Is Memory Merely Testimony from One's Former Self?

This is dedicated to our former chairman Dr. Mahmoud Rohani

Linked Data Is Merely More Data

In this position paper, we argue that the Linked Open Data (LoD) Cloud, in its current form, is only of limited value for furthering the Semantic Web vision. Being merely a weakly linked “triple collection,” it will only be of very limited benefit for the AI or Semantic Web communities. We describe the corresponding problems with the LoD Cloud and give directions for research to remedy the situ...

Myelodysplastic syndrome is not merely "preleukemia".

Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is a disease characterized by ineffective hematopoiesis. There are significant biologic and clinical differences between MDS and acute myeloid leukemia (AML). We studied a cohort of 802 patients, 279 (35%) with newly diagnosed MDS and 523 (65%) with newly diagnosed AML, and compared clinical and biologic characteristics of the 2 groups. Complete clinical and cytog...

Multi-camera VSLAM: from former information losses to self-calibration

Visual SLAM is, in recent years, a very active research area, the result of activities in the convergence of the robotics and computer vision communities. We present an overview of techniques, from classical filtering to bundle adjustment solutions, for both monocular and stereo (or multicamera) systems, and emphasize that classical SLAM solutions have been discarding precious sensory informati...

Excerpts from Proposition 103 Testimony

The following text discusses the Department's proposed rollback methodology, as amended in its Preliminary Prayer (the Department's Prayer), and outlines the ways in which it is seriously flawed.