About Me & Contact - cyberneticzoo.com. Reuben Hoggett has had a life-long interest in robots.
His earliest images are that of Grey Walter's tortoise as illustrated in Nigel Calder's book 'Robots', an image of Bruce Lacey's robot best 'man' Rosabosom in a 60's newspaper article, and Dr Who and the Daleks, of course. These books and articles he still has after 40 odd years. Over that time his personal collection of all things robotic has been growing. Aspects of his robotics interest were re-kindled some years ago after reading an article on the recent discovery and restoration of Grey Walter's own tortoise by those at Bristol Robotics Lab. After starting a friendship with robot builder and historian David Buckley, some of his efforts have been published on David's site. The initial focus will be on recent findings on Grey Walter and his tortoises, both complimenting and challenging research done to date. Laws of Simplicity.
Cybernetics Items and Information [page id: 78025] The Markable Mark - an approach to Spencer Brown's Laws of Form. People who have studied Laws of Form. Norbert Wiener and Cybernetics. Norbert Wiener was born on November 26, 1894, and received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University at the age of 18 for a thesis on mathematical logic.
He subsequently studied under Bertrand Russell in Cambridge, England, and David Hilbert in Göttingen, Germany. After working as a journalist, university teacher, engineer, and writer, Wiener he was hired by MIT in 1919, coincidentally the same year as Vannevar Bush. In 1933, Wiener won the Bôcher Prize for his brilliant work on Tauberian theorems and generalized harmonic analysis. During World War II, Wiener worked on guided missile technology, and studied how sophisticated electronics used the feedback principle -- as when a missile changes its flight in response to its current position and direction.
He noticed that the feedback principle is also a key feature of life forms from the simplest plants to the most complex animals, which change their actions in response to their environment. Resources. Cybernetics and Service-Craft: Language for Behavior-Focused Design. Written for Kybernetes by Hugh Dubberly and Paul Pangaro Abstract Argues design practice has moved from hand-craft to service-craft and that service-craft exemplifies a growing focus on systems within design practice.
An ecological epistemology. Systems Theory/Cybernetics. Cybernetics. There are many definitions of cybernetics and many individuals who have influenced the definition and direction of cybernetics.
Norbert Wiener, a mathematician, engineer and social philosopher, coined the word "cybernetics" from the Greek word meaning "steersman. " He defined it as the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine. Ampere, before him, wanted cybernetics to be the science of government. For philosopher Warren McCulloch, cybernetics was an experimental epistemology concerned with the communication within an observer and between the observer and his environment. Stafford Beer, a management consultant, defined cybernetics as the science of effective organization. Cyborgology » humanity meets technology. On Pharrell’s “Happy” by robinjames, 2 days ago at 05:00 am I find Pharrell’s massive hit “Happy” really, really irritating.
And, for that reason, I love it. Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain. A look inside the atomic-switch network device reveals its highly interconnected architecture, which comprises synaptic “atomic switch” circuit elements at each point of contact between silver nanowires.
The collective interactions between these atomic switches result in unique, emergent properties that have shown significant potential for neuromorphic computing. (Credit: MANA) Researchers in the U.S. and Japan have developed a self-assembled neuromorphic (brain-like) device comprising more than a billion interconnected “atomic-switch” inorganic synapses embedded in a complex network of silver nanowires.
The researchers are located at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) at the National Institute for Materials Science, Japan. Psycho Cybernetics. If your life were a book, and you were the author… “Our borders and our obstacles can only do two things.
One: Stop us in our tracks. Two: force us to get creative.” Amy Purdy lost both her legs when she was 19. Ten years later she won two gold medals as a pro snowboarder. “Would I ever want to change my situation? “Our imaginations can be used as tools for breaking through borders. “Our challenges and limitations are blessings, magnificent gifts that can ignite our imagination and make us go further.” Good Talks: The power of reframing things (Rory Sutherland) “The circumstances of our lives actually matter less to our happiness than the sense of control we feel over our lives.” says Rory Sutherland, advertising guru in this highly entertaining talk.
“When you can’t smoke, if you stand and stare out of the window on your own, you’re an antisocial, friendless idiot. “Reality isn’t a particularly good guide to human happiness.” Source: www.ted.com Continue reading full article … > Brain Scan.