The book How Life Imitates Chess written by world famous chess player Gary Kasparov has a very interesting paragraph describing how the dadaist artist Marcel Duchamp interpreted Chess:
The artist Marcel Duchamp was an energic chess player. During a period of his life, he even resigned art for chess and said that the game had [...]
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Chess as Art
March 15, 2008
Robots Have Feelings
March 6, 2008
Alan Kay once said:
People that love making software, eventually end up doing their own hardware.
I’ve often said to colleagues and friends that when I reach 30, I’ll stop doing software and interactive stuff just to start building robots. Nothing can beat a business card that says “robot maker”. It’s the ultimate thing.
According to those visions [...]
The Art of the Demo
February 17, 2008
In the software industry, the most exciting moment for a developer is when he gets to unveil his product after months of hard work. That’s when he gets to see the faces of users and discover their reactions. It’s like getting to be a rock star on concert (or a weird variation of one).
And as [...]
Wii Like Remixing Technology
December 22, 2007
I’m sure that by now, you must be quite familiarized with all the alternative uses you can give to your Wiimote. But creativity, that amazing force that pushes humanity to discover new boundaries, always finds its way to show us something never seen before. Johnny Lee, from the Carnegie Mellon University, has created one of [...]
Rant on Education
November 8, 2007
I’ve been thinking about Education a lot lately. Two reasons: my partner commented to me some weeks ago about an idea he had for making videogames to be used on schools. And secondly, I had one of those interviews about games & violence where the questions went on the direction of asking “but, do you [...]
The Conscious Web
October 23, 2007
This is a thought that I had on my mind for a very long time, and actually wrote about it in very metaphorical terms a couple years ago. As the web keeps evolving, the sensation that this collective construction is slowly awakening is getting stronger.
Globalization is leading us to create an universal system to [...]
When Books Were Technology
October 1, 2007
In a world of exponential technological growth, inventions from the past can sometimes be perceived as a common thing from nature. Books in particular, have been with us for so many centuries that we often forget they are one of the most important pieces of technology ever created.
The greatest contributor to books in the spanish [...]
E3 stuff
July 16, 2007
So the E3 was finally held in Santa Monica this year, but who cares about this suit-driven event? Certainly not me. Anyhow, two very interesting news woke me up this morning regarding the former “it” event of the game industry:
WiiFit. A new interface to plug into our Wiis so we can feel the joy of [...]
Drama AI
May 17, 2007
A brief intro first: Chatbots are software programs capable of chatting with a human being and make some sense in the answers, questions and comments they do to people. They use simple techniques such as recollecting all the provided information they had on their previous chatting experiences and hence improving its intelligence. One of their [...]
F*ckin’ Wiinderful
March 22, 2007
I’ve read everything about it, how it was a machine meant to put the family together around the TV to play games. You know, those videos at Wii.com about grandpas and fathers playing with it. And as you may (or may not) know, being from Argentina it was a little bit hard for me to [...]
