Crossing the Rubicon

Crossing the Rubicon.

Crossing the rubicon; or, 'who's in charge?'.

Crossing the Rubicon: A Generic Intelligent Advisor

Recommender systems (RS) are being used by an increasing number of e-commerce sites to help consumers find the personally best products. We define here the criteria that a RS should satisfy, drawing on concepts from behavioral science, computational intelligence, and data mining. We present our conclusions from building the WiseUncle RS and give its general description. Rather than being an adv...

Crossing the Rubicon: Death in ‘The Year of the Transplant’

How death should be measured was a subject of intense debate during the late 1960s, and one in which transplant surgeons had a particular interest. Legislation required a doctor to first pronounce 'extinct' the patients from whom 'spare parts' were sought for grafting. But transplant surgeons increasingly argued the moment of death was less important than was the moment of establishing that a p...

The Rubicon of Smart Data

Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River in 49 B.C., thereby irrevocably committing the Roman Empire to war. We, as researchers have repeatedly promised that soon, individuals will be able to easily locate web data according to precise semantic specifications, retrieve that data, have it automatically integrated, and then have it presented to us or our programs in a compact, highly usable format...