[FRIAM] Biologically Inspired Designs

[Michael Agar]

Ali Minai gave an interesting introduction to "biomorphic engineering"
during the pedagogical talk day last Sunday here at the NECSI
conference.
http://www.necsi.org/community/wiki/index.php/ICCS06/Ali_Minai Among
many interesting things, he talked about how engineering consisted of
design, production and operation, and that biomorphic engineering tended
to focus only on the last, operation, a mistake in his view. 

Mike

>>> fromm at vs.uni-kassel.de 06/30/06 3:58 AM >>>

Mother Nature's Design Workshop
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2006/tc20060627_504809.htm

Slide show
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/06/critters/index_01.htm

SlashDot Discussion
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/27/135249


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