Lending an Ear to Mozart’s Operas. Stanisław Barańczak’s Poetic Translation Experiments

Lending an ear to the dimensionality of the space

Since the laws of physics are essentially based on our feeling of the real word , it seems natural to consider the problem of the space dimcnsionnality. The usualconception of the space follows from the vision and leads to the conviction that dimensionality of the real word is 3; a similar approach hut using the ears is done in this work. An acoustical source emits an impulse in an homogeneous ...

'Poetic' Statistical Machine Translation: Rhyme and Meter

As a prerequisite to translation of poetry, we implement the ability to produce translations with meter and rhyme for phrase-based MT, examine whether the hypothesis space of such a system is flexible enough to accomodate such constraints, and investigate the impact of such constraints on translation quality.

How Verdi's Operas Begin: An Introduction to the Introduzioni

Lending an iron hand to spintronics

As semiconductor electronics push up against the limits of Moore’s law, physicists are seeking new ways to manipulate and store information in matter. A promising new direction is “spintronics” [1], a kind of electronics built around the spin carried by electrons, rather than the charge. Spin is the basis of ferromagnets, which are magnets in which the electron spins are aligned. The informatio...

From Embryonics to POEtic Machines

The space of bio-inspired hardware can be partitioned along three axes: phylogeny, ontogeny, and epigenesis. We refer to this as the POE model. Our Embryonics (for embryonic electronics) project is situated along the ontogenetic axis of the POE model and is inspired by the processes of molecular biology and by the embryonic development of living beings. We will describe the architecture of mult...