Umberto Eco’s scientific contributions

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Publications (10)


Many Voices
  • Article

December 2004

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16 Reads

The Hudson Review

Tom Wilhelmus

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Andrew Miller

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Alessandro Baricco

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Margaret Drabble









Citations (8)


... Serendipity is closely related to exploration and has been aptly described as the contrary of "problem-solving information", for which "individuals must experience a 'problem situation'" (Ross 1999: 784). Already possessed of a distinguished socio-historical pedigree (Merton & Barber 2004;Eco 1998), the advent of the World Wide Web (a name itself conveying the image of a spider waiting to see what chance will deliver to its encyclopedic net) has seen considerable attention paid to the concept of serendipity, for search engines in particular, and as a scientific method in general, as reflected in the hundreds of articles on the subject (Erdelez et al. 1997) and its status as a compelling topic for popular science books (Roberts 1989;Hofmann 2013). In the realm of household technologies, it is among the endearing idiosyncrasies of Apple's voice-operated digital agent Siri and her text-based ancestor Eliza, the make-believe psychoanalytical chatbot of the 1960s (Wikipedia: "Siri"; Weizenbaum 1966; Wikipedia: "ELIZA"). ...

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Applications of the Document Towers method of representing document structures
Serendipities: Language and Lunacy
  • Citing Book
  • October 1998

... The ideas introduced in the field of semiotics have been adapted across diverse disciplines ranging from philosophy to linguistics, sociology (cf. Kristeva, 196;Eco, 1975: 21-24), biology, cognitive sciences (Nöth, 1994;Eco, 1999; Stjernfelt, 2014;Paolucci, 2020) and to music analysis (Olaja, 2009;Švantner, 2018). If we can characterize some of the semantic markers and encyclopaedic competencies (Eco, 1986) emphasized by semiotics, then it is precisely the understanding of meaning as something that is not fixed, something that belongs to the process of infinite semiosis. ...

Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition
  • Citing Article
  • January 2000

World Literature Today

... These concerns are the result of mental constructs driven by collective ancestral memories of cataclysms stored in the human subconscious mind which have no awareness of, or connection to those events. The mental process to transform an idea into pseudo-reality is shown by Roberto dela Griva 4 , the hero seeking the secret of Longitude in Eco's masterpiece 'The island of the day before' [2] who moves in a fraction of a second from today to tomorrow or to yesterday by stepping across the 180 degree Longitudinal Timeline meridian artificially established in the Solomon Islands. Just imagine the time when Super Intelligent computers will be able to create improved generations of Super intelligent computers capable to design even more sophisticated Super Intelligent computers or make poetry or expand into the Universe or produce super drugs to improve human brain capacity, or new genetic engineering methods for living organisms. ...

The Island of the Day Before
  • Citing Article
  • January 1996

World Literature Today

... Linda Hutcheon (1992) approximates the book with more eloquence, when she observes that "With the proliferation of apt intertextual echoes like these, Eco enacts both what he has called 'hermetic drift' and Peirce's 'unlimited semiosis'" (Hutcheon quoted by Capozzi 1997: 319). But any such theoretic glosses still do an injustice to the novel, which must be dealt with through direct exegesis, for them to have any persuasive bearing upon the questions at hand. ...

Eco's Echoes: Ironizing the (Post) Modern
  • Citing Article
  • September 1993

diacritics

... Thereby, the concept implies insights in which translation study and semiotics meet. Umberto Eco (2001) further developed Jacobson's theory and elaborated it within a broader range of system. He proposed a different classification of the forms of interpretation that due importance is attached to variations of both the substance and expression. ...

Experiences in Translation
  • Citing Article
  • January 2001

World Literature Today

... In this sense, both environments are inclined towards 'irrationalism'. According to Umberto Eco, this property, along with a sceptical approach to new discoveries and critical thinking, is a permanent element of the authoritarian and cultural 'Ur-Fascism' (Eco, 2002). These attitudes are characteristic of both populists and anti-vaccine activists. ...

Five Moral Pieces
  • Citing Article
  • January 2002

World Literature Today

... PART I -CONTEXT 2. Digital Twinning towards a green and digital future "myth of the absolute survey, of the recording of everything" 1 (Ugo, Vittorio, 1994). Aware (or not) that "the notion of an exact mirror is an idealisation that will never be achieved" (Batty, 2018), as in the wellknown paradox of the 1:1 map of the Empire, impossible to achieve (Borges & Scarano, 2020;Eco, 2016) While digital twinning in the urban framework is well established, its uptake from a landscape perspective is rather slow; adopting a whole system approach to the resilient and sustainable planning, design, and management of landscape, requires reformulating high-level objectives and developing adequate decision-support tools to guide priority actions. ...

Il secondo diario minimo
  • Citing Article
  • January 1993

World Literature Today