PURPOSE There is accumulating evidence for the efficacy of nonpharmacological multimodal stimulation interventions in maintaining cognition and improving quality of life in people with mild-to-moderate dementia. However, the complex nature of these interventions limits their application in practice and research. We report here the design and development of a culturally appropriate framework, th...

Even in absence of external reward, babies and scientists and others explore their world. Using some sort of adaptive predictive world model, they improve their ability to answer questions such as: what happens if I do this or that? They lose interest in both the predictable things and those predicted to remain unpredictable despite some effort. We can design curious robots that do the same. Th...

“Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things was insignificant in comparison with ours. But the amazing growth of our techniques, the adaptability and precision they have attained, the ideas and habits they are creating, make it a certainty that profound changes are impending in the ancie...

Almost imperceptibly, mathematics has emerged into public view in works of fiction, theater, and cinematography, and people at large suddenly find mathematicians to be interesting characters. Like a number of my colleagues, I have been to see the Broadway play Proof [1], in which all of the characters are attached to mathematics in one way or another. Its author, David Auburn, received a Pulitz...

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Higher education can function as an important marker of seriousness in fields characterized by diffuse professional standards. Using the case of a fine arts institute, the article outlines the role of higher education in promoting the interconnection of a professional and individual subjectivity; being an artist is not merely something one does but something one is. By primarily examining inter...

This paper describes the world's largest on-line art collection, provided by a collaboration between the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the University of California at Berkeley. The collection contains over 70,000 images of artworks and is accessible over the web. Each image will be available at a resolution of upto 3,000 by 2,000 pixels. This paper describes the storage system and the ...