Evolution: Small-town utopia

In a small Iowa town.

Ambient Utopia

This chapter presents an analysis of the ambitions that lie behind the concept of Ambient Intelligence as it is presented by the advocates and researchers working in the field. In particular it looks at the ideas regarding the forms of natural and intuitive forms of interaction that are envisaged including agents and robots from a philosophical perspective. The views on interaction are analysed...

Landscaping State Modeling in a Small Town

Submitted: Sep 29, 2013; Accepted: Nov 2, 2013; Published: Nov 8, 2013 Abstract: The article describes a model and forecasting algorithm of landscaping state in a small town for a specified period of time. The model describes the stages of tree growth milestones from planting of saplings to plant loss. The theory of probabilistic finite-state automatons is used to form the model. Expert evaluat...

Rural and Small Town Library Management Challenges

ISSN: 0161-6846 (Print) 1541-1540 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/wplq20 Rural and Small Town Library Management Challenges Rachel K. Fischer To cite this article: Rachel K. Fischer (2015) Rural and Small Town Library Management Challenges, Public Library Quarterly, 34:4, 354-371, DOI: 10.1080/01616846.2015.1106899 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/016...

Engineering Utopia

The likely advent of AGI and the long-established trend of improving computational hardware promise a dual revolution in coming decades: machines which are both more intelligent and more numerous than human beings. This possibility raises substantial concern over the moral nature of such intelligent machines, and of the changes they will cause in society. Will we have the chance to determine th...