Making Our Presence Known

Making our environments intelligent

This conference focuses on the theme of intelligent environments, in which smart homes, smart workplaces, and other spaces with which humans interact take on the role of intelligent agents. The conference aims at contributing to the realization of the ambient intelligence vision, where physical space becomes augmented with computation, communication and digital content, thus transcending the li...

Making Our Own Luck

QuickCheck-style property-based random testing [4] requires efficient generators for well-distributed random data satisfying complex logical predicates. Writing such generators by hand can be difficult and error prone. We propose a domain-specific language, Luck, in which generators are expressed by decorating predicates with lightweight annotations controlling both the distribution of generate...

Scientific misconduct: our first (known) case

einstein registered (in the last issue) its first retraction, due to a case of duplicate publication: " Neuromuscular electrical stimulation in critically ill patients in the intensive care unit: a systematic review " , by journal, like all peer-reviewed and indexed journals, asks authors to state unequivocally in their submission letter that the paper has not already been submitted to another ...

Our Brain Enjoys Making Friends

In fact, research shows that human beings who are socially isolated not only report higher rates of depression, which is a state characterized by persistent feelings of very low mood, they also get sick more often and live shorter lives [1]. Many brain functions are involved in allowing us to have healthy human interactions. One such function is empathy. Empathy allows us to understand and resp...

Making the most of our time.