Author: Frank PopperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Frank Popper traces the development of immersive, interactive new media art from its antecedents through today's digital, multimedia, & networked art.
From Technological to Virtual Art
Author: Frank PopperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Frank Popper traces the development of immersive, interactive new media art from its antecedents through today's digital, multimedia, & networked art.
Memory Evolutive Systems; Hierarchy, Emergence, Cognition
Author: A C EhresmannPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080555411
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Memory Evolutive Systems; Hierarchy, Emergence, Cognition provides comprehensive and comprehensible coverage of Memory Evolutive Systems (MEM). Written by the developers of the MEM, the book proposes a mathematical model for autonomous evolutionary systems based on the Category Theory of mathematics. It describes a framework to study and possibly simulate the structure of living systems and their dynamic behavior. This book contributes to understanding the multidisciplinary interfaces between mathematics, cognition, consciousness, biology and the study of complexity. It is organized into three parts. Part A deals with hierarchy and emergence and covers such topics as net of interactions and categories; the binding problem; and complexifications and emergence. Part B is about MEM while Part C discusses MEM applications to cognition and consciousness. The book explores the characteristics of a complex evolutionary system, its differences from inanimate physical systems, and its functioning and evolution in time, from its birth to its death. This book is an ideal reference for researchers, teachers and students in pure mathematics, computer science, cognitive science, study of complexity and systems theory, Category Theory, biological systems theory, and consciousness theory. It would also be of interest to both individuals and institutional libraries. - Comprehensive and comprehensible coverage of Memory Evolutive System - Written by the developers of the Memory Evolutive Systems - Designed to explore the common language between sciences
Tools for Thought
Author: Howard RheingoldPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262681155
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
In a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the story of what he calls the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in particular on such pioneers as J. C. R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, and Alan Kay. The digital revolution did not begin with the teenage millionaires of Silicon Valley, claims Howard Rheingold, but with such early intellectual giants as Charles Babbage, George Boole, and John von Neumann. In a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the story of what he calls the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in particular on such pioneers as J. C. R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, and Alan Kay. Taking the reader step by step from nineteenth-century mathematics to contemporary computing, he introduces a fascinating collection of eccentrics, mavericks, geniuses, and visionaries. The book was originally published in 1985, and Rheingold's attempt to envision computing in the 1990s turns out to have been remarkably prescient. This edition contains an afterword, in which Rheingold interviews some of the pioneers discussed in the book. As an exercise in what he calls "retrospective futurism," Rheingold also looks back at how he looked forward.
Unconventional Computing 2007
Author: Andrew AdamatzkyPublisher: Luniver Press
ISBN: 190598605X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Unconventional computing is the quest for groundbreaking new algorithms and computing architectures based on and inspired by the principles of information processing in physical, chemical and biological systems. The timely scientific contributions in this book include cutting-edge theoretical work on quantum and kinematic Turing machines, computational complexity of physical systems, molecular and chemical computation, processing incomplete information, physical hypercomputation, automata networks and swarms. They are nicely complemented by recent results on experimental implementations of logical and arithmetical circuits in a domino substrate, DNA computers, and self-assembly. The book supports interdisciplinary research in the field of future computing and contributes toward developing a common interface between computer science, biology, mathematics, chemistry, electronics engineering, and physics.
Optique
Author: Marie MayPublisher:
ISBN: 9782100025862
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 477
Book Description
Ce livre présente la théorie électromagnétique de Maxwell et les phénomènes optiques relevant de la théorie ondulatoire. On introduit d'abord, la notion de réponse d'un milieu à l'application d'un champ électromagnétique variant dans le temps en particulier sinusoïdal. Puis, on résout les équations de Maxwell dans le cas d'une onde plane monochromatique se propageant dans un milieu caractérisé par une fonction diélectrique complexe. On poursuit par la définition de l'énergie électromagnétique et du vecteur de Poynting. La partie purement électromagnétique de l'ouvrage se termine par l'étude de la réflexion et de la transmission d'une onde plane à la surface de séparation de deux milieux diélectriques transparents. Les deux chapitres suivants sont consacrés à l'étude du champ électromagnétique rayonné par des distributions de charges et de courants et aux sources lumineuses classiques qui rayonnent une vibration lumineuse scalaire. Sont abordées ensuite les interférences lumineuses (principes fondamentaux, interféromètres et localisation des franges, interférométrie et applications), de la diffraction de Fresnel et de Fraunhofer, de l'holographie et de la propagation de la lumière dans les milieux anisotropes. Les thèmes traités ici recouvrent l'ensemble du cours professé par les auteurs dans le cadre du module Optique- Électromagnétisme de la licence de physique de l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI). La plupart des chapitres sont suivis de problèmes corrigés dont la résolution exige une réflexion personnelle de l'étudiant.
Author: Jean Mevel