Interview with AVINUS Press about The Technological Herbarium
AVINUS Press (Anabelle Assaf): Worum geht es im Technologischen Herbarium? (Kunst? Technologie? Natur? Informatik?) Welche Art von Kunstwerken hat die Autorin gewählt, und was macht diese so besonders?...
View ArticleTransforming Computer Science into a Humanities Subject, by Alan N. Shapiro
I wrote this text in November 2010. A different version will be published soon in a book publication of the NABA Design University of Milan, Italy. Transforming Computer Science into a Humanities...
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A Proposal for Developing Quantum Computing in Software, by Alan N. Shapiro
(co-author: Alexis Clancy) Alan N. Shapiro: I believe that the invention of a new computer science, one more powerful than that which presently exists, is possible; a more powerful computer science...
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The Revolution will not be Televised, it will be led by Radical Software
Laura Mitchell interviews Alan N. Shapiro Do you play video games? A little, not so much. There’s a blackjack machine that I play a lot, in an offtrack betting parlor where a bunch of semi-addicted...
View ArticleSociety of the Instance: Artificial Intelligence, Object- Orientation, and...
The entire virtual life of societies in which postcapitalist conditions of seduction prevail presents itself as an immense accumulation of software instances. Everything that was previously either...
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The New Computer Science
I post here a link to an audio recording I made during “Alan N. Shapiro & Alexis Clancy on Tour: New Computer Science” a talk about visionary computer science and about what kind of mathematics and...
View ArticleInscribe Philosophy into the Heart of Computer Science
co-author: Alexis Clancy There are many individuals in the technology and cyberculture communities who are not just “engineers” or techie programmers. They are already working to bring software...
View ArticleThe Answer to the Question of Artificial Life
co-author: Alexis Clancy Artificial Life is an emerging movement within computer science which has as its goal to make software that is more “alive” rather than mechanistic. This goal is similar to our...
View ArticleTowards a New Computer Science: Instantiate a Much Richer Software Instance
co-author: Alexis Clancy In this group of 5 coding projects, the core operations of what we call the Limerick Metric will be developed. Where does the New Computer Science stand in relation to the...
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