time no longer exists as an objective physical reality. “When even the gravitational field—geometry i n c a r n a t e — becomes a noncommuting (and hence nonlinear) operator, how can the classical interpretation of Gμν as a geometric entity be sustained? Now not only the observer, but the very concept of geometry, becomes relational and contextual.” The article might have passed unnoticed in th...

Consciousness, with its irreducible subjective character, was almost exclusively a philosophical topic until relatively recently. Today, however, the problem of explaining the felt quality of experience has also become relevant to science and engineering, including robotics andAI: “What would we have to build into a robot so that it really felt the touch of a finger, the redness of red, or the ...

“Sticky places in slippery space” is one of the best-known phrases from the literature on economic geography. The “slippery space” is the globalised world of highly mobile capital, labour and technology. The “sticky places” are the successful regions in which these factors agglomerate. This book is, inter alia, an analysis of how Ireland became sticky over the course of the 1990s. The author, S...

A few years ago, Bill Gasarch, editor of the Book Review Column, sent me a copy of the book Alternative Logics: Do Sciences Need Them? [28], edited by Paul Weingartner, and asked if I was interested in reviewing it. The book is a collection of essays discussing whether there is a need for logics other than classical logic in various areas of science. Interestingly, I had just finished reading a...

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Researchers in automatic document summarization have already adopted many techniques from existing machine translation literature. Likewise, there is much that the machine translation community can learn from current research in summarization. Automatic Summarization, by Inderjeet Mani, provides a firm grounding in the primary techniques that have been applied to the summarization task, so that...

Jean-Luc Arrègle, Université du Luxembourg (editor) Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney (editor) Olivier Germain, U. du Québec à Montréal (editor, book reviews) Karim Mignonac, Université de Toulouse 1 (editor) Philippe Monin, EM Lyon Business School (editor) Jose Pla-Barber, Universidad de València (editor) Linda Rouleau, HEC Montréal (editor) Michael Tushman, Harvard Business Scho...

Playful User Interfaces – the title refers to developments, which appear to be leading to a new generation of human–computer interaction (HCI) approaches, combining brand new and old ideas from computer science in general, artificial intelligence (AI) in particular, and design arts as well as psychology. In contrast to the traditional “serious” HCI, playful user interfaces allow the users to in...