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Meet the Kinect introduces the exciting world of volumetric computing using the Microsoft Kinect. You'll learn to write scripts and software enabling the use of the Kinect as an input device. Interact directly with your computer through physical motion. The Kinect will read and track body movements, and is the bridge between the physical reality in which you exist and the virtual world created by your software. Microsoft's Kinect was released in fall 2010 to become the fastest-selling electronic device ever. For the first time, we have an inexpensive, three-dimensional sensor enabling direct interaction between human and computer, between the physical world and the virtual. The Kinect has been enthusiastically adopted by a growing culture of enthusiasts, who put it to work in creating technology-based art projects, three-dimensional scanners, adaptive devices for sight-impaired individuals, new ways of interacting with PCs, and even profitable business opportunities. Meet the Kinect is the resource to get you started in mastering the Kinect and the exciting possibilities it brings. You'll learn about the Kinect hardware and what it can do. You'll install drivers and learn to download and run the growing amount of Kinect software freely available on the Internet. From there, you'll move into writing code using some of the more popular frameworks and APIs, including the official Microsoft API and the language known as Processing that is popular in the art and creative world. Along the way, you'll learn principles and terminology. Volumetric computing didn't begin with the Kinect. The field is decades old-if you've ever had an MRI, for example, you have benefitted from volumetric computing technology. Meet the Kinect goes beyond just the one device to impart the principles and terminology underlying the exciting field of volumetric computing that is now wide-open and accessible to the average person.

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La falta de un texto actualizado que cubriese los nuevos temas de investigación en Inteligencia Artificial, que por otra parte, se imparten en los cursos académicos de licenciatura y doctorado en la Facultad de Informatica de Deusto, hizo pensar en la posibilidad de reunir algunos trabajos de los investigadores que imparten dichos cursos para cubrir este hueco. Esta compilacion no pretende cubrir todas las tendencias de investigacion actuales en el entorno universitario e industrial en España, sino dar una vision panoramica, aunque en profundidad de dichas tendencias. Se ha intentado vertebrar esta seleccion alrededor del importante papel desempeñado por el conocimiento en los procesos que definen la inteligencia humana. Otra caracteristica de esta seleccion es la juventud de la mayoria de los autores. Creemos que este foro es un vehiculo adecuado para estas nuevas voces de nuestra comunidad investigadora, dado su tesitura academica y por el rigor con el que se abordan los temas recogidos.