[FRIAM] Biologically Inspired Designs

[Douglas Roberts]

They actually schedule the pedagogical talks at NECSI?  I want to go next
year!!

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Oh, and Mike: ---->  :-}

--Doug

On 6/30/06, Michael Agar <magar at anth.umd.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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