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Toward autonomous airships: research and developments at LAAS/CNRS

A wide community of researchers coming from various disciplines are considering autonomous robotics, and more generally machine intelligence, as a challenging goal of their work. Thanks to technical progresses in the area of sensing, actuating and especially computing, and thanks to years of efforts on theoretical and practical topics related to robotics, research in this area has reached a mat...

Commentary: Children's minds and adult statutes.

In “Competency to Stand Trial in Preadjudicated and Petitioned Juvenile Defendants,” Baerger et al. report the results of their investigation of competency to stand trial of juveniles charged with various offenses. The findings support the expected positive correlations between age and competency and cognitive ability and competency. The importance of the paper, however, lies in its contributio...

Court responses to Tarasoff statutes.

Twenty-three states have enacted Tarasoff statutes applicable to psychiatrists. Since the first such statute was enacted in California in 1985, a significant number of courts in states with this and similar statutes have reviewed Tarasoff-type claims. This article reviews courts' analyses in 76 such cases. There were five basic categories identified, including cases that (I) did not reference t...

CNRS-LEM and IESEG School of Management

Pascal Petit (CEPN/CNRS/CEPREMAP)

Abstract The rise in inequality in the last two decades has affected most developed economies. The systemic nature of this inequality is the focus of this paper. A combination of product market internationalization, financial globalization and technological changes favoring large organizations created asymmetric pressure on the two ends of the distribution of market incomes, resulting in greatl...