Month: February 2013
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The Paradigm of Object Spaces: Better Software is Coming, by Bernhard Angerer and Alan N. Shapiro
The hypothetical time traveler whom Michael Stal wrote about in his 2006 article “From the Future” would be disappointed to learn that “prehistoric computer science,” as the temporal traveler termed it, has not changed much as of 2011, five years down the road. Market analysts and IT experts still report that only about 20 percent…
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A Proposal for Developing Quantum Computing in Software, by Alan N. Shapiro
(co-author: Alexis Clancy) Alan N. Shapiro: I believe that the invention of a new computer science, one more powerful than that which presently exists, is possible; a more powerful computer science that often goes by the name of Artificial Intelligence. Shapiro Technologies will go beyond the digital or binary computing paradigm that has persisted since…
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Rules and Patterns System for Design Process Support Software, by Alan N. Shapiro
It is necessary, in building towards a Design Process Support Software Application, to design and program a Rules and Pattern System as an extreme form of bottom-up object-oriented intelligence (pragmatic AI) that has a direct relationship between perception and action without a guiding top-down intelligence. When the designer is faced with the task of designing…
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Improving the Information Society Through Awareness of Languages, by Alan N. Shapiro
I presented a paper at the ISEA2011 festival of new media, electronic and digital arts in Istanbul, Turkey on September 21, 2011. On a planetary scale, the quality of communication, work, cross-cultural empathy, scientific and business development, health care, and leisure-time experience in the information society has been limited by the specific way in which…
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Design for a Working Quantum Computer in Software, by Alan N. Shapiro
(with contributions by Alexis Clancy) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 1. Inspiration in the work of Walter M. Elsasser Towards a Truly Scientific Biology In a great book in the budding…
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Transforming Computer Science into a Humanities Subject, by Alan N. Shapiro
I wrote this text in November 2010. A different version will be published soon in a book publication of the NABA Design University of Milan, Italy. Transforming Computer Science into a Humanities Subject Alan N. Shapiro Recently I bought a copy at the St. Mark’s Bookshop in New York City of an interesting book by Edward…
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Re-Thinking Science, by Alan N. Shapiro
Re-Thinking Science, by Alan N. Shapiro Influenced by Martin Heidegger’s philosophical essay “The Question Concerning Technology”, Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s core Critical Theory text Dialectic of Enlightenment, and Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke’s epic science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey, I believe that we have come to the end of the…
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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Building Robots, by Alan N. Shapiro
These are my “lecture notes” for the lecture that I gave at the Art University in Linz, Austria on June 21, 2011. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Building Robots by Alan N. Shapiro In the first part of my lecture, I presented the idea of beginning a multidisciplinary and “humanities informatics” approach to the development of…
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International Flusser Lecture, by Alan N. Shapiro
On July 10, 2012, I gave the International Flusser Lecture at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Related to this lecture, a small book by me in German will be published in the International Flusser Lecture series by the Walther Koenig Verlag. Diplomandenfeier Fokus Medientheorie UdK Berlin Fakultät Gestaltung Mit einem Festvortrag von Alan Shapiro …
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Towards a Unified Existential Science of Humans and Androids, by Alan N. Shapiro
I just returned from Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. This is a comment about the talk about androids given by Hiroshi Ishiguro during the “Science & Art I” conference at the Lentos Kunstmuseum during THE BIG PICTURE symposium. Professor Ishiguro’s talk was very interesting and enjoyable. However, I think that he makes one important conceptual mistake…
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Seminar on the Future of Reading and Learning at the Offenbach Arts and Design University
Update: December 30 I wish everyone Happy New Year! Einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr! At our meeting on January 24 we will cover the folowing topics: 1. Talk a little more about McLuhan, “The Medium is the Massage” 2. Talk a little bit about the media theory of Vilem Flusser 3. Student presentations…
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Art and Design in the Age of New Media and New Technologies, by Alan N. Shapiro
On January 16th, 2013, I gave a lecture at the Bath Spa University, Bath School of Art and Design, in Bath, UK. Department of Design and Critical Studies Introduction by Dr. Jo Turney, Bath Spa University. ABSTRACT by Alan N. Shapiro What are the main trends in the history of New Media Art? How have…