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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Sept 28, 2016
US school's unmanned boat reaches Welsh coast
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A driverless boat (pilotless boat?) created by students
from Kent School in Maryland was recovered in Wales. They
launched The Osprey with a time capsule onboard off the New
Jersey coast on 13 June and tracked it
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across the ocean. Projects like this are always great
educational experiences. "Our excitement was at fever
pitch. We're going to wait for our head teacher to make
contact with the school in the US and then hopefully do a
live weblink with them and open it up." With luck the boat
can also be used to instruct the BBC on gender-neutral
language.
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Educational Software Patents: A Call to Vendors
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September 1, Elsevier won a patent
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for an online peer review system, something the open source
Online Journal Systems has been doing for decades. This
post continues the discussion from Miichael Feldstein,
noted for his coverage of the Blackboard patent case
../blackboard_patent.htm. He called on "educational
institutions to gather together and sign a pledge that they
would not procure products from companies that assert
education-related software patents," but in the face of
utter indifference this seems unlikely to happen. So now
he's calling on software companies to respond. "The right
thing for vendors to do here is to create what’s
known as a patent pool. Any patent owner who contributes to
the pool pledges to only use that patent for defensive
counter-suits."
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