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Artificial Worlds
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Author : R. Morris
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Release Date : 1999-04-18
Artificial Worlds written by R. Morris and has been published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-04-18 with Computers categories.
In their laboratories, complexity scientists have been experimenting with complex chemicals that display some of the characteristics of life, and have created electronic computer-virus-like life-forms that are born, die, reproduce, mutate, and evolve. Through these artificial worlds they have actually been able to monitor evolution as it happens, since it takes place at a much more rapid pace within a computer - where new species can evolve in as little as an hour. Among the phenomena that these scientists hope to observe are the evolution of multicellular life forms, and possibly even the evolution of electronic intelligence. Could it be that life itself is an emergent property that arises spontaneously when a chemical system attains a certain degree of complexity? At the cutting edge of discovery, this exciting new branch of science has fostered a rare and intriguing dialogue between innovators across a broad range of disciplines, from mathematicians, computer scientists, and economists, to anthropologists and biologists. Richard Morris makes this major field of inquiry accessible to a popular readership as never before, while he reveals its potential to solve the greatest of all questions to puzzle humankind - what is life?
Learning With Artificial Worlds
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Author : Harvey Mellar
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-03
Learning With Artificial Worlds written by Harvey Mellar and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-03 with Education categories.
First Published in 1994. This book is about modelling in education. It is about providing children with computer tools to enable them to create their own worlds, to express their own representations of their world, and also to explore other people's representations - learning with artificial worlds. This title is best suited for the classroom teacher who has used some modelling, and now wishes to seriously consider the role of modelling within their curriculum.
Learning Within Artificial Worlds
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Author : Harvey Mellar
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-02
Learning Within Artificial Worlds written by Harvey Mellar and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-02 with Education categories.
With the advent of the National Curriculum, computer based modelling CBM is now a compulsory part of the school curriculum. Teachers are increasingly being encouraged to seek out opportunities for CBM in their own subject and across the curriculum. The new demands on the curriculum have left eachers and teacher trainers concerned as to their lack of experience in the area. This book sets out to provide a comprehensive guide to the area through an examination of a number of funded projects on CBM and their application to the school curriculum, setting them in the context of wider theoretical and practical concerns. It is acknowledged that computers bring about change in the classroom, both in teachers' professional development and innovative practices in teaching and learning. In highlighting how CBM can aid in the effective delivery of the curriculum, this book should be essential reading for teachers and researchers in the field.
Functions In Biological And Artificial Worlds
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Author : Ulrich Krohs
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2009
Functions In Biological And Artificial Worlds written by Ulrich Krohs and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Philosophy categories.
Investigations into the relationship between organism and artifacts from the perspective of functionality.
Silicon Second Nature
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Author : Stefan Helmreich
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1998-11-16
Silicon Second Nature written by Stefan Helmreich and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11-16 with Science categories.
Silicon Second Nature takes us on an expedition into an extraordinary world where nature is made of bits and bytes and life is born from sequences of zeroes and ones. Artificial Life is the brainchild of scientists who view self-replicating computer programs—such as computer viruses—as new forms of life. Anthropologist Stefan Helmreich's look at the social and simulated worlds of Artificial Life—primarily at the Santa Fe Institute, a well-known center for studies in the sciences of complexity—introduces readers to the people and programs connected with this unusual hybrid of computer science and biology. When biology becomes an information science, when DNA is downloaded into virtual reality, new ways of imagining "life" become possible. Through detailed dissections of the artifacts of Artifical Life, Helmreich explores how these novel visions of life are recombining with the most traditional tales told by Western culture. Because Artificial Life scientists tend to see themselves as masculine gods of their cyberspace creations, as digital Darwins exploring frontiers filled with primitive creatures, their programs reflect prevalent representations of gender, kinship, and race, and repeat origin stories most familiar from mythical and religious narratives. But Artificial Life does not, Helmreich says, simply reproduce old stories in new software. Much like contemporary activities of cloning, cryonics, and transgenics, the practice of simulating and synthesizing life in silico challenges and multiplies the very definition of vitality. Are these models, as some would claim, actually another form of the real thing? Silicon Second Nature takes Artifical Life as a symptom and source of our mutating visions of life itself.
Virtual Reality
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Author : Howard Rheingold
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992-08-15
Virtual Reality written by Howard Rheingold and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-08-15 with Computers categories.
Breaking the reality barrier ; the reality-industrial complex ; virtual reality and the future.
Anthropology Inside And Outside The Looking Glass Worlds Of Artificial Life
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Author : Stefan Gordon Helmreich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Anthropology Inside And Outside The Looking Glass Worlds Of Artificial Life written by Stefan Gordon Helmreich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with categories.
Artificial Life V
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Author : Christopher G. Langton
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1997
Artificial Life V written by Christopher G. Langton and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Computers categories.
In addition to presenting the latest work in the field, Artificial Life V includes a retrospective and prospective look at both artificial and natural life with the aim of refining the methods and approaches discovered so far into viable, practical tools for the pursuit of science and engineering goals. May 16-18, 1996 · Nara, Japan Despite all the successes in computer engineering, adaptive computation, bottom-up AI, and robotics, Artificial Life must not become simply a one-way bridge, borrowing biological principles to enhance our engineering efforts in the construction of life-as-it-could-be. We must ensure that we give back to biology in kind, by developing tools and methods that will be of real value in the effort to understand life-as-it-is. Artificial Life V marks a decade since Christopher Langton organized the first workshop on artificial life--a decade characterized by the exploration of new possibilities and techniques as researchers have sought to understand, through synthetic experiments, the organizing principles underlying the dynamics (usually the nonlinear dynamics) of living systems. In addition to presenting the latest work in the field, Artificial Life V includes a retrospective and prospective look at both artificial and natural life with the aim of refining the methods and approaches discovered so far into viable, practical tools for the pursuit of science and engineering goals. Complex Adaptive Systems series
The Artificial Paradise
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Author : Sharona Ben-Tov
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1995
The Artificial Paradise written by Sharona Ben-Tov and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Fiction categories.
Why do Americans find it appealing to create and live in artificial worlds--whether in space, at Disneyland, in computer networks, or in our own minds?
Possible Worlds Artificial Intelligence And Narrative Theory
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Author : Marie-Laure Ryan
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1991
Possible Worlds Artificial Intelligence And Narrative Theory written by Marie-Laure Ryan and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Computers categories.
In this important contribution to narrative theory, Marie-Laure Ryan applies insights from artificial intelligence and the theory of possible worlds to the study of narrative and fiction. For Ryan, the theory of possible worlds provides a more nuanced way of discussing the commonplace notion of a fictional "world," while artificial intelligence contributes to narratology and the theory of fiction directly via its researches into the congnitive processes of texts and automatic story generation. Although Ryan applies exotic theories to the study of narrative and to fiction, her book maintains a solid basis in literary theory and makes the formal models developed by AI researchers accessible to the student of literature. By combining the philosophical background of possible world theory with models inspired by AI, the book fulfills a pressing need in narratology for new paradigms and an interdisciplinary perspective.