This is an initial summary report of a project taking a new and systematic approach to improving the intellectual effectiveness of the individual human being. A detailed conceptual framework explores the nature of the system composed of the individual and the tools, concepts, and methods that match his basic capabilities to his problems. One of the tools that shows the greatest immediate promis...

We start with a definition of robot in order to understand which are legitimate robotics' objectives. Then it is provided an outline of new robot generations and their industrial and biomedical applications. We consider the consequences of this new kind of technology on the notion of intelligence, stressing how the exteroceptive sensor systems provide a new bottom up approach to the AI debate. ...

Thank you for that kind introduction. I am tempted to quote the words of Robbie Burns from his poem 'To A Louse': 'O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us.' But I fear that if I really did have that power, what I should actually see would be far less flattering than the introduction I have just received. So, perhaps instead, I should just quote the famous line of Adl...

The classical unified model is challenged by the presence of various kinds of Seyfert 2 galaxies. We assemble a sample composed of 243 nearby Seyfert galaxies with redshifts z ≤ 0.05 to test the unification scheme. The sample contains 94 broad line Seyfert 1s (BLS1s), 44 narrow line Seyfert 1s (NLS1s), 36 X-ray absorbed hidden broad line region (BLR) Seyfert 2s (HBLR S2s), 42 X-ray absorbed non...