SMIC CEO Resigned

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Agam Shah, SMIC CEO Resigns After Being Voted off Board. IDG News, July 15, 2011.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/235869/smic_ceo_resigns_after_being_voted_off_board.html

Note: David NK Wang  王宁国
Curiously, SMIC 管理团队 still shows him retaining ALL titles: "执行董事、总裁兼执行长."


-----------------------------Separately
(1) 苹果侵权诉讼获胜　HTC将上诉. BBC Chinese, July 16, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/science/2011/07/110716_htc_apple_lawsuit.shtml   

(2) Evan Ackerman, Robot Helps Quadriplegic Scratch an Itch for the First Time in a Decade. IEEE Spectrum, July 15, 2011 (blog).
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/medical-robots/pr2-helps-quadriplegic-scratch-an-itch-for-the-first-time-in-a-decade

Note: John Markoff's report in New York Times, July 12, 2011 had video clips of Willow Garrage's PR2 folding laundry, pluging, taking dinnerware from dish washer to a rack and re-arranging balls. The instant blog in addition shows PR2 playing pool, baking cookies, bringing us beer as well as

How Not To Break Eggs
http://www.botjunkie.com/2009/08/03/how-not-to-break-eggs/
("Willow Garage, while working on the gripper for their PR2 robot, discovered that it’s not so much pressure that causes damage to gripped objects (like eggs), but rather momentum, so if you get the gripper to slow down as soon as it makes contact with an object, you can hold it more securely without breaking it")

"Scott Hassan founded Willow Garage in late 2006 to accelerate the development of non-military robotics and advance open source robotics software. Named as an homage to the garages that spawned the computer industry, he envisioned an innovative research lab infused with the engineering expertise of a product development company."
http://www.willowgarage.com/pages/about-us/history

PR2 stands for Personal Robot 2.

Company's address is 68 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025

Menlo Park, California
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menlo_Park,_California
(section 1 History)


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