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Below are the 19 most recent journal entries recorded in the "Kestrell" journal:
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09:48 am
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NFB leader for blind computer users claims ComputerWorld article inaccurately portrays PDF issues
Kes: Curtis Chong, computer science president for National Federation of the Blind, claims that the ComputerWorld article "Microsoft grows DAISY for blind computer users while Adobe wilts," by Eric Lai, published on May 8, inaccurately contextualized what he actually said, makes the very valid point that, despite all the usability issues with the PDF format and other proprietary formats developed by such corporations as Adobe and MicroSoft, usability issues are usually associated with poor document construction rather than inaccessible format. I would add that, in my experience, DRM (digital rights management) shares an equal amount of culpability in locking out assistive technology users from PDF and/or MS Reader format documents.
Curtis Chong's announcement issued through email distribution:
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Tags: accessibility, pdf, technology
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10:56 am
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Username Faust review
Yesterday ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) alexx_kay, juliad and I attended "username: faust," currently playing at the New College Theater. I found it both enjoyable and thought-provoking; my ultimate judgement is that creatively, it is a fabulous play, but politically, I completely disagree with its theme.
Here is the story (note I think I am conflating the character name with the actors' names, due tot he way the program presented this information). Alice, a wheelchair user who works from home at a data entry job, becomes drawn into the Internet, posting to LiveJournal and later, under the influence of Sophie, creating YouTube videos. Soon she finds herself withdrawing from her real-life friend and neighbor, Wendy, in order to cultivate the adoration of her online fans. All of this comes about through a literal Faustian bargain, with Lucifer being played by a sort of "remixed Old Nick," who sings all his parts through pieces from various Faust operas.
The acting was impressive (although I wish the female lead had projected a bit more), and the opera was wonderful.
My main issues with the play are that it takes the easy route in some of it's narrative, including a pat "technology is evil" moral stance. To be specific, the action of the play presents the idea that the Net robs you of "real" experience and substitutes superficial meaningless virtual experience. It is to be noted, as
this other review
http://galen-reviews.livejournal.com/12688.html
points out, that this is a Harvard student's senior thesis, but still, I feel a more complex unpacking of the pros and cons of technology is, at this point in the 21st century, to be expected.
As a disability and technology advocate, I have to strongly object to this theme.
( my argument against the technology is evil theme )
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Current Music: www.wumb.org
Tags: media studies, technology, theatre
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12:02 pm
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New interface translates thoughts into speech
Kes: Another device where PWD get to be the early adopters, but no doubt all the able-bodied kids will want one too, 'cause hey, we've seen it in the science fiction movies, although I'm particularly thinking of Connie Willis's short story, "Spice Pogrom."
from the Technology Review blog
Speechless Conversations
A new device translates your thoughts into speech so that you can have a cell-phone conversation without uttering a word.
Friday, March 14, 2008By Brittany Sauser
Ambient Corporation
, a company based in Champaign, IL, that develops communications technologies for people with speaking disabilities, is calling its latest system "voiceless
communication" with good reason. The company has engineered a neckband that translates a wearer's thoughts into speech so that, without saying a word,
he or she can have a cell-phone conversation or query search engines in public.
Don't fret: the device, called Audeo, can't read minds, so it won't capture your secret thoughts. It picks up the neurological signals from the brain that
are being sent to the vocal cords--a person must specifically think about voicing words--and then wirelessly transmits them to a computer, which translates
them into synthesized speech. At the moment, the device has a limited vocabulary: 150 words and phrases.
The video below shows Michael Callahan, a cofounder of Ambient and a developer of the device, demonstrating the technology at the
Texas Instruments Developers Conference, which was held in Dallas from March 3 through 5. In his speech, he says that by the end of the year, the device will be ready for use by people with Lou
Gehrig's disease, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that can cause sufferers to become completely paralyzed. He also says that in the future, if
a person is walking down the street thinking about where a bus station is located, the device will automatically wirelessly query a search engine to find
Go to original story to watch video
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/22037/?nlid=942
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Tags: disabilitytech, technology
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04:07 pm
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Haptics and the technology of touch
Kes: I had the chance to do some testing with a haptics interface last summer and, while it was part of an interface being developed in order to help blind travelers familiarize themselves with new locations, the possibility of using such tactile feedback in other sorts of interfaces, including games--or even maybe something like Google maps?-- sounds like an exciting mode for providing alternate feedback beyond the merely visual.
