Robots

Note: These are the "slides" of the talk, intended for display to an audience in 18 point font on a 640 x 480 video display. The text of the talk is also available. This document is: http://www.acs.org.au/president/1997/vala98s.htm Draft of 27 January 1998. The printed version (15 December 1997) for the proceedings is available. Suggestions and comments welcome: tom.worthington@tomw.net.au

• Questions
• By Popular Demand
• Some thoughts
• See also

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Questions

• what are some areas in libraries that could be/have been roboticised
• what are the implications?
• does robotics have a use within libraries today?
• & by robotics we primarily mean technology rather than software.

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By Popular Demand

• More Holiday snaps: Wren Library - Trinity
• Technology used: Hot Air Balloon Over Canberra - "Live" on the Internet, 1996
• Australian Government Home Page announcement
• Real Documents

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Some thoughts

• Reach out to people on-line: Australia's Telerobot
• Web search on Questions
• Lobot, Lucasfilm Ltd: http://www.starwars.com/email/lobot.html
• Drinks

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See also

• text of talk
• Whole-of-Australian-Government Search Architecture Report & Overview, January 1998
• "Knowbots to Wobots", Internet Reality Check, Drinks Friday Night
• From Arcadia to Zeus: my first year on the Web
• CANBERRA: The Planned Capital of Australia, Ian Furar, ANU
• ACS Home Page

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Comments to Tom Worthington MACS, Immediate Past President of the Australian Computer Society tom.worthington@tomw.net.au.