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	Lincos
		Lincos (an abbreviation of the latin phrase "lingua cosmica") is an artificial language first described in 1960 by Dr. Hans Freudenthal[?] and described in his book LINCOS: Design of a Language for Cosmic Intercourse.
		The Lincos "dictionary," intended to be transmitted first before any additional messages, begins with an extremely simple pattern of pulses intended to establish the terminology for natural numbers and basic arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) in base two.
		The next section of the Lincos dictionary establishes vocabulary for describing time, introducing means for measuring durations, referring to moments in time, and talking about past and future events.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/li/Lincos.html (395 words)

	Bruno Bassi - Were it Perfect, Would it Work Better?
		Lincos 'phonetics' is not discussed in Dr. Freudenthal's book, though it is claimed that it should be as systematic as possible, in the sense that syntactic and semantic categories should be marked phonetically.
		The 'greater than' sign is a Lincos word initially incomprehensible for the receiver, who is assumed to infer its meaning after a large number of utterances in which it is applied to different numbers.
		Another example of this policy is the next Lincos learning step, that concerns the introduction of variables: after a sequence of formulae that are identical with the exception of one varying number, a new symbol standing for a variable is substituted for this number.
	www.brunobassi.it /scritti/lincos.html (3320 words)

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		LINCOS begins with simple syntactical statements based on mathematics and physics (rather like the first alien messages in the movie Contact).
		I think it's time for version II, the all-new action-packed sequel guaranteed to have you on the edge of your seat, which is a specific structure with a flat surface perpendicular to the pull of gravity, which is a thing that, oh never mind.
		Lincos is rooted in mathematics and symbolic logic, augmented with a number of new symbols and three-letter words, often derived from Latin, like cur 'why' and enu 'counts' (from enumerat).
	www.geocities.com /monicavdv/informatie-hans/Lincos.html (536 words)

	Welcome to iConnect Online - From Digital Divide to Digital Dividend: "Little Intelligent Communities" in Central ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		LINCOS have opened a world of opportunities for them: they have access to education, to new technologies and they are leading their community into the global society of this new century.
		LINCOS is impacting the sustainable development of the communities in which it is installed as long as the inhabitants make use of the technological tools available and take advantage of them to improve their quality of life.
		LINCOS provides with sustainable development opportunities to the communities where the Centers are installed, through a democratic and educative use of the new technologies.
	www.iconnect-online.org /Stories/Story.import4308 (1810 words)

	Lincos (language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lincos (an abbreviation of the Latin phrase "lingua cosmica") is an artificial language first described in 1960 by Dr. Hans Freudenthal and described in his book LINCOS: Design of a Language for Cosmic Intercourse, Part 1.
		The Lincos "dictionary," intended to be transmitted first before any additional messages, begins with a simple pattern of pulses intended to establish the terminology for natural numbers and basic arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) in base two.
		The concepts of equality, comparison, variables and constants are also illustrated by a series of examples, and then finally propositional logic, set theory and first-order logic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lincos_(language) (476 words)

	Astrobiology: The Living Universe - Interview: Dr. Yvan Dutil
		The message they sent was only the second serious attempt to actively signal civilizations around other stars; the first was in 1974 by the founder of the SETI Institute Frank Drake (also known for Drake's equation).
		Lincos was devised by Professor Hans Freudenthal in 1960, and it was aimed to be the most understandable language in existence - in other words, a language that would be very easy for aliens to decode.
		Each symbol in Lincos is defined by symbols that come before it, so that you don't have to know anything apart from pure mathematics to understand it.
	library.thinkquest.org /C003763/index.php?page=interview01 (1890 words)

	UN Chronicle: Issue 2, 2000: Four Countries Connect
		LINCOS units can be taken anywhere -- mountain, jungle or village -- and make web-browsing, telephony and e-mail available even in the most remote spot.
		The shape of a LINCOS unit is a 20-foot shipping container, but once set up at its destination, a futuristic tension structure surrounds it, providing shadow and sufficient darkness for a small built-in movie theater.
		At first, LINCOS are used as digital town centres in rural mountain villages and as computer labs for grammar and high school students.
	www.un.org /Pubs/chronicle/2000/issue2/0200p32.htm (1453 words)

	LINCOS - Little Intelligent Communities
		To perform their work, both teams of agents were supported by the staff of the LINCOS units, who contributed their knowledge in the use of the software and equipment.
		On October 18th, the LINCOS educational model was presented at the Altec Conference 2001 by Eleonora Badilla Saxe.
		Badilla who, in addition to being a collaborator to the LINCOS Project in the educational area, is presently working with the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Technological Institute, traveled to Costa Rica to participate in this activity.
	www.lincos.net /webpages/english/media/noticias/2001/2001.10.html (1814 words)

