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.

Obstacles to Creative Citizenship

Abstract: The Creative Citizens project asks whether new media enhance new forms and scale of creative civic activities. If so, the project seeks to identify practices that will exploit this new individual and collective activity, presumably as a means of achieving authentic self-governance. This paper considers three potential obstacles to the realization of a creative citizenship: that the sort of political engagement it fosters may be too personal and episodic; that the commonsensical political knowledge typical of politics known at a distance as performance and simulation may impose further limits on effective understanding and engagement; and that the emerging new media environment may be different enough that today’s digital skills and relationships may be insufficient in the medium term. The paper looks at the same conditions that inspire the creative citizenship project and reaches reverse conclusions – but not on the grounds of nostalgia or pessimism.

Evolution of hierarchical neural networks for time-dependent cognitive processes: key recognition for musical compositions

Abstract: This paper presents the results of using the GENDALC GANN system to evolve neural network topologies for music perception. The results obtained are not only better than those for other typically used neural network topologies, but also better than for neural networks that incorporate music theory knowledge. Because the data and task used in these experiments include hierarchical time dependent processing, these results demonstrate GENDALC's ability to evolve good solutions for cognitive tasks, even while using approaches potentially different from those used by humans.

Desiring Relation: Mothers' and Children's Agency, Subjectivity, and Time—Commentary on Daphne de Marneffe's Maternal Desire

Abstract: Daphne de Marneffe (2004) has enriched our theoretical understanding of maternal desire as fundamentally a desire to relate to or “be with” (p. xi) one's child. This view can enable consideration of children's subjectivity and agency through thinking about the intersections of mothers' and children's desires and subjectivities. Contemplating the meanings of maternal desire necessitates attending to multiple practices of mothering in a range of relational contexts. Finally, there is value in considering maternal presence and time in conjunction with children's sense of time and the present in order to imagine a relational time that both mothers and children construct.