Convergence Engineering

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  Leadership in Science and Technology: A Reference Handbook

  • William Sims Bainbridge, William S. Bainbridge(Authors)
  • 2011(Publication Date)
  • SAGE Publications, Inc

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  24 T ECHNOLOGY C ONVERGENCE M IHAIL C. R OCO 24. Technology Convergence – • – 211 The Potential of Converging New Technologies Convergence is the process to achieve reciprocal compati-bility and synergism of different technologies by integrated application of knowledge at all lengths, time scales, and complexity levels. This will require a refocus on people, new platforms for science and technology, and coevolution of new technologies with human potential. Technological convergence reverses the trend of specialization of scien-tific disciplines, providing unifying concepts for research and education and leading to system integration in engi-neering and technology. It can be described by complex-ity of large dynamic systems with many variables; yet the axle on which this huge wheel of progress turns is nano-technology, the science and engineering of amazingly small structures. Integration From the Nanoscale The nanoscale is the distance range from 1 to 100 nano-meters, encompassing complex molecules such as pro-teins, the smallest electronic components such as transistors in computer chips, and many other structures that mediate from individual atoms to the much larger structures humans can perceive with the unaided eye. Integration from the nanoscale is a key for “small-scale” convergence. Reaching the building blocks of matter for all man-made and living systems, upon the broad nanotechnology plat-form, makes the transforming tools more powerful and the unintended consequences more important than for other technologies. Science based on the unified concepts of matter at the nanoscale and of information and biosystems at all scales provides new foundations for knowledge cre-ation, innovation, and technology integration. More than five centuries ago, the Renaissance saw “unity in nature,” but it was followed by disciplinary spe-cialization because of limited integrative knowledge.

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  New Language Technologies and Research in Linguistics

  • Praful Dhondopant Kulkarni(Author)
  • 2019(Publication Date)
  • Society Publishing

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  TECHNOLOGICAL CONVERGENCE FOR LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS 5 CHAPTER 5.1. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CONVER-GENCE “Union is a significant blend of learning, mechanical assemblies, and each and every critical activity of human activity to empower society to answer new request to change the different physical or social natural framework. Such changes in the individual organic framework open new examples, pathways, and openings in the going with a divergent time of the methodology” All altogether, joining is a getting together of no less than two specific substances or marvels. Mechanical CONVERGENCE is logically overwhelming in the information technology world; in this remarkable situation, the term implies the blend of no less than two unmistakable advances in a singular contraption. A centered mechanical instrument, the multi-tool. Inside one device, it gives numerous gadgets. Siddhartha Menon portrays joining, in his Policy action Dilemmas on Media Convergence: A Cross-National Perspective, as fuse and digitalization. Blend, here, is portrayed as “a technique of progress measure New Language Technologies and Research in Linguistics 88 by what amount grouped media, for instance, phone, data impart and information technology structures are joined into a singular reliable for the most part valuable framework designing platform.” Digitalization isn’t such an incredible measure of described by its physical establishment, however by the substance or the medium. Jan van Dijk suggests that “digitalization infers isolating signs into bytes involving ones and zeros.” Convergence is described by Blackman, 1998, as an example in the progression of technology organizations and industry structures. The meeting is later portrayed more especially as the getting together of media interchanges, enlisting, and broadcasting into a lone propelled piece stream.

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  Humanity 2.0

  What it Means to be Human Past, Present and Future

  • S. Fuller(Author)
  • 2011(Publication Date)
  • Palgrave Macmillan

    (Publisher)

  In terms of these nuances, US policy documents are much more explicitly committed to convergence than the EU documents. In the EU context, extended collaboration between two disciplines counts as ‘convergence’ (Bibel 2004). In particular, BIO + INFO and, more recently, NANO + BIO tend to be targeted as the pairs with the most research and development potential. (By contrast, India’s National Knowledge Commission 2006 report defines ‘convergence’ simply in terms of the involvement of INFO in any novel transdisciplinary research, while in Israel it has referred mainly to INFO + COGNO via linguistics.) Again unlike the US case, there is little talk of forward momentum towards a convergence of many disciplines in the promotion of some overarching goal. Instead the EU model seems to be based on a modified ‘finalisationist’ model, men- tioned at the start of this chapter, which presupposes that disciplines have reached a certain level of maturity that enables them to be steered toward collaboration for socially beneficial purposes (Bibel 2004: General Recommendation 6). At the most basic level, the idea of converging technologies pre- supposes that multiple technologies are coming into increasing but also more focussed interaction. The idea stops short of presupposing a specific target but it does contain the idea of an outer limit that some- how shapes the interaction. This point of definition is illustrated in 124 Humanity 2.0 three cases where ‘convergence’ has a specific meaning in the arts and sciences: • In art history, a linear ‘Euclidean’ perspective is defined as a con- vergence in lines of composition towards a vanishing point on the horizon. The result is to give a sense of closure to a pictorial image that might otherwise appear open-ended and disorienting, as gov- erned by a hyperbolic geometric perspective.

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  Process Engineering Renewal 3

  Prospects

  • Eric Schaer, Jean-Claude Andre(Authors)
  • 2020(Publication Date)
  • Wiley-ISTE

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  The objective of any modeling is, for any “professional” technician, to provide a configurable system (when possible) in order to optimize it for a specific purpose, thanks to a judicious choice of input parameters and a “stable” and robust control in its temporal (or even spatio-temporal) dynamics. The environment of the production systems to be invented will probably require a robust knowledge of the independent and interdependent variables that condition its state at a given time. The more complex this system is, the more traditionally it must be described using a number of coupled equations, if possible, with the smallest possible number of parameters, taking into account what is measurable (and measured). For the engineer, the model that we want to develop is generally between efficiency and truth, where we want an “acceptable” compromise between staying true to reality and simplicity of implementation (principle of optimization). But what are the approximations that make the model operational according to specifications imposed by users? By companies? How can technology bring together points of view and remove (all) constraints? To achieve this objective, it is necessary to combine the knowledge of the different disciplines and professions involved with the associated difficulties (hence the use of the concept of convergence).

  By proposing an interdisciplinary and inter-trade approach (see Figure 1.13 ), the project does not aim to make the approach play a role other than that of serving each discipline and each technical knowledge, by aiming to highlight, for example, the complex approach (Visvanathan 1997) which leads to the formulation of an explanatory or interpretative hypothesis, making it possible to establish a relationship of dialog and mutuality between partners. It should be noted that the project thus sketched presupposes adherence to the point of view of metaphysical ignorance. In this perspective, the project’s role should be to stimulate critical reflection on the guiding ideas, founding intentions, guiding concepts, methodological, paradigmatic, anthropological, epistemological, ethical presuppositions of each discipline and knowledge of the field of possibilities of each profession. But at the same time, one must accept to humbly confine ourselves to a task of clarification, of untangling as skillfully as possible, which cannot claim ultimate clarity or a primary and founding truth.

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  Other form of convergence on the theme (including for the human and social sciences component aspects of social, economic, ethical, organizational desirability, etc. to be included in the operation)

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