Note: Follow the link for more links and related articles
How Haptics Will Change the Way We Interact with Machines
By Daniel H. Wilson
from Popular Mechanics
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4253368.html
The term “joystick” seems a bit frivolous for the device in front of me, but there it is, an
interface
that hearkens back to the days of Pac Man and Donkey Kong. Yet this joystick is special—a highly evolved example of a technology that is changing the way
humans interact with machines. I’m in the Microdynamic Systems Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and the interface I’m looking at
is properly called a magnetic levitation haptic device. The apparatus is built into a bowl-shaped indentation in a table; its plastic joystick sits in
the midst of brightly colored red and blue magnet arrays. As I reach inside the basin to palm the handle, the device hums and shivers almost imperceptibly.
On a monitor in front of me, a small, spherical cursor hovers above a plain studded with nubby cones. It acts as a sort of fingertip for exploring the
3D landscape. When I push straight down on the joystick, the little orb drops. The grip jiggles my hand as I drag the sphere over the rocky ground. It’s
surprisingly fun. I jounce over a cluster of mini-pyramids, glide over a smooth spot and then hit a solid wall—pop! I feel the joystick jerk to a stop
in my hand. Every aspect of this virtual world is a playground of texture, and the haptic controller translates tactile data into feedback you can feel.
It’s a high-tech exploration of an often-ignored sensory faculty—the sense of touch.
At Carnegie Mellon University’s Microdynamic Systems Lab, this experimental magnetic levitation haptic device is used to quantify a variety of tactile sensations,
including roughness and elasticity. The world of haptics is expansive by definition. It is the field of science and technology dedicated to tactile sensation,
and it has applications for everything from handheld electronic devices to remotely operated robots. Yet outside of the research and engineering community,
it is a virtually unknown concept. “People don’t even recognize the word ‘haptics’ yet,” says Ralph Hollis, director of the Microdynamic lab. “You have
to spell it for them.” In an age of digital devices that stimulate and amaze the eyes and ears with increasingly high fidelity, haptics has been employed
mostly in relatively unsophisticated applications—rumbling video-game controllers and buzzers that alert you to a cellphone call. But as our digital tools
have become more complex and capable, our
interfaces with these devices are beginning to run into the limitations of sight and sound. “It’s really only now that we’re seeing a migration from keyboards and
mechanical switches to touchscreens and touch-sensitive surfaces,” says Mike Levin, a vice president at Immersion, a San Jose, Calif., company that produces
haptic interfaces. “We’re losing that tactile feel that we had before, and now we’re trying to bring it back.” Plus, games and online social networks are
emerging with richly rendered 3D environments that can be hard to navigate on a two-dimensional screen.
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Tags: games, haptics, technology
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10:40 am
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Science meets science fiction, again
Having very recently read Vernor Vinge's _True Names_, this article from Wired provided one of those moments when science fiction and science fact converge.
Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/google-to-provi.html
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Building on the company's acquisition of the data visualization technology,
Trendalyzer,
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/world-in-motion.html
from the oft-lauded,
TED presenting Gapminder
http://www.gapminder.org/about/about/
team, Google will also be offering algorithms for the examination and probing of the information. The new site will have YouTube-style annotating and commenting features.
The storage would fill a major need for scientists who want to openly share their data, and would allow citizen scientists access to an unprecedented amount
of data to explore. For example, two planned datasets are all 120 terabytes of Hubble Space Telescope data and the images from the
Archimedes Palimpsest
http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/
the 10th century manuscript that inspired the Google dataset storage project.
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Current Mood: Meta Girl
Tags: google, science fiction, technology
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04:01 pm
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Beta1
That's my email addy for a project in which I am doing beta testing (more about that in the coming weeks). I am the first beta tester, but I love having the designation of beta1. I feel like an astronaut: *krrrackle* "Houston, this is Beta1, do you read me?"
Okay, so it doesn't take a lot to motivate me, although I do also work for chocolate mousies.
Current Location: library
Current Mood: easily amused
Current Music: computer game sound F/X
Tags: beta testing, projects08, technology
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04:16 pm
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"These geeks, they'll eat anything..."
Funny quotes from NPR's commentary on the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show:
That first one was on the biodegradable laptop (though really, it is obvious this guy never experienced running the Arisia con suite)
"The hottest interface since Helen of Troy"
-on Spacetime's 3D Web browser, which you can download free at the Web site
http://www.spacetime.com/
or check out a YouTube video of the CES demo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VFMVdU8VGJY&feature=user
That last one is kinda like what kids were using in Rainbows End, though it is, of course, much cruder in that it lacks the ability to use dial-your-reality, a kind of "choose your Internet" option (yeah, the use of the phrase "the Internets" indicates where that is going).
