Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 427.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (59)
Subject: Moving Theory into Practice: Cornell's Digital Imaging
Tutorial
[2] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni- (81)
dortmund.de>
Subject: Jennifer Healey on "Sensible Computers": _Technologies
that Enable Computers to Understand Human Emotion_
[3] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (229)
Subject: Universal Page + "Eulogy for the Utopian Dream of the
Net"
[4] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (34)
Subject: "Current Cites," October 2000: Peer-to-Peer Networking
[5] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni- (79)
dortmund.de>
Subject: A Roundtable Discussion with: "Merleau-Ponty and the
Philosophy of Mind" (insides, enclosed are the papers
of Profs. Hubert
[6] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni- (50)
dortmund.de>
Subject: Integration of communications, information technology
(IT) & information and broadcasting under one
umbrella..
[7] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (11)
Subject: Valenti v. Lessig Future of IP Debate on RealVideo
[8] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (17)
Subject: COPYRIGHT: ALA Report on DMCA Anti-Circumvention
Ruling
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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 08:52:38 +0100
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Moving Theory into Practice: Cornell's Digital Imaging
Tutorial
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
October 25, 2000
Moving Theory into Practice:
Cornell's Digital Imaging Tutorial
<http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/index.html>http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/index.html
As a follow-up to its innovative and successful book and workshop, Cornell
University's Preservation & Conservation Department has now issued an
online tutorial version of "Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging
for Libraries & Archives." The book, by Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger,
is available from RLG, see
<<http://www.rlg.org/preserv/mtip2000.html>http://www.rlg.org/preserv/mtip2000.html>.
The workshop continues into 2001, when it will be offered three times at
Cornell:
May 14-18 (registration begins December 15, 2000); July 23-27 (registration
from March 1); and October 1-5 (registration from June 1). For further
information on the workshop, see:
<<http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/workshop/>http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/workshop/>
David Green
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>Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:09:33 -0400
>>list <DIGLIB@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA>
>From: Barbara Berger Eden <beb1@CORNELL.EDU>
>
Please excuse any duplication
Moving Theory into Practice: Cornell's Digital Imaging Tutorial
<http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/index.html>http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/index.html
The Department of Preservation and Conservation of Cornell University
Library announces the public release of its online digital imaging
tutorial, Moving Theory into Practice. Although designed as an adjunct to
the recently published book and workshop series known by the same name, the
tutorial can also serve as a standalone introduction to the use of digital
imaging to convert and make accessible cultural heritage materials.
Produced with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the
tutorial is currently available in English, with a Spanish language version
to follow in December 2000 (from the same Web address). The tutorial
consists of sections encompassing all the major aspects of digital imaging:
Selection, Conversion, Quality Control, Metadata, Technical Infrastructure,
Presentation, Digital Preservation, and Management. Designed to be
self-guided and self-paced, the tutorial includes frequent "reality checks"
for evaluating the understanding of the presented material. Most sections
are heavily illustrated, and provide suggestions for further reading. The
tutorial also includes several tables, providing reference data on topics
such as graphic file formats, compression techniques, scanner
characteristics, and institutional guidelines
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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 08:53:48 +0100
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Jennifer Healey on "Sensible Computers": _Technologies
that Enable Computers to Understand Human Emotion_
Dear Humanists,
[Hello..this message was forwarded through the Stanford campus mailing
list server. If you wish to subscribe to the "People, Computers and
Design" mailing list, please send the message body of "subscribe
pcd-seminar" (w/o quotes) to <majordomo@lists.stanford.edu> The
talk of Dr. Jennifer Healey reminds me the book of Rosalind Picard,
"Affective Computing" (published by MIT PRESS)..According to Rosalind
Picard, if we want computers to be genuinely intelligent and to interact
naturally with us, we must give computers the ability to recognize,
understand, even to have and express emotions..outstanding views! More
details regarding the book can be found at
(http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262661152)
Thank you. Best Regards.--Arun]
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:02:24 -0700
From: Terry Winograd <winograd@cs.stanford.edu>
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Stanford Seminar on People, Computers, and Design (CS547)
Home page: http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar
Video: http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses
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Friday, October 27, 2000, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B01 (HP Classroom) and SITN
Jennifer Healey, MIT Media Lab
fenn@media.mit.edu
http://www.media.mit.edu/~fenn
TITLE: Sensible Computers: Technologies that Enable Computers to Understand
Human Emotion
ABSTRACT:
There is a movement in computer science toward developing systems that
learn what their users want and that try to model their user's interests
and respond in a more adaptive way. Currently, methods of modeling user
preferences and frustrations involve active non-social interactions, such
as clicking on menus and creating preference lists; however, the natural
way people communicate and respond to satisfaction or dissatisfaction is
through affective expression.
