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• American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty toward Robots – A site devoted to ensuring the rights of any sentient robots that may someday be developed.
• Android World – Lots of information on androids and specific android projects.
• Australia’s Telerobot on the Web – An ABB industrial robot operated via the Internet. Online since 1994 and originally controlled with a web browser applet, this was one of the first web-controlled robots. Registration is required to use the robot.
• BBC Robot World – Offers news, reviews and history of robots, as well as robot building guides and a discussion forum.
• Electronics Forum – Online discussion forum for subject related to electronics including robotics, analog design, analog filters, and tubes.
• GoRobotics.net – An amateur robotics site, including links, books, and resources.
• How Stuff Works – The Singing Fish – Photographed autopsy of the popular singing fish novelty fad reveals its robotic-like subsystems with complete informative descriptions.
• Humanoid Robotics – Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Lab page that provides an overview of Humanoid Robotics, addressing their history, current research, and ethical issues.

Komunikasi yang baik dari jajaran manajer tidak hanya bisa mendorong keberhasilan proses-proses yang terjadi di bottom line, melainkan juga akan menciptakan kondisi ketenagakerjaan yang penuh komitmen.

Penelitian yang dilakukan Watson Wyatt atas 264 perusahaan berhasil mengindentifikasi adanya 6 praktik komunikasi yang mendorong lahirnya para top performer.

Diakui, sebagian dari praktik tersebut bukanlah hal baru. Bahkan, secara khusus tidaklah inovatif. Namun, jika perusahaan memfokuskan diri pada praktik-praktik tersebut, diyakini hasilnya akan benar-benar berbeda.

Riset tersebut menemukan, perusahaan-perusahaan yang memiliki program-program komunikasi yang efektif rata-rata menghasilkan “total return to shareholders” (dari 2002 hingga 2006) 47% lebih tinggi dibandingkan dengan mereka yang komunikasinya kurang efektif.

Di samping itu, perusahaan dengan praktik komunikasi yang baik dilaporkan memiliki tingkat employee engagement empat kali lebih tinggi dibandingkan dengan yang komunikasinya buruk.

Enam praktik komunikasi yang diidentifikasi Watson Wyatt bisa memberikan kinerja tinggi pada perusahaan adalah:

1. memfokuskan manajer dan karyawan pada kebutuhan-kebutuhan customer

2. meng-engage karyawan dalam menjalankan bisnis

3. membantu manajer untuk berkomunikasi secara efektif

4. mendorong komunikasi internal para talent untuk mengelola perubahan secara lebih efektif

5. mengukur pengaruh komunikasi karyawan

6. mem-brand-kan pengalaman karyawan

“Perusahaan-perusahaan berkinerja tinggi memperlakukan komunikasi sebagai penggerak utama bisnis,” ujar Direktur Global Watson Wyatt bidang Komunikasi Kathryn Yates.

“Mereka menggunakan komunikasi untuk mendidik para manajer dan meng-engage karyawan dalam menjalankan bisnis, dengan menyediakan line-of-sight yang menghubungkan mereka pada kebutuhan-kebutuhan customer dan tujuan-tujuan bisnis,” tambah dia.

Lebih jauh Yates berharap, hasil penelitian ini bisa memberikan insight kepada para pemimpin perusahaan mengenai apa yang dilakukan oleh perusahaan-perusahaan “top-performing“.

Yates meyakini, program-program komunikasi yang efektif akan memberikan perbedaan yang nyata dalam hubungan-hubungan antara pimpinan dan karyawan. “Perusahaan-perusahaan dengan komunikasi yang efektif memiliki karyawan yang engaged dan hasil-hasil finansial yang bagus,” simpul dia.

Arief-pkt.

• Abstract State Machines – A formal method for specifying and verifying algorithms. Tools, meetings, researchers in the area.
• ACM SIGACT – Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory, the ACM special interest group for Theoretical Computer Science. Site has membership information, meetings, reports and a newsletter for members.
• The Algorithm Base – Database of algorithms. May be scanned through or can be questioned through a knowledge based assistant. Links to originating web sites.
• Algorithm Design Paradigms – A course by Paul Dunne at the University of Liverpool. Slides and notes in HTML and PS.
• Algorithms Archive – A collection including searching, sorting, tracking, mathematics and cellular automata. In English and Italian.
• Algorithms Courses – Links to courses in algorithms maintained at various university computer science departments.
• Algorithms in the Real World – Notes for a course at Carnegie Mellon University.
• Analysis Of Algorithms – An initiative of attendees of the 1997 Dagstuhl seminar, these pages provide research papers, a bulletin board, and links to researchers and other resources in the field. The focus is on average case and probabilistic analysis.

• Combinatorial Algorithms – Lecture notes of a course at San Diego State University.
• Combinatorial Algorithms – Course material, syllabus and notes for a course by Roger Whitney at SDSU.
• Computer Programming Algorithms Directory – Resources that describe computer programming algorithms.
• Data Structures – Introduction to data structures, with Java code, by Peter M. Williams.
• Data Structures – Lecture notes by Steven Skiena.
• Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms – Lecture notes; applets and code in C, C++, and Java; links regarding books, journals, computability, quantum computing, societies and organizations.
• Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problems – A dictionary of algorithms, algorithmic techniques, data structures, and archetypical problems, with related definitions. Many entries have links to implementations, tutorials, and bibliographical references.
• Huffman Coding Algorithm – Includes a guide how to build it and a JAVA tutorial how to use it.
• Introduction to Quantum Algorithms – A introduction to quantum algorithms by Matthew Hayward for those new to the field and who do not have a physics background.
• On the Road to Algorithms – Information on algorithms such as Bubble Sort and Random Number Generation, using HTML, Java and Perl. Collected by Lam Ka Chun (Raymond).
• OOPWeb Algorithms Directory – Algorithms lecture notes, courses, tutorials, references, guides and online books.