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Bookmark Algorithm beats jigsaw-solving record
We have met our match at the genteel pastime of jigsaw puzzles. It seems an algorithm can now whiz through 10,000 pieces in 24 hours. The speedy solver could also help…

June 27 2012, 3:29pm | Comments
Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments
Bookmark Face-reading software to judge the mood of the masses
Systems that can identify emotions in images of faces might soon collate millions of peoples' reactions to events and could even replace opinion polls IF THE computers we stare at all…

May 30 2012, 1:55am | Comments
Bookmark The Web Browser As Aesthetic Framework: Why Digital Art Today Looks Different
Collective cultural memory is the foundation on which the significance of a creative practice stands. As summarized in Emerson Rosenthal’s post for #DIGART week, online collections and exhibition spaces have been…

May 8 2012, 2:14pm | Comments
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Large study shows little difference between human and robot essay graders

April 13 2012, 7:30am | Comments
Bookmark The Sound of the Internet
If the internet makes a sound (and it does), are you listening? Our correspondent uses software to transform the digital ephemera of web browsing—from network traffic to JavaScript, browser histories to…

March 29 2012, 9:44am | Comments
Bookmark Zombie Editions: An Archaeology of POD Areopagiticas
This is a zombie edition, one of many I found for early modern texts on Amazon. Produced as cheap print-on-demand editions from EEBO or GoogleBook scans, they're listed alongside reputable scholarly…

October 16 2011, 9:06am | Comments
Bookmark “Seriality for All”: The Role of Protocols and Standards in Critical Theory
For many years, philosophers have been casting doubt on the common identification with meaning and signification as the primary human response mechanisms to the world. If we wish to understand anything…

September 24 2011, 4:36pm | Comments
Bookmark How Can We Understand Code as a "Critical Artifact"?
The working definition for Critical Code Studies (CCS) is "the application of humanities style hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer source code." However, lately, I have found it more useful to…

September 20 2011, 10:26am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Innovative websites as template for MFA research community I'm looking for examples of websites that have successfully enhanced a research community (academic or artistic) with a dynamic online/social/mutual-portfolio presence. Blog and social media based hubs, perhaps, that showcase the possibilities of web portfolio/research integration for academic and creative purposes. I've been…

September 16 2011, 7:26am | Comments
Bookmark The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age
Berry’s book is less one specific philosophical argument of what software is and what code does, but consists of chapters that illuminate different ways one can approach software and software culture…

September 6 2011, 4:15am | Comments
Bookmark Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES…
Emulators for playing older games are immensely popular online, with regular arguments breaking out over which emulator is best for which game. Today we present another point of view from a…

August 11 2011, 4:25am | Comments
Wikipedia GlitchWiki This is the research wiki-webring for Glitch and other glitch/noise related content GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media practitioners in Chicago & Amsterdam from September 29 thru October 03, 2010! GLI.TC/H is a physical and virtual assembly of artists,…

June 12 2011, 3:59pm | Comments
Metafilter Projects: GLTI.CH Karaoke is a virtual jukebox oozing with time-delayed, glitchy fun. Streaming live over the web, London and Kumamoto will be joined in a sing off to end all sing offs. The first GLTI.CH KARAOKE event will laugh in the face of the nine hour…

March 25 2011, 11:17am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Webcam Karaoke I would like to display Karaoke lyrics over a live webcam feed. This means I might need a skype (or equivalent) plugin that plays the music & lyrics, or find some karaoke software with the ability to display lyrics over a transparent background.…

March 10 2011, 5:05am | Comments
Bookmark Humans, Version 3.0
This view of the future of humankind is grounded in an appreciation of the biologically innate powers bestowed upon us by hundreds of millions of years of evolution. This deep respect…

March 5 2011, 4:01am | Comments
Bookmark Lev manovich: software culture. the common grammar of media
Professor of New Media Art at the University of California, both artist and graphic designer, Lev Manovich does not need further presentation. His first book “The language of New Media” (it…

December 13 2010, 6:12pm | Comments
Bookmark How Video Games Are Infiltrating—and Improving—Every Part of Our Lives
Games are sneaking into every part of our lives -- at home, school, and work. Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and even the Army depend on games. and Pretty soon, you'll be a…

December 8 2010, 7:46am | Comments
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December 8 2010, 7:05am | Comments
Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

December 6 2010, 1:41pm | Comments
Bookmark The Men Who Stole the World
A decade ago, four young men changed the way the world works. They did this not with laws or guns or money but with software: they had radical, disruptive ideas, which…

December 1 2010, 4:22am | Comments
Bookmark The Year of The Animated Gif
2010 is the year of the animated gif. They are everywhere. Tumblr’s Three Frames, a site that posts only gifs drawn from movies on a daily basis is recommended to me…

October 12 2010, 2:47am | Comments
Bookmark The Anthropology of Hackers
A "hacker" is a technologist with a love for computing and a "hack" is a clever technical solution arrived through a non-obvious means. It doesn't mean to compromise the Pentagon, change…

October 1 2010, 9:08am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments
Bookmark The First Church of Robotics
THE news of the day often includes an item about some development in artificial intelligence: a machine that smiles, a program that can predict human tastes in mates or music, a…

August 28 2010, 6:43am | Comments
Bookmark Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain
There he goes again, making up nonsense and making ridiculous claims that have no relationship to reality. Ray Kurzweil must be able to spin out a good line of bafflegab, because…

August 17 2010, 3:04pm | Comments
Misc Code (Or, How to Write Something Differently) Type Book Section Editor Matthew Fuller Author Friedrich Kittler Place Cambridge Mass. Publisher MIT Press Pages 40-47 ISBN 9780262062749 Date 2008 Book Title Software studies : a lexicon

June 24 2010, 3:08am | Comments
Bookmark Smarter Than You Think - I.B.M.'s Supercomputer
For the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been developing what they expect will be the world’s most advanced “question answering” machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday human…

June 17 2010, 3:31am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
Bookmark The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty
In the 1990s, Paul Romer revolutionized economics. In the aughts, he became rich as a software entrepreneur. Now he’s trying to help the poorest countries grow rich—by convincing them to establish…

June 12 2010, 9:21am | Comments
Bookmark Beware, your imagination leaves digital traces
by Bruno Latour ’Who would know how to love without having read novels?” This saying seems to take on a new meaning with the multiplication of virtual worlds, even though the…

May 19 2010, 7:18am | Comments
Bookmark Triumph of the Cyborg Composer
Along with his work on synthesis, or using machines to create sounds, Cope had dabbled in the use of software to compose music. Inspired by the field of artificial intelligence, he…

March 12 2010, 3:09am | Comments

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