My project was a curiosity cabinet. I used a chest instead, to collect some interesting things I found in the wood (botanical garden). Then, I tried to laser-cut the pattern of mycelium that I observed using microscope. Overall, I try to provide a physical illustration of how mycelium connects all the plants together, embraces them all and maintain them all. Unfortunately, because the kind of wood I bought, I was unable to laser-cut the pattern I intended.
For my final project, I chose to make six different sculptures of my spine. As a girl growing up with scoliosis, I was self-conscious about my spine for many years. Interestingly enough, it was not until I began to experience chronic back and leg pain, that I learned to accept and love these parts of my body. A lot of that acceptance was learned by spending more time thinking and learning about my body.
On September 3rd of 1939, Britain declared war on Germany. Within one day, Alan Turing arrived at the British codebreaking house in the town of Bletchley (just between Oxford and Cambridge). It was there that he worked with another Cambridge mathematician by the name of Gordon Welchman to design the Bombe, a machine to break Enigma-enciphered messages sent by the German military. This was just the first of five major cryptanalytic advances that Turing developed during World War II. These many contributions have been credited with shortening the war by several years.
Alan Turing was a mathematical genius. He speculated that there was a relationship between math and nature through the presence of Fibonacci numbers that naturally occur in plants. Fibonacci numbers are a sequence of numbers, where you can add one of the numbers with the number to the right of it, to get the next number. For example, the first few numbers of the sequence begin as follows: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc. To get the number after 21, simply add 13 to 21, which gives you 34.
Going along with what John posted earlier about a newspaper featuring fictional articles, I will create a fake WWII propaganda poster supporting Alan Turing.
Alan Turing is seen as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, which is why my group decided to focus on artificial intelligence. I will specifically focus on Kismet, a robot made at MIT that has many human qualities such as speech detection, speech, emotion / facial expression, and vision. There are many aspects of artificial intelligence such as general intelligence, social intelligence, perception, learning, and planning. Kismet in particular has social intelligence.
For our final project, I am in the group which will, in the spirit of Alan Turing, offer a new method in which to encode messages. Unlike other codes, our code will be biological, and will be encrypted in DNA itself. Our method involves encoding a message using some sort of encryption with nucleotide sequences and implanting this sequence into the body of the messenger. The recieving end will know where to look for this particular message. For my portion of the project, I will create
Alan Turing's contribution of chemical morphogenesis, the creation of form and shape during animal development, led him to propose a reaction-diffusion model as the basis of the development of patterns such as the spots and stripes seen in animal skin. By understanding the cellular mechanisms of morphogenesis, we are able to use the proposed model to examine the patterning of animals. For example, why do zebras always have black and white stripes?
Alan Turing, arguably one of the most important scientists of the twentieth century, played an integral role in the extensive series of events during World War II. Highly fluent in the languages of computer science, math, and cryptology, Turing used his superior skills to aid the Allies in defeating the Germans and Axis powers. Without his assistance, it could be argued that the War could have a much different result, possibly even having the Germans winning battles that could have shifted the entire momentum of the war.
Alan Turing, the “father of computer science,” created the magnificent Eliza Program. Our group will focus on Artificial Intelligence. I will specifically concentrate on “The Sims” in relation to the Eliza Program.
My final project is inspired and somewhat based on Alan Turing’s ELIZA program and the Turing Test. I’m interested in designing a smart house software programed with artificial intelligence allowing it to engage in conversation with its owner. I found a clip from a sci-fi show called “EUReKA” on YouTube which illustrates what I am striving to accomplish but rather than remaining science fiction, I want to make this sci-fi idea a reality.