http://openwonderland.org/

Primary Games. 2013. http://www.primarygames.com/arcade/virtualworlds.php

Quest Atlantis. 2012. http://atlantisremixed.org/ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoT3pilNPI).

SimScience. 2012. http://simscience.org/

Second Life - Harvard's virtual island. 2012. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/115/53/25 - and teach, learn and share ideas - in group voice chat, or in group type chat, and via building.

SmallWorlds. 2014. https://www.smallworlds.com/

There.com. 2014. http://www.there.com/

Twinity. 2014. http://www.twinity.com/en/choose-your-free-avatar

Unity3D. 2012. http://unity3d.com/

WiloStar3D. 2013. https://www.wilostar3d.com/

World of Warcraft in School. 2014. http://wowinschool.pbworks.com/w/page/5268731/FrontPage

Add a learning-oriented virtual world here:

Travel to this virtual island to learn building:

Item Number
Global ID and Multiple IDs - see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/New_sites_system

Bar code

Learning Networking
Teach and Learn using free Social Networking software to share what courses, etc., you find edifying, what you enjoy learning ....

About Me - World University and School - http://about.me

Academia.edu's World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.academia.edu/

Delicious.com's World University and School - http://www.delicious.com/WorldUniversityandSchool

Facebook.com's World University and School - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141 ('This group may be archived').

Good Reads - http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/99021-worlduniversityandschool

Google + Profiles - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - Scott MacLeod - https://plus.google.com/115890623333932577910/

Google + Profiles Company page - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - World University and School - https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/108179352492243955816/posts

Google Groups' World University and School - http://groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School

Like

LinkedIn's World University and School - http://www.linkedin.com/groups/World-University-School-4024337

Quora - http://www.quora.com/

Research Gate - http://www.researchgate.net/

Redditt.com's World University and School - http://www.reddit.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/

Tribe.net's World University and School - http://tribes.tribe.net/worlduniversityandschool

Twitter.com's World University and School - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch

Wer Kennt Wen - World University and School - http://www.wer-kennt-wen.de/

World University & School 'subject page' group

World University & School Share This

Yahoo Groups' World University and School: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worlduniversityandschool/

TV-Live Broadcasting
Broadcast to television

Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software to the web:

Google + Hangouts - https://plus.google.com/hangouts

Justin TV - http://www.justin.tv

Livestream TV - http://www.livestream.com

Ustream TV - http://ustream.tv

Video Communication
Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software

Free video conferencing

iChat - http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/ichat.html

Skype - http://www.skype.com/

Free, group video conferencing

AnyMeeting - http://anymeeting.com/homepage/

Google + Hangout - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin - http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/

Meeting Burner - http://www.meetingburner.com/index?page=signup-v2 – up to 15 connection

ooVoo - http://www.oovoo.com/home.aspx

Paltalk - http://www.paltalk.com

sifonr - free communication - http://www.sifonr.com/‎

Tokbox | OpenTok - API - http://tokbox.com/opentok

Vyew - http://vyew.com/

Web Huddle - https://www.webhuddle.com/homepage.jsp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/webhuddle/

Zoom.us - Cloud HD Video Meetings - http://zoom.us/

Universal Translator at WUaS
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator

Google Translate language:

Sugar Labs: Translation System language:

Region:

The "Universitian" Newspaper at World University and School
The "Universitian" Newspaper at WUaS

Wiki Software for Courses
Media Wiki - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

PB Works - http://pbworks.com/

Wet Paint - http://wikisineducation.wikifoundry.com/

Wikia - http://www.wikia.com/Wikia

Wikispaces - http://www.wikispaces.com/

Wikidata / Bots
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Bots

World University and School Licensing
World University and School - like Wikipedia with Greatest Universities' OpenCourseWare (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010 and has been a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, educational organization charity through November 12, 2012, and is re-instating its 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, as of September 2013, effective 2010.

World University & School is a community of learners and teachers who value — and are themselves strengthened by — the rich diversity of its participants. In order to cultivate a flourishing teaching, learning and creating conversation in a diverse and complex world, WUaS welcomes all languages, students, families, faculty, board members, and staff with differences based on (but not limited to) race, color, ethnicity, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, family structure, and economic background.

All content on this site is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International (CC BY-SA 3.0) - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.

The World University and School program is not endorsed by MIT or MIT OpenCourseWare.

WUaS: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University

Courses: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses

Subjects: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects

Languages: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages

Library Resources: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources

Nation States: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States

You at World University: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University

Educational Software: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software

Museums: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums

Research: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research

Hardware Resource Possibilities: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hardware_Resource_Possibilities

Frequently Asked Questions at World University & School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions

World University Foundation: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation

LANGUAGE TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/LANGUAGE_TEMPLATE

MUSEUM TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/MUSEUM_TEMPLATE

NATION STATE TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/NATION_STATE_TEMPLATE

SUBJECT TEMPLATE: http://worldunivephrsity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE

Volunteers at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Volunteers

Home: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University

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WUaS's Guidestar.org listing - https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx.

Please donate through PayPal to tax-exempt - 501 (c) (3) - World University and School at

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Thank you!