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Descriptions of the labs and research groups of CMU's famed Robotics Institute:
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/lab_lists/index.html
I noticed that tissue engineering was kind of weirdly included. It makes me wonder if at a subconscious level many robotics scientists really want to make a Terminator, or more generally, as human a robot as possible. I'd guess yes.
Seems interesting. As much of an update on Goffman's study of status and other microsociological phenomena as I've foud so far. It was published more recently than Goffman's work (1998) and it seems fairly comprehensive, contributions from "the leadig experts" and citing over 100 other works accordig to amazon -those cited works look interesting in their own right, like "Advances in Experimental Sociology".
http://www.amazon.com/Positioning-Theory-Contexts-International-Action/dp/063121139X/ref=sid_av_dp
The results of various google searches looking for Goffman's contemporary successors. I'll try to turn this into something more narrowed and coherent in follow-up posts:
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Backstage With Erving Goffman: The Context of the Interview. former student of Erving Goffman's, acting as the associate. editor of. Research. mi Language. and Social Interaction (ROLSI). ...
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Body/embodiment: Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body - Google Books Result by Dennis D. Waskul, Phillip Vannini - 2006 - Social Science - 297 pages
A student of Erving Goffman and author of Passing By: Gender & Public Harassment (University of California Press, 1997), Carol has also authored articles on ...
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About the Contributors University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, was a student of Erving Goffman. She is the author of Passing By: Gender and Public Harassment (California, ...
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European Journal of Sociology 47:03 null sociology of cognition and student of Erving Goffman, realizes that often we. shade our eyes from the uncomfortable and displeasing. The question why ...
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Narrative Counselling: Social and Linguistic Processes of Change - Google Books Result by Peter Muntigl - 2004 - Psychology - 346 pages
Harvey Sacks was a student of Erving Goffman and also had worked together with Garfinkel on a number of research projects (see Schegloff 1992a for a brief ...
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Ever the student of Erving Goffman, Fine engages in constant analogies as well as thick description,. drawing on his extensive field research and literary ...
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JSTOR: The Sociological Eye and Its Blinders ... a blend of the sociological eye and activist commitment, although (Hochschild is a student of Erving Goffman) the sociological eye tends to predominate. ...
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Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Defenders of the Faith: Inside Heilman is a student of Erving Goffman, and offers meticulous and insightful analyses of the haredi rituals he observes. He studies a category of Jews who ...
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Arthur W. Frank - Five Dramas of Illness - Perspectives in Biology ... Hochschild was a student of Erving Goffman, and to understand the drama of emotion work in illness, it's useful to return to Goffman's understanding of ...
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Goodness Personified: The Emergence of Gifted Children - Google Books Result by Leslie Margolin - 1994 - Education - 181 pages
... and was a student of Erving Goffman. Among her other interests are the structure of social interaction; behavior in public, especially public harassment ...
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Commentary GARY T. MARX From coercion to non-coercion Yet as a first year graduate student of Erving Goffman and. Herbert Blumer I was concerned with these themes. The theme of deception and irony is ...
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Amazon.com: Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry ... Heilman is a student of Erving Goffman, and offers meticulous and insightful analyses of the haredi rituals he observes. Read more ...
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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT As a student of Erving Goffman in the 1960's, my graduate cohort in anthropology actively disputed his insistence that we could not learn things as ...
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Performance Literature and the Written Word: Lost in Transcription ... This is not, of course, to underestimate the broader conceptualization of performance influenced by Erving Goffman (1969) and the universalizing theories ...
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Doing Modernity: Notes on the "Santa Barbara School" 26 May 2008 ... Sarah Fenstermaker to develop a influential microsociology influenced by Erving Goffman, symbolic interactionism and ethnomethodology. ...
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Approaches to discourse: Language as Social Interaction - Google Books Result by Deborah Schiffrin - 1994 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 470 pages
Other interactional approaches (especially those influenced by Erving Goffman) focus on how language is situated in particular circumstances of social life, ...
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LINGUISTIC ETHNOGRAPHY work has been influenced by Erving Goffman (1959), whose concern. with the presentation of self in daily life has done much to show us ...
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无标题文档 The main theoretical framework used in this work is influenced by Erving Goffman, where the media encounter is viewed as a three-way participation framework ...
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Cultural Criminology - Google Books Result by Jeff Ferrell, Clinton Sanders - 1995 - Social Science - 365 pages
... influenced by Erving Goffman. The argument implicitly, if not explicitly, developed here maintains that with respect to crime and justice, ...
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Jouvert 6.3: Ibrahima Ndiaye, "Space, Time and Empowerment in Ama ... ... a sociological research project influenced by Erving Goffman, Anthony Giddens, Mark Johnson, and George Lakoff. This comparison puts Aidoo's pedagogical ...
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Justice Youth Violence and Juvenile standing history in the sociological literature, notably as influenced by Erving Goffman (1974). In more recent years, scholars have begun to connect the ...
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Universe city of Ott - UcOtt for every one, but not for everyone. ... into great detail, but i am collecting some serious notes here as data for a sociological study (mainly influenced by Erving Goffman and Howard Becker). ...
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Narrative in Culture: The Uses of Storytelling in the Sciences, ... - Google Books Result by Cristopher Nash - 1994 - Philosophy - 228 pages
... influenced by Erving Goffman (1959), have come to see how much our life activities are shaped by the need to present ourselves to those people who make ...
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examines the effects of interaction of the differing strategies of culturally. different speakers" (p. 12). Influenced by Erving Goffman's work on "the ...
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JSTOR: Images of Power: Art and Pageantry in Renaissance Venice My interpretation has also been influenced by Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Garden City, N.Y., 1959). ...
