F or most research-funding organizations, computational engineering is a study area in academic engineering departments, and is often somewhat indistinguishable from highly applied physics, chemistry, and biology research. I'm going to address a different kind of computational engineering that is focused on the development, manufacture, and deployment of innovative, complex technical products s...

“Social Stomach” is a series of social, textual and “performative” or diogetic prototypes [1] that rethink the relation between food and technology and experiment with future metabolic exchanges that are biological, technological and political at the same time. Eating in this project represents the ultimate form of “cosmopolitics” [2], an ideal ground for design experiments with temporary assem...

Given a T-indistinguishability operator E defined between some fuzzy subsets of a universe of discourse X, this paper studies three ways to generate an indistinguishability operator on X compatible with E inspired by the tools used in approximate reasoning and on the duality principle. Of special interest are the cases when the fuzzy subsets determine a partition and a hard-partition of the uni...

This paper introduces a grasp synthesis algorithm that can use any grasp prototype as the starting point in a search for a good grasp. The algorithm makes the given prototype more eeective by generalizing it for a speciic task. This generalization step expands the range of application of the prototype to a wide variety of target object geometries, while ensuring that the resulting grasps are ap...