	Assesing ICT efforts
		My impress-sion from the Lincos case is that the Lincos management tends to give responsibility to the individual centers while at the same time restraining their potential for self-reliance.
		Lincos marketing stresses that it is up to the community to make the most of their Linco, yet they are hardly given any resources to do so.
		Lincos staff members testified that they sometimes had to wait up to two weeks before being able to purchase such things as paper.
	www.funredes.org /olistica/documentos/manne (2130 words)

	LINCOS
		It is a meta-text variable, used as a substitute for a Lincos constant.
		Eventually, this 'a' should be replaced by a Lincos word meaning a positive real number a such that the sentence "The duration of the factual time-signal indicated by the horizontal line is of a seconds" is true.
		Our Lincos vocabulary is still far from sufficient for introducing the bodies of the acting persons.
	www.matessa.org /~mike/lincos.html (866 words)

	Adhesives offer rapid cure for glass bonding: News from Chemence
		Lincos, a supplier of glass and mirror fittings to furniture manufacturers, is using RiteLok UV curing adhesives for high strength glass-to-glass and glass-to-metal bonding.
		Lincos is a leading manufacturer of glass and mirror fittings and tubular constructions, which it supplies to a wide range of glass furniture manufacturers.
		Established in 1990, Lincos produces metal fittings and then sells these on as assembly kits or sets to glass and mirror furniture manufacturers, who then have everything they require to assemble the final product.
	www.engineeringtalk.com /news/chk/chk104.html (637 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		LINCOS, which stands for Little Intelligence Communities, is a private organization headed by ex President Jose Figueres.
		Microsoft, Hewlett Packard and other companies and universities, LINCOS is building technology "communication centers" or pods which will be placed all around the country.
		DU students will meet with the directors of the program and visit the first communications pod to see how new technology can be used to better the lives of people around the world.
	www.du.edu /~argilber/lincos.htm (291 words)

	Information Technologies Group \| Research
		Little Intelligent Communities (Lincos) is a project that provides connectivity and new opportunities for joining global ICT networks to people in remote areas of the developing world.
		Wireless communications in conjunction with computers, scientific diagnostic equipment, and all-important human capital allow for cutting edge health, education, community, and e-commerce benefits to be extended to previously unreachable areas.
		LINCOS is a joint venture of the MIT Media Lab and the Costa Rican Foundation for Sustainable Development.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /cid/ciditg/research/access.html (437 words)

	Costa Rica
		They are very involved with the Lincos project and have agreed both to serve as our liaisons with the townspeople and to cook and provide meals for us and our crew for the entire time we are there.
		Xavier's earlier Lincos shoot had gotten a great shot of the Lincos container and covering canopy from this house, and we wanted a similar shot in the HDTV format for our show.
		We are excited by a bright day, and after breakfast we rush back up the hill to Lincos to shoot the container and its canopy and verdant setting with the lovely contrast and highlights given us by the tropical sun.
	www.billzarchy.com /hdtv_costa.htm (2774 words)

	Cosmic Search Issue 05 Page 35 - Towards a Cosmic Language by Hans Freudeenthal
		The sounds of Lincos are radio signals of different lengths and wavelengths.
		They are not acquainted with the language, but in one respect their work will be easier than that of people who have to decipher a diplomatic or military code.
		Mentioning events will be illustrated by many examples: a certain event is produced (for instance a complicated sequence of signals), and afterwards it is stated that "between moment 1 and 2 such and such happened", with "such and such" replaced by a replica of the event that had happened.
	www.bigear.org /CSMO/HTML/CS05/cs05p35.htm (3658 words)

	Lincos Discussion
		We are hoping to exploring different economic models for the Lincos project.
		Their organization is discussing ways in which to improve the quality of people's lives in their town.
		Currently exploring ways for the Lincos unit to act as a hub for other devices and services.
	alumni.media.mit.edu /~mikeb/dev-ec/lincos_discussion.htm (644 words)

	Internet project for poor attracts rich \| csmonitor.com
		That is the lesson of Little Intelligent Communities (LINCOS), the world's first pilot information and communication technology project in Costa Rica, which next month will swap the leafy pastures of a rural village, El Rodeo, for the relative bustle of downtown San Marcos.
		For health problems, LINCOS proposed telemedicine; for education, IT supplements and training; and for employment, jobs at the LINCOS center.
		According to LINCOS staff, local residents were not interested in the project or used it only for accessing pornography and vice.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0724/p16s01-stin.html (717 words)

	A Networked World: Internet project for poor attracts rich
		This review of the LINCOS project from Costa Rica looks at the disjunction between the assumptions made by telecentre promoters and the reality on the ground.
		In the two years since its inception, the LINCOS project, housed in a silver trailer with four Internet-ready computers, a telephone, and other equipment, has experienced the opposite of what its founders - MIT, Microsoft, Alcatel, and the Costa Rican government - expected.
		Responding quickly to market forces, LINCOS is now focusing its services on those who do want to use it, instead of those who should want to.
	www.kn.com.au /networks/2003/07/internet_projec.html (787 words)

