Today, a new technological convergence—of biology and engineering—promises to create the tools necessary to tackle the threats we now face, including climate change, drought, famine, and disease World-renowned neuroscientist and ...
Historian Minsoo Kang argues that to properly understand the human-as-machine and the human-as-fundamentally-different-from-machine, we must trace the origins of these ideas and examine how they were transformed by intellectual, cultural, ...
From the former president of MIT, the story of the next technology revolution, and how it will change our lives.
But what exactly is the rationale for using the term “machine” to designate macromolecular assemblies? According to Nogales and Grigorieff (2001, F1), “this designation captures many of the aspects characterizing these biological ...
In 1885, the Broadway omnibus companies sold off their omnibuses to be used in smaller towns and cities. ... New York State Engineer, Annual Report, 1855, 186, 224, 659; White, Horsecars, Cable Cars and Omnibuses, xi; “How We Ride in ...
Frederick John Jervis - Smith , Dynamometers ( New York : D. Van Nostrand , 1915 ) , 89 ; Hunter and Bryant , A History of Industrial Power , 3 : 122-4 ; Richard L. Hills and A. J. Pacey , " The Measurement of Power in Early Steam ...
This book constitutes the proceedings of the )th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2020, held in Freiburg, Germany, in July 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.
Moving among literature, architecture, design, science, and technology, Machines for Living shows how the modernization of the home led to profound changes in domestic life and relied on a set of emergent concepts, including standardization ...
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2017, held in Stanford, CA, USA, in July 2017.The 42 full and 19 short papers presented in this volume were ...
... Deborah Kreuze, Beth Livermore, Peter London, Patrick Mullins, Michael Robbins, Paul Siegel, and Tom and Alex Stites. ... Working with the editor in chief, Marylin Bender, and her very capable staff—including Linda Lee, Tim Race, ...