Current Location: aerye
Current Music: www.wers.org
Tags: life imitates science fiction, tech toys, technology
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11:45 am
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Book review: Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
This was the first book I finished reading in 2008, and I am pleased to say that it immediately became one of my new favorites.
The book addresses one of my favorite themes, namely, how new technologies can improve the quality of life, but the effects of those same technologies have larger implications and can change, either subtley or more radically, both individual personality and the culture at large.
Don't let the theme put you off, though: one of the aspects to the book I was most impressed by is how Vinge manages to make it a thoughtful book without turning it into a moralistic soapbox (oh Muse of Science Fiction, why can't more SF writers think of that??). The story stays a fun read throughout, even when things are looking kind of grim for our protagonist.
And what a protagonist! I admit, I identified with Robert Gu more than I wanted to, especially as he represented precisely the sort of person I think of as my natural nemesis: the academic who uses his intellect and love of books to humiliate and marginalize others as beneath notice, except to pull their wings off.
The reader actually only (mostly) sees that version of Robert Gu in other people's memories, however, for by the time the story opens, he is coming back from a series of therapies that are allowing him to rebuild his body and brain after suffering from Alzheimer's.
However...he doesn't come back quite the same.
What made me really identify with Robert was his experiences as he begins to adapt to the new technologies he now has to use to interact with the world and the people in it. Robert has to accept the fact that his old ideas no longer serve him, and the technology is only one aspect of the brave new world he finds himself in.
Okay, this all sounds far more serious than the story actually is. I only need to mention one phrase:
Library riot!
And--
Librarians Militant (who may be even cooler than rogue librarians)..
You can download a free etext version of _Rainbows End_ here
http://vrinimi.org/ .
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Current Mood: bookish
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Tags: books, librarians militant, technology
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11:20 am
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article on Whistler a.k.a. Joy Bubbles, phone phreak
Jesse the Kay was gracious enough to send me
the link to this article on one of my heroes
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/magazine/30joybubbles-t.html
if, by hero, you mean someone you think of whenever people tell you you can't do something and that you should think smaller (euphemistically referred to as "being realistic"). I thought of Whistler every time some professor or administrator told me "Blind people can't do technology/math/science" and I would reply "Do you know who Whistler is? or Arnold Fast? Or nicholas Saunderson?"
http://www.panix.com/~kestrell/math.html
But of course, they never did.
Joybubbles a.k.a. Whistler, blind phone phreak and basis for the character of the blind hacker in the film "Sneakers"
b. 1949-2007
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The boy decided to talk back to the phone. Not to other people, not right away: to the phone line itself, and in its own language. At 7, with his perfectly
pitched ear, he heard through the receiver the tone that controlled long-distance connections, 2,600 cycles per second. “I started whistling along with
it,” he said, “and all of a sudden the circuit cut off, and I did it again, and it cut off again. And gradually . . . I figured out — back in the mid-’50s
— just how to do it.”
Those tones were how telephones spoke to one another. Once you’d cut the circuit off, you could call anywhere you wanted. He became a student of phones
and phone systems. He heard noises on the line and called the phone company to find out what they meant. By the late 1960s he was a student at the University
of South Florida, whistling long-distance phone calls for his classmates at a dollar a pop. In 1971, Ron Rosenbaum, in his landmark Esquire article, called
him “the original granddaddy phone phreak,” though he was only 22. The phone phreaks were a subculture of pranksters and oddballs and proto-hackers who
loved phone lines the way some boys love train lines: for their intricacies, their puzzles, the way they led as far away from home as you could get and
then back again. They looked for weakness in the lines, flaws in numbers that allowed them to skip around the globe, from Moscow to Saudi Arabia to California.
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Current Mood: geeky
Tags: blind, technology
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08:44 am
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Improving scanned texts+new Googlegroup for computers and technology+more
Highlights from The Top Tech Tidbits newsletter
http://www.topdotenterprises.com/tidbits.htm
items renumbered for clarity
1) If you want to learn how to get more accurate scans of books and documents, no matter what technology you use to scan them, you can download an mp3
of the June 12 Friends of bookshare chat, and learn from the experts.
http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/June_12_2007_Scanning.mp3
Audio and text archives for many of the Friends of Bookshare chats are available, and many are pertinent whether you are a member or not.
http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/
2) It is now possible to download an Iso image of the open-source Windows screen reader Non-Visual Desktop Access, so that when it is copied to a cd and
that cd is inserted into a computer, the installer wil come up talking.
http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/nvda/nvda.iso
3) A local chapter of the US National Federation of the Blind has launched an initiative to encourage blind students to study computer and information technology.
