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Sorin Adam Matei

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Tag: embodied

ITHINK 10/11/2008

Notre Dames de Reims – Google Search tags: no_tag Cathédrale Notre Dame de Reims by kevin51340 – Google 3D Warehouse tags: no_tag World Heritage Centre – World Heritage Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what…

BBC NEWS | Technology | Online worlds to be AI incubators

Right, they’ll teach this old pony a new trick… BBC NEWS | Technology | Online worlds to be AI incubators Online worlds such as Second Life will soon become training grounds for artificial intelligences. Researchers at US firm Novamente have created software…

Embodied computing

Imagine a computing environment which interacts with objects physically. Put a camera in it and the pictures are downloaded on the fly. Microsoft says it has unlocked the mystery of ambiental, portable, devices. Microsoft unveils revolutionary device – Today: Money – MSNBC.com…

Bill Joy’s Vision of the Future

We were talking in class today abou the future of embodied computing and its philosophical foundations. Bill Joy, taking the path of those who believe that life is software by other means, concludes that the future could be really bleak: Why the…

Revisiting propinquity in interpersonal and intergroup dynamics

Drawing on the earlier notion of electronic propinquity as postulated by Korzenny (1978), the role of several factors like communication skills, bandwidth, information complexity, mutual directionality, to name a few, all play a part in determining the amount of propinquity achieved in…