To appear socially intelligent, computers will have to develop a model of
their user's emotional state and respond to that state appropriately. This
affective intelligence becomes more important as computers become more
ubiquitous. A natural, social interaction with a spreadsheet or programming
task might seem superfluous, but computers will soon be everywhere, in our
homes, assisting with cooking, heating, and room ambiance, in our cars,
controlling communication, navigation and music selection and even in our
clothing, extending our senses, jogging our memories in appropriate
contexts and perhaps broadcasting messages expressing our personality.
This talk will present novel systems for detecting emotional state
through physiological signals using wearable computers and embedded systems
with bio-sensors and cameras. These systems were used in three experiments
to detect emotion in an office environment, an ambulatory environment and
while driving a car. Recognition results by the computer are comparable to
those found by a humans in similar experiments.
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Jennifer Healey is a recent PhD graduate from MIT's Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science department and conducted her thesis research at the
MIT Media Lab where she was Pr. Rosalind Picard's first graduate student in
the new field of Affective Computing. This summer she completed a
post-doctoral position on a ubiquitous AI project at IBM's Zurich Research
Laboratory. Her prior work includes a BS (1993) and MS (1995) from MIT in
Electrical Engineering and Optics. She has been actively involved in the
Media Lab's Wearables project and is interested in the applying bio-metric
technologies for promoting health awareness and managing diseases related
to chronic pain and stress. Her publications can be accessed through her
media lab homepage at http://www.media.mit.edu/~fenn
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NEXT WEEK - November 3, 2000 - Ted Selker, MIT Media Lab
selker@media.mit.edu
Context Aware Computing;
Can implicit communication with computers be more useful than
explicit communication?
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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 08:55:19 +0100
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Universal Page + "Eulogy for the Utopian Dream of the Net"
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
October 25, 2000
Universal Page
Natalie Bookchin + Alexei Shulgin
<http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/universalpage/>http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/universalpage/
http://www.universalpage.org/
Eulogy for the Utopian Dream of the Net
by Randall Packer
<http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/universalpage/universal_eulogy.html>http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/universalpage/universal_eulogy.html
From the ever innovative Walker Art Center comes an online exhibit
centered around the web art piece, "Universal Page." With the following
introduction to the piece, the Walker has added Randall Packer's
interpretive essay, "Eulogy for the Utopian Dream of the Net." A reminder
to us all of the gap between our visions and practical achievements.
David Green
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========================================================================About
Universal Page "From the first moment of the new millennium all public
content on the World Wide Web has come together for the first time in
history to form the single largest collaboration ever known to humankind.
From the start of the new millennium onward, with a public opening on the
occasion of the Walker Art Center exhibition Let's Entertain and Art
Entertainment Network, Universal Page will display all content on the Web,
merged together as one, and will be available for viewing twenty-four hours
a day. All users on the Internet are invited to join together to witness
the consummation of global collectivity.
Universal Page is the objective average of all content of the Web. A
special script, developed by a team of American and Russian programmers,
crawls and searches the Web, analyzing and processing current data and
generating an average according to precise algorithms. In order to keep up
with the pace of the always changing Web, all content on Universal Page is
continuously updated in real time.
