Homing The Machine In Architecture

Author : Galo Canizares,Zach Cohen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781003829263

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Homing the Machine in Architecture by Galo Canizares,Zach Cohen Pdf

Homing the Machine in Architecture is a series of conversations on the ways designers, practitioners, historians, and theorists orient themselves within the world of architectural digital fabrication. To “home” a digital fabrication machine is to send it back to its origin point—a point that can be specified by the fabricator in advance of the fabrication process or by the defaults that are pre-programmed into the machine. The homing process is necessary and productive since it determines the physical point at which the machine (and the maker) begin making—every time that architectural designers begin to digitally fabricate something new, they first need to home the machine. This book gathers first- and second-hand accounts of the origins of individual “digi-fab” practices from the emergence of advanced prototyping tools to the contemporary moment. It features interviews, essays, and case studies organized around three questions: What are the possible histories of digital fabrication in architecture? How do designers orient themselves in this emergent discipline? What conceptual original points do architectural designers return to when they home their machines? The discourse that emerges from this collection aims to reach practicing architects using digital fabrication, as well as upper-level students and academics of digital architecture, architectural theory, and architectural history.

Author : Stan Gielen,Bert Kappen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447120636

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ICANN ’93 by Stan Gielen,Bert Kappen Pdf

This book contains the proceedings of the International Confer ence on Artificial Neural Networks which was held between September 13 and 16 in Amsterdam. It is the third in a series which started two years ago in Helsinki and which last year took place in Brighton. Thanks to the European Neural Network Society, ICANN has emerged as the leading conference on neural networks in Europe. Neural networks is a field of research which has enjoyed a rapid expansion and great popularity in both the academic and industrial research communities. The field is motivated by the commonly held belief that applications in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics will benefit from a good understanding of the neural information processing properties that underlie human intelligence. Essential aspects of neural information processing are highly parallel execution of com putation, integration of memory and process, and robustness against fluctuations. It is believed that intelligent skills, such as perception, motion and cognition, can be easier realized in neuro-computers than in a conventional computing paradigm. This requires active research in neurobiology to extract com putational principles from experimental neurobiological find ings, in physics and mathematics to study the relation between architecture and function in neural networks, and in cognitive science to study higher brain functions, such as language and reasoning. Neural networks technology has already lead to practical methods that solve real problems in a wide area of industrial applications. The clusters on robotics and applications contain sessions on various sub-topics in these fields.

Author : Klaas De Rycke,Christoph Gengnagel,Olivier Baverel,Jane Burry,Caitlin Mueller,Minh Man Nguyen,Philippe Rahm,Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811066115

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Humanizing Digital Reality by Klaas De Rycke,Christoph Gengnagel,Olivier Baverel,Jane Burry,Caitlin Mueller,Minh Man Nguyen,Philippe Rahm,Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen Pdf

This book aims at finding some answers to the questions: What is the influence of humans in controlling CAD and how much is human in control of its surroundings? How far does our reach as humans really go? Do the complex algorithms that we use for city planning nowadays live up to their expectations and do they offer enough quality? How much data do we have and can we control? Are today’s inventions reversing the humanly controlled algorithms into a space where humans are controlled by the algorithms? Are processing power, robots for the digital environment and construction in particular not only there to rediscover what we already knew and know or do they really bring us further into the fields of constructing and architecture? The chapter authors were invited speakers at the 6th Symposium "Design Modelling Symposium: Humanizing Digital Reality", which took place in Ensa-Versailles, France from 16 - 20 September 2017.

