They actually schedule the pedagogical talks at NECSI?  I want to go next year!!

ped·a·gog·ic    Audio pronunciation of "pedagogical" (  P )  Pronunciation Key   (pd -g j k, -g jk) also ped·a·gog·i·cal (-gj -k l, -g j-)
adj.
  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of pedagogy.
  2. Characterized by pedantic formality: a haughty, pedagogic manner.
Oh, and Mike: ---->  :-}

--Doug

On 6/30/06, Michael Agar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ali Minai gave an interesting introduction to "biomorphic engineering"
during the pedagogical talk day last Sunday here at the NECSI
conference.
http://www.necsi.org/community/wiki/index.php/ICCS06/Ali_Minai Among
many interesting things, he talked about how engineering consisted of
design, production and operation, and that biomorphic engineering tended
to focus only on the last, operation, a mistake in his view.

Mike

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/30/06 3:58 AM >>>

Mother Nature's Design Workshop
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2006/tc20060627_504809.htm

Slide show
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/06/critters/index_01.htm

SlashDot Discussion
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/27/135249


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