The evolution of the concept of time, from the first hunters-gatherers communities of the Paleolithic to the Newtonian physics is shortly reviewed. In particular, attention id paid to the social needs that contributed to change this concept from the Prehistory to the Bronze Age and then to the Iron Age, the classical philosophy, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, up to the birth of modern sci...

We describe techniques for sound synthesis of the ud and the Renaissance lute using the physical modeling approach. In the present model, novel methods have been used for the design of the loop filters, as well as for the implementation of the glissando effect. With its realistic synthetic sounds, our system can provide new tools and a test-bed platform for researchers, educators and composers ...

I will describe my research interests in the following sequence: (a) the substantive phenomenon I wish to explain is the emergence of banking in Renaissance Florence; (b) the evolutionary process exemplified in this case is speciation—in particular, speciation viewed “metabolically” as the altered concatenation of multiple production networks; (c) modeling the dynamics of multiple networks, to ...

Renaissance Vinoy, St.Petersburg, Florida January 24-26, 2014.