Lectio :: Mythology Hephaistos Pygmallion Pythagoras Disputatio :: Myths of a digital world Exercitio :: A letter to Your digital self Video :: The 2nd rennais
a male counterpart to Pallas Athena gives skill to artists god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire, and
Hermes' helmet and sandals, Achiless' armor, chariot of Helios chain-link net for Aphrodite & Ares Pandora's pithos (also known as "Pandora's box") first docum
Wheel tripods to bring stuff to Olympos and back (Iliad, ca. 8th century B.C.) golden and silver dogs and lions which could bite invaders of the palace of Alki
Pygmalion loathing their lascivious life, Abhorr'd all womankind, but most a wife: So single chose to live, and shunn'd to wed, Well pleas'd to want a consort
The Goddess, present at the match she made, So bless'd the bed, such fruitfulness convey'd, That ere ten months had sharpen'd either horn, To crown their bliss
described in 10th book of Ovid's metamorphoses, but potentially derived from older myth from island of Cyprus an archetypical story about a thing which becomes
a half-mythological, half-historic personage first man to call himself a philosopher ("lover of wisdom") important contributions to mathematics (e.g. Pythagore
triangle distributing numbers 1 to 10 in four rows many levels of symbolism (Unity / Power / Harmony / Kosmos; Fire / Air / Water / Earth; Point / Line / Trian
and then said creators: faciamus hominem ad imaginem et similitudinem nostram and then said humans: faciamus machinam ad imaginem et similitudinem nostram
Repetitio :: Mythology Questio :: What is a machine ? Lectio :: Antiquity Antikythera mechanism Heron of Alexandria other traditions Exercitio :: Introduction
English word machine comes through Middle French from Latin machina, which in turn derives from the Greek (Doric μαχανά makhana, Ionic μηχανή mekhane "contriva
An apparatus using mechanical power and having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task. Any device that transmits
an ancient Greek analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses for calendar and astrological purposes decades in advance created someti
greatest experimenter of antiquity teacher at Musaeum author of works like Pneumatica, Automata, Mechanica, On the dioptra, Belopoeica, Catoptrica, Geodesia, G
holy water dispenser windwheel organ Hero's engine (aeolipile) 10-minute long fully mechanical theater piece involving a first "programmable" robot Windwheel o
"When King Solomon stepped upon the throne, a mechanism was set in motion. As soon as he stepped upon the first step, the golden ox and the golden lion each str
The king stared at the figure in astonishment. It walked with rapid strides, moving its head up and down, so that anyone would have taken it for a live human be
less interested in "crude", hardware-oriented disciplines of robotics and mechanics (an exception: "The story of a mechanical girl") more interested in "subtle
Watch some videos about addition, subtraction and multiplication on an Abacus (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwabVzlobZI) You can validate the activity-
Repetitio :: Antiquity Narratio :: L'histoire de fille mecanique Questio :: What is a digit ? Lectio :: Dark ages al-Khwarizmi Fibonacci Exercitio :: Abacus II
digit (n.) in English since late 14c., "numeral below 10," from Latin digitus (french: "doigt") "finger or toe" (also with secondary meanings relating to count
any of the Arabic numerals 1 to 9 and usually the symbol 0 one of the elements that combine to form numbers in a system other than the decimal system digits ,
a symbol denoting/representing a natural number ("a numeral") we'll work with four systems of numerals roman: I, V, X, L, C, D, M decimal: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
persian scholar from golden-age of islamic science his name Latinized as "Algorithmi" (Port. "guarismo" and Spanish "algarismo" mean digit) since 820 A.D. the
8th century - 12th century :: golden-age of islamic science integration of Persian and Arabic into one cultural realm translation of Greek and Roman works into
book about solving quadratic equations principial mathematical text-book of European Universities until 16th century al-ğabr ("forcing", "restoring") operation
If some one says: "You divide ten into two parts: multiply the one by itself; it will be equal to the other taken eighty-one times." Computation: You say, ten l
Kitāb al-Jam‘ wat-Tafrīq bi-Ḥisāb al-Hi("The Book of Addition and Subtraction According to the Hindu Calculation") Arabic original of the book has been lost 12
"the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages" his book Liber Abaci (1202) popularized the Hindu-Arabic numeral systems in Europe travelled exten
"Suppose a newly-born pair of rabbits, one male, one female, are put in a field. Rabbits are able to mate at the age of one month so that at the end of its sec
"The nine Indian figures are: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 With these nine figures, and with the sign 0 which the Arabs call zephir any number whatsoever is written..." Le
Repetitio :: Between Antiquity and Rennaissance Narratio :: Wheat and chessboard legend Questio :: What is an algorithm ? Lectio :: Between renaissance and Age
"Oh emperor, my wishes are simple. I only wish for this. Give me one grain of rice for the first square of the chessboard, two grains for the next square, four
a procedure for solving a mathematical problem in a finite number of steps that frequently involves repetition of an operation a step-by-step procedure for sol
polymath at 23-years of age, his dreams pose him in front of a question: Quod vitae sectabor iter? establishement of scientific method (based on "doubitatio")
"I should like you to consider that these functions (including passion, memory, and imagination) follow from the mere arrangement of the machine’s organs every
polymath in 19years of age started to build first mechanical calculators ("Pascalines") ground-breaking works in mathematics (Pascal's triangle), geometry (Pas
one of the last big polymaths advanced disciplines of philosophy (monadology, theodicea, why is there something rather than nothing?), mathematics (probability
