Once again I’m going to take this space to plug an organization I like a lot. And if you have an interest in science and its applications within our world, you should check them out and subscribe to some of their free e-zines.

The organization is SPIE, and it continues to put together an amazing array of information about technology that’s bubbling out of labs as well as research that may change the way we live.

I attended their Photonics and Optics conference a few months ago and talked to Amy Nelson, SPIE’s public relations manager. I noted that I was enjoying the conference but it was definitely a scientific conference for scientists. She told me that they held an Innovation Summit that was focused more on the business community-leaders of some of the top photonics companies (such as photovoltaic panel makers, etc.) as well as leading scholars that discuss how to integrate innovation into companies.

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Unfortunately, I was unable to attend. But SPIE has posted the two-day event on its Web site so we can see what we missed. The above link will take you a page where you can view the speakers’ presentations. Here’s a broad overview of the Summit.

I’ve been a big fan of the advancements being made in artificial intelligence (AI), especially in robotics. And few do robotics like consumer and defense robot maker iRobot (NSDQ: IRBT). The company has sold many PackBot units for use in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the contracts continue to get bigger. There’s a big move underway in the US armed forces to have a third of forward deployed forces automated by the middle of the next decade.

It’s called net centric warfare. And it looks kind of like this, courtesy of a JSTARS diagram embedded in an interesting blog post on the new military.

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Anyway, my friends at SPIE had an interesting article recently about the newest generation of ground vehicles being developed jointly by iRobot and the US military.