Getting Bashar al-Assad Very Wrong

Concussion, dementia and CTE: are we getting it very wrong?

There has been a large media interest over the recent years in the long-term health effects of concussive injuries sustained by sportsman, culminating in a Hollywood movie ‘Concussion’ starring Will Smith. Hardly a week goes by without further studies being announced in the media and creating considerable interest in social media. The message is that concussion is a dangerous condition that cau...

Biologically-Inspired Design: Getting It Wrong and Getting It Right

Large, complex computing systems have many similarities to biological systems, at least at a high level. They consist of a very large number of components, the interactions between which are complex and dynamic, and the overall behavior of the system is not always predictable even if the components are well understood. These similarities have led the computing community to look to biology for d...

Getting it right when things go wrong.

Requirements Engineering - Getting Right from Wrong

The neats: proponents of formal-based, knowledge-intensive smart systems to revolutionize the requirements process. The eventual success of the neat approach is less certain. There are several opinions of the answer to: ‘Can the neats ever playa significant role in requirements engineering?’: a. Never – the extra effort of doing things the neat way will always exceed the payoff. b. Hardly ever ...

Art - Assad (D)

The ease with which an animal captures its prey, or an athlete catches a ball, belies the complexity of the underlying visuomotor transformation in the brain. The brain integrates visual information, makes inferences about the future positions of targets, transforms visual coordinates into motor coordinates and issues motor commands. There is considerable evidence that the posterior parietal co...