The mischief maker

Mitochondrial Genes Cause Nuclear Mischief

Anyone who uses a word processor is likely thankful for the spell checker program. But that autocorrect function can introduce errors, “correcting” the spelling of words to fi t its stored repertoire, which is decidedly limited. Take that one step further and imagine a rogue program that destroys the coherence and meaning of your prose by swapping out one letter for another throughout the docum...

Mischief humor: from games to playable cities

Playable cities are smart cities that allow artists, urban designers, and city dwellers to introduce sensors and actuators or use already in-place sensors and actuators for playful applications. These applications allow users to interact with street furniture or with and in public buildings. Sensors and actuators can be embedded in street furniture and public spaces, they can be addressed direc...

The Maker Fables

This Science Fiction Prototype explores the idea that the current interest in maker space activities could continue to grow to the point where it causes a sea change in the manufacturing industry as it shifts from centralised production in factories, to a distributed production in people’s communities or homes. This move is a natural extension of a number of research trends, such as the increas...

The adaptive decision maker

Melody Maker The Music

In this paper we describe how we have developed an application that is capable of evolving melodies with some human help to guide it. We have developed this system using evolutionary algorithms and interactive evolution. The user can use the application to, first, evolve short blocks of notes, and second, to combine these blocks into longer melodies using more evolutionary techniques. The resul...