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From: bc@mit-amt.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: The MIT Media-Lab
Message-ID: <1582@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 27-Sep-87 18:48:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-amt.1582
Posted: Sun Sep 27 18:48:26 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 28-Sep-87 06:37:40 EDT
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Reply-To: bc@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (bill coderre)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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Keywords: Media Lab, R$, chien du fromage
Summary: Coderre strikes back! Thousands Homeless!


Yeah, I'm here, $alz. (Took a while, my newsrc is being "censored" by
some sort of Bad Majjick.)

Yeah, The Media Lab is a pretty good book. Very few major mistakes (a
handful of minor ones). Also, just going out of print are Nick
Negroponte's "Architecture Machine" books (via MIT Press) -- landmark
work in man-machine interface. Why not machines you can talk to, that
you can point at, that know when you are talking to them, that can see
where you are looking, pointing. Machines that know what you like and
what you never want to see (SLG, snikker). That's what we build here.

I just came back from the first Artificial Life conference (at Los
Alamos Nat Labs, believe it!) where I showed my work in Artificial
Animal Behavior. Expect articles in Scientific American -- AK Dewdeney
was one of the organizers. Rudy Rucker was there, he's into Cellular
Automata in a big way (considering that and where he lives --
Tennesse! -- I'm seriously wondering what drugs he takes). I'm gonna
get Rudy posting to this newtgruppe soon...

Anyway, back to play..................................bc