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_bPIC
100 _aPickover, Clifford A. Ed.
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245 _aVisions of the future : art, technology and computing in the twenty-first century
260 _aLondon
_bSt. Martins Press
_c1994
300 _axxviii,212p.
505 _aCONTENTS Preface v Introduction to the Paperback Edition xi The Virtual Science Center: "A Museum of Everything that Could be Imagined" 1 Dawn Friedman The Future of Student Computer Use 19 William J. Joel Forging a Career as a Sculptor from a Career as a Computer Programmer 29 Stewart Dickson The Future of Weather and Climate Prediction 43 Thomas T. Warner and Bill Buzbee Computers and Human Communication 53 Davis Albert Foulger The Universal Robot 65 Hans Moravec Materials Science: One Morning in the Year 2079 75 B. D. Silverman Current Techniques and Development of Computer Art 87 Franz G. Szabo Computer War Games in the 21st Century 103 James J. Perry Will Computers Really THINK in the 21st Century? 113 Ira Guckstein Fractals and Genetics in the Future 127 H. Joel Jeffrey Electronic Storytelling in the 21st Century 137 Judy Malloy Using Artificial Intelligence to Control Traffic 145 Carlos David Nassi Molecular Biology and Futuristic Problem Solving 151 Mels Sluyser and Erik L. L. Sonnhammer Studying Prehistory with Tomorrow's Computers 159 D. G. East Computers and Future Golf 169 Anthony S. Akins Artificial Life: Answering the Question of Emergence 177 William R. Buckley The Future of Ambiguous Art 183 Peter Hettich Beyond Art 193 Paul Brown Frontiers in Computers and Writing 205 Rae C. Schipke Index 211
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890 _aUK
891 _aGratis from Dr. Bharat Dave
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