Much of the critical discourse on social media misidentifies its problematic features as bugs, or problems to solve. Supposed solutions these tend focus individual actions. We should delete apps, own our data, never click recommended videos, and realize that we are product. But if predatory algorithms succeed by individuating people—selling people “choice” “options” it harvests user data—then a...

Since the early 20th century, “desert reclamation” has been synonymous with large-scale waterworks and irrigation. These techniques have made it possible to produce abundant crops in arid or semi-arid environments. The costs have often been externalized, with increased environmental productivity in the new croplands counterbalanced by increased aridity elsewhere. In this paper I consider whose ...

Communication refers to the process of exchanging information between individuals, namely sender and receiver, with aim achieving mutual understanding. In an educational setting, communication strategies serve as a blueprint for how is exchanged. particular, use effective by teachers critical in constructing classroom discourse English Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. Such feedback from are i...

After World War II a group of pioneer psychotherapists explored how the family environment ameliorated or exacerbated the functioning of patients. Returning GIs were seen to improve their mental status when they returned home. On the opposite end of the sanity spectrum were schizophrenics. Before medicines, doctors looked to the environment for causes and remediations. Drug therapy was introduc...

Ken Wilson’s life-time achievements in fundamental theoretical physics are well known and are well documented in this memorial volume. Therefore, there is no purpose in my adding yet another appreciation of his seminal work. Rather, I shall describe Ken and some of his activities at the beginning of his career, when he was junior faculty at Cornell and I was his student — one of two in the firs...

Set theoretic formulation of Arrow’s theorem, viewed in light of a taxonomy of transitive relations, serves to unmask the theorem’s understated generality. Under the impress of the independence of irrelevant alternatives, the antipode of ceteris paribus reasoning, a purported compiler function either breaches some other rationality premise or produces the effet Condorcet. Types of cycles, each ...

The Intuitive Interfaces to Information Systems (I3S) project at MCC investigated novel approaches to simplifying the construction of spoken dialogue systems. Our goals included designing a system architecture that allows domain independent strategies, such as appropriate conversational gambits, to be separated from domain dependent strategies, such as the most effective prompt to accomplish th...