What Is – and What Is Not – Anticipation

Professor Mihai Nadin

Ashbel Smith Professor of Computer Science and Interactive Media

http://www.utdallas.edu/atec/nadin/

Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at Noon

ATEC Conference Room, ATC 1.606

Abstract

The word “anticipation” is in everyone’s mouth, but rarely in a way that does justice to the concept. “Anticipation” characterizes the fundamental distinction between the living and the non-living. In contra-distinction to physics, a science of anticipation acknowledges the purposiveness of the living.  Reporting on current research, the presentation is intended as a bridge-building attempt to other domains of knowledge and science.

Biography

PhDs in Electronics and Computer Science; Aesthetics. Publications: 41 books 194 articles.  Computer graphics (since 1968; work in collection of Victoria and Albert Museum, London); courses in visualization (1985); semiotics-grounded HCI (1982); Computational Design Program (1994); AnticipationScope™ (2005). Founded (2002) antÉ – Institute for Research in Anticipatory Systems.  For more details: www.nadin.ws

The ATEC/EMAC Colloquium Committee welcomes suggestions for speakers visiting the metroplex or from the metroplex. Please send your suggestions to one of the Colloquium Committee Members: Professors Roger Malina and Mihai Nadin; co-chairs: Andrew Famiglietti, Paul Fishwick, Mona Kasra and Bonnie Pitman.