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Classical and modern social theory - Google Books Result by Andersen, Heine Andersen, Lars Bo Kaspersen - 2000 - Social Science - 544 pages
Developments in ethnomethodology Part of ethnomethodology has developed so-called conversation analysis, which is also strongly influenced by Erving Goffman ...
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Toward Public Administration as a Humanities Discipline: A ... largely influenced by Erving Goffman (1959). A major constraint to a purely aes-. thetic study until the 1990s has been the expressive viewed through a ...
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JSTOR: Imaginary Social Worlds: A Cultural Approach. Imaginary Social Worlds, if somewhat narrower in scope, is the first true successor to Erving Goffman's 1974 magnum opus, Frame Analysis. ...
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Erving Goffman the heart of any analysis of Erving Goffman’s theoretical legacy. GOFFMAN’S LIFE. Erving Manual Goffman was born in Mannville, Alberta, ...
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JSTOR: Toward a Sociological Imagination: Bridging Specialized Fields I found myself most intrigued by chapters that analyze books that I had already read, especially Howard Becker's analysis of Erving Goffman's con- ...
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JSTOR: Hui: A Study of Maori Ceremonial Gathering Yet clearly Hui is a theoretical work, being in the tradition of"emic anthropology," sociolinguistics, and the situa- tional analysis of Erving Goffman. ...
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The Blackwell dictionary of modern social thought - Google Books Result by William Outhwaite - 2003 - Social Science - 856 pages
of the influences of ETHNOMETHODOLOGY and the interactional analysis of Erving Goffman. ...
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Balderdash: June 2005 Analysis of Erving Goffman "Erving Goffman was very interested in society and how people perform in that society. Goffman's approach to the study of social ...
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IIT's courses on youtube dwarf MIT's meager offerings.
http://youtube.com/profile_play_list?user=nptelhrd
I haven't watched any of them, but I like that IIT seems basically to have put all of mathematics in one course, which I think makes sense.
Randy Pausch is not my hero. I don't admire him. At a gut level I dislike him, and the cliched insight is probably true: I fear I have some of him in me. I don't want to be that guy dying the perfectly popular death. He had fun doing the Star Trek walk-on? I would have related to him more if he talked about the various things he had fun doing in his last months, but confided that the Star Trek experiece sucked and that the people that worked there were real assholes, for example. But of course I would have related to him more if he cared much less about achieving his random G-rated as good as poll-tested list of childhood dreams, than about maximizing his persistence odds. Unless of course he's doing all this to maximize his constituents for a future technology-based ressurection. But barring that hypothetical (what I call the Jesus strategy) Randy Pausch is not my hero.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D924VKDG4&show_article=1
Anders Sandberg summarizes the Global Catastrophic Risk Conference:
http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2008/07/yaaay_were_doomed.html
I agree with a lot, disagree with some (two that jump to mind: I disagree with making sure existing nomads are self-sufficient instead of creating deep mine communities, I disagree that current probabilities of various disasters are currently low), but there's plenty of good epiphany material in there. Adding to mine communities, self-sufficient communities on the moon, and Mars (in orbit Gerard K. O'Neil style, too, but that would probably be an unecessary redundancy) seem like no-brainers.
Also, I like completely culturally isolated communities, and completely quarantined communities, as protections against existentially threatening memes or biological epidemics. These wouldn't have to completely overlap with deep mines (which are protections against environmental disasters, but seem most optimally designed as protections against gamma ray blasts).
Good readable summary post of the future scearios for intelligence improvement (that rise to a singularity type level):
http://memebox.com/futureblogger/show/733
By the way, I get all my news from blogs now. I've pretty much stopped listening to music or playing games. It's a long ways away from when I spent hours playing Doom and Counterstrike, watching comedy central, and listening to bebop jazz, italian opera, and reggae. Reality and technological and scientific development has just gotten too interesting. In my free time I'd rather get smarter (about getting smarter) than anything else. I still hang out with friends, getting dinner, going to house parties, etc. I pick them because I enjoy their company, not because they're interested in these topics, but I wish they were passionate about this stuff too.
Okay, I'm embarrassed that I'm just now discovering this guy. He helped provide me a high order epiphany just now listening to a youtube video of him (you can find it on my behavioral economics playlist.
To repurpose a quote/idea of his: Economics is the study of how an algorithm can maximize its persistence odds. Psychology is the study of what human algorithms actually do.
Interesting story updating the general public on advances in neuroeconomics.
The only thing I doubt in the story is that most neuroscientists have a naive understanding of game theory on the order of "rocks, papers, scissors". The fields that created the interdisciplinary field of "neuroscience" were as active in and influenced by game theory innovations during the Cold War as was economics. It's not like game theory was this isolated hidden gem in economics that people are just realizing could help us understand how people think (or that insights into how people think could help us usefully develop and explore game theory).
http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11785391&fsrc=RSS
"Future Directions for AGI Research - AGI-08 Discussion Session
Future Directions for AGI Research - AGI-08 Discussion Session :This discussion session of the AGI-08 Conference on Artificial General Intelligence centers on plans toward a roadmap for AGI. The discussion is led by session chair Ben Goertzel and panelists Stan Franklin, Pei Wang, Steve Omohundro, Wlodzislaw Duch, John Laird, and Moshe Looks."
Haven't watched it yet, but seems interesting. I assume these are the big names in AGI? I wonder what they think about Eliezer and the people behind the singularity institute (are any of these names involved with that project?)
EDIT: Check out my youtube playlists, they're improving. I'm youtube member HopefullyAnonymous.
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