Developing a Robot Babyloid That Cannot Do Anything

Do Images Mean Anything?

We analyze the operations that form the conceptual foundation of traditional database: the determination and matching of the meaning of a record of data. With a careful definition of the “meaning” of a piece of data, we show that matching can be naturally defined. We then analyze whether a similar concept can be applied to image databases. We argue that several concepts, that led to image datab...

Aliphatic polyesters: great degradable polymers that cannot do everything.

Nowadays the open and the patent literatures propose a large number of polymers whose main chains can be degraded usefully. Among these degradable polymers, aliphatic polyester-based polymeric structures are receiving special attention because they are all more or less sensitive to hydrolytic degradation, a feature of interest when compared with the fact that living systems function in aqueous ...

What Simulations Can Do That Experiments Cannot, And Vice Versa

Extended Abstract In this talk I shall explore what kind of knowledge can be obtained from computer simulations and the sense in which that knowledge is different from what can be gained from traditional experiments on the one hand and from traditional theoretical work on the other. Some recent literature has suggested that the more similar the experimental subjects are to the target systems, t...

The Standard Metre: Has It Anything to Do With The Contingent A Priori

Do scientific publications change anything?

Website hits as a measure of influence T he ''simple'' answer is it all depends on who you want to influence, what you want to change, and by how much. It may also depend on how optimistic or lucky you are. But the best answer is that it is surprisingly difficult to be certain one way or the other. Journal papers have several audiences: other scientists, clinicians, policy makers, the media, an...