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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Yanni Loukissas (Assistant Professor, Digital Media, School of Literature, Media and Communication, Georgia Tech, USA)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.470kg ISBN: 9780415592277ISBN 10: 0415592275 Pages: 162 Publication Date: 31 May 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Preface 1. Introducing the Electronic Brain 2. Cultures of Simulation 3. ""Special Men"" and Universal Machines 4. How Do Simulations Know? 5. Towards a Pluralistic Formalism 6. Designers in Dialog 7. Human, Machine, and Environment"ReviewsThis book is more than a conversation starter; it is a conversation changer. A designer and an ethnographer, Loukissas provides a rare dual vision on how simulation changes how we build and think about building. Elegant. Sophisticated. A must-read across a range of fields in science and technology studies and design. Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of theSocial Studies of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA This book is more than a conversation starter; it is a conversation changer. A designer and an ethnographer, Loukissas provides a rare dual vision on how simulation changes how we build and think about building. Elegant. Sophisticated. A must-read across a range of fields in science and technology studies and design. - Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of theSocial Studies of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Author InformationYanni Alexander Loukissas is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at MIT. He has also been a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Cornell University. He holds an SM and a PhD in Design and Computation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as well as a BArch from Cornell University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |