Social Paper: Retooling Student Consciousness

Retooling Social Security for the 21st century.

Because of the imbalance between promised benefits and available taxes, some reform of Social Security is inevitable. At the same time, perceptions of Social Security are changing rapidly as it moves away from a system where all recipients--whether rich or poor--received more in benefits than they paid in taxes, and where those who were richer consistently received larger net transfers than tho...

Graduate Student Paper Competition

Retooling chemical probes

In 2007, scientists from Sirtris Pharmaceuticals along with academic collaborators reported the identification of a series of compounds that activated SIRT1 in vitro and led to beneficial effects in mouse models of type II diabetes (Nature 450, 712–716, 2007). It is widely believed that based at least in part on the discovery of SIRT1 activator compounds, GSK acquired Sirtris for $720 million i...

Pursuing Consciousness by Studying Expertise ( Invited Paper )

This paper reviews the different methods that have been employed recently to study consciousness. At least two of those methods, the neuropsychological approach and the cognitive approach, have converged on a set of characteristics that separate conscious processes from unconscious ones. These characteristics: durable, explicit representations; novel combinations of operations; and intentional ...

Priscilla Chueng - CHI2002 Student Poster - Paper

In this paper, expectation and discrimination are identified as two important constructs to be considered in ecological sound design to achieve a sense of presence in virtual environments. Research to investigate the extent of this is described and the results obtained are discussed. Future avenues for research, on the basis of these results, are indicated.