A manifestation and proclamation of the utopian dream of world unity and
the realization of democratic global communication, Universal Page
articulates the historic and momentous effects of constant flows of
creation, communication, exchange, collectivity, connectivity and
interactivity where no one with a computer and a modem is excluded, no one
with a web server is unheard, and no one with a software client is ignored.
This ultimate commemorative living magnum opus utilizes the work, play and
input of every single participant, human and robotic, of the World Wide
Web, and mandates a universal commitment to a unified peaceful new
millennium, where subjects of the world will live together in shared harmony.
Universal Page is a pulsating, living monument commemorating no single
individual or icon but instead, celebrating the global collective known as
the World Wide Web. Universal Page offers the world a once in a lifetime
opportunity to honor and observe our networked past, present and future as
it boldly initiates our entry into the new millennium.
Universal Page has been funded by the Jerome Foundation and the Walker Art
Center. The project was first envisioned and is now being orchestrated by
Natalie Bookchin and Alexei Shulgin.
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>From: webwalker-admin@maillist.walkerart.org To: "WebWalker"
><webwalker@maillist.walkerart.org>
>>Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 01:24:58 -0500
Eulogy for the Utopian Dream of the Net
by Randall Packer
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Universal Page
Natalie Bookchin + Alexei Shulgin
<http://www.universalpage.org/>http://www.universalpage.org/
http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/universalpage/
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"The Dream is over."
The Universal Page has, finally, put to rest the Utopian Dream of a
collectively-engaged, harmonious world united by the invisible
impulses of the Net. I am delivering my Eulogy to praise this noble
effort, as well as honor the past, that has brought to an end once and
for all an age of naive aspirations and fatal ideologies.
Natalie Bookchin and Alexei Shulgin, the co-creators behind the
Universal Page, devised the precise and deadly Lethal Algorithm that
dealt a quick death to the Utopian Dream of the Net. Driven by
overwhelming cynicism, a yearning for hope and renewal, and a cool,
detached need to topple teetering Theories, their Special Script
"scrawls and searches the entire Web," gathering in its path the
endless torrent of on-line rants, musings, pleas, and
declarations--thrashing and churning a once hopeful and misguided
idealism into a heap of meaningless ASCII. "Brx gbtfl rjsff gcmw hf
p7xc oGgurnc qypw6 j," the Universal Page reads, is all we have
left of the Dream.
Where once we dreamed of a world of One, a Global Village, a
democratized Art, radical new participatory forms and the destruction
of rigid hierarchies, we can now only look back with a sigh of
nostalgia and a sad tear. It was a beautiful Dream--a grand one at
that--since the earliest days of the telegraph. Wasn't it Samuel
Morse, ushering in the era of the Victorian Internet in 1846 when he
sent the first telegraph message from Washington, DC to Baltimore, who
declared, "What Hath God Wrought."
Such words are now so poignant. One fondly remembers the touching
proclamations that followed the laying of the first trans-Atlantic
cable in the 1850s. The Atlantic Telegraph became "that instantaneous
highway of thought between the Old and New Worlds." "We are one!" they
cried, as Nations clasped hands in belief of the new Age of
Information.
It was a heady time, intoxicating, filled with commemorations,
speeches, and excessive hope for a new bright future in which man
could extend his reach into the unknown territory of the Electronic
Frontier. "The greatest event in the present century," they claimed,
"now [that] the great work is complete, the whole earth will be belted
with electric current, palpitating with human thoughts and emotions."
One has to hold back intense feelings while recalling these now
distant memories.
Yes, those brave Victorians believed the electronic media would heal
the world of its problems, in which old prejudices and hostilities
should no longer exist. The terrible and inevitable forces of human
nature would yield to man's great Invention. Of course we laugh at
such naivet, now that the veil of illusion has been stripped clean by
the Universal Page, but at the time, they believed that world peace
would be achieved by the "constant and complete intercourse between
all nations and individuals in the world." Steam power may have been
"the first olive branch offered to us by science," they proclaimed,
but the electric telegraph "enables any man who happens to be within
reach of a wire to communicate instantaneously with his fellow men all
over the world."
Remembering these profound aspirations is overwhelming. Devastating.
It is painful to continue, but I must.
As communications technology evolved, the telegraph would come to join
the hemispheres, unite distant nations, making them feel they are
members of one great family. Information would flow freely and
globally. By the early 20th Century, HG Wells envisioned a World Brain
that gathered together all of mankind's knowledge into a vast library.
Vannevar Bush, America's Scientist during the Second World War,
believed that we would build memory machines so that we could "find
delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous
mass of the common record." Science would bring us all together!
Uniting our Knowledge, our Culture, our Dreams, our Fantasies!
There were many hopeful scientists and cultural theorists who emerged
during the social transformation that took place in the 1960s, who
believed passionately in the Dream. We must not forget their committed
and touching dedication to the creative possibilities of the new
technologies. J.C.R. Licklider believed in the Symbiosis, the merging
as One, of man and machine; Douglas Engelbart's idea was to use the
network to "Boost the Collective IQ" to "solve the world's complex
problems"; Ted Nelson, believed that "Everything is Deeply
Intertwingled," and someday, we would all live united in the
Hypertext; and of course the great media sociologist Marshall McLuhan,
whose proclamations touched the hearts and minds of artists and
thinkers of his time, declared emphatically: "Today after more than a
century of electric technology, we have extended our central nervous
system itself in a Global Embrace, abolishing both space and time as
far as our planet is concerned."
The Global Embrace would come to be called the Telematic Embrace, as
artists such as Roy Ascott saw in the potential of telecommunications
"the harmonization and creative development of the whole planet." Like
their Victorian predecessors, it seemed anything was possible. And
yet, the final cornerstone of the Utopian Promise was about to be
laid. It is very difficult to speak of this moment in history without
deep sorrow. But when the World Wide Web was born in 1989, Tim
Berners-Lee, and such a humble man he was, announced that the Net
would allow us, as he mused philosophically, to "Enquire Within Upon
Everything."
The World flocked to the Web. The Dream had become a reality. How
could anyone resist and not pluck the fruit? And so too the artists
came, in droves, emancipated by this new found power to reach anyone
and everyone with their message. And there was more! For not only
could the artist bypass the now archaic bastion of cultural
distribution, the Museum, they could join with the Masses, interact
with them joyously in the bliss of the Collaborative Artwork.
Ubiquitous computing and networking has led to democratization, they
rallied!! Every citizen of the Net could be part of the process of the
creation of Art!
But ultimately it was this great potential of the Net to include
everyone that proved to be its fatal flaw. It was their duty, those
two, to put an end to the Utopian Dream with their Universal Page,
"the Last Web Page. The Ultimate Web Page!" That Lethal Algorithm has
delivered the death blow to rampant Idealism by revealing to us the
profoundly meaningless nature of the homogenized, democratizing
synthesis of Web chatter, as culled by the Universal Page from every
single Web page on the face of the Earth. Yes, the brownification of
Information.
The Universal Page. This is what it took to put an end to the Dream
and we must now take this moment to remember, to reflect, and to
remorse. A moment of silence, please...
At this sad moment, looking back, it is heartbreaking to realize it is
over. But it was the conviction of Alexei and Natalie that the Dream
must be shattered, and we must have absolute faith in their decision.
The greater danger, they felt, of making grandiose and "Universal
Statements" via the Net would have been destructive to our Art and so
too, our Human Condition. That they have protected us from the Hype,
the Generalizations, the Grand Proposals, the Flowery Rhetoric--the
menacing forces that poisoned the Dream--we should be forever
grateful.
