The rise of email and instant messaging as important tools in the professional workplace has created changes in how we communicate. One such change is that these media tend to reduce the presentation of an individual to a username, impacting the quality of communication. With current technology, including rich personal presentations in messages is still cumbersome. This problem is compounded by...

A number of studies have been published of Josephus' portraits of biblical heroes, wherein we see that Josephus systematically aggrandizes their qualities of good birth, handsomeness, and the cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, temperance, justice, and piety? But how does he depict biblical rogues? Three Israelite kings whose wickedness is emphasized in the biblical record-namely, Jeroboam I, ...

We consider the problem of generating art with a computer system, as it relates to the understanding of a drawing style. Our system in its present development is able to sketch faces automatically, starting from a picture, typically a photographic snapshot of a scene with humans. Once a digital image is considered, the system automatically finds where some of the faces (or face-like patterns) a...

I come from a family of lawyers. When I was growing up, the only scientist in the family was my uncle, who was a physicist. But I was interested in science, and as a boy collected rocks and kept my “chemistry cabinet” in a spare room at my father’s law firm in Rome where I smelled up the place from time to time with failed experiments. When I finished high school at the Liceo Classico Torquato ...

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Retrieving photography ideas corresponding to a given location facilitates the usage of smart cameras, where there is a high interest among amateurs and enthusiasts to take astonishing photos at anytime and in any location. Existing research captures some aesthetic techniques and retrieves useful feedbacks based on one technique. However, they are restricted to a particular technique and the re...