Download or read book The Disappearing Computer written by Norbert Streitz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-07-20 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the computer, as we currently know it, will be replaced by a new generation of technologies, moving computing off the desktop and ultimately integrating it with real world objects and everyday environments. It provides a unique combination of concepts, methods and prototypes of ubiquitous and pervasive computing reflecting the current interest in smart environments and ambient intelligence.

Download or read book The Politics of Display written by Sharon Macdonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The assumption that museum exhibitions, particularly those concerned with science and technology, are somehow neutral and impartial is today being challenged both in the public arena and in the academy. The Politics of Display brings together studies of contemporary and historical exhibitions and contends that exhibitions are never, and never have been, above politics. Rather, technologies of display and ideas about 'science' and 'objectivity' are mobilized to tell stories of progress, citizenship, racial and national difference. The display of the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima is a well-known case in point. The Politics of Display charts the changing relationship between displays and their audience and analyzes the consequent shift in styles of representation towards interactive, multimedia and reflexive modes of display. The Politics of Display brings together an array of international scholars in the disciplines of sociology, anthropology and history. Examples are taken from exhibitions of science, technology and industry, anthropology, geology, natural history and medicine, and locations include the United States of America, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and Spain. This book is an excellent contribution to debates about the politics of public culture. It will be of interest to students of sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, museum studies and science studies.

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Download or read book Simplexity written by Alain Berthoz and published by Odile Jacob. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Simplexity, as I understand it, is the range of solutions living organisms have found, despite the complexity of natural processes, to enable the brain to prepare an action and plan for the consequences of it. These solutions are simplifying principles that enable the processing of information or situations, by taking into account past experience and anticipating the future. They are neither caricatures, shortcuts, or summaries. They are new ways of asking questions, sometimes at the cost of occasional detours, in order to achieve faster, more elegant, more effective actions.” A. B. As Alain Berthoz demonstrates in this profoundly original book, simplicity is never easy; it requires suppressing, selecting, connecting, thinking, in order to then act in the best way possible. And what if we, in turn, are inspired by the living world to process the complexity that surrounds us? Alain Berthoz is professor at the Collège de France where he is co-director of the Laboratoire de physiologie de la perception et de l’action. [Laboratory for the physiology of perception and action]. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences, and is the author of Le Sens du mouvement [The Brain's Sense of Movement] and La Décision [Emotion and Reason].

Download or read book Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use written by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Division and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief definitions "intended to be as clear as possible to the non-expert, but accuracy has not been compromised for the sake of readability. Mathematics has been used where necessary to avoid ambiguity."--Intro. Published 1965.

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Download or read book Telepresence Bio Art written by Eduardo Kac and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eduardo Kac's work represents a turning point. What it questions is our current attitudes to creativity, taking that word in its most fundamental sense." -Edward Lucie-Smith, author of Visual Arts in the 20th Century "His works introduce a vital new meaning into what had been known as the creative process while at the same time investing the notion of the artist-inventor with an original social and ethical responsibility." -Frank Popper, author of Origins and Development of Kinetic Art "Kac's radical approach to the creation and presentation of the body as a wet host for artificial memory and 'site-specific' work raises a variety of important questions that range from the status of memory in digital culture to the ethical dilemmas we are facing in the age of bioengineering and tracking technology." -Christiane Paul, Whitney Museum of Art For nearly two decades Eduardo Kac has been at the cutting edge of media art, first inventing early online artworks for the web and continuously developing new art forms that involve telecommunications and robotics as a new platform for art. Interest in telepresence, also known as telerobotics, exploded in the 1990s, and remains an important development in media art. Since that time, Kac has increasingly moved into the fields of biology and biotechnology. Telepresence and Bio Art is the first book to document the evolution of bio art and the aesthetic development of Kac, the creator of the "artist's gene" as well as the controversial glow-in-the-dark, genetically engineered rabbit Alba. Kac covers a broad range of topics within media art, including telecommunications media, interactive systems and the Internet, telematics and robotics, and the contact between electronic art and biotechnology. Addressing emerging and complex topics, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary art.

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Download or read book The Brain s Sense of Movement written by Alain Berthoz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interpretation of perception and action allows Alain Berthoz to focus on psychological phenomena: proprioception and kinaesthesis; the mechanisms that maintain balance and co-ordination actions; and basic perceptual and memory processes involved in navigation.

