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Book Review: Imagery in the 21st Century

Amy Ione Reviews Imagery in the 21st Century by Oliver Grau, with Thomas Veigl.

FYI: Google to Announce Venture With Belgian Museum

Google plans to announce Tuesday that it is forming a partnership with a museum in Mons, Belgium, dedicated to a long-ago venture to compile and index knowledge in a giant, library-style card catalog with millions of entries — an analog-era equivalent of a search engine or Wikipedia. Article

Leonardo Reviews Posted December 2011

Leonardo Reviews is pleased to announce the December 2011 postings at: http://leonardo.info/ldr.html (ISSN:  1559-0429) The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World by David Deutsch Reviewed by Richard Kade Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing by Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell Reviewed by John Vines Helmholtz: From Enlightenment to Neuroscience by [...]

The Lying Brain: Lie Detection in Science and Science Fiction by Dr. Melissa M. Littlefield PhD

Real and imagined machines, including mental microscopes, thought translators, and polygraphs, have long promised to detect deception in human beings. Now, via fMRI and EEG, neuroscientists seem to have found what scientists, lawyers, and law enforcement officials have sought for over a century: foolproof lie detection. But are these new lie detection technologies any different [...]

Ann: Leonardo Reviews online (May 2011)

Compression & Purity by Will Alexander Reviewed by Allan Graubard Interface Criticism: Aesthetics Beyond Buttons by Christian Ulrik Andersen & Soren Pold, Editors Reviewed by Ellen Pearlman The Filming of Modern Life. European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s by Malcolm Turvey Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Now Available: L|R|Q – Leonardo Reviews Quarterly

The third issue of Leonardo Reviews Quarterly is available to download as a PDF. Please click here to start the download.