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Bookmark Rhizome | Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: Computational Photography
The digital eye is an ubiquitous feature of current portable technology—webcams, DSLRs, mobile phones, tablets, even MP3 players.

December 29 2013, 9:42am | Comments
Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments
Bookmark If The Internet Is Your Canvas, You Paint In Zeros And Ones…
That Benjamin Palmer dropped $3,500 at Phillips auction house in New York is not surprising. The 217-year-old company, headquartered on Park Avenue, regularly sells artwork for tens — and often hundreds…

November 20 2013, 5:12am | Comments
Bookmark All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the…
We rely on computers to fly our planes, find our cancers, design our buildings, audit our businesses. That's all well and good.

November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments
Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Use of The City as a metaphor for the Internet/Web I am looking for examinations of the Internet and World Wide Web that use the structure and/or history of the city as a metaphor. I'm afraid I have no original example of this phenomenon to kick things off. I have this image in…

April 12 2013, 10:19am | Comments
Bookmark The Philosophy of Data - NYTimes.com

February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments
Bookmark New Left Project | Articles |Biology in an Age of Technoscience
Hilary Rose is a prominent feminist and sociologist and is currently a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Steven Rose is a neurobiologist at the Open University and the…

February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments
Bookmark Shakespeare’s Sonnets and MLK’s Speech Stored in DNA Speck – Phenomena: Not…
Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that…

February 11 2013, 2:53am | Comments
Bookmark Turing Complete User
Computers are getting invisible. They shrink and hide. They lurk under the skin and dissolve in the cloud. We observe the process like an eclipse of the sun, partly scared, partly…

December 31 2012, 6:46am | Comments
Bookmark Why we want to build Charles Babbage's Victorian computer
To understand why it's worth building an almost 200-year-old mechanical computer, it's necessary to first understand what a computer is. Although Babbage's analytical engine is entirely mechanical, it has the same…

October 24 2012, 3:35am | Comments
Bookmark Computer glitch may have led to Deep Blue's historic win over chess…
Earlier this year, IBM celebrated the 15-year anniversary of its supercomputer Deep Blue beating chess champion Garry Kasparov. According to a new book, however, it may have been an accidental glitch…

September 29 2012, 7:09am | 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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Magic: The Gathering is Turing complete

September 16 2012, 4:35am | Comments
Bookmark The Walled City: Cannot one dream of a ‘computer hypothesis’? | Radical…
This essay is in many ways a companion piece to Gary Hall’s ‘Pirate Radical Philosophy’ in RP 173 (May/June 2012). Consider it a prequel, or something akin to a video game’s…

August 29 2012, 2:11am | 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 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
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 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
Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

July 17 2012, 8:10am | Comments
Bookmark The Manifest Destiny of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence began with an ambitious research agenda: To endow machines with some of the traits we value most highly in ourselves—the faculty of reason, skill in solving problems, creativity, the…

July 10 2012, 2:48am | 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
Portfolio Rigid Implementation vs Flexible Materiality

June 7 2012, 6:08am | Comments
Bookmark The Case for Computers at Top Chess Tournaments
Grandmasters of comparable skill now come to championship games with computer-generated analysis of their opponents’ opening lines and likely moves. Home preparation has always been important, but computers have made it…

June 6 2012, 2:53am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Sloppy MicroChips: Can a fair comparison be made between biological and silicon entropy? Was reading about microchips that are designed to allow a few mistakes (known as 'Sloppy Chips'), and pondering equivalent kinds of 'coding' errors and entropy in biological systems. Can a fair comparison be made between the two? OK, to setup my question I…

June 5 2012, 10:05am | Comments
Bookmark Machines and memory
Kernel on machines and memory, with some nice examples of apps that are exploring our changing relationship with both. We are all digital archaeologists now, writes Robert Carroll. But in a…

June 2 2012, 9:33am | Comments
Bookmark Google Knowledge Graph
Last Wednesday, with relatively little fanfare, Google introduced a new technology called Google Knowledge Graph. Type in “François Hollande,” and you are offered a capsule history (with links) to his children,…

May 30 2012, 1:59am | Comments
Bookmark Peter Krapp: Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture (2011)
To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative reservoirs of…

May 23 2012, 9:46am | Comments
Bookmark "Videogames are the experience of being ruled"
Revolutions are often thought of in terms of conflict and disorder, but they just as often come on waves of peaceful obsolescence. The old way of doing things is allowed to…

May 17 2012, 3:32am | Comments
Bookmark Emergence of the Human 'SuperBrain' 75,000 Years Ago --"AI Could Blur Differences…
"Humans obviously evolved a much wider range of communication tools to express their thoughts, the most important being language," said Hoffecker, a fellow at CU's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.…

April 22 2012, 4:15pm | Comments

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