Download or read book Operational Radiation Protection written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides practical guidance on the application of the dose limitation system contained in the Basic Safety Standards for Radiation Protection, Safety Series No. 9, to operational situations both in large nuclear installations and in much smaller facilities, with special reference to the principles of optimisation.

Download or read book Design and analysis of a novel kinematically redundant parallel robot with all actuators located at the base written by Zhou Zhou (Auteur de Design and analysis of a novel kinematically redundant parallel robot with all actuators located at the base) and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cette thèse propose et analyse un nouveau robot parallèle cinématiquement redondant (KRP) avec tous les actionneurs situés à la base. La structure de base du robot provient de travaux antérieurs, c'est-à-dire que trois jambes avec 3 degrés de liberté (ddls) chacune sont attachées à la plate-forme mobile par trois liaisons redondantes, ce qui donne un robot KRP avec (6+3) degrés de liberté. Cette thèse se concentre sur quatre thèmes. Tout d'abord, un nouveau robot parallèle à 3 ddls utilisé comme jambe du robot KRP est proposé, et tous les actionneurs sont situés à la base afin de réduire l'inertie des parties mobiles. De plus, les actionneurs sont placés près les uns des autres pour minimiser l'encombrement et produire un espace de travail relativement grand. Les problèmes cinématiques tels que la modélisation cinématique, le problème inverse/direct, l'analyse des singularités et l'espace de travail sont analysés en détail. En outre, pour simplifier l'analyse de l'espace de travail et agrandir l'espace de travail, une conception améliorée du robot à 3 ddls est proposée. L'établissement de modèles dynamiques pour les robots parallèles est un défi en raison des relations complexes entre les vitesses et les forces induites par leur structure en boucle fermée. Cette thèse propose plusieurs méthodes de modélisation simplifiées pour les robots parallèles. Le premier type est dérivé de l'approche lagrangienne et l'idée centrale est de réduire la complexité des expressions représentant l'énergie pour le robot. Par conséquent, ces méthodes ont une bonne généralité et sont disponibles pour divers robots parallèles. Cependant, pour certains robots parallèles (par exemple, le robot à 3 ddls proposé), même en utilisant la méthode simplifiée, les calculs d'énergie sont légèrement complexes. Compte tenu de cela, une autre méthode de modélisation simplifiée basée sur l'approche de Newton-Euler est proposée et analysée. Étant donné que le nouveau robot KRP a une structure similaire à celle des robots KRP précédents, la plupart des méthodes analysées dans les travaux précédents peuvent être directement utilisées. Par conséquent, cette thèse ne résout que brièvement le problème inverse/direct, explique la singularité du point de vue de la force, donne le modèle dynamique et montre la structure et le modèle CAO du prototype du nouveau robot KRP. Enfin, cette thèse propose une méthode générale de contrôle de préhension par laquelle le robot KRP peut faire fonctionner à distance une pince pour générer les forces de préhension requises tout en déplaçant la plate-forme, toutes les actions étant pilotées par les mêmes actionneurs. Le modèle de contrôle de préhension se compose d'un modèle de contrôle du mouvement des jambes et d'un modèle de contrôle de la force des jambes, où la force de préhension peut être contrôlée indépendamment. En conséquence, le modèle de contrôle en force utilise un contrôleur en boucle ouverte, simple à mettre en œuvre et efficace.

Download or read book Systems Theory written by Igorʹ Viktorovich Blauberg and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Emotion and Reason written by A. Berthoz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Play It Like It Is). Matching folio to the album DMB created in tribute to LeRoi Moore, their saxophonist who died in a 2008 accident. The All Music Guide calls it DMB's "richest, and quite possibly best" album to date. 12 songs: Alligator Pie * Baby Blue * Dive In * Funny the Way It Is * Lying in the Hands of God * Seven * Shake Me like a Monkey * Spaceman * Squirm * Time Bomb * Why I Am * You & Me.

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Download or read book Dwelling in the Archive written by Antoinette M. Burton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis of the writings of three 20th century Indian women, this book explores how the memoirs, fictions, and histories written by women can be read as counter-narratives of colonial modernity.

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