I understand you feel empty now. But things are not hopeless. We can
only wonder what will replace the Utopian Dream of the Net which has
nourished us for more than a century. Perhaps this poem by the Great
American HyperNovelist Mark Amerika will provide us with new Hope, new
Inspiration -- taken from a message he posted on one of the now defunct
projects of the past era, the Telematic Manifesto:
Hello Fellow Listmember Selves
Telepistmologically-Enabled Kin
Curatorially-Linked Writer-Mediums
Net -Conditioned Lurkers
Those of Us Swimming in American - produced Autopoiesis
Infomatic Sha(wo)men Filtering the White Noise
Computer-Mediated Consciousnesses
Virtual Subjectivities Splayed in a Network Environment
Gardeners of Edenic Robotry
Principled Language Disseminators Intertwingling
Rhizomatic Nomads, Monads, Gonads, and Phonads
Galactic Singularities Enmeshed in Hypermediated Context
Your Exchange Continues To Stimulate
Neurons Pumping
Intelli-Blood Rush
Fusing
Dissolving
Coagulating
Leaking...
Thank you fellow Artists, Theorists, Thinkers, Dreamers. Ever-Hopeful,
let us together seek renewal in a world no longer encumbered by the
Dream. The Dream is now Dead. Gone. Over. Finished. "We won't get
fooled again..."
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Randall Packer's work as a composer, media artist and producer/curator
has focused on the integration of live performance, technology and the
interdisciplinary arts. From the revival of avant-garde music theater
to the creation of new interactive media work, he has bridged current
issues in art and technology with seminal interdisciplinary ideologies
from throughout the 20th century.
<http://www.zakros.com/>http://www.zakros.com/
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
----------------------------------------
Steve Dietz
Director, New Media Initiatives
Walker Art Center
subscribe Webwalker:
<http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/webwalker/>http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/webwalker/
_____________________________________________
WebWalker:
<http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/webwalker/>http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/webwalker/
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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 08:57:18 +0100
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: "Current Cites," October 2000: Peer-to-Peer Networking
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
October 25, 2000
[1]Current Cites (Digital Library SunSITE)
Volume 11, no. 10, October
2000
Edited by [2]Roy
Tennant
The Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720
ISSN: 1060-2356 -
<http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2000/cc00.11.10.html>http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2000/cc00.11.10.html
The October issue of "Current Cites" is now available. It focuses on recent
renewed interest in peer-to-peer networking online, which includes
file-sharing and file-swapping, thus also extends to copyright issues. From
this ground the pieces here cited, as editor Roy Tennant puts it,
"speculate on the future of creativity, publishing, and access to
information in the wake of an unstoppable technology that will change
everything."
David Green
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>Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 21:15:23 -0700 (PDT)
>From: CITES Moderator <citeschk@library.berkeley.edu>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <cites@library.berkeley.edu>
>
[1]Current Cites (Digital Library SunSITE)
Volume 11, no. 10, October 2000
Edited by [2]Roy Tennant
The Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720
ISSN: 1060-2356 -
<http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2000/cc00.11.10.html>http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2000/cc00.11.10.html
Contributors: [3]Terry Huwe, [4]Michael Levy, [5]Leslie Myrick , Jim
Ronningen, Lisa Rowlison, [6]Roy Tennant
Issue Spotlight: Peer-to-Peer Networking
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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 08:59:45 +0100
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: A Roundtable Discussion with: "Merleau-Ponty and the
Philosophy of Mind" (insides, enclosed are the papers of Profs. Hubert
Greetings Humanists,
[Hello, --here is the *details* of an important event regarding
"Phenomenology Now and Secondary Work on/of M-P", that will be taking
place at University of California, Berkeley on 30th October 2000. The
Townsend Center's PHENOMENOLOGY NOW of UCB presents: "Merleau-Ponty and
the Philosophy of Mind", A Roundtable Discussion with: PROFESSOR HUBERT
DREYFUS (Department of Philosophy, U. C. Berkeley) and PROFESSOR SEAN
D. KELLY (Department of Philosophy, Princeton University) Prof. Sean Kelly
will be presenting his work, entitled "Why Perception Might Not be Like
Thought" and Prof. Hubert Dreyfus will be discussing *The Current
Relevance of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Embodiment* in his paper,
"Intelligent Without Representation". If you are near to the University of
California, Berkeley, then please try to make it.. -the event is highly
recommended. For more close details, please contact "Prof. Joel Tyler
Nickels" at <joeln@uclink4.berkeley.edu> Thank you. Best Wishes..-Arun
Tripathi]
=============================================================================
.....Dr. Joel Tyler Nickels wrote the below..
