Hampshire College

About: Hampshire College is a education organization based out in Amherst Center, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Genetic programming & Population. The organization has 461 authors who have published 998 publications receiving 40827 citations.

Recent developments in autoconstructive evolution

Abstract: This is an extended abstract for an invited keynote presentation at the 7th Workshop on Evolutionary Computation for the Automated Design of Algorithms (ECADA). We first outline the motivation, primary mechanisms, and prior results of the evolutionary computation technique called "autoconstructive evolution." We then briefly describe a collection of recent enhancements to the technique, along with a few preliminary results of ongoing experimental work.

The Dematerializing Interface

Abstract: ‘Media’ is coming to mean not the discrete, dedicated devices of old but functionalities that are increasingly available through non-media objects. The interface remains the form of access, inviting the use of media affordances, but its design grows more natural, demanding less of the user – especially because behind the interface are intelligent information machines that are able to anticipate the user’s desires. These conditions in turn allow people to experience greater emotional and imaginative relations with media; together they form ‘assemblages’ of embodied and extended cognition. The automobile is used as a case study of this transformation, which poses difficult challenges for a material approach to media studies.

Louise Bourgeois: Architecture and Autobiography

Abstract: For the artist Louise Bourgeois, architecture was a vital method of storytelling, from her earliest drawings to her Cells—full-scale rooms that disturb our notions of inside and outside. This essay...

Embodied Utopia: Introduction

Abstract: The drive to construct or envision ideal societies existed long before Thomas More coined the word ‘utopia’ in 1516, and has outlasted him in the longstanding hopes of planners, architects, philosophers and social reformers that particular ways of ordering space and designing the built environment might have a salutary effect on society, communities, families and individuals. The notion of the ideal city or ideal place has long existed in most of the world’s religious traditions; likewise, throughout history, communities based on the pursuit of shared ideals have separated themselves from their larger social context. It is, perhaps, the secularization and mass application of utopia that might be perceived as a specifically modern, if not specifically western, phenomenon. Perhaps this is also utopia’s downfall.

Urban and Rural Safety Net Health Care System Clinics: No Disparity in HPV4 Vaccine Completion Rates

Abstract: Objective: Safety net health care centers in the US serve vulnerable and underinsured females. The primary aim of this work was to determine if HPV4 dosing compliance differs between females who receive doses at rural vs. urban core safety net health care locations. Methods: Females exclusively receiving health care in the Truman Medical Center (TMC) safety net system at the urban core and rural locations were identified by their HPV4 vaccine records. Dates and number of HPV4 doses as well as age, gravidity, parity and race/ethnicity were recorded from the electronic medical record (EMR). Appropriate HPV4 dosing intervals were referenced from the literature. Results: 1259 females, 10–26 years of age, received HPV4 vaccination at either the rural (23%) or urban core location (77%). At the rural location, 23% received three doses on time, equal to the 24% at the urban core. Females seen in the urban core were more likely to receive on-time doublet dosing than on-time triplet dosing (82% vs. 67%, p,0.001). Mistimed doses occurred equally often among females receiving only two doses, as well as those receiving three doses. Conclusions: Compliance with on-time HPV4 triplet dose completion was low at rural and urban core safety net health clinics, but did not differ by location.