In this era of computerization, education has also revamped itself and is not limited to old lecture method. The regular quest is on to find out new ways to make it more effective and efficient for students. Nowadays, lots of data is collected in educational databases, but it remains unutilized. In order to get required benefits from such a big data, powerful tools are required. Data mining is ...

When Professor Perlman asked me to write this paper, he charged me with discussing the connection between the Knowledge Project, the monumental ten-volume effort Fritz Machlup left unfinished at his death, and the doctrine of praxeology taught by Ludwig von Mises, Machlup's teacher in Vienna. The idea of an intellectual journey instantly sprang to mind: this would be an essay about Machlup's tr...

Based on his experiences during a journey through mainland Southeast Asia in 1923, Somerset Maugham wrote a book of colonial travel entitled The Gentleman in the Parlour. As the work of one of the most popular writers of the twentieth century, Maugham’s travelogue both expressed and helped to shape contemporary thinking about Southeast Asia and Western imperialism. Focusing especially on his re...

We introduce a class of systems that motivate and aid users to think and write about their personal experiences by presenting them with similar first-person narratives, which allows them to reflect on the connection between their experience and the story presented. These systems rely upon the narrative intelligence of humans to establish the relevance connections, and so can make use of story i...

The authors modestly claim that their first objective is to present a personalized account of the origins of this great Spaniard. This is done by a brilliantly executed travelogue. We are intimately conducted from Cajal's birthplace by devious and sometimes hazardous routes (one can almost see the taxi-driver and his seedy Renault) through villages and countryside to Madrid and beyond-from hars...