31.12.2018
Order of the day (AE490207)
Introductio :: Ghost in the shell
Repetitio :: Datasphere
Questio :: Can machines live ?
Lectio ::
embedded systems
Limor Fried
robots, android...
01.01.1995
Ghost in the shell
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 wishes to preserv...
31.12.2018
Life (Definition)
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" entity...
31.12.2018
Life and the shell
"(All) life-forms tend to preserve their existence."
"(All) life-forms interact with their environment."
"(All) life-forms have a material body."
31.12.2018
Embedded systems
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 designed to ...
01.01.1920
Robots, Androids, Gynoids &co.
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 Slo...
01.01.1970
Uncanny valley
Repliee Q2 gynoid; source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Repliee_Q2.jpg
"Das Unheimliche" von Siegmund Freud (1919) and E.T.A. Hoffmann's...
01.01.1960
Cyborgs ?
source: http://www.ebiotecnologia.org/2012/06/robo-e-farmacos-fazem-rato-com.html
source: https://medium.com/startup-grind/a-talk-with-cyborg-activists-ne...