The web site for the project is
http://www.blind411.org/ITCareers/
and they have a Google group for discussions with students, parents and employers:
http://groups.google.com/group/itcareers4blind/
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Tags: assistive tech, blindness, educations, technology
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09:09 am
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War heroes and pin-up girls: how battle robots are acquiring personality
Snagged from nihilistech, this article which discusses how military robots are ascribed with personality. I find the ways in which gender is ascribed particularly interesting: bots referred to as "he" have their military records written on them, while bots referred to as "she" get a model's face cut out from a magazine placed where the bot's "face" should be. Clifford Nass of Stanford has written two books on this subject of ascribing gender and personality to technological objects, _The Media Equation_ and _Wired for Speech: Activating the Human-Computer Relationship_. The latter book focuses specifically on computer voices as the key to communicating personality, and it is one of the things that prompted me to suggest the "Gendering AI" panel for ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) wiscon. Ultimately the most fascinating aspect is how humans develop and project the personalities on to therobot, much as they do to other people.
Bots on The Ground
In the Field of Battle (Or Even Above It), Robots Are a Soldier's Best Friend
By Joel Garreau
Washington Post Staff Writer
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/05/AR2007050501009_pf.html
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Tags: brain, technology
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11:43 am
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On science fiction's influence on technology
Posted to the ICFA mailing list
MIT's Technology Review features the following today:
On Science Fiction, by Jason Pontin.
How it influences the imaginations of technologists
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18282/
(Video version:
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18367/ )
and:
Science Fiction: Osama Phone Home. By David Marusek.
What happens when an ideologist, technologically adept, highly determined, group of conspirators are Americans?
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18307/
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Tags: science fiction, technology
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10:18 am
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Yeah, but the 'u' is intended ironically
Having just been through a scene similar to this only this weekend (naturally, I played the serpent to [Bad username: freerange_snark"]'s Eve), I found this particularly relevant, but I got it from damascene who got it from [Bad username: ellen_kushner""] who got it from fictualities who I think got it from Ol' Snake Eyes himself...
http://fictualities.livejournal.com/63722.html
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Tags: technology, usability
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07:16 am
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Industry Support for Academic Research Falls for Third Straight Year
Industry Support for Academic Research Fell for a 3rd Straight
Year in 2004
By ANNE K. WALTERS
Chronicle of Higher Education Tuesday May 2
* INDUSTRY SUPPORT FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH in science and
engineering fell for the third straight year in the 2004
fiscal year, according to a new report from the National
Science Foundation. Overall research-and-development spending
at colleges increased by 7.2 percent, which represents a
slowdown from double-digit growth in the previous two years.
The report, "Industrial Funding of Academic R&D Continues to
Decline in FY 2004,"
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf06315/
uses data from
the National Science Foundation
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Tags: technology
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02:39 pm
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Are we still evolving? Technological change and natural selection
Kes: In the third chapter of my thesis, I'm exploring images of the disabled body in SF as an expression of conflicting desires and anxieties regarding technologyical change and the theory of evolution, thus the following article is pretty intriguing.
From New Scientist:
Are we still evolving?
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg18925421.300
march 12 2:15 pm
11 March 2006
by Kate Douglas
"ARE humans still evolving? In the vernacular sense of improving morally and intellectually - by cultural changes - I think so," says Steven Pinker. "In
the biological sense of changes in the gene pool, it's impossible to say." If pressed to come off the fence, however, the Harvard-based evolutionary biologist
knows where he stands. "People, including me, would rather believe that significant human biological evolution stopped between 50,000 and 100,000 years
ago, before the races diverged, which would ensure that racial and ethnic groups are biologically equivalent," he says.
It's an understandable position given the political implications of being wrong. And in one important sense Pinker is absolutely spot on: it's very difficult, if not impossible, to observe human evolution in action. But saying it isn't happening is an increasingly difficult position to defend scientifically. Recent discoveries show that we must reject the idea that human evolution stopped dead 50,000 years ago or more. In fact, there is every reason to believe that it is going on right now.
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Tags: evolution, technology
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11:27 am
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MS's origami project to release a laptop hand-held
Kes: I was just talking to Alexx about this in the theoretical a couple of days ago: imagine what life will be like for me when I have a pc the size of a PDA. I could put it in a pocket, connect a headset, and not be shackled to either a physical location or even the need to sit down to open my laptop. I'm just realizing now how much having this 2.6 pound laptop which I am currently using represents an evolutionary leap for me, and I'm excited about the next jump. Additionally, my geeklust for other devices such as iPods and PDAs has pretty much evaporated, since they now seem redundant to me. I'm sure such won't be the case for many users, but it's still an interesting unexpected effect of my new tech.
