UTOPIA EM PESSOA

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

Publications – João Costa Pessoa - 2011

An account of recent research of the groups of Costa Pessoa and Maurya is presented, focusing on the preparation of several polystyrene anchored complexes and their use as catalysts in functionalization of alkenes. The procedures for covalently binding the ligands or ligand precursors are outlined, as well as for coordination of the metal ions. Instrumental techniques used for the characterizat...

Publications – João Costa Pessoa - 2008

Short Abstract 3-Formylsalicylic acid (Hfsal) covalently bound to chloromethylated polystyrene (PS) cross-linked with 5% divinylbenzene reacts with DL-alanine and L-isoleucine to give the Schiff-base tridentate ligands PS-H2fsal-DL-Ala and PS-H2fsal-L-isoleu, respectively. These anchored ligands on reaction with VOSO4 and Cu(CH3COO)2.H2O form complexes PS-[VO(fsal-DL-Ala)(H2O)], PS-[Cu(fsal-DLA...