Year of the Zinc Penny

Rick Demarinis

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Langue : anglais

Edité par HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 1990

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A new translation of Karel Čapek's play>R.U.R.--which famously coined the term robot--and a collection of essays reflecting on the play's legacy from scientists and scholars who work in artificial life and robotics. Karel Čapek's R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life offers a new, highly faithful translation by Stěp n Simek of Czech novelist, playwright, and critic Karel Čapek's play>R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots, as well as twenty essays from contemporary writers on the 1920 play. R.U.R. is perhaps best known for first coining the term robot (in Czech, robota means serfdom or arduous drudgery). The twenty essays in this new English edition, beautifully edited by Jitka Čejkov , are selected from>Robot 100, an edited collection in Czech with perspectives from 100 contemporary voices that was published in 2020 to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the play. Čapek's robots were autonomous beings, but biological, not mechanical, made of chemically synthesized soft matter resembling living tissue, like the synthetic humans in>Blade Runner, Westworld, or>Ex Machina. The contributors to the collection--scientists and other scholars--explore the legacy of the play and its connections to the current state of research in artificial life, or ALife. Throughout the book, it is impossible to ignore Čapek's prescience, as his century-old science fiction play raises contemporary questions with respect to robotics, synthetic biology, technology, artificial life, and artificial intelligence, anticipating many of the formidable challenges we face today. ContributorsJitka Čejkov , Miguel Aguilera, I igo R. Arandia, Josh Bongard, Julyan Cartwright, Seth Bullock, Dominique Chen, Gusz Eiben, Tom Froese, Carlos Gershenson, Inman Harvey, Jana Hor kov , Takashi Ikegami, Sina Khajehabdollahi, George Musser, Geoff Nitschke, Julie Nov kov , Antoine Pasquali, Hemma Philamore, Lana Sinapayen, Hiroki Sayama, Nathaniel Virgo, Olaf Witkowski.…

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Titre
Year of the Zinc Penny
Auteur
Rick Demarinis
Éditeur
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Année de publication
1990
État de l'article
Good
Reliure
Hardback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0060973390
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780060973391

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