Mixed, patched, and meta-models
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Module 14 from Creative Modeling for Tech Vision covers more on little models.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Module 14 from Creative Modeling for Tech Vision covers more on little models.
Friday, July 10, 2009
The powerpoint below was presented at the 2009 meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Technology in a plenary panel session on the forthcoming handbook, Anthonie Meijers (Ed.) (in press). Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Volume 9: Philosophy of Technology & Engineering Sciences, Elsevier.
The handbook is in press and more information is available on the Elsevier link above or the Amazon link here.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
The presentation Engineering Rigor and Its Discontents: Philosophical Reflection as Curative to Math-Physics Envy is available in the viewer below:
This talk was presented Wednesday at SPT 2009, the 2009 meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. The abstract is available here.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg just presented a talk at SPT 2009, the 2009 Conference of the Society for Philosophy of Technology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. The powerpoint stack from that talk is available in the viewer below:
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
In moving from qualitative models to quantitative models, it pays to start small. In module 11 of Creative Modeling for Tech Vision, the topic of little quantitative models is explored with applications to evolutionary computation and organziational theory:
See more presentations here.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
One of iFoundry’s themes is the importance of both qualitative and quantitative thinking skills, a theme emphasized in the powerpoint presentation shown in the viewer below:
or in on the Slideshare page here.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
iFoundry fellow Jim Leake gave a talk at Autodesk’s Global Colloquium at the ASEE Conference in Austin, TX last week. The presentation is available in the viewer below
or on the iFoundry Slideshare page here. Autodesk is sponsoring an iFoundry project that brings industrial design and engineering students and faculty together in and outside the classroom.
UPDATE:
See examples of student work from the above presentation in the video below:
or on the iFoundry Youtube channel here.
Friday, June 5, 2009
iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg presented the lecture, Playing Well with Others in a Creative Era at the University of Algarve in Faro, Portugal. It was picked up in the local press here.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
A special welcome to University of Nottingham visitors. iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg’s talk, Playing Well with Others in a Creative Era is posted in the viewer below
or on slidehare here. The talk is a greatly expanded version of a talk presented at the US National Academy of Engineering (here).
Monday, March 2, 2009
Deana McDonagh talks about the importance of empathy when designing for people that are different from you and about the so called Empathic Horizon.
A presentation is also available on iFoundry’s SlideShare channel.