Julian,
Great to hear of your travels to the US and even better to hear that you made it back safely.
Are there any articles/information (whitepapers and the like) that you can share from your visits? I'm always interested in "light" reading...
Cheers
Ventrell
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From: Julian Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:25:29
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Subject: Travels
Just got back from a short trip in the USA. This involved two days at Georgia Tech (thanx to Jeannette Yen, of whom it has been said . . .) and a 1-day NSF workshop at Palo Alto. The main topic of discussion at the workshop was use of computing in bio-inspired design, though the range was wider. Of general interest is the newly-made-public system DANE, an interactive knowledge-base of biological information for designers. It's available on <http://dilab.cc.gatech.edu/dane/>. There are tutorials and explanations on the web site. At present it's open for inspection only, but it can still give lots of ideas. The main driver behind this is Ashok Goel whose main interest is in cognition. However he sees biomimetics as an interesting and important driver, mainly because it is transdisciplinary and so offers interesting problems.
Julian Vincent
PS It's not too late to submit an abstract for the bionic engineering conference in Boston this September. The deadline for submission has just been extended by a couple of weeks. More details on www.bionicengineeringconference.com
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