Acting: From Imagination to Transformation

Pharmacy's future: Transformation, diffusion, and imagination.

Nanopore sequencing: from imagination to reality.

DNA sequencing and hence genomics have been transformed over the last decade by the commercialization of inexpensive, massively parallel, short-read sequencing technology. Nonetheless, a new generation of singlemolecule DNA sequencers, which uses nanopore technology, is initiating a further upheaval in genomics. These instruments are portable, capable of reads of 100 kb, cheap, and fast. Nanopo...

Distinguishing Imagination from Reality

Children engage with their imaginative faculties in a variety of ways as they grow and develop. Th ey play simple pretend games starting at about the age of two (Fein, 1981; Nicolich, 1977; Singer & Singer, 1990), which are then elaborated into longer pretend sequences and sometimes into ongoing relationships with imaginary companions (Taylor, 1999) and paracosms (see chapter 27). Children also...

Visual Imagination from Texts

Imagination is a fundamental ability of humans which resides in the cognitive system. We propose a connectionist model that generates images from a given sentence after trained on a dataset of image-sentence pairs. The model is composed of language model and image model that are connected with a latent variable constrained by a prior distribution. The latent variable encodes dual information an...

From Imagination to Innovation: A Creative Development Process

This paper is concerned with models of the innovation process. It takes the perspective that innovation is a non-linear process where development paths emerge from the process of ‘imagining’ and ‘doing’, iterating around in evolutionary cycles until a satisfactory innovation emerges. To support this we have developed a model of the innovation process called Creative Innovation Development (CID)...