Alan N. Shapiro, Technologist and Futurist

Blog and text archive about media theory, science fiction theory, future design, social choreography, Computer Science 2.0, new media art, robots and androids, Star Trek, The Prisoner, Jean Baudrillard, Albert Camus, Michel Foucault, and Marshall McLuhan

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The Paradigm of Object Spaces: Better Software is Coming, by Bernhard Angerer and Alan N. Shapiro

February 12th, 2013 in Category: Computer Science 2.0

Object Spaces is the start of the road towards making a qualitative revolution in computer science: a major upgrade in how software is made, and in the power of what it can do. Object Spaces takes on infrastructural challenges with an application-centered unified programming paradigm.
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Rules and Patterns System for Design Process Support Software, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 12th, 2013 in Category: Computer Science 2.0

It is necessary, in building towards a Design Process Support Software Application, to design and program a Rules and Pattern System as an extreme form of bottom-up object-oriented intelligence (pragmatic AI) that has a direct relationship between perception and action without a guiding top-down intelligence.
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Design for a Working Quantum Computer in Software, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 12th, 2013 in Category: Computer Science 2.0

A Quantum/Real World Software System with Similarity-Based Dynamic Objects
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International Flusser Lecture, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 9th, 2013 in Category: Computer Science 2.0, Media Studies

On July 10, 2012, I gave the International Flusser Lecture at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Related to this lecture, a small book by me in German will be published in the International Flusser Lecture series by the Walther Koenig Verlag.
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Comparing Online Computer Science Programs to the Brick and Mortar Kind, by Olivia Leonardi

August 26th, 2012 in Category: Computer Science 2.0

Computer science has certainly captured the American imagination, as evidenced by the growing number of students who study the field at both traditional and online universities. Olivia Leonardi explores the clear benefits and the potential drawbacks of online computer science programs.
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Time-Memory-Experience (part 4 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger and Alan N. Shapiro

June 9th, 2012 in Category: Computer Science 2.0, Media Studies

Let us now take a look at the specific modes of time of the computer. In what comes next we would like to look into the timeliness of the computer itself, the rhythm created by the machine and by the user, and, lastly, the perception of time produced in the interaction between user and machine.
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Time-Memory-Experience (part 2 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger

April 24th, 2012 in Category: Computer Science 2.0, Media Studies

ARTstor hence differs from a traditional archive, altering the traditional functions of an archive to become also a social media in which the material is constantly reworked, newly sorted, and transformed.
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Time, Memory, Experience (part 1 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger

April 24th, 2012 in Category: Computer Science 2.0, Media Studies

My project is to revise the theories and concepts that arose in the advent of the Internet in the early 1990s, when the Internet emerged from a blank canvas and served as a projection for dreams about utopian cyberspace. Have these theories of New Media and New Technologies stood the test of time?
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A New Computer Science is Underway: Alan N. Shapiro interviewed by Anja Wiesinger

February 15th, 2012 in Category: Computer Science 2.0

American philosopher and veteran software engineer Alan Shapiro reflects on computer science in relation to the history of ideas it originated from.