This paper describes two preliminary experiments concerned with the construction of a robot head. The initial design and research is aimed at producing a system with two cameras and two microphones on a system capable of operating with the same degrees of freedom and reflex times as its biological counterpart. Whilst the primary goal of the project is develop an anthropomorphic system with the ...

THEWORK OF DIVERSITY IN LIBRARIES BEGINS at the crossroad where superiority, inaction, and denial become intolerable. Yet in working toward true diversity, we work without the familiar construct of a mainstream. We respond to, or ignore, repetitive critique of being too exclusive or not inclusive enough. We decide whether it is appropriate to quantify the existence of a people or to trust what ...

I propose a comprehensive account of negation as a modal operator, vindicating a moderate logical pluralism. Negation is taken as a quantifier on worlds, restricted by an accessibility relation encoding the basic concept of compatibility. This latter captures the core meaning of the operator. While some candidate negations are then ruled out as violating plausible constraints on compatibility, ...

Multi-paradigm design is a metaparadigm: it enables to select the appropriate paradigm among those supported by a programming language for a feature being modeled in a process called transformational analysis. A paradigm model is a basis for multi-paradigm design. Feature modeling appears to be appropriate to represent a paradigm model. Such a model is proposed here for AspectJ language upon th...

(Campbell, 1965), earthworms (Bishop and Campbell, 1963, 1965) and snails (Campbell and Bishop, 1970; Campbell and Speeg, 1968; Tramell and Campbell, 1972) via the ornithine–urea cycle (OUC) indicates that the usurpation of the basic nutritional pathway of arginine synthesis for ammonia detoxification first took place in invertebrate animals (Campbell, 1973). Osmotic water retention may have be...

Before discussing the pathogenesis and clinical aspects of this disease, clarification of some of the pertinent terminological definitions may be in order. Hypertrophic emphysema is the most commonly used designation of this disease. Also, it is known under the following names: genuine emphysema, idiopathic emphysema, diffuse vesicular emphysema, obstructive emphysema, dystrophlc emphysema, pul...

Our question answering system was built with a number of priorities in mind. First, we wanted to experiment with natural language processing (NLP) technologies such as shallow parsing, named entity tagging, and coreference chaining. We felt that the small number of terms in the questions coupled with the short length of the answers would make NLP technologies clearly beneficial, unlike previous...