MCC-UE 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Quentin Fiore, Differential Analyser, Analog Computer
27 Apr 2016
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University of toronto english prof & media theorist. Understanding media (1964): the medium is the message : media affect content and society. Manipulation of type and image simulates electronic effects in a print medium. Pastiche: a medley of various ingredients, a hodgepodge; a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work. Computer, oed: a person who makes calculations, a device or machine for performing or facilitating calculation, an electronic device (or system of devices) which is used to store, manipulate, and communicate information. Embedded computing: increases storage, increases interaction, increases convergence. Electronics: having to do with materials (i. e. silicon transistors and other semiconductors) through which the flow of electrons can be studied or controlled. usually dated to the invention of the vacuum tube in the early 20th century. Analogue - a thing or part that is analogous; that which corresponds with something else in construvtion, function, qualities, etc.
