Regulation feeds corruption.

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Disrupt Medicine

Journal of Biology and Medicine, Open Access Journal. August 11, 2021
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We are our actions. Would N.A. Bernstein Research BCI?

Was recently published on the book Bernstein’s Construction of Movement: Original Text and Commentaries. The article brings to light original contributions on human motion researched and published 80 years ago, contrasting older methods with contemporary brain-computer imaging.
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Intersecţii

In: Ledeanu, A (Ed.) Solomon Marcus. “Zero şi Infinit sunt fraţi.” Special issue of Secolul 21 dedicated to the work of the mathematician Solomon Marcus. Bucarest: Fundaţia Culturală Secolul 21, 1-6:2017, 166-177
http://secolul21.ro/arhive/2262
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Foresight and Hindsight, Leonardo Special Section

Pioneers and Pathbreakers. July 11, 2016
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/LEON_a_01324?journalCode=leon#.WAkRZ4WDM-0
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Enslaved by Digital Technology

Interview with Roberto Simanowski in Dichtung Digital: A Journal of art and culture in digital media, No. 43 – 2013-11-16.

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Anticipating the Political Consequences of the Internet: It’s All about Power

MAP—Political Anticipation Magazine (5), March 2012
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Antecapere ergo sum: what price knowledge?

AI&Society, February 2012
25th Anniversary Volume. A FAUSTIAN EXCHANGE: WHAT IS TO BE HUMAN IN THE ERA OF UBIQUITOUS TECHNOLOGY
Springer London
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Protected: Free E-Book Download: Are You Stupid? A Second Revolution Might Save America from Herself

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Where Is Semiotics When You Need It Most?

in SemiotiX. A Global Information Bulletin, 4, July 2005
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Annotated Bibliography: anticipatory systems/anticipation (Part 1).

Special issue of International Journal of General Systems, Vol. 39, Issue 1, 2010 with an introduction by George Klir.
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Annotated Bibliography: anticipatory systems/anticipation (Part 2).

Continued from the Annotated Bibliography, Part 1
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Anticipation and dynamics: Rosen’s anticipation in the perspective of time.

Special issue of International Journal of General Systems, Vol. 39, Issue 1, 2010 with an introduction by George Klir.
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Special Editorial by George Klir to Mihai Nadin’s Anticipation and Dynamics

Special issue of International Journal of General Systems, Vol. 39, Issue 1, 2010
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Anticipation and the Artificial. Aesthetics, ethics, and synthetic life.

Special issue on Ethics and Aesthetics of Technologies, in AI & Society. London: Springer, 2009.
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Anticipation and Risk – From the inverse problem to reverse computation

in Risk and Decision Analysis (M. Nadin, Ed.), 1 (2009) Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 113-139.
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Seniors Gaming: An interview with Mihai Nadin by Thom Gillespie

in Ivory Tower/IGDA/DiGRA, 16 Mar 2005…

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Anticipation comes of age (Foreword)

in Risk and Decision Analysis (M. Nadin, Ed.) 1 (2009) Amsterdam: IOS Press, p. 73
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From early computer graphics to anticipatory computing – a journey that started in Romania

in Grigore C. Moisil and His Followers in the Field of Theoretical Computer Science (Afrodita Iorgulescu, Solomon Marcus, Sergiu Rudeanu and Dragos Vaida, Eds.). Bucarest: Editura Academiei, 2008, pp. 40-43.
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Integration of Motion Capture and EMG data for Classifying the Human Motions

(with Gaurav N. Pradhan, Dr. Navzer Engineer, Dr. Balakrishnan Prabhakaran). IEEE 23rd International Conference of Data Engineering (ICDE) Workshop on Ambient Intelligence, Media, and Sensing (AIMS) 2007, April 20, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey
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An Integrated Mobile Wireless System for Capturing Physiological Data Streams During a Cognitive-Motor Task: Applications for Aging

(with G.N. Pradhan, N.D. Engineer, and B. Prabhakaran), presented at the 2007 IEEE Dallas Engineering in Medicine and Biology Workshop. Emerging Technologies for Healthcare and Quality of Life, UT-Dallas, November 11-12, 2007
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Anticipation & Aesthetic Inspiration

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How can anticipation inform creative leadership? The need for a new perspective.

in Fü hrung, Innovation und Wandel (L. Becker, J. Ehrhardt, W. Gora, Eds.). Dusseldorf: Symposion Publishing, 2008. pp. 49-92
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Stereo Matching via Selective Multiple Windows (with S Adhyapak, N. Kehtarnavaz)

Journal of Electronic Imaging. 16(1), 103012 (Jan-Mar 2007) Bellingham WA: The Society for Imaging Science & Technology.