	Digital Divide Program Takes Unexpected Turn \| Planetizen
		LINCOS, an internet program targeted at the rural poor in Costa Rica draws and benefits the rich.
		The challenge was to provide a rural community with services they otherwise couldn't have....For health problems, LINCOS proposed telemedicine; for education, IT supplements and training; and for employment, jobs at the LINCOS center.Instead of aiding the poor, however, the project attracted the relatively rich.
		Its most avid users were some of the 1,500 coffee farmers in the region who traveled to LINCOS to learn how to market their products online.
	www.planetizen.com /node/10701 (247 words)

	The Communication Initiative - Thinking - Marketplace of Ideas: Role of Digital Technology in Rural Settings
		It was developed as a joint project with the Costa Rican Foundation for Sustainable Development, with the goal of being a prototype for the 21st century community center.
		The LINCOS approach relies mainly on the communities ability to organise it self around the telecenter and the services it provides.
		Different units in different communities have shown the LINCOS' flexibility and capacity to respond to different needs and situations, and in most of the LINCOS settings services related to education and communications have been of great demand.
	www.comminit.com /strategicthinking/st2003/thinking-223.html (403 words)

	Amazon.com: Lincos: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lincos;: Design of a language for cosmic intercourse (Studies in logic and the foundations of mathematics) by Hans Freudenthal (Unknown Binding - 1960)
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		form of one-act interludes-The Farmer's Return from London (1762) and Linco's Travels (1767)-which were presented between the five-act play and the...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Lincos&tag=httpexplaguid-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1 (461 words)

	Amazon.com: Lincos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The escape and suicide of John Wilkes Booth; or, The first true account of Linco by Finis L. Bates (Hardcover)
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		Return from London (1762) and Linco's Travels (1767)-which were presented between...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Lincos&tag=bizkitt-21&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1 (458 words)

	LINCOS - Freudenthal
		AUTHOR : Freudenthal, Hans TITLE : Lincos; design of a language for cosmic intercourse.
		Dick S J 1982 Plurality of worlds : the origins of the extraterrestrial life debate from Democritus to Kant Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
		Freudenthal H 1960 Lincos: Design of a Language for Cosmic Intercourse.
	people.csail.mit.edu /paulfitz/cosmic.html (583 words)

	InterAction.org \| Media
		On the edge of the expanding wave of Internet connectivity, the majority of users are not yet reached by dial-up or subscriber lines but access the Web through cyber cafes or public locations, and even then these tend to be used by a very small segment of society.
		LINCOS are shipping containers equipped to satisfy unique communications needs of individual communities.
		In the 'Little Intelligent Communities' centers (LINCOS) in Costa Rica, training was reportedly so effective that competing businesses sprang up around the centers.
	www.interaction.org /ict/CCC.html (943 words)

	CosmicOS - Paul Fitzpatrick
		It is this second possibility that motivates me -- I want this message as a challenge for AI -- but the ET possibility is also fun.
		The current goal of development work on CosmicOS is to communicate enough structure to simulate a simple MUD (multi-user dungeon) and to use the interactions between locations, objects, and characters as an alternative to the clever "morality plays" in Lincos.
		You are encouraged to make your own, better messages or message generators, or submit patches/extensions to this message (paulfitz
	people.csail.mit.edu /paulfitz/cosmicos.shtml (948 words)

	Puzzle #4 \| The n-Category Café
		In topology he’s famous for the Freudenthal suspension theorem, which underlies stable homotopy theory.
		But, he also created an artificial language is called LINCOS.
		Is LINCOS some sort of pidgin for people who want sex with space aliens?
	golem.ph.utexas.edu /category/2006/10/puzzle_4.html (1507 words)

	LINCOS
		Details of it are presented in Freudenthal's book
		LINCOS represents an extension of the logistic language of mathematics developed by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell.
		It is intended to be conveyed by unmodulated radio signals of varying duration and wavelength which represent phonemes.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/L/Lincos.html (182 words)

	Lincos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lincos permite interconectar a los habitantes del planeta por medio de tecnologías inalámbricas, con lo cual es posible que comunidades remotas tengan acceso a la prestación de una serie de servicios y aplicaciones tales como telemedicina, correo electrónico, videoconferencia, internet, comercio electrónico y educación a distancia, entre otras muchas.
		Así pues, esta iniciativa se orienta hacia un nuevo milenio con la perspectiva de un mundo interconectado, y por tanto más eficiente, que permitirá sin duda aumentar la productividad y el bienestar de las personas.
		Creemos, por tanto, que LINCOS constituye una alternativa ideal para comunidades alejadas y con pocas oportunidades de desarrollo.
	www.acca21.org.cn /info21/link/cc/7/lincos.htm (1246 words)

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