Tra utopia e alteritá

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...

Cost E ective Tra c Grooming in WDM Rings

We provide network designs for optical wavelength division multiplexed (OWDM) rings that minimize overall network cost, rather than just the number of wavelengths needed. The network cost includes the cost of the transceivers required at the nodes as well as the number of wavelengths. The transceiver cost includes the cost of terminating equipment as well as higher-layer electronic processing e...

Type Data tra c Replacement tra c Coherence tra cUMA

Shared-bus multiprocessors represent a mainstream of accepted and commercially viable computer systems. However, as microprocessors become faster and demand more bandwidth, the already limited scalability of shared-bus decreases even further. As an eeort, not a mutually exclusive but rather a complementary to developing better backplane bus, this paper considers adapting distributed shared-memo...

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