From Blackboard to Green Screen

Applying NAILS to Blackboard

Blackboard Systems

Blackboard systems are not new technology. The first blackboard system, the Hearsay-II speech understanding system [1], was developed nearly twenty years ago. While the basic features of Hearsay-II remain in today’s blackboard systems, numerous advances and enhancements have been made as a result of experience gained in using blackboard systems in widely varying application areas. Unlike most A...

A Blackboard Approach to Parallel Temporal Tableaux

Before we can contemplate specifying, verifying and animating reactive systems using temporal logics the computational eeectiveness of the reasoning process must be vastly improved. While parallel processing will not decrease the total amount of processing required to solve a problem, (in fact it usually increases it) it has the potential to solve the problem faster than sequential systems by d...

From gene to screen with yeast.

With the complete sequence now available, the yeast genome project enters a post-sequencing phase that will concentrate on a comprehensive determination of gene function. Novel techniques have been developed to undertake genome-wide functional analysis at the levels of phenotype, transcript and protein. These include techniques for the efficient deletion of individual genes while tagging the de...

When to screen and not to screen

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cause of cancer-related deaths with treatment of advanced and metastatic CRC (mCRC) remaining palliative at best. (1) The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) has been identified as a therapeutic target for a multitude of malignancies, including mCRC. Ligand-binding to EGFR results in the subsequent activation of multiple signal transduction p...