Gothic Art and Architecture, religious and secular buildings, sculpture, stained glass, and illuminated manuscripts and other decorative arts produced in Europe during the latter part of the Middle Ages (5th century to 15th century). Gothic art began to be produced in France about 1140, spreading to the rest of Europe during the following century. The Gothic Age ended with the advent of the Ren...

We propose a model of belief and intention change over the course of a dialogue, in the case where the decisions taken during the dialogue affect the possibly conflicting goals of the agents involved. We use Situation Calculus to model the evolution of the world and an observation model to analyze the evolution of intentions and beliefs. In our formalization, utterances, that only change the be...

Who would you describe as a major benefactor of humanity? charles Darwin or albert Einstein? Louis pasteur or alexander Fleming? William Shakespeare or Wolfgang amadeus Mozart? i made my choice when i lay on an operating table and watched, on a screen over my head, the surgical procedure taking place. i felt no pain; the lower half of my body was desensitized by spinal anaesthesia. after the op...

To borrow from the classic futurist novel by Aldous Huxley, the brave new world of technology is one in which life and society are quickly changing to accommodate the perpetual emergence of new technological innovations. This is particularly true when speaking of trends in Higher Education leadership and administration where a plethora of new digital technologies appear before us each day as op...