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We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?
Science, Maths & Technology

We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?

...interface. Yet their affair achieves a surprising degree of plausibility. In the real world there is – so far – no attested case of the formation of any such relationship. But some psychologists are, inadvertently, doing the groundwork through their attempts to develop computerised psychotherapy. These date back to the mid-1960s when the late Joseph Weizenbaum, a...
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...interfaces with relations of control that allow us to address whatever effects of subjective constitution these relations establish. even when communication is secured with sophisticated encryption technologies, it is also being indexed as data within server stacks. And while data may enjoy a life without identity, someone or some entity is footing the power bill The...
Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...interfaces, tablets are a perfect way for children to draw, solve puzzles and be entertained on the move. Combine that with marketing efforts of digital media companies and app developers – whose measure of success tends to be the amount of time people are glued to their creation – and you have a toy that’s difficult to prise out of tiny hands. Many apps are...
Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...interface might well be very different (as is probably the case in Io's crust, for example). The efficiency with which elements become dissolved (or sometimes reprecipitated) depends upon the temperature at which it occurs, as well as on the overall chemistry of the solution. Despite the uncertainties, attempts have been made to model the likely concentrations of...
Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs
Introduction to finite element analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to finite element analysis

...interfaces) cables (tension only members) friction metal forming. 3. Linear dynamic capabilities natural frequencies and modes of vibration response to harmonic loading general dynamic loading response spectrum loading power spectral density loading spin softening. 4. Non-linear dynamic capabilities time history response of non-linear systems large damping effects impact...
An introduction to material culture
History & The Arts

An introduction to material culture

...interface between myself and the world. While these objects may have been manufactured by acts of human agency, they also in turn shape me as a user and consumer of them. They mediate a wide range of interactions between myself and other objects and human beings, while themselves constituting a part of my physical world. For example, when I make a cup of tea and hand it...
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...interfaces had become a de facto standard. However, document management software has to be capable of accepting many different types of file, produced by a variety of applications. This complicated the technical design of the package enormously. Third, as suggested earlier, drafting and design processes, at a detailed level at least, are well denned. Engineering drawings...
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...interface (choice of words or symbols) are protected by copyright, but the judge in this case said that it does not follow automatically that every expression of an idea is protected by copyright. He listed four things that must be considered: originality – the expression must originate from the author functionality – if the expression simply embodies functional...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs