Frankenstein, or the 8 bit Prometheus

Swesaurus; or, The Frankenstein Approach to Wordnet Construction

Swesaurus is a freely available (under a CC-BY license) Swedish wordnet under construction, built primarily by scavenging and recycling information from a number of existing lexical resources. Among its more unusual characteristics are graded lexical-semantic relations and inclusion of all parts of speech, not only open-class items. The materials at present within my command hardly appeared ade...

Countering the Frankenstein Complex

Isaac Asimov coined the term “Frankenstein Complex” to describe the fear that the general public has towards humanmade technologies when they invade the realm commonly considered to be God’s domain. Recently, several people have made a name for themselves partially by fanning this flame. This poster demonstrates some of the historical evidence of this fear and provides reasons why it is unfound...

HEAVEN: The Frankenstein effect

The HEAVEN head transplant initiative needs human data concerning the acute restoration of motor transmission after application of fusogens to the severed cord in man. Data from two centuries ago prove that a fresh cadaver, after hanging or decapitation, can be mobilized by electrical stimulation for up to 3 hours. By administering spinal cord stimulation by applied paddles to the cord or trans...

Internet: which future for organized knowledge, Frankenstein or Pygmalion?

Untangling the Prometheus Nightmare

A number of bush and forest fire simulators have been developed in the last two decades based on the deterministic spread equations of Gwynfor Richards (Int. J. Num. Meth. Eng. 1990) and the marker method for computing discrete approximations to the Richards equations. Unfortunately, all such implementations are plagued by topological complications. For example, sampling issues on the evolving ...