Engineers’ Must-Reads This Week
(August 16 - 22, 2011)

Gaming technology helps robots recognise human activity
(IET, 08/22/2011, Jamie Condliffe)
Household robots could soon interpret their owners’ actions, and battlefield automatons might understand their comrades’ movements.

Android developers can start writing Google TV apps
(cNet.com, 08/22/2011, Stephen Shankland)
Google released a preview version of an Android programming tool plug-in today to let developers write software for Google TV devices.

Shipments of internet-enabled consumer devices to exceed PCs in 2013
(EE Times, 08/21/2011, Jean-Pierre Joosting)
In another sign of the Internet's transformative impact on the electronics industry, shipments of Internet-enabled consumer electronics devices will soar to exceed those of the traditional platform used for accessing the Internet—the PC—for the first time in 2013, according to a latest IHS iSuppli Consumer Platforms Report.

Slump in US engineering students prompts school review
(IET, 08/19/2011, Paul Dempsey)
The seriousness of the crisis in US STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education is illustrated by this statistic from the country’s National Academy of Engineering.

Moving with the rising mobile Internet demand
(Philippine Daily Inquirer, 08/18/2011, Frances Mangosing) 
MANILA, Philippines—In a progressive mobile Web industry, it has been a challenge for operators to keep up with the demand of their consumers.

(Published 23 August 2011, Smart Communications, Inc.)