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1 NEWS The Battalion I 2.6.15 3 (Left) Aakar Mehra, mechanical engineering graduate student, demonstrated 3 the horizontal spar that keeps AMBER 3's movements in one direction. (Right) Jonathan Horn, mechanical engineering graduate student, demonstrates AMPRO. Shelby Knowles — THE BATTALION AMES CONTINUED JONES CONTINUED candidates talk about is what their vision for the Mays Business School would be,” Auckerman said. “He’s coming as a po tential candidate for the dean, to become dean of the Mays Business School, so this is his one public seminar that he’ll be able to talk about himself and his vision for Mays.” While a decision won’t be reached tomorrow, Auckerman said to be on the lookout for an announcement in the next few weeks. “He’ll visit the next two weeks, the faculty then have a minimum of a week to take a vote and then the search advi sory committee will meet again to make a recommendation to the provost,” Auckerman said. “Then the provost can choose based from there. I would say the near future, but it’s hard to give an exact timeline.” While the decision still remains to be made, Auckerman said Jones is a prom ising candidate to take over for Jerry Strawser, who is now A&M vice presi dent for finance and administration. “His background and his bio kind of speak for themselves,” Auckerman said. “He’s a very impressive candidate.” William Dugas, acting dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and chair of the search advisory com mittee, said students and faculty should make an effort to attend Jones’ lecture. “The search advisory committee is excited to welcome Dr. Jones to Ag- gieland,” Dugas said. “I encourage the campus community to attend his seminar to learn more about his unique leader ship style and vision for business educa tion.” Jones’ lecture will run from 9:30- 10:45 a.m. Friday in Ray Auditorium, Wehner 113. but environments we interact with on a daily basis are really built for two-legged locomotion. Tight hallways that turn, catwalks, narrow staircases, all those things were built for humans so human oid robots would best be able to navigate those environments. THE BATTALION: How is AMBER 3 more advanced than AMBER 2? AMES: AMBER 2 was great, it was able to demonstrate human-like locomotion specifically things like heel-toe behaviors. When we walk we roll our feet, our heel strikes and then we roll onto our toe and then push off, most bipedal robots today don't demonstrate that behavior. AMBER 3 we designed full-sized and it's much more powerful. So that gives us a lot more power to demonstrate more advanced behaviors. THE BATTALION: Could someone wearing AMPRO do more than walk, for example run or ride a bike? AMES: Oh yeah, all those things. The advantage to the algorithms we have is that we have an automatic way of gen erating these behaviors on the device. You take the person and you have them do the behavior and you synthesize that behavior on the device. We've done well so far walking up and down slopes, on treadmills and stairclimbing. So yes it's certainly possible and we're expanding this behavior library as we speak. THE BATTALION: What does the fu ture hold for AMBER lab? What are the next steps for your current projects and what new projects would you like to take on? AMES: With AMBER 3 we just finished building it and we want to realize some really cool behaviors with it, I actually challenged my students to try and make the robot do a back flip. With AMPRO we've designed AMPRO 2 now and we're going to start building it very soon, it's going to be lighter and more efficient. And then in terms of new projects we've already got prosthetic devices so up next is exoskeletons. I'm interested in exo skeletons that work in minimal ways. So if someone has an injury on their ankle they can have a small device they could wear all the time that would just give them that little extra edge. NET NEUTRALITY CONTINUED of 1934 and into Title II, where it would be allowed to be regulated, securing net neutrality. Net neutrality — the principle that Internet service providers should be treated equally and should not be able to charge dif ferent prices based on the user, content, site, platform or other factors — can be explained like a highway system when com pared to a toll road, said Texas A&M School of Law professor Brian Holland. “So, you have the free highway that everyone can go on but it’s more crowded and moves more slowly and you have the toll road that runs up the middle and you pay to be on that and it moves much more quickly,” Holland said. “So essentially they want to have a system in which they can charge more for faster transmission. ” Wheeler said his proposal would create enforceable rules that will ban these Internet “toll roads” and prevent providers from discriminating against any content or services for profit. “My proposal assures the rights of Internet users to go where they want, when they want, and the rights of innovators to introduce new products without asking anyone’s permission,” Wheeler said in his op-ed. With the change, Wheeler said he is trying to tailor the regu lations to better fit the 21st century. Holland said in 2010 the FCC issued a rule that said providers are not allowed to discriminate between traffic and charge more Place an Ad Phone 979.845.0569 Suite L400, Memorial Student Center Texas A&M University for certain data in an attempt to secure net neutrality, but they did so under Section 706 of Title I. “And this was challenged by the Internet providers and cable providers, and basically the court ruled that if [the FCC is] go ing to regulate the Internet under Title I as information services, Title I basically does not give [the FCC] the power to have that anti-discrimination rule,” Holland said. Holland said the FCC has been faced with a difficult propo sition: it can either come up with some authority under Title I other than Section 706, or Congress has to give it additional authority under Title I. Holland said both are unlikely, because there is nothing in Title I in which to find more authority and die Republican-controlled Congress tends to oppose net neutrality rules. This led people in favor of federally protected net neutrality to push for the FCC to reclassify the Internet under Title II, Holland said. “Basically people became very worried this discrimination was going to start. The cable companies made it clear they wanted to start discriminating and charging more to some data,” Holland said. “People got upset about this and there was a pub lic campaign to reclassify the Internet fr om information services under Tide I to communication systems under Title II.” James Cho, communication doctoral student, said many people who were in favor of net neutrality see Wheeler’s pro posal as a positive step. “It was a classification of the Internet as a public utility,” Cho said. “So what that means is now it’s categorized similarly as water and electricity and stuff like that, and in terms of legal speak it categorizes it in a place where it’s regulation is going to be similar to the way water and electricity are regulated.” Holland said he likes the policy changes Wheeler proposed. 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