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Morph with the wind: shape-changing buildings

Futurum

While mitigating wind-induced vibrations is the project’s primary function, the team also intends for the designs to be able to react to other environmental conditions by controlling shading or changing colour to save energy. I first majored in computer science, the logical choice, but found it uninteresting since I already knew its contents.

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

For almost a decade starting in 1982, my primary computer had been a progressively more sophisticated Sun workstation. Meanwhile, the general methodology of searching the computational universe for useful programs is something that has continued to grow. One memorable example was what we called the “People Dates” project.

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