Now, a Laptop You Can Hold in Your Hand - New York Times
By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN
Published: March 9, 2006
HANOVER, Germany, March 8 — In a bid to crack the crowded market for hand-held computers and music players,
Microsoft and two electronics companies, Samsung of Korea and Asus of Taiwan, plan to unveil an ultralight
tablet computer on Thursday that melds a laptop and media player into a thin, new device.
Samsung
The Q1 from Samsung combines a laptop computer with a media player. It weighs in at 1.7 pounds.
Samsung's device, the Q1, will use Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system. It is a product of Microsoft's so-called Origami project —
an effort to shrink and redefine the laptop, while bolstering the company's software sales for new hand-held devices. Asus will also produce a version.
"This is basically a small but powerful laptop computer that is also a sophisticated entertainment device," said Patrick Pavel, a Samsung product manager
for Germany, who showed a prototype of the Q1 on Wednesday at the Cebit technology fair in Hanover.
The Samsung device is a flat black rectangle that weighs 1.7 pounds, has the dimensions of a DVD box (about 9 inches by 5 inches) and is 1 inch thick. The
viewing screen is 7 inches diagonally, more than twice the size of most personal digital assistants or Internet-enabled smart phones.
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01:15 pm
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Arisia panel notes, part 2: prosthetics, implants, cognitive science
SF in science education
website and syllabus of a professor uisng sf in his science courses
Dr. Philip Caldon "Dr. Phil's Home Page at WMU"
http://ho mepages.wmich.edu/~kaldon/classes/ph205-12.htm
syllabus, booklist, and exvcellent not4es on a course on science in SF, with sa section on Harry Potter
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~kaldon/classes/ph205-12-bl.htm
Also, compare how medical programs are using literature and movies to teach about cultural ideas regarding medicine--the same thing could be done with science
NYU Medical Humanities Database
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/medhum.html
prosthetics panels
books:
Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics
edited by Katherine Ott, David Serlin, and Stephen Mihm
A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women by Donna Haraway
url
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html
Natural Born Cyborgs by Andy Clarke
url for short summary
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/clark/clark_index.html
url for Andy Clark papers online
http://www.cogs.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/andy/pubs.pl
How We Became Posthuman by N. Katherine Hayles
url for excerpt from book
http://www.english.ucla.edu/faculty/hayles/wiener.htm
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11:29 am
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Technology and Self interview questions
I am posting the questions I developed for my STS 443 course here; anyone who wishes to respond should feel free to do so (remember, you can also reach me through the email link on my LJ info page). At this point I am more intrigued by just reading the answers and finding out if any patterns develop.
[Note about the purpose of these questions:
Both my work in Sherry Turkel's Technology and Self class and my own thesis work explore how individuals learn from/feel about objects in their environments. My questions, therefore, provide more emphasis on personal experiences and informal self-motivated learning rather than formal education.
If you are interested in reading more about the subject, the background reading for the assignment is
Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist, edited BY John Brockman, which includes essays by scientists such as Sherry Turkle, Steve Pinker, Ray Kurzweil, but this is the same sort of autobiographical writing as Oliver Sacks wrote about in Uncle Tungsten : Memories of a Chemical Boyhood.]
QUESTIONS
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07:07 pm
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STS 443: Technology and Self (Prof. Sherry Turkle) syllabus
Technology and Self: Science, Technology, and Memoir
Professor Sherry Turkle
Fall 2005
Tuesday/2-4 pm
. . . Then try, like some first human being, to say what you see and experience and
love and lose. . . Save yourself from general themes and seek those which your
own everyday life offers you; describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts
and the belief in some sort of beauty -- describe all these with loving, quiet,
humble sincerity, and use, to express yourself, the things in your environment, the
images from your dreams, the objects of our memory.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself; tell yourself that
you are not poet enough to call forth its riches . . . And even if you were in some
prison the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses
- would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession,
that treasure-house of memories.
--Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
Themes of semester: associations of material culture, objects of one's life with
development of a vocation in science/technology/design.
Readings on material culture, child development, autobiographies/biographies/histories
of scientific innovators, personal memoirs of figures in science and technology, and
theoretical texts on the cultural life of objects.
Explore questions of what constitutes the object/subject of memoir, the difference
between biography, memoir, and autobiography, and how the task of each (and most
particularly of memoir) relates to cultural and social histories.
What is the particularity of the stories that can be told through biographical accounts?
Autobiographical accounts? Through memoir?
[Note: There are some calendar inconsistencies to this syllabus which will be resolved in the updated version]
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