Book Review: Cartanian geometry, nonlinear waves, and control theory

Nonlinear Control and Geometry

John Baillieul (Boston University) Title: Topological aspects of optimal information acquisition in robotic exploration and multimodal sensor fusion. Abstract: The talk presents some recent work to construct mathematical models of the information content of spatially varying scalar fields defined on R,R, and R. The models are developed using analytical tools from both differential topology and ...

Quasicrystals and geometry: a Book Review

Penrose tilings (Fig. 1) are beautiful. They also suggest significant new mathematics, so it is about time someone wrote a book about them which is readable (in fact, eminently readable) by mathematicians. The book, Quasicrystals and geometry, by Marjorie Senechal, has an even broader goal: to present certain developments in crystallography from the past decade. The developments were generated ...

Book Review: Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility

Book Review: Contemporary Sensorimotor Theory

Consciousness, with its irreducible subjective character, was almost exclusively a philosophical topic until relatively recently. Today, however, the problem of explaining the felt quality of experience has also become relevant to science and engineering, including robotics andAI: “What would we have to build into a robot so that it really felt the touch of a finger, the redness of red, or the ...

Nonlinear edge waves and shallow-water theory