O operário da utopia

O Computador Quântico da IBM e o IBM Quantum Experience

O anúncio de um computador quântico que pode ser acessado de forma remota por qualquer pessoa a partir de seu laptop é um acontecimento de grande importância para os cientistas da computação quântica. Neste trabalho nós apresentamos o computador quântico da International Business Machines (IBM) e sua plataforma IBM Quantum Experience (IBM-QE) como uma proposta didática em estudos de computação ...

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...

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...

Utopia Rising

Um Estudo de Campo sobre o Estado da Prática da Elicitação de Requisitos em Sistemas Embarcados

Embedded Systems have a very important role in the modern life. We use them in our home, work, transportation, medical procedures, leisure time and so on. Despite of its great importance to our lives this kind of system steel lake a better process to improve the quality of its software. In this paper we present the results from a field research that focused the state of the practice of the embe...