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Tracking time
Time is an issue because of a-synchronicity. In distributing programs time is an issue because the…
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The right medium for the right task
Sander van Splunter has been investigating how complex software can adapt by itself. One of the…
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Dramatic difference
Asked about witnessed presence in systems, middleware or applications, Quillinan finds that the…
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Understanding crisis
One of the biggest problems in most crisis has been lack of understanding, lack of knowledge of…
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Witnessing crisis
Witnessing is one of the issues in crisis management. In a crisis different people witness the same…
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Modelling crisis
Quillinan is working on a use case of crisis-management for a European funded project. They are…
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Formatting presence
Quillinan agrees that one can describe computers and systems as formatting tools of human presence.
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Interacting with your computer
Because of their scale and speed, computers and systems have changed important concepts of space
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Place in no place
One of the major advantages computers give us is the lack of having to be in one place. And…
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Rythm and feeling
When asked about the interaction of rhythms between humans and systems Quillinan emphasizes that…
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Scales of time
Asked to comment on the rhythms, frames, loops and organisation of time in machines and between…
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Changing the imperative paradigm
The adaptation of human beings to computers can be understood as a result from the ‘master and…
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Only one way of communicating
Instead of having the computer adapt to the person, the person is supposed to adapt to the computer.
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Intelligence in systems
Realizing the impact computers and systems have, the question that arises is whether, and if so in…
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Not wanting to know
Even though it is not his ambition, Warnier agrees if you want to design a good system that people…
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YUTPA in systems
Computer infrastructure is not much more then a couple of bites in one way or another. So there’s…