Summer 2001
Ileana Streinu
Readings
- M. Resnick, F. Martin, R. Berg, R. Borovoy, V. Collela, K. Kramer, B. Silverman:
Digital Manipulatives: New Toys to Think with.
- F. Martin, The Art of Lego Design.
- Building Strong Lego Structures, handout.
- R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) A fantastic
melodrama, by Karel Capek.
Doubleday, Page and Co., New York, 1923.
Amherst College 891.86 C17rY-S
- The Tales of Hoffman, Jacques Offenbach. Production of
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Cannes Festival Special
Jury Prize 1951; Robert Rounseville, Moira Shearer et,c Sir
Thomas Beecham, Royal Philarmonic Orchestra. PN 1997, T24 1990.
Cast of characters in RUR:
General director of RUR; a robot; a robotess; head of
psychological and ecperimental department at RUR, etc.
Last modified July 26, 2001