Book Review | Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein (MIT Press, 2020)

Book Review: "Improvizational design" by Suguru Ishizaki; MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003, ISBN 0-262-09035-X

Motivated by the lack of models and languages for visual designs to address design solutions that continuously change over time, Suguru Ishizaki proposes a common model for designing dynamic information. Such a design embodies harmonious and complex interactions of design parameters, analogous to the three-dimensional colour model (hue, value and chroma). The author identifies three characteris...

The MIT Press Journals

The MIT Press Journals

One of the main limitations of scalability in body-brain evolution systems is the representation chosen for encoding creatures. This paper defines a class of representations called generative representations, which are identified by their ability to reuse elements of the genotype in the translation to the phenotype. This paper presents an example of a generative representation for the concurren...

The MIT Press Journals

The MIT Press Journals

Neuronal adaptation as well as interdischarge interval correlations have been shown to be functionally important properties of physiological neu-rons. We explore the dynamics of a modified leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neuron, referred to as the LIF with threshold fatigue, and show that it reproduces these properties. In this model, the postdischarge threshold reset depends on the preceding se...