Author : Frederick M. Proctor
Publisher : SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015040688346

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Open Architecture Control Systems and Standards by Frederick M. Proctor Pdf

Author : Sushil Birla
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Computer architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015041230577

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Software Modeling for Reconfigurable Machine Tool Controllers by Sushil Birla Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1712 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Telecommunication
ISBN : UCSD:31822015727746

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ICC '80 Conference Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lingfeng Wang,K. C. Tan,Chee Meng Chew
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789812773142

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Evolutionary Robotics by Lingfeng Wang,K. C. Tan,Chee Meng Chew Pdf

This invaluable book comprehensively describes evolutionary robotics and computational intelligence, and how different computational intelligence techniques are applied to robotic system design. It embraces the most widely used evolutionary approaches with their merits and drawbacks, presents some related experiments for robotic behavior evolution and the results achieved, and shows promising future research directions. Clarity of explanation is emphasized such that a modest knowledge of basic evolutionary computation, digital circuits and engineering design will suffice for a thorough understanding of the material. The book is ideally suited to computer scientists, practitioners and researchers keen on computational intelligence techniques, especially the evolutionary algorithms in autonomous robotics at both the hardware and software levels. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Artificial Evolution Based Autonomous Robot Navigation (184 KB). Contents: Artificial Evolution Based Autonomous Robot Navigation; Evolvable Hardware in Evolutionary Robotics; FPGA-Based Autonomous Robot Navigation via Intrinsic Evolution; Intelligent Sensor Fusion and Learning for Autonomous Robot Navigation; Task-Oriented Developmental Learning for Humanoid Robots; Bipedal Walking Through Reinforcement Learning; Swing Time Generation for Bipedal Walking Control Using GA Tuned Fuzzy Logic Controller; Bipedal Walking: Stance Ankle Behavior Optimization Using Genetic Algorithm. Readership: Researchers in evolutionary robotics, and graduate and advanced undergraduate students in computational intelligence.

Author : Krzysztof Walkowiak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319303093

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Modeling and Optimization of Cloud-Ready and Content-Oriented Networks by Krzysztof Walkowiak Pdf

This book focuses on modeling and optimization of cloud-ready and content-oriented networks in the context of different layers and accounts for specific constraints following from protocols and technologies used in a particular layer. It addresses a wide range of additional constraints important in contemporary networks, including various types of network flows, survivability issues, multi-layer networking, and resource location. The book presents recent existing and new results in a comprehensive and cohesive way. The contents of the book are organized in five chapters, which are mostly self-contained. Chapter 1 briefly presents information on cloud computing and content-oriented services, and introduces basic notions and concepts of network modeling and optimization. Chapter 2 covers various optimization problems that arise in the context of connection-oriented networks. Chapter 3 focuses on modeling and optimization of Elastic Optical Networks. Chapter 4 is devoted to overlay networks. The book concludes with Chapter 5, summarizing the book and present recent research trends in the field of network optimization.

Author : Keri E. Pearlson,Carol S. Saunders,Dennis F. Galletta
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781394215447

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Managing and Using Information Systems by Keri E. Pearlson,Carol S. Saunders,Dennis F. Galletta Pdf

Provides the knowledge and insights necessary to contribute to the Information Systems decision-making process Managing & Using Information Systems: A Strategic Approach delivers a solid knowledgebase of basic concepts to help MBA students and general business managers alike become informed, competent participants in Information Systems (IS) decisions. Now in its eighth edition, this fully up-to-date textbook explains the fundamental principles and practices required to use and manage information while illustrating how information systems can create or obstruct opportunities — and even propel digital transformations within a wide range of organizations. Drawing from their expertise in both academia and industry, the authors discuss the business and design processes relevant to IS while presenting a basic framework that connects business strategy, IS strategy, and organizational strategy. Step by step, readers are guided through each essential aspect of Information Systems, from fundamental information architecture and infrastructure to cyber security, Artificial Intelligence (AI), business analytics, project management, platform and IS governance, IS sourcing, and more. Detailed chapters contain mini-cases, full-length case studies, discussion topics, review questions, supplemental readings, and topic-specific managerial concerns that provide insights into real-world IS issues. Managing & Using Information Systems: A Strategic Approach, Eighth Edition, is an excellent textbook for advanced undergraduate and MBA-level courses on IS concepts and managerial approaches to leveraging emerging information technologies.