>
> Greetings, all. Below are links to the Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Kelly
papers,
> so you don't have to xerox them. It seems important that everyone come
to the
> talk on Monday with several questions about the pieces, so this event
can be
> what it is listed as-- i.e. a roundtable. Also, everyone please spread the
> word about the talk and personally invite friends and faculty to
come,either
> verbally or over email-- this excellent work deserves to be met with a
large
> turnout. Remember the talk is "MERLEAU-PONTY AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF
MIND",and
> takes place Monday, Oct. 30th, from 3-5 p.m. in the Townsend Center
> Conference Room, 220 Stephens Hall.
> Cordially,
> Joel
Sean Kelly's Why Perception Might Not be a Thought..
at <http://www.geocities.com/s_j_murray/kelly.html>
Hubert Dreyfus's Intelligent Without Representation..
at <http://www.hfac.uh.edu/cogsci/dreyfus.html>
[material deleted]
--short synopsis of Prof. Dreyfus's paper, written by Arun Tripathi--
HI --here is one pointer (an interesting paper on "Intelligent Without
Representation") --thought --might interest you --in this paper -
Prof. Hubert Dreyfus has described the relationships between the
"Phenomenology of Embodiment and Neuro-science". The article can be
read at <http://www.hfac.uh.edu/cogsci/dreyfus.html> --The paper by
Prof. Dreyfus is having a tremendous potential towards the Embodiment and
Neuroscience; a fantastic -well-written paper, I like it very much. He is
an excellent reader of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In this paper, he has
discussed many more contemporary issues such as, agents and their
relationships with the World. The agents' skills cannot be stored as a
representation, but as a disposition in the mind of a being. And, the most
important views, he discussed about the establishment of an *Intentional
Arc*. Prof. Hubert Dreyfus also discussed the importance of the relevance
of phenomenology to scientific explanation in "Intelligence Without
Representation". Humanities scholars like Prof. Hubert Dreyfus may wish
to explore parallels and differences between recent critiques of the
Cartesian model of mind by postmodernists and cognitive scientists.
His article was submitted for the discussion at the *Cognitive
Science: Humanities & the Arts* see at
(http://www.hfac.uh.edu/cogsci/index.html)
He also wrote an article on "Merleau-Ponty's Existential Phenomenology",
published in "MIT Publication in the Humanties, Number 69."
The citation for paper, "The Current Relevance of Merleau-Ponty's
Phenomenology of Embodiment" is *Filozofska Istrazivanja, Vol 1, No. 3,
(1995); Reprinted in: The Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy, Issue
4, (Spring 1996); Embodiment, Gail Wiess, Ed., Routledge and Kegan Paul
(forthcoming) **The paper on "The Current Relevance of Merleau-Ponty's
Phenomenology of Embodiment" is a similar version of the paper
"Intelligence Without Representation".
"The Current Relevance of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Embodiment" can
be read at
(http://www.phil.indiana.edu/ejap/1996.spring/dreyfus.1996.spring.html)
A slight different version *Merleau-Ponty's Critique of Mental
Representation* (a focus paper for the Houston's Studies in Cognitive
Science) can be read at
(http://www.hfac.uh.edu/hscs/focus_paper/dreyfus/content.htm)
I hope, you will enjoy the essay!
Thank you!
Sincerely yours
Arun Tripathi
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"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." -SOCRATES
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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:01:47 +0100
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Integration of communications, information technology
(IT) & information and broadcasting under one umbrella..
Dear Humanist readers,
[Following news is forwarded with courtesy and thanks to Zunaira Durrani,
the marvelous editor of SPIDER: Pakistan's Internet Magazine, see at
(http://www.spider.tm) --the SPIDER is covering all the contemporary
issues of Internet and Information Technology and their future and
developments in the developing countries, like Pakistan and India.
Look for more details about SPIDER at (http://www.spider.tm/aboutus.shtml)
Thanks and Best Regards.--Arun]
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:23:09 +0500
From: Zunaira <zunaira@cyber.net.pk>
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India Proposes Super Ministry for Convergence
By Uday Lal Pai
India Correspondent, asia.internet.com
[October 23, 2000--MUMBAI] The government of India is considering
integration of communications, information technology (IT) and
information and broadcasting by creating an umbrella
ministry for convergence.
The idea for the new ministry was put forward by communications minister
Ram Vilas Paswan. "The sub-group on convergence led by jurist Fali S
Nariman has recommended an integration of three ministries and now we are
working on the structure of the nodal ministry," he said.
The group has recommended establishing a super regulator for voice and
data communication through any medium on the lines of the Telecom
Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), which would be called Communications
Commission of India (CCI), said Paswan.
Paswan said that the bill is likely to be introduced in Parliament in the
winter session. Replying to queries on the move to have an umbrella
ministry, Paswan said the Telegraph Act of 1885, which governs the working
of communications ministry, is being changed, so there is no reason why
the implementation of the Convergence Bill will make any difference, he
pointed out.
However, political observers feel that Paswan claim may not be easy to
entertain given that the other two ministries that will make up the new
body are headed by political heavyweights, who will not be amenable to a
proposal that seeks to strip them of their turf and influence.
Paswan said he would take steps to ensure that the Convergence Bill is
introduced in Parliament during the winter session. However, he made it
clear that the government would have to take the administrative decision
for any such ministerial restructuring because it is
politically sensitive.
"Which minister will pilot the bill on convergence has not yet been
decided. It could even be the PM," Paswan said. He added, "Converging
technologies should increase the teledensity in the rural areas, which
despite having 29 million telephones constitutes for only 18 percent of
the total telephones, though they represent 78 percent of the population.
The government is committed to provide a telephone in every village by
2002 and increase the number of telephones to 70 million by 2005
and 100 million by 2010."
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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:05:30 +0100
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Valenti v. Lessig Future of IP Debate on RealVideo
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
October 26, 2000
Valenti v. Lessig
The Future of Intellectual Property on the Internet: A Debate
7pm, October 1, 2000: Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/futureofip/archive.asp>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/futureofip/archive.asp
For a predictably lively debate on the future of ip online, see the archive
of the Oct 1 Harvard Law School debate between Jack Valenti and Lawrence
Lessig, which includes a complete RealVideo recording of the event.
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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:06:20 +0100
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: COPYRIGHT: ALA Report on DMCA Anti-Circumvention Ruling
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
October 26, 2000
DISAPPOINTING RULING ON ANTI-CIRCUMVENTION PROVISION OF DMCA
Fair Use Exemption Considered Lost Online
American Library Association Issues Bitter Rebuke
<http://www.loc.gov/copyright/1201/anticirc.html>http://www.loc.gov/copyright/1201/anticirc.html
This report from the American Library Association indicates that the
Librarian of Congress has ruled that the contentious provision of the DMCA
prohibiting anti-circumvention of electronic protection mechanisms will not
harm the fair use exemption of copyrighted materials online. This ruling
was based on a study conductd by the Copyright Office, involving hearings
and public comments. A new ruling will be made in 2003.
Stay tuned for further responses.
David Green
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