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(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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
Flowever, he said he is concerned the new classification could
mean the federal govermnent will be positioned to regulate the
Internet beyond just net neutrality.
“There is no middle ground in his proposal,” Holland said.
“And I think it caught a lot of people off guard. I personally
from my view of policy am very happy where he’s come down.
I remain concerned on the need to do it under Title II opening
up this Pandora’s Box, but I’m not sure what other option they
have at this point.”
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