Press Release (Part 2)
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"We're currently developing techniques for computing with diagrams and
drawings," said mathematician Dr. William Bricken, head of the new research
team. "A picture can represent an idea much more concisely than a string of
words. The innovative contribution of boundary mathematics is to equate
changing pictures with the act of computation. We can construct programs by
drawing and run programs by animating these drawings. The natural
consequences of representing ideas on two-dimensional planes rather than in
sequential strings include a visual programming language, parallel
processing, more efficient representation, and much faster computation."
Bricken has an extensive background in both theoretical and practical
mathematics, computer science, social psychology, and education. He received
a Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in Mathematical Methods of Research.
Bricken has applied boundary mathematics to research in artificial
intelligence for the past seven years. Working with Bricken on the research
team are Eric Gullichsen, whose research interests include artificial
realities and psychoactive software, and Meredith Bricken, who specializes in
information integration and prototype design.
(This files is also in DL9 – RESRCH.AI)
Okay.
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I'll bite.
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What is psychoactive software?
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Regards,
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Lansing.
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(I guess I need to return soon to Sausalito for my triennial attitude
realignment.)
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Lansing:
Sigh. It must be soo booring to live in the middle of the country. Those of
us on the right coast are very attuned to the use of psychoactive software,
even though it is in greater use on the left coast. That's because the left
side of the brain is the intuitive side. You poor guys in the middle get left
out completely, lost somwhere in the netherland of intuitively analytical
wishywashydom.
Psychoactive software came about expressly for the use for those of us who
ask our dealers questions like "why does my drawing crash when I poor beer on
the keyboard?" and we get the response "I'll have to check with California".
This creates a severe pain in the region of the center of the brain and
causes blackouts and changes in professions. Once the condition is corrected
by the change in profession, generally in the exciting new use of computers
using a word processor to write children's books, the residue from the use of
ACAD and the search for logic in the menu structure of the wordprocessing
program causes relapses. This is where psychoactive software comes into play.
The user attempts to understand what it is that he has just spent the last
four hours writing and comes to the conclusion that he can't understand what
he is reading. (i.e. he's not getting what he sees). Through the use of
psycoactive software, the words that he wrote are translated into what he was
thinking. (i.e. what you think is what you get.)
This once thought revolutionary concept got placed on the back burner because
everyone came to realize that no one wanted to know what it was that anyone
was really thinking. They only wanted to know what they thought about what
the other person seemed to be thinking. Got it?
Craig.
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Yes, stop by my office for the tour of CompuServe Central! We have an
attitude realignment rack in there. <grin>
Psychoactive Software? Mental digitizers? Actually I don't know, I'll have to
ask Dr. B. for a comment.
Jamie