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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    U.S. and U.N. to cooperate on global digital library

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    Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:18pm EDT
    A man walks between the shelves containing historical documents in Iraq's National library in Baghdad, August 12, 2007. The Library of Congress and UNESCO will cooperate to develop a digital library of works from around the world, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen

    PARIS (Reuters) - The Library of Congress and UNESCO will cooperate to develop a digital library of works from around the world, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization said on Wednesday.

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    "The World Digital Library initiative will digitize unique and rare materials from libraries and other cultural institutions around the world and make them available free of charge on the Internet," Paris-based UNESCO said in a statement.

    It said material would include manuscripts, maps, books, musical scores, sound recordings, films, prints and photographs.

    The project, backed by Internet giant Google, was launched by the Library of Congress in 2005, with the aim of digitizing records of the great cultures of the world.

    The UNESCO statement said the prototype functioned in the six official languages of the United Nations -- Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish -- as well as Portuguese.

    It allows users to search and browse by place, time, topic, and contributing institution, it said.

    The project adds to initiatives from Internet entrepreneurs, including Google, to open the world's library collections to a global online audience.

    Along with Google, the first private sector backer, the project's partners also include national libraries in Egypt, Russia and Brazil.
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