"To design for the future you must leaf through the past": Museums as part of systems of innovation

Museums are not conventionally associated with innovation or viewed as part of innovation systems. After all, we could argue, museums are about the past, heritage, and nostalgia, whereas innovation is about the future. Yet, if this is the case, why does a company such as BMW co-locate its archive, museum, and innovation center? In this preliminary essay on the combination of past and present knowledge in innovation, we revisit the academic literature on innovation systems. We explore how, historically, museums and their collections have contributed to innovation and to the development of innovative designs. We ask: How have organizations set up to preserve the past contributed to the future, and what has encouraged and inhibited these processes? We focus primarily on nineteenth- and twentieth-century experience in the United Kingdom and on the relationships among the arts, design, and industry on the one hand and museum collections on the other

Home Economics Builds for the Future

in ten years the enrollment in the Division of Home Economics is expected to reach 3,000 if the increase follows the curve that it has made during past years. With an enrollment of 1,546 this fall, classrooms were crowded and laboratories could hold no more

Affective Facial Expression Processing via Simulation: A Probabilistic Model

Understanding the mental state of other people is an important skill for intelligent agents and robots to operate within social environments. However, the mental processes involved in `mind-reading' are complex. One explanation of such processes is Simulation Theory - it is supported by a large body of neuropsychological research. Yet, determining the best computational model or theory to use in simulation-style emotion detection, is far from being understood. In this work, we use Simulation Theory and neuroscience findings on Mirror-Neuron Systems as the basis for a novel computational model, as a way to handle affective facial expressions. The model is based on a probabilistic mapping of observations from multiple identities onto a single fixed identity (`internal transcoding of external stimuli'), and then onto a latent space (`phenomenological response'). Together with the proposed architecture we present some promising preliminary resultsComment: Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures - BICA 201

Electric slow cookers : use and care

"File: Household Equipment, 9/77/8M""Slow cooking has long been recognized as an excellent method of food preparation. This method of preparation has become a more practical one for every cook, from beginner to gourmet, with the introduction of electrically-heated, self-contained, slow-cooking units. Slow cookers provide a quick and convenient means of preparing good tasting and nutritious meals."--First paragraph.Mary Beth Johnston (Student in the UMC College of Home Economics), Marilyn W. Caselman (State Family Economics and Management Specialist)Includes bibliographical reference

Understanding of Russia and the Soviet Union among 903 high school students in the vicinity of Boston.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

The ‘Epistle to Reynolds’ and the ‘Burden of the Mystery\u27

The importance of Keats\u27s impromptu verses written to J.H. Reynolds in March 1818 has long been recognized, but the emphasis in these discussions is often on Keats\u27s changing attitude toward imagination rather than the spiritual issues which I contend are the poet\u27s major concern. The conflict between the harmonious vision imaginative art should create—the material sublime —and his growing mistrust in vision is the focus of lines 67-85, but in the subsequent passage, Keats goes on to describe a mysterious tale in which he confronts the perplexing presence of evil and suffering in a world of natural beauty

Mary Johnston Gates Papers - Accession 1306

The Mary Johnston Gates Papers consist of correspondence, minutes, histories, financial records, program notes, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and reference material, relating to the South Carolina Extension Homemakers’ Council, Bethel Home Demonstration Club, the and National Extension Homemakers’ Council. Most of the material in the collection range in date from the 1950’s to the 1970’s.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2119/thumbnail.jp