Spinoffs

according to Sun Ra “…are the dead bodies of humanity”

Visiting the panel PHUTURAMA at the transenmediale 2010 in Berlin i had to stand Michael Khaimzons talk, jazzin’ out his illmind music about the video game he’s currently developping:

As Michael Khaimzom states, other game developers are not worrying about realism, but his company Crytek is trying to simulate reality as much as possible.(full length of his talk here)
So another Godfather for the sake of Michaels reality might be the Helmet-Based Sniper Location System coming straight from the real world of Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS)

As kind of finish event of the Transmediale, Feng Mengbo finally was scoring my sympathy scores with the production of dead bodies not only of humanity & too much worries about realism: The main character of his game, a red army soldier armed with coca-cola cans, was hurling them against all that could be stereotyped within his modified game of Super Mario levels from street fighters ‘yoga flame’ to aliens first steps on the moon.

While the NSBF (National Scientific Balloon Facility) using instruments like this to BOOMERanG (Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics)

and measure cosmic microwave background radiation – the Japanese astronaut Takao Doi is operating pretty easy:

Rudolf Zengerles Space Jet & weitere terranische Raumschiffe aus dem Orbit sind hier anzutreffen

If robot evolution should mirror the evolution of life this coeval is
definately too relaxed for Hans Moravecs predictions:

a summary of Hans Moravecs educated predictions for the future of robotics
up until they can do everything we can do can be found here

follow the freedom of speech:

1948 Claude Shannon with his “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” maintained the staples to squeeze information into the binary space.

“How is an information source to be described mathematically, and how much information in bits per second is produced in a given source? The main point at issue is the effect of statistical knowledge about the source in reducing the required capacity of the channel, by the use of proper encoding of the information.”

2009 Patrick McGuire and astronauts with artificial-intelligence enhanced spacesuits trying to get them back by fishing with a Hopfield neural network:

Read more about the Future enhancements to the Cyborg Astrobiologist system that will help identify both carbon and non-carbon forms of life here

BioArts International was thrilled to announce the winner of the Golden Clone Giveaway:

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James Symington and his dog, Trakr!

Trakr the puppy will be due in November.
more infos on the golden clone giveaway and the contest rules can be found here:
http://www.bestfriendsagain.com/goldenclonegiveaway/index.html

My personal Golden Clown is shown here by Claude Shannon:

Positronic Pure Data – get automated!
by the Galactic Patrol of Olsen Wolf & Roman Häfeli

In search of positronic signalprocessing we’ll offer a starter course for entities interested in modulating electromechanical elements for their work. The workshop will cover basic devices and technologies of sensors(pressure, distance, light, movement) and actuators(motors, solenoids, switches, relays etc.). Control & out of control scenarios will become physical with the help of puredata/arduino and electromechanical devices from the peripherals of usability a.k.a. trash brought by the participants.

Date: 2pm 10. Sept – 12 Sept
Location: microresearch / Berlin
Cost: 25€ / participant (parts and food included)
Subscription: mailto m_at_1010_dot_co_dot_uk

all details:
http://www.1010.co.uk/org/workshop.html
Number of participants limited!

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John Callas – Five Years of Cruising on Mars

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More questions & answers by John Callas on
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/jpl-mer20090112.html

We’re not alone & what was our past:

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