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The Civilization of Illiteracy

Dresden: Dresden University Press, 1997. 881 pp.
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Semiotic Machine

in The Public Journal of Semiotics 1(1), January 2007, pp. 85-114,
http://www.semioticon.com/seo/S/semiotic_machine.html#
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Is a Bionic Goalkeeper Possible?

Anticipation and Intuition (published in German), Mensch und Planung (Humans and Planning). Essen, Germany:PKK, 2006, pp 6-21.
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The Timeliness and Futureness of Programs

Computer (C. Pias, Ed.) Zurich/Berlin:
Diaphanes Verlag, 2005, pp. 65-82.
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Mihai Nadin On Anticipatory Systems

Interview in UBIQUITY, an ACM IT Magazine.
UBIQUITY, Volume 5, Issue 42, (January 1 – January 8, 2005)…

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A Revolution of Fantasy?

Published in Living at Work (A. Grosz, J. Witt, Eds.). Vienna/Zurich: Hanser Verlag, 2004, pp. 106-114
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Not Everything We Know We Learned

in Adaptive Behavior in Anticipatory Learning Systems.
LNAI 2684. Heidelberg: BertelsmanSpringer, 2003. pp. 23-43
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Can Institutions Anticipate?

Diskussionsforum
“Technikfolgenabschätzung”, Nr. 3 / 4, 12. Jahrgang – November 2003, S. 144-148
by Mihai Nadin, ANTÃˆ – Institute for the Research of Anticipatory Systems
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Applying Anticipatory Mechanisms to a Changing Economic Environment

Meeting of the Association of Metal Industry Employers, NRW, 24 June 2003

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Anticipation: The end is where we start from

Computer Science Colloquium, University of Bremen, 11 June 2003

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The interesting as the aim of computing. A journey in aesthetic space

Das Interessantes als computationale Zielsetzung Ein Ausflug im ästhetischen Raum,
in Algorithmik Kunst Semiotik (K.H. Rödiger, Ed.). Heidelberg: Synchron, 2003. pp. 99-134.
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Anticipatory mechanisms for the automobile

Audi, GmbH, Ingolstadt, Germany, 19 February 2003
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Multimedia and Anticipation

Computer Science Department, University of Bremen, February 2003

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We Are What We Do

Design – The Basic Paradox (Wolfgang Jonas, Matthias Götz, Eds.) January, 2003
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Anticipation: Directions for Applied Research

Innovation and Technical Analysis Working Group, (German Ministry for Education and Research – BMBF), Dü sseldorf, 10-11 October 2002
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The Interesting as an Aim of Computation. A Journey in Aesthetic Space

(Das interessante als computationale Zielsetzung. Ein Ausflug im ästhetischen Raum).
Celebration Colloquium: Homage to Frieder Nake on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday, Department of Computer Science, University of Bremen, 16 December 1998

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Between Data and Display

3rd Visualization Workshop, Bits-Images-Meaning (Bits-Bilder-Bedeutung) Research Group, University of Paderborn, 27 November 1998
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Interactive Multimedia Navigation

(with C. Lango) lCVIR Workshop (Content Visualization and Intermedia Representations), University of Montreal, Canada, 15 August 1998
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Beyond Literacy

(excerpt from The Civilization of Illiteracy) Educom Review (Ed. John Gehl), Vol. 33, No. 2, March/April 1998, pp. 50-53
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Computational Design – Be Part of It