"... it is beneath the dignity of excellent men to waste their time in calculation when any peasant could do the work just as accurately with the aid of a mach
Repetitio :: Between Rennaissance and Age of Reason Questio :: What is a "representation" ? Exercitio I:: Binary counting. Presentatio I :: Baroque calculating
represent (v.) late 14c., "to bring to mind by description," also "to symbolize, serve as a sign or symbol of; serve as the type or embodiment of;" from Latin
The description or portrayal of someone or something in a particular way. The depiction of someone or something in a work of art. A picture, model, or other de
polymath, KH FRS, Victorian gentleman etc. mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer "father of the computer" author of "difference engine"
daughter of Lord Byron mother promoted Ada's interest in mathematics and logics, student od Augustus de Morgan associate of Charles Babbage ("Enchantress of Nu
Note A, p. 694 :: Again, it [the Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be e
The distinctive characteristic of the Analytical Engine, and that which has rendered it possible to endow mechanism with such extensive faculties as bid fair to
another Victorian gentleman at 17 years of age "a thought struck him suddenly, which became the foundation of all his future discoveries" author of "Laws of Th
united algebra and logic replaced propositional form of Aristotle's logic to equation-like formulae and introduced "laws" which can solve them logical formulae
Repetitio I:: Zuse computers Exercitio I:: Binary counting Presentatio I :: Notes of Augusta Ada Byron King Questiae Presentatio II :: Binary adder Exercitio I
Init: Set up Your inputs. Carry is zero. Start from the rightmost position (represented by thumb). Apply the transition rule (if necessary, flip the carry to a
24th January Question of the day: Can machines understand ? Topic: Programming languages and operating systems Heroes: von Neumann, Ritchie & Thomson, Tanenbaum
31th January Question of the day: Can machines evolve ? Topic: Internet and the emergence of planetary A.I. Heroes: Snowden, Nakamoto, hacker community
Etymology of the word "to inform" early 14c., "to train or instruct in some specific subject," from Old French informer, enformer "instruct, teach" (13c.) and d
mathematician, electrical engineer, cryptographer, juggler & unicycler "father of information theory" (1937) A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuit
Narratio :: The imitation game Repetitio :: Introduction to information theory Questio :: Can machines think ? Lectio :: Turing machine Turing test Exercitio :
a 2014 movie adaptation of the book Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983) 8 Oscar nominations, one Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay story about life, work and death
What I want to tell You is ... that "thinking" consists of execution of operation with signs. * * Origin of this quote is to be sought from in some later works
A.M.T. OBE FRS (23.6.1912 - 7.6.1954) an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist father of theo
On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the "Entscheidungsproblem" (1936) halting problem is the problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrar
A "theoretical" machine consisting of tape with discrete symbols reading/writing header table of rules tape-moving mechanism Visualization of the Turing Machine
"It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence. If this machine U is supplied with a tape on the beginning of w
"A TT is a way how to address the question "Can machines think?" in a scientifically plausible ye deeply empathic way. More concretely, Turing (1950) proposes t
I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with defnitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think".(Turing, 1950)
You are going to hear two pieces of music. One is composed and performed by humans, another is composed and generated by an artificial system. You are going to
Exemplificatio :: Speech recognition Repetitio :: Hommage to A.M.T. Questio :: Can machines understand ? Lectio :: von Neumann architecture transistors and lan
speech-to-text technologies start to get ubiquitious (Siri, Watson, Alexa, Cortana, Assistant etc.) embedded & offline speech-to-text systems also exist (Sphin
Johnny von Neumann (28.12.1903 - 8.2.1957) "the last representative of the great mathematicians" statistics, stochastic computing, quantum mechanics, game theor
First Draft on the EDVAC (1945) a detailed design of a "very high speed automatic digital computing system" contains the first published description of the logi
a transistor is a semiconductor device with at least three terminals Shockley, Bardain at Brattain presented a functional concept on 23th December 1947 to some
Introductio :: 3 spheres Repetitio :: Epoch Questio :: Is machine evolving ? Lectio :: from ARPAnet to Internet TCP/IP and the OSI model Web milestones Disputa
Evolution is a durative process emergent in any finite-resourced environment containing a population of information-encoding entities which : Reproduce Need res
1st core: ARPANet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) funded by US Department of Defense 1st network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP 1st communi
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html sir Timothy Berners-Lee proposed in 1989 "a large hypertext database with typed links" realized in 1990-1991
Mamoru Oshii's (1995) depiction of a manga comics tells the story of a cyborg Motoko Kusanagi whose cyberbrain was hacked by an entity called Puppet Master who
Please try to answer the question "What is life ?" by pondering following questions: What entities do we normally label as "living" ? What features a "living" e
Merriam-Webster definition of embedded: "enclosed closely in or as if in a matrix : set firmly into a mass or material" majority of embedded systems are design
Adapted poster Design by Martin Rieser; source: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/rur/synopsis-2/ not only embedded but also embodied word "robot" comes from Slovak/