"the current S-class Mercedes-Benz requires over 20 million lines of code alone and that the car contains nearly as many ECUs as the new Airbus A380"
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Simon Wells is an academic researching Argumentation Theory, Automated Reasoning, Intelligent Agents (IA) and MultiAgent Systems (MAS) all approached through a ludic lens.
He is particularly interested in how these tools can be usefully applied to critical literacy, security, gamification, and complex systems.
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Delegation & Ubiquity: An Example
A recurring theme during our tutorials this week was the combination of delegation and ubiquity. An example of this was the increasing use of computers in cars for engine management, traction control, automated parking, and many other things. I found an IEEE Spectrum article that discusses this very issue:
