Beyond landscape designation

Beyond 3G is the official IEEE designation

B eyond 3G is the official IEEE designation for the next stage of wireless technology that some people call 4G or fourth-generation radio. Over the years, every conceptual shift in wireless technology has been characterized as a generational change. With a good dose of hindsight, the generations of radio and major radio systems in each category are classified as shown in Table 1. Few first gene...

Landscape ’ s ocular - centrism – and beyond ?

For many academics and policy makers the concept of landscape is associated with ‘land as it is seen’. In this paper I consider some of the literature which traces this association of landscape with the sense of sight. I focus on the suggestion that notions and concepts related to landscape are symptomatic of a pervasive ‘ocular-centrism’ within western thought. I then highlight the ocular-cent...

The Crimeware Landscape: Malware, Phishing, Identity Theft and Beyond

Executive Summary " Crimeware " is software that performs illegal actions unanticipated by a user running the software, which are intended to yield financial benefits to the distributor of the software. Crimeware is a ubiquitous fact of life in modern online interactions. It is distributed via many mechanisms, including: • Social engineering attacks convincing users to open a malicious email at...

The changing landscape of human experimentation: Nuremberg, Helsinki, and beyond.

Rigid Designation and Semantic Structure

Forthcoming in " Philosophers' Imprint " Comments to: [email protected] 1. the issue 'Rigid designation' is Kripke's name for a concept that has been in the air at least since the development of quantified modal logics: (a token of 1) a designator is rigid if and only if it designates the same individual in every possible world in which the individual exists. Two seminal conclusions for which Krip...