The Georgia Institute of Technology has been a catalyst for economic growth in the Southeast United States since its founding in 1885. Over the past 30 years, it has become known as one of the top technological universities in the world. As part of a strategic planning effort commenced in mid-2009, it sought to strengthen its thought leadership and impact through the development and implementat...

For more than six decades, UNESCO has dedicated itself to be the international agency leader in literacy, even though other aspects of educational development have received greater attention and resources by the broader international community. Resources for UNESCO’s literacy work have not increased, and its programmatic activities have been increasingly debated when seen in relationship to the...

We have been incrementally adding data-driven methods into the Deep Thought logic tutor for the purpose of creating a fully data-driven intelligent tutoring system. Our previous research has shown that the addition of data-driven hints, worked examples, and problem assignment can improve student performance and retention in the tutor. In this study, we investigate how the addition of these meth...

We introduce the CP*–construction on a dagger compact closed category as a generalisation of Selinger’s CPM–construction. While the latter takes a dagger compact closed category and forms its category of “abstract matrix algebras” and completely positive maps, the CP*–construction forms its category of “abstract C*-algebras” and completely positive maps. This analogy is justified by the case of...

Aspect is undoubtedly the most capricious grammatical category of the Russian language. It has often been asserted as a mystery accessible only to native speakers, leaving all the others lost in its apparently infinite clutter. Recent work in cognitive linguistics has tried to bring order to the seeming chaos of the Russian aspectual system. But these approaches have not been operationalized so...

alain badiou is one of the leading contemporary thinkers whose ideas in philosophy have seriously influenced theological discourse. his thought mainly relies on two pillars, ontology and theory of the event. based on these ideas, he tries to remove religious/spiritual elements of contemporary thought. with his novel mathematical ontology of multiple, he tries to categorize and criticize all the...

Part I Thought, Communication, and Actions 1 Sharing Representations and Creating Chances through Cognitive Niche Construction. The Role of Affordances and Abduction Lorenzo Magnani and Emanuele Bardone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 Discovering and Communicating through Multimodal Abduction Lorenzo Magnani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

The paper examines in how far Construction Grammar is a useful foundation by which artificial agents can self-organise communication systems that are grounded in the real world through a sensori-motor embodiment and use grammar to express certain aspects of meaning. It proposes a particular computational formalism, Fluid Construction Grammar, and mechanisms by which constructions can be progres...