Webcasts for Teaching & Research
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This resource is to act as a portal to web and podcasts that can be utilised for teaching & research. Please let us know of any recommendations. Conceived by Christy Dena, 2005.
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By Arts Type
Comics
Will Eisner
Eisner on the Graphic Novel delivered on 04/01/2003 at the Library of Congress.
Will Eisner, universally acknowledged as one of the great masters of comic book art, discussed the graphic novel.
Robots
HRG
Sociable Robots videos from the Humanoid Robotics Group, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Sci-Fi
Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson delivered on 10/09/2004 at the Library of Congress
By Ideas
Cyber Philosophy
Brian Cantwell Smith
And Is All This Stuff Really Digital After All? delivered on 01/31/2005 at The Library of Congress
Brian Cantwell Smith is dean of the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto and author of "On the Origin of Objects." He combines degrees in computer science and philosophy and is an expert on the interdisciplinary convergence brought about by digitization.
Cyber Consciousness
Katherine N. Hayles
My Mother Was a Computer Digital Subjects and Literary Texts
Mathematician Stephan Wolfram has recently proposed that many different kinds of complex systems, including human thought and action, can be modeled using cellular automata. These very simple computational systems have demonstrated that they are capable of generating complex patterns using simple rules. According to physicist Ed Fredkin, cellular automata underlie physical reality on a subatomic level; in his view, nature itself is software running on a Universal Computer. This presentation will look critically at these claims, asking whether we should consider them as physical models or as over-determined metaphors that would inevitably emerge in a historical period when computation is pervasive. This issue, and its proliferating implications, will be explored through Greg Egan's print novel Permutation City, which imagines a world in which it is possible to simulate a person's consciousness inside a computer, creating a Copy that has all the personality and memories of the original.
Juan Pablo Paz
How Quantum Computing Will Change the Way We Collect, Store and Distribute Information delivered on 01/24/2005 at the Library of Congress.
Juan Pablo Paz is a quantum physist now working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
E-literacy
David Weinberger
How and In Which Situations Web Logs or Blogs Work: How and Why They are Valuable in Children's Education delivered on 11/15/2004 at the Library of Congress.
Co-author of the best-selling book "The Cluetrain Manifesto," David Weinberger is an expert on "blogging" and author of "Small Pieces, Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web," a frequent commentator on National Public Radio and author of articles in magazines such as Wired and the Harvard Business Review.
Social Computing
Forrester Research
Forrester's Consumer Forum at NYC, 2005