Author : Galo Canizares
Publisher : ORO Applied Research + Design
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : 1943532516

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Digital Fabrications by Galo Canizares Pdf

Digital Fabrications is a collection of essays and half-true stories about design software and hardware. Written from the perspective of architectural design, each piece expands on emerging trends, devices, foibles, and phenomena engendered by an increased reliance on interactions with interfaces in the discipline. The essays ask, how do we characterize our post-digital design labor? What are the politics of design software? How is architecture adapting to a world largely dependent on platforms and scripts? What are the spatial mechanisms of the internet and VR? Using storytelling techniques, this book accepts that software is everywhere, and narrows in on a few ways it has taken command of our cultural products. From the perspective of architectural design, a field traditionally associated with sketching and its own myths of creativity, computers are an essential workplace tool. Projects rely on a wide assortment of software packages and standalone applications, but rarely do architects reflect on the structure of those programs or how they have infiltrated our disciplinary conventions. PDFs and JPGs are as much a part of our vocabulary as plans, sections, and elevations. A drawing today might refer to a rendering, a CAD document, a proprietary BIM file, or anything that describes a project visually. While one way of examining this disciplinary shift might be to re-imagine what digital drawing can be, this collection of essays puts forth another way: to look at the behaviors, phenomena, collective trends, and oddities emerging as a result of global software proliferation. In other words, this book accepts that software is everywhere, and narrows in on a few ways it has taken command of our cultural products.

Author : Alan Overby
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0071623027

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CNC Machining Handbook: Building, Programming, and Implementation by Alan Overby Pdf

A Practical Guide to CNC Machining Get a thorough explanation of the entire CNC process from start to finish, including the various machines and their uses and the necessary software and tools. CNC Machining Handbook describes the steps involved in building a CNC machine to custom specifications and successfully implementing it in a real-world application. Helpful photos and illustrations are featured throughout. Whether you're a student, hobbyist, or business owner looking to move from a manual manufacturing process to the accuracy and repeatability of what CNC has to offer, you'll benefit from the in-depth information in this comprehensive resource. CNC Machining Handbook covers: Common types of home and shop-based CNC-controlled applications Linear motion guide systems Transmission systems Stepper and servo motors Controller hardware Cartesian coordinate system CAD (computer-aided drafting) and CAM (computer-aided manufacturing) software Overview of G code language Ready-made CNC systems

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0897915917

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Stoc 93 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Computation theory
ISBN : UCSC:32106011444780

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Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing by Anonim Pdf

Author : Maxwell Fry,Jane Drew
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9785885016834

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Tropical Architecture by Maxwell Fry,Jane Drew Pdf

In the dry and humid zones

Author : Thomas Magedanz,Ahmed Karmouch,Samuel Pierre,Iakovos Venieris
Publisher : Springer
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540320319

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Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications by Thomas Magedanz,Ahmed Karmouch,Samuel Pierre,Iakovos Venieris Pdf

The beginning of the twenty-first century is characterized by global markets, and the mobility of people is becoming an important fact of life. Consequently, the mobile user is demanding appropriate technical solutions to make use of customized information and communication services. In this context the notion of next-generation networks (NGNs), which are driven by the convergence of the entertainment sector, the mobile Internet, and fixed/mobile telecommunications, is emerging. Such NGNs are aggregating a variety of different access networks and supporting the seamless connection of an open set of end-user devices, and due to the adoption of an all-IP network paradigm they enable a much better integration of voice and data services. Coincidently the buzzword ‘fixed mobile convergence’ (FMC) describes the current trend towards providing common services across fixed and mobile networks resulting in the medium term in the full integration of fixed and mobile telecommunication networks. The adoption of appropriate middleware technologies and the provision of - called service delivery platforms driven by the ongoing innovation in the field of information technologies provides today the technical foundation for supporting terminal, personal and service mobility and thus the implementation of real seamless information and communication services. Furthermore, users are nowadays looking, in light of an omnipresent service environment, for a much higher degree of customization and context awareness in the services they use. The papers in this volume look at these enabling mobility-aware technologies and their use for implementing mobility-aware and context-aware applications.