Accessing Europe/Zugang zu Europa. Wuppertal: BUGH Wuppertal, 1998, pp. 51-53
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Visible Signs – the language of Multimedia

Signs and Systems. A semiotic introduction to Systems Design, Cambridge: University Press, Summer/1997.
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Signs and System

Signs and Systems. A Semiotic Introduction to Systems Design, Cambridge: University Press Summer/1997.
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Computational Design: Design in the Age of a Knowledge Society

Formdiskurs

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Cognitive Aspects of Visualization

North Rhine Westphalia Research Group, Visualization Strategies and Structural Processes, University of Bielefeld, Germany, 13 December 1996
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Where is the Computer? (in German)

Remscheider General Anzeiger, 8/96

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The best computer is invisible

Computer Art Fazination 1996

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Negotiating the World of Make-Believe: The Aesthetic Compass

Real-Time Imaging, 1 (1995). London: Academic Press

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The Aesthetic Compass

Real-Time Imaging 1, 173-190 (1995)
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The Architecture of Thought

Living (Architecture for the Third Millennium), 2/95. Cologne: Halem Verlag, pp. 20-22

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Hackers How-to

SPECTRUM, 31:10, Oct. 1994. New York: IEEE Inc. pp. 8-12
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Another page in the foundation of semiotics

(Giordano Bruno’s De Imaginum, Signorum et Idearum Compositione),
The American Journal of Semiotics, Vol. 10, No. 1-2, 1993, pp. 271-284
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Semiotics in action: The pragmatic level

Pragmatik, Vol. IV, Philosophy of language, linguistic pragmatics, and formative pragmatics (Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Herbert Stachowiak, Ed.). Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1993, pp. 219-250.
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Science and Beauty: Aesthetic Structuring of Knowledge

Leonardo, 24:1, 1991, pp. 67-72
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Design and Semiotics

Semiotics in the Individual Sciences, Vol. II (W.A. Koch, Ed.). Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1990, pp. 418-436.
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The Paradigm of Self-Organization

IV Congress of the International Association of Semiotic Studies. Barcelona/Perpignan,
31 March-4 April 1989
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Artist or Charlatan?

The FIT Review, Vol. 6, No. 1, Fall 1989, pp. 18-23
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Emergent Aesthetics – Aesthetic Issues in Computer Arts

Leonardo (special issue: Computer Art in Context, SIGGRAPH 89),
Berkeley: Pergamon Press, August 1989, pp. 43-48
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Interactive Diagrams for Design Genetics

Intelligent CAD Systems, vol. II Berlin/ New York: Springer Verlag, 1989, pp. 245-261
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Art, artists, and computers

Art & Artists, Vol. 17, No. 5, Oct./Nov., 1988, pp. 5-6, 18
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Interface design: A semiotic paradigm

Semiotica 69-3/4. Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter, 1988, pp. 269-302.
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Implementing intelligent processors

Proceedings of the Second Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent CAD Systems – Implementational Issues
(with M. Novak). Veldhoven: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, 1988, pp. 281-302.
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Design Machine. Conceptual Framework

(with M. Novak) First Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent CAD Systems. Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Noordwigkerhout, Holland, 21-24 April 1987
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Writing is Rewriting

The American Journal of Semiotics, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1987, pp. 115-133
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Values in post-modern art

Semiotics 1983 (J. Evans, J. Deely, Eds.). Lanham, New York, London: University Press of America, 1987.
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MIND-A Design Machine (with M. Novak)

Intelligent CAD Systems, Vol.1 (Ten Hagen, Tomiyama, Eds.).
Berlin, New York, Paris, Tokyo: Springer Verlag, 1987.
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The meaning of the image

Semiotics 1982 (J. Deely , J. Evans, Eds.). Lanham, New York, London: University Press of America, 1987.
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G-pictures: Elements of a probabilistic pictorial grammar

Computer and Information Science Lectures and Seminars, Ohio State University, Columbus, 29 May 1986
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Pragmatics in the semiotic framework

Pragmatik, Vol. II, The rise of pragmatic thought in the 19th and 20th centuries
(Prof. Dr. phil. Herbert Stachowiak, Ed.). Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1986.
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