GP at Hand, an NHS general practice in west London, is offering to register patients for virtual consultations. It may also permanently destabilise English general practice. One partner of GP at Hand is Mobasher Butt, medical director of the health IT company Babylon, and the practice uses the Babylon symptom checker app. This app, the practice says, gives patients “useful medical information a...

Diogenes of Babylon, or Seleucia (c. 240–150 BC) — a disciple Chrysippus, prominent representative the last period Early Stoa, head Stoic school after Zeno Tarsus. In writings Diogenes, which few fragments have been preserved, almost all main and many auxiliary issues stoic dogmatics were touched upon. Being more traditionalist than an innovator, nevertheless, specified clarified definitions, i...

El siguiente artículo presenta la reconstrucción virtual de ciudad utópica New Babylon, diseñada por el artista Constant Nieuwenhuys entre 1959 y 1974. Pese a aproximación artística Constant, Babylon se convirtió en una referencia para arquitectos urbanistas época post-guerra, debido los conceptos que transmitía. Tras recopilación documentación original ha generado un modelo preciso sector Baby...

This paper offers a transcription system for Persian, the target language in the Transonics project, a speech-to-speech translation system developed as a part of the DARPA Babylon program (The DARPA Babylon Program; Narayanan, 2003). In this paper, we discuss transcription systems needed for automated spoken language processing applications in Persian that uses the Arabic script for writing. Th...

This article examines representations of housekeeping and housekeepers in the popular television series Hotel Babylon. We take a reflective approach in considering how identities and roles in the Hotel Babylon series are constructed, regarding the housekeeping department and its workers. We identify that the representation of housekeeping work and employees is one of mainly sexualized victims, ...