rsalz@papaya.bbn.com.UUCP (09/26/87)
Anyone have contacts at the MIT Media Lab (err, Arts and Media Technology Center? I forget the newspeak name)? They tried to build a real air guitar, but couldn't get enough resolution from the funky rings you had to wear. They've got real air drums, tho. One of the (perhaps unstated) goals of the place is to bend computers so that they interface more easily with people. If that's not one of the underpining of C-punk, then I'll burn my Neuromancer (the early edition, by Dickson). In re a claim by Maroney, I don't know if he'll be dead before it happens (and I tend to think I might prefer to be, meself), but if C-punk becomes a real lifestyle, one of its spawning grounds will have been this MIT playground. Interested parties who can't make a visit should check out the new book, "The Media Lab," by Stewart Brand. (Yah, of "access to tools" fame.) /r$ -- For comp.sources.unix stuff, mail to sources@uunet.uu.net.
bc@mit-amt.UUCP (09/28/87)
Yeah, I'm here, $alz. (Took a while, my newsrc is being "censored" by some sort of Bad Majjick.) Yeah, The Media Lab is a pretty good book. Very few major mistakes (a handful of minor ones). Also, just going out of print are Nick Negroponte's "Architecture Machine" books (via MIT Press) -- landmark work in man-machine interface. Why not machines you can talk to, that you can point at, that know when you are talking to them, that can see where you are looking, pointing. Machines that know what you like and what you never want to see (SLG, snikker). That's what we build here. I just came back from the first Artificial Life conference (at Los Alamos Nat Labs, believe it!) where I showed my work in Artificial Animal Behavior. Expect articles in Scientific American -- AK Dewdeney was one of the organizers. Rudy Rucker was there, he's into Cellular Automata in a big way (considering that and where he lives -- Tennesse! -- I'm seriously wondering what drugs he takes). I'm gonna get Rudy posting to this newtgruppe soon... Anyway, back to play..................................bc
andyr@apple.UUCP (09/28/87)
In article <1582@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, bc@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (bill coderre) writes: > > Yeah, I'm here, $alz. (Took a while, my newsrc is being "censored" by > some sort of Bad Majjick.) [balance deleted} > Anyway, back to play..................................bc I know, this isn't the place for general comments, but the net NEEDS to be warned. LOCK UP YOUR WOMEN, CHILDREN, SMALL FURRY ANIMALS, WHAT HAVE YOU. THE MEDIA LAB IS ON LINE AGAIN. AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
brothers@who.rutgers.edu.UUCP (10/05/87)
You maybe mean NECROMANCER by Dickson? Slightly different meaning,
there.....
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