Always Already Political

Digital Media and Art: Always Already Complicit?

Happiness: enough already.

The plural of anecdote is not data, as scientists will tell you, but consider these snapshots of the emerging happiness debate anyway: Lately, Jerome Wakefield's students have been coming up to him after they break up with a boyfriend or girlfriend, and not because they want him to recommend a therapist. Wakefield, a professor at New York University, coauthored the 2007 book "The Loss of Sadnes...

Ubiquitous Commerce - Always On, Always Aware, Always Pro-active

The development of the infrastructure for ubiquitous computing is progressing rapidly, yet the applications that will be built on this new infrastructure remain largely ill defined. What will we do with these emerging capabilities? Stock quotes in 3-D on your heads-up display? Sports scores in stereo sound? We believe that the new kinds of services will result from three primary capabilities of...

Vitamin D: enough already?

Q&A: Already A Success?

When Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster (the organizer of this COLING-86 panel on "Natural Language Interfaces: Ready for Commercial Success?") sent out invitations to panelists, he stated that his goals were "to evaluate three natural language interfaces which were introduced to the commercial market in 1985 and to relate them to current research in computational linguistics." For comparison, he has aske...