Martin Stephan: Der verliebte Drache. Geschichten

Einführung: Die Zuse-Forschung und die Probleme der Pionier-Geschichten

Biographische und monographische Darstellungen zu Konrad Zuse konzentrierten sich in der Vergangenheit sehr stark auf den Nachweis der Priorität der Zuse-Maschinen vor den amerikanischen und englischen Computer-Entwicklungen. Der einführende Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die Problemstellungen, Ergebnisse und offenen Fragen der bisherigen Forschung über den wichtigsten deutschen Computerpion...

Gespielte Geschichten. Struktur- und prozessanalytische Untersuchungen der Narrativität von Videospielen: Struktur- und prozessanalytische Untersuchungen der Narrativität von Viodeospielen

Martin Stephan Meyer between Technology and Science Exploring an Emerging Field

This dissertation addresses emerging developer communities in a new field of science and technology as well as methods to capture exchange processes between them. It contributes to the discussion about a new mode of knowledge production and a changing division of labour between public research, industry, and government by investigating 'nanotechnology' – an emerging area between science and tec...

Quicktree - SD Stephan

Phylogenetic methods are becoming part of the standard methodologies used in the analyses of biological sequence data, but several of the classical tools of phylogenetic inference were not designed with high throughput applications in mind. During our surveys, we haven't found software for the fast inference of neighbor joining trees from sequence alignments which could use biologically realist...

Uncertainty as knowledge Stephan Lewandowsky

This issue of Philosophical Transactions examines the relationship between scientific uncertainty about climate change and knowledge. Uncertainty is an inherent feature of the climate system. Considerable effort has therefore been devoted to understanding how to effectively respond to a changing, yet uncertain climate. Politicians and the public often appeal to uncertainty as an argument to del...