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		<title>Sorting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re currently studying sorting algorithms. I found this really cool website that shows animations of different sorts on different initial data sets. http://www.sorting-algorithms.com/ Check it out.]]></description>
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		<title>Creativity is a difficult subject</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The topic of creativity presents a very challenging subject to study.  Indeed, Margaret Boden, a professor of cognitive science at the University of Sussex who studies creativity from various perspectives, says that, next to consciousness, it is the most challenging phenomenon to make sense of in a materialistic world.1  Why is that?  We have a sound [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designperceptive.com/2009/12/16/creativity-is-a-difficult-subject/</link>
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		<title>Transitioning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally!  My bachelor&#8217;s is out of the way and I . get on to the really cool stuff.  I am starting grad school in the Spring under Dr. Manfred Huber.  This is under the purview of the Computer Science and Engineering department&#8217;s new BS-to-PhD program.  The program goes something like this: 4 core courses (total [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designperceptive.com/2009/12/15/grad-school-transition/</link>
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		<title>Musical Language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The folks at Radiolab have done several interviews &#8211; one of them with David Cope &#8211; talking about musical language.  Two of the interviews open the door to considering physiological foundations of experiencing dissonance and consonance in sounds.  One of these discusses dissonance and consonance in terms of brain chemistry.  The other discusses the similarities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designperceptive.com/2009/11/17/musical-language/</link>
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		<title>Music from a Machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Cope teaches music theory and composition as well as classes in algorithmic computer music at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  One of his interesting accomplishments behind the (computer) keyboard is his development of EMI (standing for Experiments in Musical Intelligence), a computer program that develops music in a particular style given that which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designperceptive.com/2009/10/13/music-from-a-machine/</link>
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		<title>Weekly Digest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week's digest looks at various links that I found interesting over the past week.  I have tried to focus on things that, I hope, will enrich your life in some way.  The links cover caffeine, balance, sociable robots in space and a new cognitive model.  Also, Imogen Heap singing at TED.  Ciao!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designperceptive.com/2009/10/02/weekly-digest-2/</link>
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		<title>Our xylophone has been ordered!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For this project to support research in the area of computational creativity, we&#8217;re building a robotic xylophone.  Well, we&#8217;ve got the approval for funding and the xylophone has been ordered.  Naturally, this is exciting!  This means that soon, we&#8217;ll be opening a box like children at birthday parties, putting it together and playing with it. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designperceptive.com/2009/09/25/xylophone-has-been-ordered/</link>
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		<title>Weekly Digest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The weekly digest is a new Design Perceptive feature that brings you interesting bits of news related to Science, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.  We hope you enjoy! &#8212;/////&#8212; From Scientific American magazine 5 Future Robotics Expeditions and What They Could Reveal. This is a slight misnomer.  The only future robot is the Mars Science Laboratory. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designperceptive.com/2009/09/25/weekly-digest/</link>
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		<title>A Computational Creativity Project at AAAI.UTA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to try something new at UTA that takes a look at creativity.  This is a grassroots startup of a multidisciplinary project to explore how creativity develops by looking into the research field of computational creativity.  It probably isn&#8217;t ground-breaking.  In fact, I&#8217;ve seen others do work in this area.  But, this might be an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designperceptive.com/2009/09/01/computational-creativity-idea/</link>
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		<title>Zen Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like the concept of a minimalism when it comes to the home. It appeals to the senses by simplicity. And, in my opinion, one characteristic of a minimalist home is that it requires minimal effort to run and maintain. In other words, it is very hands off. So, I&#8217;ve been working with intelligent control [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designperceptive.com/2009/08/14/zen-home/</link>
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