The Segway Human Transport (HT) is a one person dynamically selfbalancing transportation vehicle. The Segway Robot Mobility Platform (RMP) is a modification of the HT capable of being commanded by a computer for autonomous operation. With these platforms, we propose a new domain for human-robot coordination through a competitive game: Segway Soccer. The players include robots (RMPs) and humans ...

When we are confronted with a living system, whose design is mysterious and whose optimizations are obscure, it is no easy task--as Professor Stein reminds us--to arrive at an answer to the question he has posed in this paper. Stein's target article is an important contribution for two main reasons. The first, which we shall mention only in passing, is that it is likely to provide much debate o...

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This grand aspiration subsumes the more modest research goal of simply characterizing the knowledge that people have of their native languages. Given this overlap in aims, it makes sense to leverage whatever is known about language itself in the pursuit of computational models of language use. Indeed, in confronting such a daunting challenge it would be foolish to waste intellectual resources d...

In this paper, I present a version of a sense-data approach to perception, which differs to a certain extent fromwell-knownversions like the one put forward by Jackson. I compare the sense-data view to the currently most popular alternative theories of perception, the so-called Theory of Appearing (a very specific form of disjunctivist approaches) on the one hand and reductive representationali...

Network Quality of Service (QoS) criteria of interest include conventional metrics such as throughput, delay, loss, and jitter, as well as new QoS criteria based on power utilization, reliability and security. In this paper we suggest a theoretical framework for the characterization and comparison of adaptive routing algorithms which use QoS as the criterion to select between different paths th...

Patent pendencies create uncertainty in research and development (R&D) collaboration agreements, resulting in a threat of expropriation of unprotected knowledge by potential partners, reduced bargaining power and enhanced search costs. In this paper, we show that depending of the type of partner uncertain intellectual property rights (IPR) lead to reduced collaboration between firms and may hin...

Are firms born Global? Because knowledge spillovers that lead to new venture creation are geographically constrained we believe that firms are born local. It follows that the decision to create sustainable new ventures is independent from the decision to internationalize, even if that is the ultimate goal of the firm. We explore two avenues to internationalize new ventures, a direct path descri...

An ins t rument for determining the shape and in tens i ty distribut ion of particle and X-ray beams has been developed using an image intensifier tube together wi th a bundle of filaments of scintillator. A description of the use of such a device in high energy, low intensity, secondary meson and proton beams is given. I t is shown t h a t the sensi t ivi ty of th is instrumen t represents a s...