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• Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

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  As We May Think: A 1945 Essay on Information Overload, "Curation," and Open

  October 15 2012, 1:37am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 12 2012, 3:19pm | Comments

• Portfolio Sampling, Acclimatisation, and the ‘Die Hard’ Method

  October 7 2012, 3:48pm | Comments

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  The Art of the 64 Squares

  October 7 2012, 3:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Artificially intelligent game bots pass the Turing test on Turing's centenary

  An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created by computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like…

  September 29 2012, 4:28am | Comments

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  IS ONTOLOGY MAKING US STUPID?

  September 20 2012, 7:35am | Comments

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  The evolution of cheating in chess

  September 18 2012, 4:48am | Comments

• Wikipedia Ontogeny Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origin and the development of an organism – for example: from the fertilized egg to mature form. It covers in essence, the study of an organism's lifespan. The word "ontogeny" comes from the Greek ὄντος, ontos,…

  September 17 2012, 6:02am | Comments

• Instagram Art of Change: works are by Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, including a column made…

  September 11 2012, 4:18am | Comments

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  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 5 2012, 10:27pm | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Next-Generation Digital Information Storage in DNA

  Digital information is accumulating at an astounding rate, straining our ability to store and archive it. DNA is among the most dense and stable information media known. The development of new…

  August 18 2012, 5:55am | Comments

• Bookmark In 1977, NASA sent 115 images – the so-called ‘Golden Record’ –…

  In 1977, NASA sent 115 images – the so-called ‘Golden Record’ – into space on board the Voyager space probe. They also included greetings in 55 different languages and a number…

  August 13 2012, 5:47am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Machines by Other Means, Manchester

  August 8 2012, 4:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Pareidolia: A Bizarre Bug of the Human Mind Emerges in Computers

  This rocky hill in Ebihens, France, is, well, just that -- a rocky hill in Ebihens, France. But to pretty much any human observer, the assemblage of meaningless angles takes on…

  August 8 2012, 2:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing

  For the most part, the biological metaphor has long been just that — a simplifying analogy rather than a blueprint for how to do computing. Engineering, not biology, guided the pursuit…

  August 8 2012, 2:44am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 28 2012, 6:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Stanford and Venter Institute Simulate an Entire Organism With Software

  For medical researchers and biochemists, simulation software will vastly speed the early stages of screening for new compounds. And for molecular biologists, models that are of sufficient accuracy will yield new…

  July 23 2012, 8:29am | Comments

• Portfolio LISTEN TO MY EXECUTABLES

  July 23 2012, 3:06am | Comments

• Portfolio Binary Nomination

  July 19 2012, 9:32am | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation

  In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a very…

  July 19 2012, 8:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Passing the baton of life - from Schrödinger to Venter

  Craig Venter spins increasingly ubiquitous metaphor: "The digital and biological worlds are becoming interchangeable" "All living cells that we know of on this planet are 'DNA software'-driven biological machines comprised of…

  July 19 2012, 8:09am | Comments

• Bookmark "Once upon a time" exhibition by Steve McQueen

  In the work Once upon a Time (2004) McQueen presents a slide show of 116 of these images installed to make them seem to float in space: about two-thirds of the…

  July 11 2012, 4:57am | Comments

• Bookmark How to write in the digital age

  There have been plenty of conferences about the future of publishing, but few, if any, have been aimed at writers. The Literary Consultancy remedied this recently with a two-day conference –…

  July 10 2012, 2:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Is SETI at risk of downloading a malicious virus from outer space?

  We take it for granted that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a safe endeavor. Seriously, what could possibly go wrong with passively searching for interstellar radio signals? Unfortunately, the…

  July 10 2012, 2:55am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke GLTI.CH Karaoke at Goldsmiths: “Speak That I May See Thee”!

  July 2 2012, 8:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Acclaimed artists commemorate the 25-year anniversary of the GIF

  From the oogachaka baby to Nyan Cat, the graphics interchange format, better known as the GIF, has come a long way since the days of floppy discs. The modern-day GIF was…

  June 27 2012, 3:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why Aren't We Reading Turing?

