- Computers as Theatre (2nd Edition), Addison-Wesley Professional, (2013) ISBN 0321918622
- Design Research: Methods and Perspectives, MIT Press, (2004) ISBN 0-262-12263-4
- Utopian Entrepreneur, MIT Press (2001) ISBN 0-262-62153-3
- Computers as Theatre, Addison-Wesley (1991) ISBN 0-201-55060-1
- The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, Addison-Wesley (1990) ISBN 0-201-51797-3
Monday, October 13, 2014
Brenda Laurel design research
theoreis and practices of digitextuality
1"The Poetics of augmented space"
virtual space vs augmented space A typical VR system presents a user with a virtual space that has nothing to do with the immediate physical space of the usuer; in contrast, a typical AR system adds the information directly related to this immediate physical space. but we don't necessaily have to think of immersion into the virtual and augumentation of the physical as the opposites.
p76 if video and other types of surveillance technologies translate the physical space and its dwellers into data, cellspace technologies work in the opposite direction:delivering data to mobile-space dwellers. cellspace is physical space filled with data that can be retrieved by a user using a personal communication device.
virtual space vs augmented space A typical VR system presents a user with a virtual space that has nothing to do with the immediate physical space of the usuer; in contrast, a typical AR system adds the information directly related to this immediate physical space. but we don't necessaily have to think of immersion into the virtual and augumentation of the physical as the opposites.
p76 if video and other types of surveillance technologies translate the physical space and its dwellers into data, cellspace technologies work in the opposite direction:delivering data to mobile-space dwellers. cellspace is physical space filled with data that can be retrieved by a user using a personal communication device.
The fifth generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan's computer challenge to the world (Edward A. Feigenbaum & Pamela McCorduck)
p63 Expert systems are a species of knowledge-based system.
4. Anatomy of an Expert System (p76)
Knowledge of two types: the facts of the domain, and heuristic knowledge
77-79 miners-knowledge engineers-- knowledge acquisition research (the transfer of expertise from humans to symbolic date structures that constitute the knowledge representation in the machine)
84 The knowledge engineer is both a generalist and a specialist. … Yet the knowledge engineer's role in expert system is transitory one. Her job is so sensitive, critical and painstaking that nearly everybody agrees it must soon be automated unless AI is to be throttled by its own success.
4. Anatomy of an Expert System (p76)
Knowledge of two types: the facts of the domain, and heuristic knowledge
77-79 miners-knowledge engineers-- knowledge acquisition research (the transfer of expertise from humans to symbolic date structures that constitute the knowledge representation in the machine)
84 The knowledge engineer is both a generalist and a specialist. … Yet the knowledge engineer's role in expert system is transitory one. Her job is so sensitive, critical and painstaking that nearly everybody agrees it must soon be automated unless AI is to be throttled by its own success.
Thursday, August 7, 2014
editing suggestions
the information
explosion could generate physiological unfitness of the body in just the same
way as information deprivation could
a silicon chip the size of a fingernail could now store millions of characters
The question of whether
a silicon chip the size of a fingernail could now store millions of characters
The question of whether
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
"Digital Cinema: Convergence or Contradiction?" Thomas Elsaesser
convergence --- technological economic cultural
THE CINEMATIC VERSUS THE DIGTIAL
DIGTIAL-- FLAT
THE CINEMATIC VERSUS THE DIGTIAL
DIGTIAL-- FLAT
Monday, July 28, 2014
wirelessness
chapter 4 p61
contemporary wirelesses is framed by a large-scale communication shift to the medium of electromagnetic waves
Maxwellian physics
By 1900, many different relations of connection, transfer, proximity, and influence were imagined around electromagnetic or wireless waves
Sungook Hong (2001) in his history of wireless invention
Isabelle Stengers
Electromagnetic oscillation is an event whose scope could be measured by multiplicity of its interpretations.
There are some common elements to problem, such as how to create a continuous signal(periodic waveform), how to propagate it effectively(antenna design), and how to pick up and amplify the signal at a distance.
In contrast to wired media, as the 2007 IEEE 802.11 standard states, wireless is "a medium that has neither absolute nor really observable boundaries"(IEEE 2007, 23)
p66 The sheer density of wireless transmissions creates fresh problems of regulation, interference, competition, and overload.
p.66 Air as Algorithmic Envelope
The air interface is a term for that part of a wireless or mobile telephone network that lies between the antennae of a device and a base station. It is an elusive interface,…
however, is synthesized by technical processes expressed in algorithms.
How to Make a World Hang Together: Noise
p70. The juxtaposition of different components constructs a signal envelop or composite waveform that is open in certain ways and heavily closed in other ways. Information is coded in a sequence of steps, but these steps take account of each other. Information is encoded a number of times to allow different relations to be entwined with other.
p76 A waveform produced by FFT is "conscious of itself" to the extent that the date stream entering at the start of the process has been parceled in such as way as minimize the effects of their inevitable collisions with and alteration by other signals in a given setting. In the ways it spaces and times the signal, the algorithm imprints into the waveform a certain awareness of possible encounters as well as variations in direction and speed typical of urban life and mobilities. Any contemporary sense of media streaming or constantly-on communications in the city relies on such differential quotients and tendencies.
p78 The algorithm dating from 1967 (Viterbi) is widely used in telecommunications networks to maintain the sequence of information flows. It has become a fundamental element in commercial wireless, satellite, and space communications. Andrew Viterbi, a now retire telecommunications engineer, designed the algorithm and started a company (Qualcomm 2005) that designs and fabricates semiconductors based around the algorithm. In telecommunications applications, these chips enable satellite, cellular phone, and wireless networks to communicate despite high levels of electromagnetic noise.
If the FFT is like a courier company that resorts to bicycle couriers in downtown areas, the Viterbi algorithm is like the recipient of a deluge of partly addressed parcels trying to work out who they are meant for, and which was sent first.
Chapter 5 Acting wirelessly: From Antenna to Node Database
p122 although the equipment had been designed to cover distances of around 100 meters, people began attaching new antennae that increased the range of wireless networks.
p123 Elevation is what allows Wi-Fi signals to stretch great distances. One recurring trait of antenna builders is their pursuit of rooftops, upper stories of buildings, high towers, and long poles.
p127 "Labours of Location: Acting in the Pervasive Media Space" Minna Tarkka
contemporary wirelesses is framed by a large-scale communication shift to the medium of electromagnetic waves
Maxwellian physics
By 1900, many different relations of connection, transfer, proximity, and influence were imagined around electromagnetic or wireless waves
Sungook Hong (2001) in his history of wireless invention
Isabelle Stengers
Electromagnetic oscillation is an event whose scope could be measured by multiplicity of its interpretations.
There are some common elements to problem, such as how to create a continuous signal(periodic waveform), how to propagate it effectively(antenna design), and how to pick up and amplify the signal at a distance.
In contrast to wired media, as the 2007 IEEE 802.11 standard states, wireless is "a medium that has neither absolute nor really observable boundaries"(IEEE 2007, 23)
p66 The sheer density of wireless transmissions creates fresh problems of regulation, interference, competition, and overload.
p.66 Air as Algorithmic Envelope
The air interface is a term for that part of a wireless or mobile telephone network that lies between the antennae of a device and a base station. It is an elusive interface,…
however, is synthesized by technical processes expressed in algorithms.
How to Make a World Hang Together: Noise
p70. The juxtaposition of different components constructs a signal envelop or composite waveform that is open in certain ways and heavily closed in other ways. Information is coded in a sequence of steps, but these steps take account of each other. Information is encoded a number of times to allow different relations to be entwined with other.
p76 A waveform produced by FFT is "conscious of itself" to the extent that the date stream entering at the start of the process has been parceled in such as way as minimize the effects of their inevitable collisions with and alteration by other signals in a given setting. In the ways it spaces and times the signal, the algorithm imprints into the waveform a certain awareness of possible encounters as well as variations in direction and speed typical of urban life and mobilities. Any contemporary sense of media streaming or constantly-on communications in the city relies on such differential quotients and tendencies.
p78 The algorithm dating from 1967 (Viterbi) is widely used in telecommunications networks to maintain the sequence of information flows. It has become a fundamental element in commercial wireless, satellite, and space communications. Andrew Viterbi, a now retire telecommunications engineer, designed the algorithm and started a company (Qualcomm 2005) that designs and fabricates semiconductors based around the algorithm. In telecommunications applications, these chips enable satellite, cellular phone, and wireless networks to communicate despite high levels of electromagnetic noise.
If the FFT is like a courier company that resorts to bicycle couriers in downtown areas, the Viterbi algorithm is like the recipient of a deluge of partly addressed parcels trying to work out who they are meant for, and which was sent first.
Chapter 5 Acting wirelessly: From Antenna to Node Database
p122 although the equipment had been designed to cover distances of around 100 meters, people began attaching new antennae that increased the range of wireless networks.
p123 Elevation is what allows Wi-Fi signals to stretch great distances. One recurring trait of antenna builders is their pursuit of rooftops, upper stories of buildings, high towers, and long poles.
p127 "Labours of Location: Acting in the Pervasive Media Space" Minna Tarkka
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