Category: Computer Science 2.0
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Alan Shapiro, “Die Software der Zukunft”: Buchrezension von Florian Arnold
Das andere Programm des Anderen Rezension zu: Alan Shapiro, Die Software der Zukunft. Oder: Das Modell geht der Realität voraus, übers. v. Marcel René Marburger, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln 2014, 64 S. von Florian Arnold Seit jeher schlägt sich die menschliche Kultur mit einem Anderen ihrer selbst herum. Bis vor Kurzem durfte man…
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“Die Software der Zukunft,” new book by Alan Shapiro
My new book Die Software der Zukunft was just published by the Walther König Verlag in Cologne. Mit seiner “Software der Zukunft” pladiert der Informatiker und Medientheoretiker Alan Shapiro für eine partizipatorisch realisierte Neuausrichtung der Informatik. Dies wäre eine Informatik der “rechten Gehirnhälfte”, die zwar auf der bestehenden, technisch ausgerichteten Wissenschaft vom Computer aufbaut, sie…
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Software Code as Expanded Narration, by Alan N. Shapiro
Software Code as Expanded Narration Alan N. Shapiro Computer programming is about algorithms, formal logic, precise reasoning and problem solving. As such, it would appear to have little to do with what we call creative expression. The logical act of programming and the self-expressive act of creativity would seem to be polar opposites. We think of creative expression…
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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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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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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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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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Time-Memory-Experience (part 4 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger and Alan N. Shapiro
Timeliness of the Computer from the Time-Memory-Experience project (this is part 4 of a 4-part essay) by Anja Wiesinger and Alan N. Shapiro Let us now take a look at the specific modes of time of the computer. In what comes next we would like to look into the timeliness of the computer itself, the…
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Time-Memory-Experience (part 2 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger
Timeliness and Perception of Time in and with the Computer, by Anja Wiesinger from the Time-Memory-Experience project (this is part 2 of a 4-part essay) The Construction of ARTstor as Collection The object of analysis is a specific kind of digital image archive. I chose ARTstor, the biggest online image library for research and education. ARTstor…
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Time, Memory, Experience (part 1 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger
Time-Memory-Experience by Anja Wiesinger (this is part 1 of a 4-part essay) In my Master’s Thesis in Art History, done at the Technical University of Berlin in 2011, I attempted to do the following: My project is to revise the theories and concepts that arose in the advent of the Internet in the early 1990s, when the…
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A New Computer Science is Underway: Alan N. Shapiro interviewed by Anja Wiesinger
A New Computer Science is Underway: Alan N. Shapiro interviewed by Anja Wiesinger published in the Berlin fashion print magazine , Fall 2010 (in German and English) American philosopher and veteran software engineer Alan Shapiro reflects on computer science in relation to the history of ideas it originated from. During a recent visit to Berlin,…