  It's a testament to Turing's fascination with nearly everything that 76 years since his first major paper, there's still so much to write about his work. Expect this week to offer…

  June 27 2012, 3:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark On the Natural History of Surveillance

  Upon hearing the phrase, we may not know exactly what a “cephalic sniffer” is, nor whether it is a real piece of technology. However, as to what such a nefarious device…

  June 15 2012, 5:21am | Comments

• Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

  June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments

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• Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

  October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  As We May Think: A 1945 Essay on Information Overload, "Curation," and Open

  October 15 2012, 1:37am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 12 2012, 3:19pm | Comments

• Portfolio Sampling, Acclimatisation, and the ‘Die Hard’ Method

  October 7 2012, 3:48pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Art of the 64 Squares

  October 7 2012, 3:25pm | Comments

• Bookmark Artificially intelligent game bots pass the Turing test on Turing's centenary

  An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created by computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like…

  September 29 2012, 4:28am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  IS ONTOLOGY MAKING US STUPID?

  September 20 2012, 7:35am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The evolution of cheating in chess

  September 18 2012, 4:48am | Comments

• Wikipedia Ontogeny Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origin and the development of an organism – for example: from the fertilized egg to mature form. It covers in essence, the study of an organism's lifespan. The word "ontogeny" comes from the Greek ὄντος, ontos,…

  September 17 2012, 6:02am | Comments

• Instagram Art of Change: works are by Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, including a column made…

  September 11 2012, 4:18am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 5 2012, 10:27pm | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Next-Generation Digital Information Storage in DNA

  Digital information is accumulating at an astounding rate, straining our ability to store and archive it. DNA is among the most dense and stable information media known. The development of new…

  August 18 2012, 5:55am | Comments

• Bookmark In 1977, NASA sent 115 images – the so-called ‘Golden Record’ –…

  In 1977, NASA sent 115 images – the so-called ‘Golden Record’ – into space on board the Voyager space probe. They also included greetings in 55 different languages and a number…

  August 13 2012, 5:47am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke Machines by Other Means, Manchester

  August 8 2012, 4:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Pareidolia: A Bizarre Bug of the Human Mind Emerges in Computers

  This rocky hill in Ebihens, France, is, well, just that -- a rocky hill in Ebihens, France. But to pretty much any human observer, the assemblage of meaningless angles takes on…

  August 8 2012, 2:46am | Comments

• Bookmark Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing

  For the most part, the biological metaphor has long been just that — a simplifying analogy rather than a blueprint for how to do computing. Engineering, not biology, guided the pursuit…

  August 8 2012, 2:44am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 28 2012, 6:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Stanford and Venter Institute Simulate an Entire Organism With Software

  For medical researchers and biochemists, simulation software will vastly speed the early stages of screening for new compounds. And for molecular biologists, models that are of sufficient accuracy will yield new…

  July 23 2012, 8:29am | Comments

• Portfolio LISTEN TO MY EXECUTABLES

  July 23 2012, 3:06am | Comments

• Portfolio Binary Nomination

  July 19 2012, 9:32am | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation

  In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a very…

  July 19 2012, 8:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Passing the baton of life - from Schrödinger to Venter

  Craig Venter spins increasingly ubiquitous metaphor: "The digital and biological worlds are becoming interchangeable" "All living cells that we know of on this planet are 'DNA software'-driven biological machines comprised of…

  July 19 2012, 8:09am | Comments

• Bookmark "Once upon a time" exhibition by Steve McQueen

  In the work Once upon a Time (2004) McQueen presents a slide show of 116 of these images installed to make them seem to float in space: about two-thirds of the…

  July 11 2012, 4:57am | Comments

• Bookmark How to write in the digital age

  There have been plenty of conferences about the future of publishing, but few, if any, have been aimed at writers. The Literary Consultancy remedied this recently with a two-day conference –…

  July 10 2012, 2:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Is SETI at risk of downloading a malicious virus from outer space?

  We take it for granted that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a safe endeavor. Seriously, what could possibly go wrong with passively searching for interstellar radio signals? Unfortunately, the…

  July 10 2012, 2:55am | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke GLTI.CH Karaoke at Goldsmiths: “Speak That I May See Thee”!

  July 2 2012, 8:54am | Comments

• Bookmark Acclaimed artists commemorate the 25-year anniversary of the GIF

  From the oogachaka baby to Nyan Cat, the graphics interchange format, better known as the GIF, has come a long way since the days of floppy discs. The modern-day GIF was…

  June 27 2012, 3:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why Aren't We Reading Turing?

  It's a testament to Turing's fascination with nearly everything that 76 years since his first major paper, there's still so much to write about his work. Expect this week to offer…

  June 27 2012, 3:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark On the Natural History of Surveillance

  Upon hearing the phrase, we may not know exactly what a “cephalic sniffer” is, nor whether it is a real piece of technology. However, as to what such a nefarious device…

  June 15 2012, 5:21am | Comments

• Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

  June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments

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